Elvis Presley’s greatest ballad was allegedly created under unexpected personal circumstances that shaped the emotion behind ...

In 1955, Elvis Presley, then a 20-year-old, relatively unknown singer, took the stage at the Arena Building in Cape Girardeau. Children younger than 12 were admitted for free, according to the poster ...

Elvis Presley, 21, performing at Fort Worth’s North Side Coliseum on April 20, 1956. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection UT Arlington Special Collections On May 29, 1955, a 20-year-old rising music ...

Think of this three-disc set as The Rise of Elvis Presley: The Granular Detail Version. The fabled personal recordings young Presley paid Sun Records $3.98 to make are here. The very early singles are ...

Elvis Presley, who would turn 88 this Sunday if he were still alive, never performed in Chattanooga. But he passed through town while on an extended train trip in 1956, and he once made a surprise ...

When she was 14, Barbara Mallory tuned in to WAMY and listened as DJ Bob Ritter spun the heck out of vinyl imprinted with the voice of a young Elvis Aaron Presley. She liked everything she heard, but ...

Seventy years ago this month, "Ellis" Presley performed at the Overton Park Shell. That's what it said in that day's edition of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, the city's daily evening newspaper. "In ...

When RCA Victor purchased Elvis Presley’s recording contract from Sam Phillips and Sun Records for $40,000 in 1955, many believed the new form of music called rock ‘n’ roll was a passing fad. This ...

TUPELO, MS ‒ The distance from here to Memphis, Tennessee, is about 115 miles ‒ an easily traveled span of wooded hills and sunbaked asphalt, churches and truck stops, strip malls and at least one ...