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...hurry behind the barn Don'tcha be afraid, y'know I'll do you no harm I want you to bring along my rockin' shoes 'Cause tonight I'm gonna rock away all the blues I heard the news, there's good a-rockin' tonight. - recorded by Elvis Presley, September...
...died 25 years ago next Friday (he did die, didn't he?), but the Presley industry is bigger than ever. "A Little Less Conversation," an obscure 1968 tune from the movie "Love a Little, Love a Little," was recently the #1 song in Britain in a remix by Dutch deejay JXL. A collection of 100 alternate (read: not-so-hot) takes of Elvis songs fills a new four-CD box set. A pity that daddy Vernon didn't record his infant son squealing in the crib; then RCA could release "Elvis: the Colic Years...
...Then a young truck driver, stupefyingly shy until he stood before a microphone, walked in to make a record for his mother. A few visits later, abetted by guitarist Scotty Moore, bass player Bill Black and Phillips at a primitive console, Elvis Presley fooled around until he came up with a variation on the Arthur Crudup song "That's All Right." It was, too. "That's different," Phillips legendarily said. "That's a pop song now, just 'bout." What it was, just 'bout, was rock 'n roll - a mighty mutant of pop, blues and country, born July 5, 1954, right...
...Within a year, Phillips had sold Presley's contract to RCA Victor for $25,000. He says he never regretted the decision, never looked back. He soon had another rockabilly prodigy, Carl Perkins, whose "Blue Suede Shoes" kicked some serious chart butt: #1 country & western, #2 pop and rhythm 'n blues. Johnny Cash, the Arkansas gent with a grave voice and a lifer's stare, recorded "I Walk the Line": #1 country, #17 pop. Roy Orbison, who would not fully flower till the '60s, did an early stretch at Sun, recording some goofy rockers and writing a hit song...
...article about Disney's Lilo & Stitch, Richard Corliss mentioned that the movie includes "half a dozen Elvis Presley songs for Mom and Dad" [MOVIES, June 24]. Pardon me, but I think he meant Grandmom and Grandpop! Elvis died before I turned four years old, and I'm the mom of two young Disney fans who are as out of touch with Elvis as I am! JOANNA BELL Lutherville...