For the Elvis Fan Who Has Everything |
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Zeon stand at Spring Fair
NEC Birmingham England.
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Hear Elvis tell the time, just click on the clock, for hours 1 to 6.
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Presentation box for every clock |
The world’s first “Elvis Talking Clock” was launched in the UK at the Spring Fair, Birmingham NEC. The Spring Fair is one of the largest Gift Shows for the Trade in Europe. Elvisly Yours has licensed Zeon Ltd to produce a range of classic and unique Elvis clocks and watches. Zeon is the largest clock and watch distributors in the UK selling, 2.5 million timepieces each year. It has taken one year of negotiations; correspondence and meetings to produce a fabulous range of superb Elvis clocks and watches that will be available from late May in the UK from Elvisly Yours and through major chain stores, TV Shopping Channels and mail order catalogues.
The designs are excellent and highly collectable. The STAR of the show was the “Elvis Talking Clock” where “Elvis” tells you the time every hour, preceded by a few bars of rock ‘n’ roll. Each hour has a different slogan, except “Elvis Has Left The Building…its 2 o’clock” was so popular it has been used for 2am and 2pm…making 23 time announcements. The reaction from the trade was fantastic and everyone loved our talking clock and large UK orders were placed with some of the biggest retailers in the country. For the Elvis fans who say they have everything…they haven’t…but now they can add the unique “Elvis Talking Clock” to their collection.
A wonderful presentation box comes with each watch and is highly collectable. There are ladies and gents watches available and to see the range offered by Elvisly Yours click on this link: New Elvisly Yours clock and watches.
From mid-March 2007 Elvisly Yours will be taking advance orders from fans on our website for the range of Elvis clocks and watches so you can be the first to have them in the world. Except for fan clubs and dealers overseas that have pre-ordered the clocks and watches they will only be available from Elvisly Yours. Sadly, American Elvis fans cannot buy them because of the US Federal Injunction against Elvisly Yours. We can ship the watches and clocks and other memorabilia to any family or friend’s American fans have that live outside the USA.
The voice of ‘Elvis’ was provided by our dear friend Mark Leen The Emerald Elvis and fans living in Ireland will be able to buy them from Mark. When the clock arrives we hope to organise a big promotion with Mark launching the “Elvis Talking Clock” to the general public and fans can come along to Elvisly Yours and buy the clock at the launch and perhaps get it signed. We will keep you informed of the launch date.
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SEX and ELVIS in the NEWS
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Who's sexier, Elvis...? |
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or...Angelina Jolie?
(photo from China Daily)
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Ann Margaret was very sexy in Viva Las Vegas |
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Elvis was always surrounded by sexy women |
From trying to understand the intense debate going on in the Elvis World about sexy models being photographed in and around Graceland and Humes High we discover Elvis is the second sexiest person in the history of the world.
Channel 4 in the UK, a TV company that also features the UK version of Big Brother is back in the news because recently they had the countdown to the 100 sexiest people in history. I had never heard of the Contest otherwise I would have encouraged fans to vote for Elvis. He came second to Angelina Jolly, but how you can compare a sexy man to a sexy woman is beyond me and there should have been a contest for men, another for women. How Channel Four can proclaim their results showed Elvis was less sexy than Angelina Jolly is farcical. Certainly in the Lara Croft movies it is not Angelina’s real bust and she should be disqualified for faking it.
The top ten were as follows:
1. Angelina Jolie
2. Elvis Presley
3. Marilyn Monroe
4. Beyonce Knowles
5. Brad Pitt
6. Lara Croft
7. George Clooney
8. Kylie Minogue
9. Johnny Depp
10. Scarlett Johansson.
To check the entire list on Channel 4 click this link:
It seems in Britain there is no prudery and we can even vote on who we consider sexy but reading the attacks on Graceland for allowing sexy models to be photographed in the house and grounds strikes me as going back to the Victorian days. I think there was no necessity for these sexy models to be photographed at Humes High School as it is a school and a place of learning, but Graceland?
Elvis was always surrounded by sexy women, in movies, at concerts, hanging around the gates at Graceland and at Hillcrest in LA. I have often wondered where all those gorgeous women you saw as adoring fans in concert film disappeared to? I am sure Elvis would not have minded the photo shoot. In Britain we have had Page Three girls it seems forever. In Denmark they openly sell pornography at the airport. In recent surveys they have shown Denmark is the best place in the world to live: in terms of quality of life, with less crime, better social institutions, better health care, more stability and less stress than anywhere else on the planet yet they openly sell pornography. I really do not know what all the fuss is about. Far worse is the demeaning of Elvis by EPE for selling those awful Elvis boobleheads, Elvis rubber masks and Elvis duck faces.
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Who had more influence
Elvis or James Brown? |
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James Brown the godfather of soul |
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Elvis simply the “King” |
I am sure most Elvis fans have always admired James Brown. I have always loved James Brown’s music. He was a fabulous entertainer but I sadly never got to see him perform. He knocked them dead just like Elvis and particularly when he was first introduced to white audiences. But, a magazine called “Parade” in the USA has stated that James Brown had more influence than Elvis Presley…give us a break Walter Scott, the author of this strange notion!!!
If James Brown was still alive I am sure he would readily agree Elvis made it possible for everyone else to follow. Elvis really was the King and only King. He was the catalyst for an explosion in modern music. Black artists of that era were very appreciative of Elvis’ influence giving them the chance to reach a white audience and he paved the way for a crossover in styles of music, allowing rock ‘n’ roll to flourish and soul then eventually rap, funk and hip hop. Elvis was really the first punk rocker, he was so different and the parents of teenagers hated Elvis and religious zealots at the time thought Elvis was a sign of the devil.
Elvis not only revolutionised music he also changed 20th century fashion, almost overnight. Elvis had more influence in the world than practically anyone you could name in modern history. He is known all over the world by his first name…with James it would be “James Who” and even then billions of people have not heard of James Brown even though he was another great music icon but not is the same league as Elvis.
Postscript:It is sad to think James has not been buried as yet, even though he died in December as the families fight over his will. James had four marriages and the older children hate the latest wife. They claim she was not legally married to their father and the child of the marriage James Brown Jnr. is not an heir. The whole thing has been messed up by the lawyers who I am sure are making millions just like the lawyers for Elvis Presley milked the Elvis Estate after he died and for many years since. In 1982 even before Graceland was opened to the public Probate Court accounts showed legal fees were $812,000.00. God only knows what legal fees have been paid since August 16th 1977 protecting Elvis from me, you and everyone else in the Elvis World. Sadly, in America such accounts are not made public as they are in the UK for limited companies and corporations. |
WORLD CONCERT TOUR |
For the past six months Elvisly Yours has been working closely with one of the world’s leading Entertainments Agent to organise a fabulous World Tour of three of the best Elvis Tribute Artists in America. Al Dvorin had told me shortly before he died I had to book the best ‘young Elvis’ he had ever seen and his name is Donny Edwards. Not only does Donny look like Elvis, but also he moves like him and recreates the excitement of those early days in the 1950’s when Elvis rocked the world.
I already knew who would be perfect for the Vegas Elvis and that was Kraig Parker, from Texas. I had seen him perform several times in Britain and he was good. Also his main backing band would be perfect for our show and his manager Charles Stone would be great to have onboard as the producer plus MC and for assisting us in finding other stars for the World Tour.
We needed a third Elvis for the 60s era and the most highly recommended Elvis Tribute Artist was Dwight Icenhower (what a great name). He has a fabulous voice and according to Kraig and Charles was a hard act to follow on a recent Tribute Show where they both featured. Dwight’s recommendation from Charles and Kraig was very important and after viewing his website we were convinced we had our third Elvis.
This Elvis Tribute Show will be like no other. First, it will be a World Tour taking in Europe, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand and South America. There is also interest from Russia and who knows whether we could make “Bollywood” in India and Middle-Eastern countries. There are a lot of Elvis fans in Dubai. We have had a great response from all over the world and day-by-day we are arranging our World calendar. Each show will be very different to any other Tribute Shows you have seen and a lot more fun with the performers working interactively with the audience. There will be Ed Enoch and the Stamps, Myrna Smith and the original Flirtations as backing singers together the Memphis Horns and the Royal Tribute Band. The show will have Charles Stone as MC recounting favourite stories with Myrna and Ed as the warm-up show for each performance. There will be nineteen artists on stage recreating the magic of Elvis.
Check on our website www.elvisly-yours soon for more details of the Elvisly Yours World Concert Tour and look out for some great photos in our next Newsletter. |
Ian Coulson in Concert |
March 6th 2006 at 8pm
People’s Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne |
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Ian will have an Elvis shop stocked with Elvisly Yours goods on the night
Telephone: 01912 655020 for tickets |
Why can't EPE work with people who understand the Elvis market? |
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The Definitive Elvis DVD Box Set |
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Jailhouse Rock the Musicla was banned from using any of the songs from the film |
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Joe Esposito's "Home Movies of Elvis" were sold in Europe by Elvisly Yours after Joe was sued by EPE in the USA |
It saddened me to read that the producers of the infamous DVD set the “Definitive Elvis” have had damages awarded against them of $2.8million. I hope they can appeal this outrageous sum.
Apparently, the United States District Court in Los Angeles has awarded plaintiffs Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. (EPE), SOFA Entertainment, Inc. and songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller $2.8 million in damages and attorneys fees to be paid by Passport International Productions, Inc. (a/k/a Passport Video, Inc.) and its owner, Dante Pugliese.
I have never seen the 16 hour box set as I always keep away from anything possibly classed as bootleg ever since I have been in litigation with EPE for 22 years. However, by all accounts it is excellent and just what the fans want so why isn’t EPE and the other plaintiffs working with people like Dante Pugliese instead of suing them and getting obscene damages. There were over 200 interviews conducted by the producers and only a very limited part of the box set was supposed to infringe the rights of the plaintiffs that the producers had claimed was public domain. EPE does not care about the fans and their wishes and needs. They employ megalomaniacs like Gary Hovey and Jack Soden who Elvis would have kicked-out on their ass years ago if he was alive.
I would not be surprised if Dante approached EPE and got the same brush off as the producer of the beautiful Danish ballet “The King”. The producer of “Jailhouse Rock the Musical” could not use the songs from the film and this led to a ten year delay in the show being put in production. Then there was the farce of the BBC programme “Top of the Pops” being denied permission to use the clip of Elvis singing“One Night” when Elvis had the 1,000th no.1 hit single in the UK with “One Night” even though the ’68 Comeback DVD featuring the song was in all the stores.
Of course, Elvisly Yours released the “Home Movies of Elvis” by Joe Esposito in 1988 after he was sued by EPE in US Federal Court, only to buy him out a year later. Still the “Home Movies of Elvis” have not been re-released in their entirety...what madness and bad business? If people like Dante were used instead of abused by EPE they would make $millions more in profit and the fans would be much happier.
There are hundreds more horror stories around about how EPE treats producers and promoters…even on their own doorstep, with Dr Ed Franklin’s “Images of the King Contest”, the world’s real originator of the “Elvis Contest”. They would never work with Ed even though his Contest was the no.1 Show in town and was supported by thousands of fans year after year. If you have been treated badly by EPE please let me know and I will consider your story for future Newsletters. |
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Support 'Images of the King
Contest' in Memphis this August |
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Dr Ed, Jackie and Curt Franklin |
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2006 Elvis Jr. Champion |
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2005 Mario Champion |
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2004 David Lee Champion |
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2003 Robert Washington Champion |
In memory of Dr Ed Franklin it is the duty of Elvis fans visiting Memphis who appreciate Elvis Tribute Artists to support the 'Images of the King Contest' founded by Ed and Jackie Franklin in 1987. It really originated much earlier in a different format at Bad Bobs and Ed had the foresight and business acumen to make it the no.1 show in town for Elvis week. Ed and Jackie set the standard for others to copy and after years of denigrating and even suing Elvis Tribute Artists EPE are now trying to steal Ed's original idea and mount their own contest. This is an insult to Ed who was also Elvis' vet and after his death remained the Graceland vet. EPE have waited until Ed died to rip-off his idea, shame on them and fans who are always moaning about EPE can now make their opinion felt by boycotting EPE's bootleg contest and supporting the 'official' "Elvis Images of the King Contest".
2007 Images of the King Contest Dates
August 14th - 18th, 2007
Grand Ballroom, Airport Holiday Inn Select
2240 Democrat Road, Memphis, TN
Breakfast of Champions -
August 19th, 2007
Make Your Plans Now!!!
2007 Theme 'King Creole' - get in a Mardi Gras party spirit!
www.imagesofthekingcontest.com
Toll-Free in the United States - (877) 397-2660
Outside the United States - (540) 658-1935
bobbie@imagesofthekingcontest.com
Sid,
I so appreciate your passion regarding the Tribute Artists. It is good to know that someone remembers who came up with the brilliant idea that has suddenly occurred to EPE. Ed was a visionary, as anyone who knew him will confirm.
Michael and Bobbie are working very hard to keep the Images show true to its "family reunion" roots, creating activities that involve the greatest number of fans and artists, all the while continuing to honor and respect Elvis and his memory. No one ever got rich from being an ETA or running the contests, but we all agree that it is a piece of Americana, a phenomenon that should not be allowed to die.
Again, thank you for your support. The Hoovers and my family appreciate your friendship throughout the years.
Jackie Franklin
A recent email from Jackie Franklin
Jackie is a lady and had written in a previous email "I would never tell anyone NOT to enter the Graceland show". You the fans and the Tribute Artists should do the right thing! |
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Elvis never wrote nor co-wrote
any of the songs he sang!! |
It always annoys me when I read unscrupulous song-writers claim Elvis co-wrote songs with them and try to cheat the public offering the songs on eBay. I have been to Memphis 53 times from the UK and during those visits met many of Elvis’ family, friends and members of the entourage. They have all told me the same thing that Elvis just did not write his songs. Actually, I never asked why and often wondered why Elvis never made the effort to write his own words. He was credited on various songs as a co-writer but this was a ploy by Colonel Parker to make more money so that Elvis and the Colonel got extra revenue from the publishing rights. Let’s face it if you could persuade Elvis to sing your song who would not give up some royalty for not only the honour and privilege but it made good business sense for your future career.
The latest lie is that songwriter Paul Terry King wrote and recorded two songs in 1973 with Elvis. One of these, he claimed was called “If I’d Only Bought Her Roses,” and deviously claimed that Robert X. Sillerman, the current owner of Elvis Presley Enterprises, bought the rights for an undisclosed price. Sillerman bought “Elvis-a-Rama” but previously a deal was structured with its previous owner and King so presumably the song became a very small part of the Museum deal and not that Sillerman went out of his way to buy the rights.
But the other song, “Just Like Rolling Up the Hill,” was sold on eBay. What this means, according to eBay, is that the new owner can “produce, sing, or release it yourself.” It was later promoted on eBay as “Elvis’ Last Recorded Song.” No one other than King had knowledge of these recordings and songs.
Sadly, an unidentified and gullible buyer paid $31,101 on eBay for the song and all rights.
But, first, a few facts. Elvis stopped recording in studios in the early 1970s after Priscilla left him and he became very much a recluse and it was very hard to get to Elvis. After the divorce from Priscilla, October 1973, Elvis went even more into a shell. It was just the constant touring that kept him going, to be close to his fans. You can imagine the turmoil in Elvis’ life in 1973. In 1972 Priscilla wanted to leave him and then he had the high of the Aloha Concert . This was followed by legal wrangling over the divorce, as Priscilla wanted a cash settlement and he mistakenly sold his music rights to RCA - probably the worst business deal in Entertainment history. Yet, we have this songwriter called Paul Terry King not only co-writing songs with Elvis but also recording the songs with him. None of his close entertainment friends could get through to Elvis but he found all that time for King…give me a break.
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