Word: guralnick
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...Will you endorse any presidential candidate in the primaries? -Howard Guralnick, Seaford, N.Y. My plan is to wait until the choice is made and then - enthusiastically support the Democratic nominee...
...Will you endorse any presidential candidate in the primaries? -Howard Guralnick, Seaford, N.Y. My plan is to wait until the choice is made and then - enthusiastically support the Democratic nominee...
...Hits" reads: "Before anybody did anything, Elvis did everything." He certainly knew his job - all of them. He was also a fine instinctive musician, a fast study with a gift for synthesizing what he'd heard into his own style. "He sucked up influences like litmus paper," writes Peter Guralnick in "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley," the first book in a meticulous two-volume biography. "He was SERIOUS about his work. Whenever [Elvis' first manager Bob] Neal went by the house, he found him with a stack of records - Ray Charles and Big Joe Turner...
...recruit when he entered the Sun Records studio in Memphis in late 1954, Elvis learned enough so that, when he joined RCA, he was soon the de facto producer of his own sessions. Steve Sholes was RCA's A&R representative, but, as Phillips insisted to Guralnick: "He was NOT a producer. Steve was just at every session, and he kept his fucking mouth shut." Sholes would propose songs, and Elvis would dispose. In 1957 Leiber and Stoller, the L.A.-based singer-songwriters whose "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" would be prime Presley calling cards, took over as producers. Stoller...
Never before have the colors of this great nation's flag been as vibrant as they are now, displayed by the thousands in windows, on car antennas, on buildings, on clothing. When we show our colors, America truly is beautiful! SARA GURALNICK Bermuda Dunes, Calif...