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| 1619 Broadway - The Brill Building [radio Scotland] | ...Throughout the 40s, 50s and 60s it was the world's most famous pop factory, churning out hits for Frank Sinatra, ELVIS PRESLEY, Dionne Warwick, The Righteous Brothers and many others. But what of the building today?... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...The Guardian's Richard Williams reappraises hitherto overlooked periods of ELVIS PRESLEY's career.... |
| Brian Appleton's Unofficial Multi-media Lecture | ...Rock musicologist and Media Studies lecturer Brian Appleton examines the conspiracy theories which abound in the history of rock concerning Jim Morrison, ELVIS PRESLEY and Harry Secombe, to name but three.... |
| Christmas With Elvis | ...Elvis fan Alvin Stardust speaks to friends, colleagues and fans of ELVIS PRESLEY to find out about the unique ways in which 'the King' celebrated his favourite time of year.... |
| Desmond Carrington After Seven | ...Her biggest record hit was Lay Down Your Arms in 1956, the success of which kept ELVIS PRESLEY off of the number one spot for several weeks. Anne remained hugely popular with those who had served during the war, and this fact led to her many contributions to the Not Forgotten Association over many years until her death in 1994.... |
| Don't Start Me Talking | ...The story of pop music in Britain told exclusively by the people who listened to it - the fans. By talking to the fans who were there at the time, the series offers an unique perspective on the careers of artists like Bill Haley, ELVIS PRESLEY, Cliff Richard, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, the Sex Pistols and others.... |
| Elaine Paige On Sunday | ...Elaine Paige celebrates the music of Broadway, Hollywood and the West End. This week, Elaine takes a look at the movie-musical career of ELVIS PRESLEY.... |
| Elvis - 68 Comeback | ...Elvis' stands as one of the great television moments in rock music history and a stunningly brilliant milestone in ELVIS PRESLEY's career. Elvis rocked the world in the 1950s, a leader among musicians who brought about a revolution in music and pop culture. Through most of the 1960s he concentrated mainly on his movie career, which was very successful, but had become a grind and had not given him many opportunities to prove himself as a serious actor.... |
| Elvis Effect, The | ...David Stafford investigates the phenomenon of the ELVIS PRESLEY brand.... |
| Elvis Presley Story, The | ...The ELVIS PRESLEY Story... |
| Elvis | ...The first of four programmes in which journalists re-appraise ELVIS PRESLEY's significance. Paul Gambaccini assesses Presley's initial impact on popular music and American culture.... |
| Fabulous Fifties | ...CND, race riots in Notting Hill, ELVIS PRESLEY and Buddy Holly, and Senator John F Kennedy and a new beginning.... |
| For One Night Only | ...An electrifying performance on NBC TV in December 1968 restored the reputation of ELVIS PRESLEY at a time when his star seemed to be on the wane.... |
| Frank Sinatra - The Voice Of The Century | ...David Jacobs presents a 13-part series on the many facets of the great entertainer. 9:`The Television Years'. This programme looks at Sinatra's television appearances, and includes his historic duet with ELVIS PRESLEY, and the Emmy award-winning song `Love and Marriage' from the musical version of `Our Town'.... |
| From Galway To Graceland | ...By Sue Teddern, based on a song by Richard Thompson. In a remote Irish village Marie becomes increasingly fixated with the music of ELVIS PRESLEY. One night, after a bitter row, she walks out of her home and sets out on a journey to Graceland. With Marcella Riordan, Struan Rodger and Clare Cathcart. Director: Paul Dodgson. / By Sue Teddern, based on a song by Richard Thompson. In a remote Irish village Marie becomes increasingly fixated with the music of ELVIS PRESLEY. One night, after a bitter row, she walks out of her home and sets out on a journey to Graceland. With Marcella Riordan, Struan Rodger and Clare Cathcart. Director Paul Dodgson.... |
| Glen Campbell Story, The | ...Mike Mills looks at Campbell's early session work with Frank Sinatra and ELVIS PRESLEY, right through to the beginnings of his solo career. With contributions from Carol Kaye and Al Delory.... |
| Guitar Greats | ...talks about his life and career with reference to being ELVIS PRESLEY's guitarist during the fifties.... |
| Head In The Clouds | ...He considers subjects from Norse mythology to the fiction of Don DeLillo, looking at metamorphosing visions of apocalypse glimpsed in the clouds by ultra-religious combatants in the English Civil War, as well as visions seen by ELVIS PRESLEY.... |
| Higher And Higher - The Life And Soul Of Jackie Wilson | ...Legendary soul A&R man Johnny Otis talks about spotting the young Sonny Wilson, as he was known, and Otis Williams of the Temptations describes Jackie Wilson's dynamic stage persona. Biographers Tony Douglas and Doug Saint Carter talk about these early years, and friend Simon Rutberg describes a meeting between 'The Black ELVIS PRESLEY and The White Jackie Wilson' as the two men joked when Elvis met Jackie in the mid-fifties.... |
| House Of The Spirit Levels, The | ...The Hardstaff family pet spaniel has been revealed as ELVIS PRESLEY reincarnated. Tony's nemesis is fast approaching as the struggle to protect the ancient fish and chip shop suffers a severe setback.... |
| King And I - The Colonel Parker Story, The | ...Rob Brydon presents a two-part documentary about Colonel Tom Parker, ELVIS PRESLEY's manager, and seeks to sort the truth from the rumours.... |
| Laurence Llewelyn-bowen's Men Of Fashion | ...The story of how fashion and music formed an insoluble partnership, from the influence of ELVIS PRESLEY to the pretty hippies and the punks of the King's Road. With Malcolm McLaren.... |
| Lost Continent, The | ...From ELVIS PRESLEY's Tupelo birth place to North Carolina - Bill Bryson rediscovers America. Read by Kerry Shale.... |
| Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine | ...This evening he transports us back to 1977; the year that ELVIS PRESLEY died, EMI fired the Sex Pistols, and Star Wars fever hit Britain.... |
| Million Dollar Quartet | ...Mark Lamarr tells the story of the Million Dollar Quartet, one of the most famous jam sessions in the history of pop music that saw ELVIS PRESLEY, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis perform together in a studio in Memphis, Tennessee, on a Tuesday afternoon in December 1956.... |
| Mother Church Of Country Music - The Ryman Auditorium, The | ...Opened in 1892, The Ryman Auditorium was originally called the Union Gospel Tabernacle, a church built by a hell-raising steamboat captain Tom Ryman, who was converted to religion after attending a revival with Southern evangelist Samuel Jones. Following Ryman's death, the building took his name and became the South's leading music venue, featuring performers such as Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino and Sergei Rachmaninov. In 1943 it became the home of the long running WSM radio show 'The Grand Ole Opry', staging performances from country legends including Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton and, for one night only, ELVIS PRESLEY. When the Opry moved out of town in the mid 70s the Ryman became vacant and fell into disrepair. Over the next twenty years the venue was used for various film sets, including 'Coal Miner's Daughter' (the Loretta Lynn biopic starring Sissy Spacek), 'Honky Tonk Man' (Clint Eastwood) and 'Nashville' (Robert Altman). However it was not until Emmylou Harris recorded her Grammy winning live album at the venue in 1992 that public interest in the Ryman was re-awakened, and it was saved from imminent demolition. Newly refurbished, but still with its original wooden pews, it re-opened in 1994, and now plays host to performers from every genre of music, including Tony Bennett, Coldplay, Elvis Costello and Neil Young. Since 1999 it has once again welcomed the 'Grand Ole Opry' radio show during the winter months and each year celebrates its country music roots when it hosts the Americana Music Assocation awards show.... |
| News From North Britain | ...A comic story by Alexander McCall Smith about an anthropologist who investigates a remote tribe in New Guinea that worships ELVIS PRESLEY. Reader Crawford Logan ... |
| Nightingale Of The Nile | ...Once described as a combination of 'Ella Fitzgerald, Eleanor Roosevelt and ELVIS PRESLEY', her radio broadcasts often brought the entire Arabic world to a standstill. Her incredible voice and skilful handling of the media quickly made her the most prominent celebrity in the Arab world at the time, and her close friendship with both the royal circle of King Farouk I before the revolution, and President Nasser in its wake, gave her unprecedented political influence.... |
| Not Letting It Be | ...Back in the 1940s it had been bandleader Spike Jones who'd had a pop at the popular music of the day. He in turn inspired the man who would become synonymous with the send up - Stan Freberg. Freberg resented the rise of rock 'n' roll and recorded celebrated satires of ELVIS PRESLEY, Johnny Ray, The Platters and The Chords.... |
| Old Harry's Game | It's not easy being Satan. Thrown out of heaven by a vengeful, white-haired God merely for daring to voice the concerns of middle management and condemned for all eternity to listen to Edith Piaf and ELVIS PRESLEY. Still, there are new arrivals to welcome - the Professor, an atheist whose unerring optimism is a nasty blow, and Thomas, chairman of a privatised water company (so vile that Judas Iscariot starts calling him the Guv'nor). Satan has to deal with a rebellion of his own from head demon Gary: he wants staff feedback sessions, more flexible rostering and wider access to nuns and virgins. And with human depravity on the increase hell's getting ever more crowded: time for a new assistant. ...It's not easy being Satan. Thrown out of heaven by a vengeful, white-haired God merely for daring to voice the concerns of middle management and condemned for all eternity to listen to Edith Piaf and ELVIS PRESLEY. Still, there are new arrivals to welcome - the Professor, an atheist whose unerring optimism is a nasty blow, and Thomas, chairman of a privatised water company (so vile that Judas Iscariot starts calling him the Guv'nor). Satan has to deal with a rebellion of his own from head demon Gary: he wants staff feedback sessions, more flexible rostering and wider access to nuns and virgins. And with human depravity on the increase hell's getting ever more crowded: time for a new assistant.... |
| Poetry Please | ...Featured works include Carol Ann Duffy's Elvis's Twin Sister, which imagines a sibling for ELVIS PRESLEY as a nun, rocking in her wimple, and poems by Anna Akhmatova, Peter Porter and Douglas Dunn.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley is joined by Salley Vickers, an analytical psychologist who became a best-selling novelist with `Miss Garnet's Angel', a story set in contemporary Venice about a woman's attempt to reinvest her life with a spiritual dimension. Her second novel, `Instances of the Number Three', has recently been published, and her musical choices include several works by Mozart as well as music by Byrd, Galuppi, Schubert, Rachmaninov and ELVIS PRESLEY ... |
| Promised Land, The | ...Andy Kershaw presents a six-part musical travelogue of his trip across America, retracing the route of Chuck Berry's song `Promised Land'. In this fourth programme, he visits Mississippi, where he calls in at the record label that is keeping the blues alive, and pauses at the boyhood home of ELVIS PRESLEY ... |
| Radio Hour With Bob Dylan [6 Music] | ...Bob takes Number One as his theme and includes songs by The Five Royales, ELVIS PRESLEY, George Jones and Buddy Guy.... |
| Real Wild Child | ...Stuart Maconie concludes a six-part series showcasing some of the greatest hellraisers in rock 'n' roll history. 6: ELVIS PRESLEY, the King. The life of the man who became hopelessly addicted to prescription drugs and junk food, who had a mother/Madonna complex, and who lived a cloistered existence in his Graceland mansion with his Memphis mafia.... |
| Rockabilly Rebels | ...Marty Wilde presents a new six-part series featuring the legends of rockabilly from its heyday in the 50s to its revival in the 70s. This programme focuses on the role of Sun Records, with music by ELVIS PRESLEY, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Onie Wheeler and the Miller Sisters.... |
| Rockin' In The Aisles | ...This second programme spotlights Cliff Richard and ELVIS PRESLEY ... |
| Roger Moore - My Word Is My Bond | ...On returning to the UK, he stars in 'Ivanhoe', alongside a German-speaking Christopher Lee; is surprised by a young ELVIS PRESLEY, and allows his heart to take him far from Dorothy and into the next phase of his life.... |
| Seven More Days That Rocked The World | ...This first programme goes back to 1958 when ELVIS PRESLEY was at his peak, just before he was drafted into the army.... |
| Singing Cowboys, The | ...Mike Harding presents a four-part series on the western songs and singers of the silver screen. 4: Unexpected Cowboy Songs and Singers. This programme features some of the more improbable western singing stars, including Marilyn Monroe, ELVIS PRESLEY, Groucho Marx, Fred Astaire, and Laurel and Hardy.... |
| Suzi Quatro - Rockin' With Suzi Q | ...Plus a listener recalls a Rock 'n' Roll Memory associated with Wear My Ring Around Your Neck by ELVIS PRESLEY ... |
| Suzi Quatro Unzipped | ...1/6. Little Susie from Detroit is bowled over by ELVIS PRESLEY on the Ed Sullivan show and music becomes her passion. Then, in the early 60s, she sees The Beatles on the same show, and immediately forms a band with her sisters. With her Fender Precision bass, it's the start of an illustrious career.... |
| Suzi Quatro's Heroes | ...Hailed as the Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda was too much of a maverick for the country music scene and toured with ELVIS PRESLEY, and had huge hits with Let's Have a Party and Fujiyama Mama.... |
| Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan [6 Music] | ...Bob plays songs by Lonzo and Oscar, Peter Tosh, ELVIS PRESLEY and Sly and The Family Stone... |
| Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan | ...Bob Dylan selects an eclectic range of tracks on the theme of Number One, including music by ELVIS PRESLEY and The Contours.... |
| Uncle Sam Goes Pop | ...When the USA entered the war, the nascent record label was faced with a problem: the supply of shellac, used to make 78 rpm records, ceased. After much testing, Vincent found that a combination of two resins - one of which was Already used in the manufacture of "rubber" dinghies - created a playable and sturdy record. V-Discs commissioned over 900 special recordings of the most successful and commercial artists of the day - the only record of great pop music during the ban. Vincent received the Legion of Merit award for his services and Steve Sholes, who produced and oversaw many of the recordings, returned to RCA where he recommended that they sign a kid named ELVIS PRESLEY!... |
| Whole Lotta Shakin' - The 50th Anniversary Of Sun Records, A | ...Steve Harley presents a documentary marking the historic 50th anniversary of the founding of Sun Records - the record company that discovered ELVIS PRESLEY.... |
| Word Of Mouth | ...On the 25th anniversary of ELVIS PRESLEY's death, Michael celebrates the jargon of rock 'n' roll.... |
| You'll Never Be Sixteen Again | ...Looking at austerity, fashion, ELVIS PRESLEY, rock 'n' roll and attitudes towards sex.... |