Elvis Presley: The Later Years | Music Documentary | Bill Baize | Je Esposito | Joe Guercio
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Published 2023-02-08
Song clips include: Suspicious Minds, Burning Love, Can't Help Falling In Love, See See Rider, Steamroller Blues, You Gave Me A Mountain, Long Tall Sally, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, I'll Remember You, A Big Hunk of Love and more!
2006 Rock-doc
Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old. His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. Presley, on rhythm acoustic guitar, and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. In 1955, drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage him for more than two decades. Presley's first RCA Victor single, "Heartbreak Hotel", was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. Within a year, RCA would sell ten million Presley singles. With a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records, Presley became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll; though his performative style and promotion of the then-marginalized sound of African-Americans led to him being widely considered a threat to the moral well-being of the White American youth.
Having sold over 400 million records worldwide, Presley is recognized as the best-selling solo music artist of all time by Guinness World Records with sales estimated by various sources up to 500 million – 1 billion. He was commercially successful in many genres, including pop, country, rhythm & blues, adult contemporary, and gospel. Presley won three Grammy Awards, received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. He holds several records, including the most RIAA-certified gold and platinum albums, the most albums charted on the Billboard 200, the most number-one albums by a solo artist on the UK Albums Chart, and the most number-one singles by any act on the UK Singles Chart. In 2018, Presley was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Presley holds the records for most songs charting in Billboard's top 40 and top 100. Presley's rankings for top ten and number-one hits vary depending on how the double-sided "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" and "Don't/I Beg of You" singles, which precede the inception of Billboard's unified Hot 100 chart, are analyzed. According to Whitburn's analysis, Presley holds the record with 38, tying with Madonna; per Billboard's current assessment, he ranks second with 36. Whitburn and Billboard concur that the Beatles hold the record for most number-one hits with 20, and that Mariah Carey is second with 18. Whitburn has Presley also with 18, and thus tied for second; Billboard has him third with 17. Presley retains the record for cumulative weeks at number one: alone at 80, according to Whitburn and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; tied with Carey at 79, according to Billboard. He holds the record for most number-one singles on the UK chart with 21 and singles reaching the top ten with 76.
As an album artist, Presley is credited by Billboard with the record for the most albums charting in the Billboard 200: 129, far ahead of second-place Frank Sinatra's 82. He also holds the record for the most time spent at number one on the Billboard 200: 67 weeks. In 2015 and 2016, two albums setting Presley's vocals against music by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, If I Can Dream and The Wonder of You, both reached number one in the United Kingdom. This gave him a new record for number-one UK albums by a solo artist with 13, and extended his record for the longest span between number-one albums by anybody—Presley had first topped the British chart in 1956 with his self-titled debut.
Director: The Creative Picture Company
Stars: Bill Baize, Je Esposito, Joe Guercio, Loanne Parker
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All Comments (21)
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The Smithsonian designated Elvis Presley as the Greatest Entertainer of the 20th Century and who had the greatest influence on American culture and music.
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2023 and he still has millions of fans worldwide and we are still speaking about him. A legend that can never be replaced. ❤️🇦🇺
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2023 and this person is still relevant. Incredible.
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one of if not the best documentaries about Elvis i've ever seen. i saw Elvis in person in '70, '71, '74, '75, and '76, and i've seen countless other entertainers over the years and no one has ever, or will ever, come close to the magic of an Elvis show. he truly was the 'greatest show on earth'. God was showing out when he made Elvis Aaron Presley.
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Elvis gave 1,684 Concerts and over 6,000 Live Performances during his career as a Entertainer Super Star, a astonishing and amazing achievement not surpassed by anyone ! And over 2.5 Billion Records sold Worldwide ! The Highest Selling Single Artist in the History of Recorded Music ! AND the Only Entertainer in the World that is a member of 4 Music Halls of Fame ! Rock 'n Roll, Country, R & B, and Gospel ! And 21 other Halls of Fame ! That's Why Elvis is the KING of Music !!!
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Greatest performer of all time!
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I love Elvis and the thing I love most is he never forgot where he came from.
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Elvis looked great and sounded awesome. He could charm the pants off of an audience. After finding out that more people watched Aloha from Hawaii than when man first walked on the moon people who weren't Elvis fans were suddenly fans because they felt the electricity from Elvis that was generated from him to the crowd and people who were watching via satellite felt that magic that Elvis was putting out ! Honestly I have never seen another entertainer that made you fill like they were singing directly to you when there were thousands and thousands of people feeling that same way. Elvis had such fantastic musicians and they knew every move that Elvis made meant a certain sound from them. There will never be anyone like Elvis. Not in this life !
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Rest In Peace Elvis---Loved by so many !!!
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I'm very fortunate to have been alive in the time of Elvis. I think he'll remain a phenomenon forever probably 💛
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Many stars have come and gone, but E1vis is the whole universe and the big bang💥The GOAT! Before anyone did anything Elvis did everything! The firstest with the mostest! King forever👑
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What i really do love about EP is, that he kept his working class mindset. He grinded till the very end and wasn't just living of royalities but gave his very best for his fans🙏
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Well, as Bruce Springsteen had once stated of Elvis, "It's like he came along and whispered a dream, and somehow we all heard it. There have been pretenders and contenders, but there's only one King" Undoubtedly one of the most brilliantly, remarkably talented, gifted, mesmerizing, captivating, spellbindingly magical entertainers to have ever graced the world stage. Elvis Aron Presley, the echoes of the incredibly rich legacy he left behind, will never, ever, cease reverberating throughout the pages of time, because the sun never sets upon a legend. Rest easy Hillbilly Cat, you are immeasurably, immeasurably loved, and truly, deeply, sincerely missed.
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The people in this documentary would be so glad to see the new resurgence of Elvis' popularity on youtube. So many reactors who had only associated Elvis with a couple of songs they heard and the Elvis impersonators are falling in love with the man and his music just as we did on our generations.
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I’m surprised Elvis lived as long as he did with the grueling performance routine. May he be resting in God’s loving arms.
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Elvis was pushed into the ground, so sad that people took advantage of him. He will never die in theory, he left a huge impact on our lives that will last until eternity. What happened to Elvis we can't turn back but what we can do is continue to be thankful for having Elvis in our lifetime & his music & talent that he shared around the world ❤❤❤
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The greatest entertainer in the history of the world!
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I was 7yo when I saw his '68 Comback, sitting on the floor about 1-2 feet away from our B&W TV, and his voice, especially in minor chords (my favorite!), touched deep into my chest/heart/soul, whatever it was, but that was it! My mother grew up when he first came out, she was 14, so she was really into his earlier years, but I preferred his more matured voice '68 on. I spent my first $$ on that album, then saved my babysitting and lawn mowing $$ for Aloha From Hawaii via Satellite!! I have always felt badly for him trusting Colonel Parker! He basically robbed Elvis blind, overworked him when he was ill, and didn't give him the opportunity to go outside the boundaries of the US, because he was a crook! Aloha from Hawaii would have been the perfect exposure that would have made sure he had full, blown out concerts all over the world, rather than being limited to Las Vegas. So many of his trusted "friends" took advantage of his generosity and then cashed in by writing a book that trashed him when he couldn't afford them anymore. Terrible, terrible thing to do to someone who they lived off of until he was blead dry! There will never be anyone who can come close to him!!
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“We did our job, and we did it very well“ That is the biggest understatement of the century! !! the musicians and singers were beyond exceptional!!!
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Elvis looked like he had just stepped out of a fashion magazine, a super hero magazine. He sounded great as he always did. His smile and charisma made you fill as if he was singing directly to you. He is still the best entertainer of all time and will always be loved and missed by millions of us from all over the world. I know that there will never be anyone like Elvis.
