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...ENTERTAINMENT will range from the Old Vic and the Philadelphia Symphony to Lawrence Welk and Elvis Presley. A $2,000,000 midway, unhappily called "The Gayway." will provide thrills, rides and freak shows. And of course the fair will have its undraped girls, in a "Las Vegas-type revue" to be produced by one Gracie Hansen, an entrepreneuse who promises "a daring show with some nudity, but all in good taste." Mrs. Hansen admits, however, that her last production, in a Cascade Mountains logging town, proved "too adult for the P.T.A...
...cherche une fille!" the crowd roars back, and plainclothesmen throughout the hall go up onto the balls of their feet for fear the next quiver may start World War III. Singing easily, about half the time in English, he is more reserved than Presley ("I used to flop down on the floor, but I stopped that because I didn't think it was respectable"); but his diction is remarkably similar: somehow, in French, he has acquired a unique hillbilly accent...
...apart in his honor. But the words that provoked riot and rampage were not, as one might expect, Algerian battle cries. They were "itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini," sung by Johnny Hallyday, France's first and only authentic rock 'n' roller, the Elvis Presley of Thither Gaul...
Pale, better looking than Elvis Presley, he drinks nothing stronger than milk and could be a U.S. college freshman. And despite all his rock and riot, he has received critical praise that Elvis Presley would be unlikely to get even if he spent 200 years at the Yale School of Music. "In the domain of modern music," the music critic of the respected cultural weekly Arts has written, "Johnny Hallyday has raised several original points. He is probably the best abstract singer the world has ever known...
Anka is a devoted admirer of Elvis Presley, but onstage his style consciously avoids imitation of the master. Planting his mitey (5 ft. 4 in., 135 lbs.) frame firmly on the boards, he neither rocks nor rolls, and his pelvis is so steady that it could house a seismograph. "I go out there to comfort the people," he says. His ministrations are weakest when he is doing old standards like Stardust or his gasping version of Hello Voting Lovers. But his fans are really there to hear Anka sing Anka, and he always scores with Diana, You Are My, Destiny...