EIN "Downunder" E-Alert #15

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELVIS

Hi everyone,

Welcome to 2007. This is going to be a FANTASTIC year for Elvis fans, with an unprecedented amount of new CDs, DVDS, Books and memorabilia released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Elvis leaving the building.

First of all we want to inform you of all the great viewing on Australian TV this week, and hope that some of you will be making the Elvis Birthday celebrations in Parkes, NSW.

Above all we hope that you are saving for the real excitement of the 2007 EIN Elvis Tour in August. Nothing will beat the pleasure, interest and fun that you will have with us as we visit all those places so very special to Elvis Aaron Presley, Hollywood, Vegas, Tupelo, Nashville, Memphis... There are still a few places left and our price is very reasonable when you consider that Memphis Hotels are already charging US$230 per person per night during Elvis week. Plus we have our very special contacts with Elvis' close friends that no other organisation can provide. It will be VERY SPECIAL make sure that you are there with EIN in Memphis in August for the Elvis time of your lives!! Click here to contact us ASAP.

If you belong to our EIN Fan Club you will have recently received your Christmas EIN Newsletter packed with News, photos & articles not featured on our EIN Website. You will also get the chance to enter the EIN Annual MEGA Quiz with multiple chances to win great Elvis prizes. We are featuring a few of the multiple choice questions below to give non-members a taste of our quiz. If you know the answers, then why not join up with the EIN Fan Club and you will have a chance to win something Elvisy and special! Click here to join the EIN Fan Club.

Because 2007 is going to be such an active year the EIN Website is starting two new features. A 'New Releases' page featuring everything Elvis that is hitting the market in 2007, plus a special EIN selection of the 'Best of Elvis' videos on YouTube.

EPE's head of marketing Paul Janowski, says they plan to make use of sites like YouTube and Myspace to exploit the Presley brand. EIN found it surprising that Janowski even admited to EPE adding content to YouTube. With so many Elvis videos around, some essential, some fun, some historically interesting, some plain dreadful, EIN helps you avoid the dross and brings you the 'Best of Elvis' on YouTube.

Both new features are launched on our EIN Website, this Monday on Elvis' Birthday.

Meanwhile enjoy our first E Alert of 2007:

Have a fabulous celebration for Elvis' Birthday, and enjoy our the Birthday selection and rare photos below,

Piers & Nigel

Australian TV celebrates Elvis' 72nd Birthday; While 2007's biggest Elvis media celebration will be in August, there is still plenty on Australian TV to share Elvis' birthday celebration with this year. Here is the Elvis viewing for next week on Australian TV as compiled by EIN.

'Elvis Lives in Parkes': Noteworthy for Australian Elvis fans is that SBS is showing a new 30 minute documentary 'Elvis Lives in Parkes', about the Parkes, NSW Elvis festival. Next Wednesday Jan 10th 8.00pm

Elvis TV features on January 8th,
 
Showtime
'Elvis Has Left the Building', Fairly forgettable 2004 quirky comedy staring Kim Basinger about Elvis impersonators.
Jan 8th Midday. Repeats, 2pm & 3.20am.

The TCM Movie channel features 24 hours of Elvis movies starting January 8th at 8.30pm.

8.30pm - Double Trouble: Elvis in Europe.
Repeats Jan 9th 4.30am, 12.30pm
10.05pm - Spinout: Elvis as a racing car driver with Shelley Fabares.
Repeats Jan 9th 6.05am, 2.00pm
11.40pm - Kissin' Cousins: Hillbilly Elvis in the mountains
Repeats Jan 9th 7.40am, 3.35pm
1.15am - Live a Little, Love a Little: Elvis the playboy photographer.
Repeats Jan 9th 9.15am, 5.05pm
2.45am - Jailhouse Rock: The classic.
Repeats Jan 9th 10.45am, 6.35pm

EIN's winner for clever TV programming on Jan 8th -
'Wild At Heart' is the best Elvis movie that Elvis Presley never made! Made in 1990 and staring, once husband to Lisa Marie and "Elvis collector" Nicolas Cage. When Nic Cage gets down and sings 'Love Me' to Laura Dern it is an absolute classic 'Elvis moment'. Elvis should have come out of hiding to make this flick!

Showtime Greats
'Wild At Heart' - Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, director David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive)
Jan 8th, 10.25pm.

Also of interest

'Rock Around the Clock' - Staring Bill Haley and His Comets, it helps explain why Elvis truly was the King of Rock'n'Roll.
Jan 8th 8.30pm. Repeats Jan 9th 2.30am & 8.30am, 2.30pm.

Fox Classics
The Golden Girls - Sophia's Wedding (Part 1)
The iconic episode when director Quentin Tarantino stared as an Elvis impersonator.
Jan 8th 4.00pm also on Jan 5th 7.

 
Showtime
Bubba Ho-Tep. 2002 whacky comedy drama, staring Bruce Campbell as an aged Elvis who has to tackle a soul-sucking Egyptian mummy alongside an aged JFK
Jan 8th 7am, repeats 9am. 

Finally, the Ovation Channel keeps the theme going a week later

'Elvis: The Echo Will Never Die' is featured on Monday Jan 15, 10pm.

Get your VHS, DVD recorders or Foxtel IQ boxes set to go for Elvis!

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Elvis' Birthday Celebration and LiveCam from Graceland:
This weekend, fans will be celebrating Elvis's birthday here in Memphis with many events, including the Birthday Proclamation on January 8. If you are not able to be in Memphis, you can still enjoy the fun with our Graceland Ticket Pavilion LiveCam that will be up through Jan. 9. Visit the LiveCam during the Elvis Dance Party on Jan. 5th from 8 PM to midnight, and the Elvis Insiders Tour and Reception on Jan. 7 from 6 to 9 PM. Click here to have a look at Graceland LIVE CAM

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Elvis alive and well in Viva Las Parkes: Next Weekend January 13/14, the 10,000 residents of Parkes will add to their town's population by 50 per cent. The occasion? The Parkes Annual Elvis Festival. Now in its 15th year the celebration sees hip-swiveling Elvis impersonators and more than a few Priscilla wannabes arrive from all over the world. Elvis look-alikes play golf, sing gospel, get married in true Las Vegas style with Elvis celebrants and eat lots of fried chicken.

The Elvis festival has had a chequered history, says Parkes Champion Post editor Roel ten Cate, but after a campaign by their paper and support from the local council, it now continues to go from strength to strength. The Elvis Express from Sydney to Parkes is already booked out, but Elvis desperados need not fear, there is space in the Tent City at North Parkes Oval (about $30 per person a night) and many homes are offering to host extra visitors. Parkes is in the central east of NSW, about five hours drive from Sydney (375kms). If you are not up for the drive, there's always the train in 2008.

Watch the tribute to the NSW country town of Parkes and their ongoing love affair with American crooner Elvis Presley. The ClubsNSW Parkes Elvis Festival runs from January 10-14. The interview is with Parkes Champion Post editor Roel ten Cate, interviewer is Brenda Cunningham-Lewis with multi-media by Jay Lowe. (News, Source: Amber Smith)

Visit EIN's "Parkes Elvis Festival 2007" page

View video of "Parkes Elvis Festival"

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Can you guess the answers to these example multiple choice questions from our Annual EIN Mega Quiz?

If so, join our EIN Fan Club and you could win some rare Elvis prizes!!

Elvis was born at
a) 306 Elvis Presley Drive
b) Old Saltillo Road
c) Old Saltillo Drive
d) 1034 Audubon Drive

What song was recorded in 1958 but not released until 20 years later
a) Danny Boy
b) Ain’t That Loving You Baby
c) Beyond The Reef
d) Husky Dusky Day

Which song features these lyrics "I reached out one night and you were gone"
a) I’ve Lost You
b) Just Call Me Lonesome
c) Kentucky Rain
d) All I needed was The Rain

Elvis’ #1 single ‘One Night’ was released at the end of 1958, after King Creole. It was originally scheduled for which movie soundtrack
a) Love Me Tender
b) Loving You
c) Jailhouse Rock
d) King Creole

(Answers in the March Aussie E-Alert)

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Nigel and I both vote the Memphis Recording Service Volume two as the BEST ELVIS RELEASE of last year.

Volume 2 is now in stock at EIN - Grab your copy NOW! Much bigger in all proportions than its predecessor Volume 1, again the package is Produced by Joseph Pirzada and this time co- produced by Joseph A Tunzi.

This package is the most detailed than has ever been released before.

The package consists of:

DVD-AUDIO & DOLBY DIGITAL DVD DISC with fourty tracks!!

1. This will contain Unreleased footage, never before seen, which will mark the first known for Elvis Presley that predates the Magnolia Gardens and Lubbock footage of 1955.

2. A 5.1 DVD- AUDIO / DOLBY DIGITAL Recording Of 40 fully restored tracks from 1955 (including 9 Bonus Tracks from 1954) including Studio, Interviews and Live with sound quality that surpasses all previous Elvis’ releases on this era including ‘ Elvis at Sun’.

It contains previously unreleased material from using never before original sources of masters, acetates and tapes to produce high quality sound never before heard, straight to 5.1 Audio/ Dolby Digital sound. A selection of rare photographs is used to accompany each song.

Songs include: Baby Let’s Play House, Mystery Train, Trying To get To You, Blue Moon, Shake rattle and Roll and many more.

BOOK

The Rise of Elvis Presley

Volume 2 1955

The book contains lots of exclusive new information on Elvis Presley in 1955 and is written by Joseph Pirzada and Co- Written once again by John Michael Heath.

See the hundreds of historical rare insider documents and photographs, many of which have never before been seen.

This incredible nearly 400 page book is the best compilation ever compiled. Go on a journey to over 300 shows that year with great stories and exclusive new information, unpublished photographs and documents.

VINYL

Original 45rpm Sun Master 223 ‘Mystery Train’ Vinyl Repress

PROCESSED AND PRESSED FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1955 FROM THE ORIGINAL SUN 45rpm MASTER 223 'MOTHER STAMPER'

The original Sun 223 45rpm issue of 'Mystery Train' was Elvis Presley's last record on the Sun Record Label released in August 1955.

It has now been released here for the first time since 1955 in its original format, processed from the same mother stamper that Sun used at the time. If you have never been fortunate to own the original pressing we present 'Mystery Train' back in its original format.

Full specifications and details to follow shortly.  

Price $79.95 (+ p&p)

Example photos & review coming to the EIN Website next week.

Click here to order.

Let Yourself Go

Released on October 1, 2006, this new CD combines previously unreleased outtakes from the sessions at Western Recorders, with the June 24 rehearsal at NBC (previously only available on bootleg). The Western recordings include the opening, the gospel sequence, the road sequence, Memories and If I Can Dream. Price: $40.00 + $3.50p&p

Writing For The King - This new book will include 125 interviews with people who wrote songs for Elvis and 2 CDs - one of Elvis' recordings of songs by the writers, and one with demos of Elvis songs.

Price: $124.99 PLUS postage (to be calculated once weight of book/CD set known)

His Hand In Mine

FTD will release His Hand In Mine in the classic album series around December 1, 2006. It is expected His Hand In Mine will be presented in the 7" format consistent with previous releases in the Classic Album Series. It is expected to feature the original album plus outtakes on two discs.