Record Details

Artist:	Elvis Presley
Title:	1961 Press Conference Memphis, Tennessee
Format:	12" EP
Label:	Green Valley Record Store, Inc.
Cat No:	GV 2001
Released:	1977
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Status	Have
Added To List	2nd April 2018

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From the back cover: For the many lives he touched around the world, little was known about the man know as "The King". Elvis Presley's death has inspired more curiosity about the way he lived, felt, thought and believed. Yet, in a career that spanned three decades and that many generations of devoted fans, his legendary mystique is just being tapped. Most of our curiosities will have to be satisfied through those who knew him. Our memories will have to be satisfied with hearing his voice on record. Collectors who cherished Elvis as the thinking, feeling human being he was will be able to hear him "live" through the Elvis Presley Press Conference record recorded in Memphis in 1961. At that time he was only 26 years old and had been to the top of the charts and see the world through limousines and army jeeps and the arms of beautiful women. On this record Elvis expresses his thoughts and sense of humor in the way only he could. This rare interview helped people understand then as it will help us understand today, a little more about the man and the star. Shortly after this Press Conference Elvis withdrew from the public eye for seven years. Between the years of 1962 and 1968 he made no public appearances even though his records continued to win the hears of both men and women. Chips Moman, who produced Elvis on songs like "In The Ghetto" and "Suspicious Minds" said, "Elvis' death is a loss to every musician playing music from the 1950's through today." One doesn't have to be a musician to sense the loss of the singer who opened the country to a new age in music and attitudes. His style influenced the way people dressed, danced and talked about to each other without ever talking about it himself. Everyone wants to touch back the one who touches them. For so many the chance to talk with the man who did never happened so second best is all we have. Words won't bring him back except in memory. But like the song he put in our hearts, "It's only words/, but words are all I have/to take your heart away..."

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