Main Street America, 1950s Live in Hillboro, Texas - Roadside America

Main Street  America, 1950s Live in Hillboro, Texas - Roadside America

If you like antiques and old cars you're going to love today's video! Get a dose of 1940's, 1950's and 1960's nostalgia at the Roadside America Museum in Hillsboro. Pack my bags, I'm ready to roll! Roadside America Museum Carroll Estes 212 E Elm St. Hillsboro, TX 76645 Phone: 972-291-2958 https://www.facebook.com/TexasCountry... Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/oldiescountry  Facebook: http://Facebook.com/oldiescountry


FORGOTTEN THANKSGIVING and CHRISTMAS Music and Memories

TOP 10 FATHER’S DAY SONGS 

By SteveOand Boppin Burt  -

June 17, 2016

Our #1
- MY DAD by Paul Peterson of Donna Reed Show Fame - tearjerker as performed on 1963 episode

Thought Mary and Shelly were going start doing backup for Paul on this tear-jerker Top 10 hit for him in 1963. Of course, Peterson was a young teenager like his TV sister , Shelly, who also had one big hit, Johnny Angel, just prior.  One of the biggest if not biggest Father's Day songs along with Oh My Papa by Eddie Fisher...  

- DADDY DON'T YOU WALK SO FAST by Wayne Newton

OUR #2
- OH MY PAPA by Eddie Fisher

Monster hit for Mr. Debbie Reynolds and Liz Taylor in 1954.

Crazy Cat Digs This Father's Day Music

Steve O's  #1 Father Day Songs goes out to Mike Rutherford of Mike and the Mechanics for “Living Years” Mike reveals the debt he owes to a loving, tolerant and supportive father why he wrote this song.

#2 Madonna – Papa Don’t Preach
Madonna sings how her Papa taught her right from wrong.  Madona turns to her Papa for advice on having a baby.

#3 Family love with Nat and Natalie Cole – Unforgettable

#4 Father to Son – Phil Collins: Here is yet another hard to find Phil Collins music video featuring the Collins family past and present. One of the kids playing the drums is Phil’s son, Simon, who can also be seen in the Batman shirt. Be sure to do a YouTube search on “Simon Collins” to hear some of his music. He is a chip off the ole block, and has done a remake of his father’s Genesis song “Keep it Dark”, which is fantastic.

#5 The Winston – Color Him Father – The story of a Step-Father loving his new family.

#6 Eric Clapton – My Father’s Eyes

#7 Harry Chapin – Cats in the Cradle – a poem his wife wrote and turned it into a song after his son was born.

ELVIS AND NIXON - New Movie Portrays Surreal 1970 Encounter of Two Unlikely Sympaticos

 

Most requested government photo depicting unexpected, unlikely  1970 White House meeting between two unlikely people who have more in common than one might have thought. The meeting which almost never happened turned out to be a surreal event as depicted in new movie, Elvis and Nixon

Elvis and Nixon Movie Review

with thanks to Chris McCoy (Memphis Flyer)



 In the deep recesses of Elvis lore, there is one image that stands out as particularly surreal: Elvis in full 70s regalia shaking hands with Richard Nixon in the Oval Office. As the prologue of Elvis and Nixon reminds us, it is by far the most requested image from the National Archive, more popular than the Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi or the Apollo 17 “Blue Marble” shot. As the image stares at us from the walls of countless dorm rooms and t shirts, it poses the inscrutable question, “What the hell was going on here?”

Director Liza Johnson tries to answer that question with Elvis and Nixon, with mixed success. One of the best choices from her and a trio of screenwriters (Joey Sagal, Hanna Sagal, and Cary Elews of Princess Bride fame) is beginning with the morning meeting where advisors Egil Keogh (Colin Hanks) and Dwight Chapin (Evan Peters) try to blithely slip in that the President’s nap time will be curtailed in favor of meeting with Mr. Presley. Kevin Spacey, used to playing a president in House Of Cards, absolutely nails Nixon, all hunched shoulders, quivering jowls, and indignation. 

When we meet Elvis (Michael Shannon), he’s restless and irritable, trapped in Graceland’s TV room like a panther in a cage. In this telling, it’s the images of the military flailing around in Southeast Asia and the anti-war movement that drive him to seek an audience with the president. No longer a conduit of youthful rebellion, but an early middle aged, wealthy member of the establishment, he’s disturbed by the direction of the country, and thinks the best way he can help is to become an undercover narc. The alternate theory, long entertained by druggies everywhere, that Elvis, buoyed by the finest formulations from Dr. Nick’s pharmacopeia, was pulling Nixon’s leg, is not entertained here.

 

Kevin Spacey, playing Nixon with Shannon playing Nixon, at right, in the Oval office.

The chance real life meeting between President Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley in December, 1970 almost never happened. But, when it did, the movie shows how  Nixon and Elvis would have much more in common than one might expect and even develop an instant affection for each other, hard to believe as it may , at first, seem. The fact is that Nixon and Elvis were both relative 'outsiders' at the time with  Nixon in the throes of Watergate and Elvis in the twilight years of his career-displaced by newer act such as the Beatles, who he detests, according to the movie. Both Elvis and Nixon see a deteriorating society with riots and drugs taking center stage- and both Elvis and Nixon would love to do somthing about it. So, Elvis, almost on a whim, flies out to Washington with a handwritten letter for Nixon in which he asks to be granted a 'deputy' role with badge so that he may help rid the country of some of perverse activities. 

Sounds like a very twisted Elvis, at first, and none of Nixon's henchmen such as Egil Krough and Dwight Chapin in Washington want  to let him get anywhere close to Nixon. But, after Elvis makes (Shannon) a very fluid, articulate case time and again, he gets closer and closer to the meeting, in which Nixon, on first blush, had no interest.  By the end of the meeting, Nixon was begging for the above picture of the two together- which Elvis had been very weary of, until Nixon gave him his 'deputy' authority and access to the badge.

The movie is very 'campy' with great off-beat humor - whether artistic license or not. Kevin Spacey plays a cartoonish, hunched Nixon, who, by the end becomes a sympathetic figure. Shannon looks nothing like Elvis ever did but, putting looks aside, is very believable and likable, too, with his unique 'concocted' scheme to help America and , perhaps, do something humanitarian during a up and down later career..

The movie even makes a statement on the Mid-East War then against the backdrop of today's Mid-East Crisis while leaning conservative - a real departure for Hollywood today - with both Nixon and Presley wishing to stamp out the 'enemy' in Syria and Iraq. This comes, against an Obama administration of today , that seems to be in no real hurry -perhaps just the opposite - to slow the Mid-East crisis of today. 

So, from what seems to be a 'thin'  story line, at first, becomes a real character study of a movie develops - one that holds our interest throughout it's short 96 minute length.  It's something very unusual to see these days, and well worth a view before the movie goes away. The movie was almost empty during its first days in theaters.

The Land That Made Me Me-A Nostalgia Look Back

THEY SAY YOU CANT GO BACK. We say 'why not?'...at least for a SHORT, colorful   reminder of how it used to be, good or bad - you decide. No era was 100% good or bad but perhaps this looks pretty good against the NEW 'ME' society >https://youtu.be/NqHTHZsUICA . Let us know what you think...   For another fun and interesting piece of nostalgia go see the new movie 'Elvis and Nixon' out now

  https://youtu.be/NqHTHZsUICA

 

ELVIS PASSED 40 YEARS AGO -It's ELVIS WEEK in Memphis - Music, Videos, Schedule, Guests, Map, News - Elvis Country Store

ELVIS CANDLELIGHT VIGIL replay from Friday night, 8-15-13, Graceland, Memphis, Tenn.

Elvis first recording, 'My Happiness' , was recorded for his mother and forgotten about for months until Sun Records' secretary helped Sam Phillips recall and bring back Elvis to the studio - and the rest is history... http://youtu.be/d38jJszV4TU


Here's one from the end of  E's career , by popular demand, that makes us laugh - and cry...Elvis at his comedic best without trying...

It's ELVIS WEEK 36 Years Ago Elvis Left the Building   - But he's still around...   FREE E-CARD    SEND AN ECARD from Elvis at Graceland To A Friend or Yourself *********************************************** FREE Elvis Event Guide Souvenir Program  ********************************************************** TRAVEL DEALS NOT TO LATE TO TRAVEL TO GRACELAND , MEMPHIS , OR ANYWHERE!  NEW! Save an extra 9% at Hotels.com with code SUMMERFUN9! Book by 9/8, Travel by 11/30  ELVIS' FIRST RECORDING   Elvis first recording, 'My Happiness' , was recorded for his mother and forgotten about for months until Sun Records' secretary helped Sam Phillips recall and bring back Elvis to the studio - and the rest is history... PLAY IT ELVIS WEEK LISTENING PARTY  ELVIS COUNTRY STORE AND MORE...   www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&field-keywords=elvis&linkCode=ur2&tag=ypc-20&url=search-alias%3Daps CLICK FOR MORE Get Your Own ELVIS APP http://www.elvis.com/elvisweek/ew2013app.aspx It's ELVIS WEEK - Listening Party Video - Schedule, Guests, Map, News - Elvis Country Store

ELVIS' CARS

Elvis' 1955 pink cadillac

ELVIS' '56 El Dorado Cadillac

Elvis and June Juanico flew to Houston to purchase this car on June 12, 1956 at a cost of $10,000. Originally white with a black interior, Elvis squashed a handful of grapes on the fender and told the customiser, Jimmy Sanders of Memphis (who also customised the pink '55 Fleetwood), that was the colour he wanted. The upholstery was changed to white roll and pleated leather, and the floor covered in mouton fur dyed purple. Elvis' initials 'EP' entwined with a guitar and two musical notes inscribed in leather adorned the floor mats and overhead. Elvis traded it in on December 23rd 1957. - See more at: http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/elvis_presleys_cars.shtml#sthash.HAWqUmRo.dpuf

...and there were many other cars of Elvis including a 1960 Lincln Continental, special Fleetwood 1960 Cadillac used in Viva Las Vegas and this Rolls Royce

For more info on Elvis' cars

On August 16, 1977 , the day Elvis passed, friend and Sun mate Roy Orbison, with tears in his eyes, performed at the Santa Monica Auditorium near Los Angeles before a sold out crowd of around 15,000. It was said to be one of the best and emotional shows ever. Orbison considered cancelling after the loss of his good friend, but glad he went on as it, effecctively, kicked off his 10-year comeback (1977-1988). After the show, Some Hollywood moguls in the audience encouraged Orbison to step up his touring and recording, which he did . So, Roy can thank Elvis, in death, for really giving him the desire to continue, in effect , carrying on for the King. Who knows if the connections would have happened otherwise. . Aicture is believed to be the only one with Roy and Elvis taken together, even though they were good friends and Elvis called Roy the best singer ever.

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Nice tribute to the Starlets who really were Stars in the day... many who worked and were friends with Elvis





 Elvis' seldom heard 1973 song, 'I Miss You'... Elvis did not write the song but the lyrics could pertain to his life and love(s)

 


This live version of 'Are You Lonesome' always makes us laugh... even though it came during Elvis' rough last years it was good to see him laugh, too... Elvis was a very funny guy and not too proud to mess up a rather sacred song

‘Sinatra 100: An 'All-Star' GRAMMY Concert’ Shows Frank Sinatra’s Not So All-Star

‘Sinatra 100: An 'All-Star' GRAMMY Concert’  Not So All-Star

December 6, 2015 11:21 PM

Filed Under: Frank Sinatra

(L-R) Recording artists Carrie Underwood, Zac Brown and Host Seth MacFarlane perform at the "Sinatra 100 An All-Star Grammy Concert", in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 2, 2015.AFP PHOTO /VALERIE MACON / AFP / VALERIE MACON (Photo credit should read VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images)

 

Sinatra 100: An All-Star GRAMMY Concert
Good for the Times But Could Have Served Old Blue Eyes Better

 Last night's TV (CBS) tribute to the greatest pop singer in American history on the occasion of his 100th birthday was at least better than 99% of other such musical tributes you see today on TV - because there aren't any (unless you include those occasional ones on PBS or cable. But, if it were 'in the era' the special would have failed.Musically, there were perhaps a half dozen memorable performances during the two hour show. What a waste of a great big band! From the MC (American Family's Seth McFarlane -who happens to have a good voice but that's about it - to the tribute performers to the song selections, the powers that be at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, where the Dec 6 tribute was held , got it all wrong. If the performer was good his or her song selection was usually poor; if the song bad, the artist was usually better, but it was mostly the former , as Sinatra didn't record many bad songs.Lots of young artists that didn't belong there (think Cool J, Usher, country Garth Brooks , Zac Brown, Carrie Underwood, etc. ) and a lot of veterans -and Sinatra family- who were left out.  Let's let Brian Ives give his more unbiased, mainstream opinion...from radio.com:

By Brian Ives

  ...seemed like a TV event out of time; ever since TV execs got Twitter accounts and learned what “trending” meant, televised music programs have seemed designed to appeal to social media, both in the pacing of shows and in the selection of artists invited to play them.
Wisely, the producers of the all-star Frank Sinatra tribute, which aired last night on CBS, decided to stick more with the spirit of Frank, instead of trying to cater to the zeitgeist.  Still, the concert showed how Ol’ Blue Eyes’ influence permeates music in 2015. (Note: Radio.com is owned by CBS).
Photo Gallery: Lady Gaga, Usher, Seth McFarlane Perform at Sinatra 100
Harry Connick Jr., Celine Dion and Tony Bennett were obvious choices; they are all familiar to most of Sinatra’s older fan base. But younger singers like John Legend, Usher, Alicia Keys, Adam Levine and Nick Jonas all clearly owe the Chairman of the Board a debt.
By now, we know that Lady Gaga is a huge fan of the American Songbook via her collaborations with Tony Bennett. So even if her next album is a collaboration with Iron Maiden, it’s clear that Sinatra’s influence lives on in her voice. She brought some major showmanship to the concert via her performance of “Theme from ‘New York, New York.'”
We also know that — somewhat surprisingly — Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane is a huge Sinatra fan. What was more surprising is how good he is at paying tribute to the man. His performance of “One For My Baby (And One More The Road)” was one of the highlights of the show.
Sinatra’s influence on country music that may not be as well known as his influence on pop and R&B, however it was on full display at this show, which saw Zac Brown, Carrie Underwood, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood putting their spins on his classics.

ROY ORBISON - REMEMBERING ROCK AND ROLL PIONEER ROY ORIBSON

Remembering Roy Orbison 26 years later... here with a rare, unreleased performance of the great 1961 hit 'Blue Angel' , an extra from the Black and White Night 1987 Orbison tribute http://youtu.be/AnmZ932gszo  and a PAIR OF NEW RELEASES, MGM Box and previously unleased LP from the late '60s MGM years , and , if available    , a double tribute to Roy and his songwriting partner Bill Dees and Oh Pretty Woman... for more http://www.OldiesCountry.com/   AND http://www.facebook.com/jack.benny.9699

ROY ORBISON - BLUE ANGEL - LIVE 1988 (HQ-856X480) 3D VIDEO

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ROY ORBISON - BLUE ANGEL - LIVE 1988 (HQ-856X480) VIDEO CONVERTED IN 3D (Red & Blue - 480P) (Sha la la, dooby wah) (Dum dum dum, yeh yeh, um) (

 

 

 

Rare Roy Orbison: The MGM Years Box Set , 'Lost Album'

 Released for Christmas on Anniversary of Passing 

In 1965 Roy Orbison was riding high following the success of recent smash hits highlighted by his iconic “Oh, Pretty Woman.” Lured by a million dollar contract that included a film deal his label Monument couldn’t offer, Roy left Monument and signed with MGM Records.

The MGM deal contained an almost frenetic recording and release commitment, requiring Roy to commence recording three full albums, plus multiple singles for each album, EVERY YEAR. Roy delivered with both vigor and quality, with his output sometimes exceeding 70 recordings per year. This MGM Years box set is a summation of that marvelous work—13 full-length albums including the long sought-after The Fastest Guitar Alive soundtrack (Roy starred in the film) and a new collection of B-Sides & singles that have never before appeared on a full-length Roy Orbison album.

All 13 albums were transferred from the original multi-track tapes at famed Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, and then mixed by GRAMMY -winning engineer Chuck Turner at the Johnny Cash Cabin, with help from Roy’s son, Alex Orbison. They were then remastered by longtime Roy Orbison friend and GRAMMY -winning engineer Richard Dodd. In order to make sure modern technology remained true to Roy’s original intent, we frequently compared our work to the original vinyl and its inherent warm sound.

This is some of Roy Orbison’s best, but also perhaps least known work—now all together for the first time. The MGM Years sound better than ever.

IN ADDITION, Roy Orbison's sons, who now run Orbison.com, have released a previously  unreleased MGM album in the process,' One of the Lonely Ones,'and that has been  just released on Dec 6 26th Anniversary of Roy Orbison's passing. Get the MGM box and unreleased album together at discount HERE

www.royorbison.com/mgmyears