Word: presleys
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...Tennessee, August is the occasion of the Elvis International Tribute, a week in which 15,000 Presley fans convene to watch a competition among Elvis impersonators, to participate in an Elvis trivia contest and to pay homage. Crowds also flock to the Wild and Wacky Raft Race in Miami, the bathtub race in San Diego and the equally exciting Hermit Crab Races in Ocean City, N.J. In Illinois' state fair there is both a hog-calling and a husband-calling contest, in which a woman calls for her husband, who has been calling hogs. First prize was taken by Kathy...
Bruce got the heave. Never did get to see the King. He got something else, though. Nine years later, after four more albums, six Top Ten singles and several transcontinental concert jaunts, Bruce Springsteen has become the biggest American rocker since Elvis Presley. He is the new King. He owns the dream. It is his fence the fans are hopping...
...blues in the '50s; of kidney failure; in Inglewood, Calif. Several of his biggest hits, including Chains of Love (1951), Sweet Sixteen (1952) and, most memorably, Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954), later became rock-'n'-roll classics after being bowdlerized by such white artists as Bill Haley and Elvis Presley...
...best-known songs of the 1950s and 1960s were not sung by Elvis Presley, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. In fact few even made it to vinyl. Classic cuts such as The Jetsons, Leave It to Beaver and Gilligan's Island were heard over and over again as theme songs for television shows. Now, however, a two-record set called Television's Greatest Hits has put the hottest tunes in TV history on Billboard's pop albums chart. According to Executive Producer Steven Gottlieb, the record recognizes TV music as a piece of Americana. Says he: "People like...
DIED. Hal B. Wallis, 88, wide-scoped film-maker who rose from the ranks at Warner Bros. to become one of Hollywood's most durable, successful producers and whose more than 400 movies included lame-brained vehicles for Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis as well as such classics as Little Caesar (1930), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), The Rainmaker (1956) and True Grit (1969); of complications from diabetes; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A moviemaker without eccentricities who could cut a deal as deftly as he cut a film, Wallis hid under his phlegmatic manner a keen intelligence...