Elvis Presley 1955-1977

1. Elvis Presley 1955-1977 Jonathan Suaste 01.May.2013 Music 1010 Jack Dunn

2. First Hit! • 1955 - unusual musical style, provocative gyrating hips and good looks got him a record deal with RCA Records. • “Heartbreak hotel first number 1 single, and Album release. • Signed a Movie deal with Paramount Pictures • Jan 19th - 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower) • Hurricane Diane hits the northeast United States, killing 200 and causing over $1 billion in damage • Disneyland opens in California on July 17th • Rosa Parks arrest in Montgomery Alabama sets the American Civil Rights Movement in Motion

3. 1956 • Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time • Elvis Presley's first movie, "Love Me Tender" opens in New York • Presley is everywhere. Radio, T.V. and silver screen. • Alabama Bus segregation laws declared illegal by US Supreme Court • The Winter Olympic Games are held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy • Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 signed into law on 29th June for the construction of 41,000 miles of interstate highways over a 20-year period

4. 1957 • Elvis drafted to the Army and serves a year and half in Germany. • Mother dies returns to Memphis and goes back to Germany. • Elvis Presley purchases a mansion in Memphis, Tennessee and calls it Graceland • Meets Priscilla Beaulieu. • Toyota starts selling cars in the US, the first is the ToyopetCrown • Portable Radar Devices Used To Enforce Speed Limits • Martin Luther King Jr heads nationwide resistance to racial segregation and discrimination in the US • Federal Troops sent to Arkansas to enforce anti segregation laws

5. 1960 • Elvis releases 3 records • Elvis is back (April) • GI Blues (October) • His hand is mine (December) • Continued Acting career.\ • Worked on soundtrack for next film. • John F Kennedy wins presidential Election • The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers are going to be sent to Vietnam • Muhammad Ali wins his first professional fight after having won the Gold Medal in Rome in the Olympic games • The Winter Olympic Games are held in Squaw Valley, California, United States

6. 1961 • Blue Hawaii Filmed released • 2 records released • Something for everyone • Blue Hawaii soundtrack released. • John F. Kennedy inaugurated as President of the United States • East German Authorities close the border between east and west Berlin and Construction of the Berlin Wall begins. • The first six flags theme parks opens "Six Flags Over Texas" in Arlington, Texas • President John F. Kennedy advises American families to build bomb shelters

7. 1962-1977 Movies & Shows • Follow that Dream (1962) • Fun in Acapulco (1963) • Kid Galahad (1962) • Girls,Girls,Girls (1962) • Kissin cousins (1964) • Rousta about (1964) • Girls Happy(1965) • HarumScarulm (1965) • Paradise Hawaiian (1966) • Frankie & John (1966) • Easy Come Easy go (1967) • Double Double (1967) • Clambake (1967 • Live a Little Love (1968) • Charro (1969) • Change of Habit (1969) • The Trouble with Girls (1969) • Elvis That’s the way Its Is (1970) • Elvis on tour (1972)

8. Elvis Albums 1962-1977 • Pot Luck With Elvis (1962) • Girls! Girls! Girls! Sound Track (1962) • It Happened At The World's Fair Sound Track (1963) • Fun In Acapulco [OST] (1963) • Kissin' Cousins [OST] (1964) • Roustabout [OST] (1964) • Girl Happy (1965) • Elvis for everyone (1965) • Harum Scarum [OST, aka Harem Holiday] (1965) • Paradise, Hawaiian Style [OST] (1966) • Spin Out (1966) • How Great Thou Art (1967) • Double Trouble [OST] (1967) • Clambake [OST] (1967) • Speed Way (1967) • From Elvis to Memphis (1969) • Back In Memphis (1970) • That’s the way it is (1970) • Etc.. • Moody Blue(1977) • From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee (1966)

9. Elvis Life 1967-1977 • Married Priscilla (1967) • Lisa was born (1967) • Divorced (1973) • Lost Custody of Lisa(1970) • Over the years began having drug Addiction problems • Had a T.V. Special in (1968) • Battled a weight problem • Was Hospitalized for drugs • Last concert was in June of 1977 in Indianapolis • Died in home of August 1977 in Memphis of use of prescription drugs.

10. Important History 1962-1977 • Rioting on University of Mississippi campus following Black student James Meredith attempting to enroll ending when federal troops and U.S. marshals take control. (1962) • JFK Shot and Killed (1963) • Three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack the US Destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin US Congress Authorizes war against N Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin Resolution(1964) • Lyndon B. Johnson announces his program to create Medicare and to expand his war on poverty(1965) • The Draft Deferment Test is started in the US as a way for students to convince the Draft Board that they would serve the nation better in the quiet of the Classrooms than in the Jungles of Vietnam(1967) • The first Super Bowl played between Green Bay Packers ( win 35-10 ) and the Kansas City Chiefs • MLK Jr. Shot & Killed (1968) • Man landed on the Moon (1969) • Boeing 747 makes its first commercial passenger trip to London(1970) • The Walt Disney World Resort opens in Florida on October 21st (1971) • Last US ground troops withdrawn from Vietnam (1972) • World Trade Center in New York becomes the tallest building in the world (1973) • Following impeachment hearings started on May 9th Richard Nixonbecomes the first US president forced to resign after the Watergate Scandal (1974) • New York City avoids bankruptcy when President Gerald R. Ford signed a $2.3 billion loan (1975) • United States Bicentennial (1976) • Jimmy Carter Elected President of United States • U.S. (1977)

11. Sources http://www.thepeoplehistory.com 1955-1977 http://www.softshoe-slim.com/lists/p/presley.html http://www.biography.com/people/elvis-presley-9446466?page=2