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Joseph A. Tunzi
Joseph Anthony Tunzi (born July 25, 1953) is an American author, publisher, and producer, based in Chicago, Illinois. He has been described as "one of the foremost authorities on Elvis Presley," authoring, self-publishing, and producing over 60 titles about Presley, among others, for over three decades. Tunzi's other projects focus on topics including Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr., the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the Vietnam War. Tunzi has compiled a massive photo archive, from which he licenses photographs of Presley. He is credited as an ''Elvis Presley Archivist Extraordinaire'' in the August 2023 Paramount+ streaming feature-length documentary ''Reinventing Elvis: The '68 Comeback.'' Adam Victor referred to Tunzi in his 2008 publication ''The Elvis Encyclopedia'' as "one of the world's most prolific Elvis authors, with more than twenty books to his name, specializing in photo books about specific events and tours through his own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as Cultural impact of Elvis Presley, one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Presley's sexually provocative performance style, combined with a mix of influences across color lines during a civil rights movement, transformative era in race relations, brought both great success and Cultural impact of Elvis Presley#Danger to American culture, initial controversy. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi; his family relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, when he was 13. He began his music career in 1954 at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. Presley, on guitar and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, Backbeat (music), backbeat-driven fusion of country music and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvis Presley (album)
''Elvis Presley'' (released in the UK as ''Elvis Presley Rock n' Roll'') is the debut studio album by American rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. It was released by RCA Victor, on March 23, 1956 (catalog number LPM-1254). The recording sessions took place on January 10 and January 11 at the RCA Victor Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, and on January 30 and January 31 at the RCA Victor studios in New York. Additional material originated from sessions at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, on July 5, August 19 and September 10, 1954, and on July 11, 1955. The album spent ten weeks at number one on the ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums chart in 1956, the first rock and roll album ever to make it to the top of the charts, and the first million-selling album of that genre. In 2003 and 2012, it was ranked number 56 on ''Rolling Stone'''s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and at number 332 in a 2020 revised list. ''Elvis Presley'' was also one of three Presley albums to receive a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 ** Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. ** British security forces in West Germany arrest 7 members of the Naumann Circle, a clandestine Neo-Nazi organization. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into '' I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record is never broken. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The RCA Albums Collection (Elvis Presley Box Set)
''The RCA Albums Collection'' is a 2016 box set edition of the RCA recordings of Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as Cultural impact of Elvis Presley, one of the most significant cultural figures of the .... References 2016 compilation albums Elvis Presley compilation albums {{2010s-compilation-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Complete Elvis Presley Masters
''The Complete Elvis Presley Masters'' is a box set by American singer Elvis Presley. It was released on October 19, 2010, by RCA Records and Legacy Recordings. The box set covers the majority of Presley's recording career, bringing together all 711 master recordings released during his lifetime. Contents The box set contains 711 original master recordings as released during Presley's lifetime and 103 additional rare recordings, contained on 30 compact discs. The set omits the recordings made for the 1977 ''Elvis in Concert'' TV special and album. The box set also features a 240–page hardcover book with complete discography produced exclusively for this collection, researched and written by Ernst Jørgensen and Peter Guralnick Peter Guralnick (born December 15, 1943, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American music critic, author, and screenwriter. He specializes in the history of early rock and roll and has written books on Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Sam Cooke .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Today, Tomorrow, And Forever (Elvis Presley Album)
''Today, Tomorrow, and Forever'' is a 2002 Elvis Presley compilation album released by RCA Records. The album features songs from the early years of Presley on Sun Records to his movie career, ’68 Comeback Special, Gospel, Vegas and later years. As indicated on the packaging, none of the tracks in this four-CD set had ever been released previously, as all tracks featured were either alternate studio takes or previously unreleased live performances. The title track of the collection is a (then-)recently discovered outtake from the soundtrack recording sessions for ''Viva Las Vegas'' featuring Presley in duet with Ann-Margret Ann-Margret Olsson (born 28 April 1941), credited as Ann-Margret, is a Swedish-American actress and singer with a career spanning seven decades. Her many screen roles include '' Pocketful of Miracles'' (1961), ''State Fair'' (1962), '' Bye Bye B .... Track listing Chart performance Year-end charts References {{Authority control Elvis Presl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Afternoon In The Garden
''An Afternoon in the Garden'' is a live musical album recorded by American singer and musician Elvis Presley at Madison Square Garden on June 10, 1972. The album was released by RCA Records on the 25th anniversary of the concert in 1997 and on March 8, 2018 received an RIAA Gold Record certification for 500,000 copies sold. Content During the weekend of June 9 through June 11, 1972, Elvis Presley gave his first concerts in New York City; he had performed on television in the 1950s and recorded at studios in the city (both while backed by his original band, The Blue Moon Boys and often also by the gospel quartet The Jordanaires on backing vocals), but had never performed in a concert venue before a paying audience. For these shows, Presley was backed by The TCB Band, who had backed him live (and occasionally in the studio as well) since 1969, as well as by backing vocalists J.D. Sumner and The Stamps Quartet (also a gospel group), The Sweet Inspirations (an R&B, soul, and gospel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Essential '70s Masters
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raised On Rock / For Ol' Times Sake
''Raised on Rock / For Ol' Times Sake'' is the nineteenth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released in 1973. Content The album was recorded at Stax Studios in Memphis, Tennessee in July 1973 and at Presley's home in Palm Springs, California in September 1973. Two songs from these sessions would be retained for release on the ''Good Times'' album the following spring. The initial vocal tracks were recorded in July 1973. " Raised on Rock" backed by "For Ol' Times Sake" was the only single released from the album, reaching No. 41 on the ''Billboard'' chart and No. 42 on the Country chart in September 1973. The album was one of the few that failed to chart in the United Kingdom, but the single " Raised on Rock / For Ol' Times Sake" did enter the British charts. Some of the songs are well-known covers like "Are You Sincere" which had been around for many years, but some new songs like the lead-off single were written for Presley, or written by writers he ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvis (1973 Album)
''Elvis'' is the eighteenth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on July 16, 1973. It sold over 1 million copies worldwide. To differentiate it from his eponymous 1956 release, it is sometimes called ''The "Fool" Album'', after its first track which appears just below Elvis' name on the front cover. In the US, " Fool" was issued as the B-side of " Steamroller Blues" from the ''Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite'' album. In the UK the sides were flipped and "Fool" was issued as the A-side. It reached No. 15. Content The album tracks "Fool" and "Where Do I Go From Here" were recorded in March 1972. " It's Impossible" is a live recording from the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas from February 1972, recorded during a successful fifty-seven show season. The remaining tracks were leftovers from the March and May 1971 recording sessions at RCA's Studio B in Nashville. Three songs feature Presley on piano: "It's Still Here", " I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampa, Florida
Tampa ( ) is a city on the Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. Tampa's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and the county seat of Hillsborough County, Florida, Hillsborough County. With an estimated population of 403,364 in 2023, Tampa is the List of United States cities by population, 49th-most populous city in the country and the List of municipalities in Florida, third-most populous city in Florida after Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville and Miami. Tampa was founded as a military center in the 19th century, with the establishment of Fort Brooke. The cigar industry was brought to Tampa by Vicente Martinez Ybor, Vincente Martinez Ybor, after whom Ybor City is named. Tampa was reincorporated as a city in 1887 following the American Civil War, Civil War. Tampa's economy is driven by tourism, health care, finance, insurance, technology, construction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
