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...Mike did this spontaneous roll-out," explained the short, intense young man, "and there was something nasty in the music. I just blurted out, 'You ain't nuthin' but a hound dog,' and there it was." Hound Dog, as bawled by Elvis Presley, sold 5,000,000 records, enthroned Tunesmiths Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller as kings of the state of annoyance called rock 'n' roll. In all, their raucous inspirations have since sold 27 million records, and last week their latest, Charlie Brown, made its first million...
Nanki-Poo Presley. A sometime contralto in G. & S. amateur productions, Petitioner Alderley was badly shaken four years ago to learn that the British copyright on W. S. Gilbert's lyrics would expire in 1961 (the copyright on Sullivan's music lapsed in 1950). She promptly withdrew to her little Oxford bedsitting room, and for ten hours each day sat scrawling appeals to Gilbert & Sullivan fans the world over, requesting their signatures for the petition she was preparing for Parliament. Seared into her mind were reported visions of Mike Todd's Hot Mikado with Katisha...
...possibilities for further desecration, as Miss Alderley envisioned them, were endless: Frank Sinatra as the defendant in Trial by Jury, charged with stealing a pizza pie; The Gondoliers remade into The Road to Venice, with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. It was even suggested to Dorothy Alderley that Elvis Presley might play Nanki-Poo. Snapped she: "I'd Nanki-Poo him if I could get my hands...
...stage, the boys' styles are so derivative that more appropriate names might have been Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis or Ricky Nelson. But British teenagers are rapidly turning the muscle-named singers into national heroes. And the boys themselves, in wry comment on how well Parnes is doing on the deal, have given him a new name too: "Parnes, Shillings and Pence...
...Milan's outskirts; 2) moving into the recording business; 3) continuing its forays into the pop field, having just launched an 18-year-old, blue-jeaned, guitar-whanging singer named Giorgio Gabor (no kin). Ricordi executives hope that Giorgio will turn out to be a prosciutto version of Presley...