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(109) Elvis Presley News Report 2025: June. 2025 movie release & 1956 footage found + Announcement & MORE – YouTube
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(00:00) [Music] Now listen that’s different that’s a pop song I’m Elvis Presley, Here is Elvis welcome to the Elvis Presley Special. good evening, ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Elvis Presley show. dear viewers I’ll keep this introductory talk short because this video is richly filled and not with just Elvis news this time because in this video I make a personal confession to you and I have an important announcement to make both things take up quite a substantial part of the video apart from that I also found some very interesting news tidbits that I hope are
(01:00) interesting to you as well so let me not delay any longer and start right away with a new episode of the Elvis Presley news report of June 2025. One sentence in a Facebook posting can stir quite a commotion, especially when it is posted on the Facebook page of Baz Luhrmann.
(01:30) This is the latest concerning his upcoming Elvis Concert Footage film. Quote: “Speaking of EP….EPiC (Elvis Presley In Concert) before the end of the year! Three weeks after this Facebook posting, Baz made the following contribution on his Facebook page. Quote: Staring at this screen day and night. Can’t wait to share it with you! End of quote.
(01:59) As you can see is that his text is accompanied by a photo of Elvis that looks like it’s been taken during his 1957 Honolulu concert in Hawaii. Now this is really odd as I always thought that his upcoming movie would only consist of footage and outtakes taken from Elvis In Concert and TTWII. Three days later Baz made another posting on his Facebook and wrote the text: Midweek sneak-peek from the workspace… As soon as there is more information about this subject, you will hear of course on this channel! A formerly unreleased clip of Elvis which runs for over a little more than just 2 minutes
(02:43) has recently been found in the vaults of Fox Television. The date of the taping is October 29, 1956 and Elvis is shooting a new ending scene in New York City for his Love Me Tender movie. The big names at the studio felt that after seeing the pre-view of the film, a new ending should be created for the film.
(03:07) This decision was made to somewhat soften Elvis’ death in the film for viewers. Director Robert Webb therefor chose to film a new scene that has a ghostly image hovering over the mourners walking away from the grave. It appears as if Elvis’s hair may be dyed black in this scene, which is a bit strange because throughout the rest of movie he has his natural hair colour.
(03:48) Is this evidence that that there is hair dye shop in heaven? The clip also shows Elvis talking to news reporters and signing autographs for his fans and eventually walking towards his car. Love Me Tender was a Twentieth Century Fox movie, so that is probably the reason why this clip was found in the Fox Archives. [Music] oh hey hi there you just caught me while I’m in the middle of making this video i have a confession to make to you for years I regularly bought Elvis Presley bootleg CDs and the follow
(05:01) their dream CDs when at a certain point I noticed that the supply became too large to keep up with I decided to stop buying these CDs after all I could no longer see the forest for the trees and there was barely time to enjoy the CDs then I decided to leave this path and from then on to concentrate on the large and expensive Follow that Dream box sets [Music] the first set they released was a hit for me and I consider myself lucky to have the box set A Boy from Tupelo in my possession i still enjoy the book the information it contains and
(06:03) the music on the CDs after a bar from Dupelo the next set was dedicated to Viva Las Vegas and you will understand that the making of Viva Las Vegas became the next addition to my collection after the success of the making of Vivvil Vegas the FTD writing duo Pal Ganlut and David English really got started creating several books in the series the making of the production of their box sets coincided with the period when I was spending more and more time on my Elvis Pressing News Report videos many people have no idea of the time I spend making
(06:47) my videos as a stutterer and as a perfectionist I spend an average of about 30 hours a month before I am satisfied with a stemmer-free 20inut video and that’s all time I cannot spend on other things and here comes my confession in recent years I have faithfully purchased all the making of book sets but I still have them all in their packaging look here the making of Elvis on Tour the making of Jailhouse Rock the making of King Creole the making of Blue Hawaii and this one over here extremely heavy it’s the making of That’s the way it is i simply haven’t
(07:48) even had the time to open them or enjoy them now an Elvis friend of me once told me “You keep them in the cardboard so that you can sell them again at a later time at a high profit.” But that’s really not the case because when I open up the cardboard I really want to enjoy the product and not put it away unseen on the bookshelf now this situation has made me think and later in the video I therefore have a very important announcement for you ‘Elvis ’57: The Final Fifties Tours’ is a new FTD book release. The book features over 300
(08:34) photos of which many are rare and unpublished. The 500-page book comes with a 4-track 33rpm vinyl EP. 1957 is a less documented year in the Elvis bibliography. In 1957 Elvis went back on the road for three short tours visiting eighteen major cities in the United States and Canada. Elvis “57 is a re-release of Alan Hanson’s sensational book from 2007.
(09:08) At the time it was a 329 page paperback edition measuring 6 x 9 inches with only 19 photos. Now 18 years later, a few minor errors in the original text have been corrected and the number of photos in the book has grown from 19 to 300 photos from the collection of Pal Granlund. Alan Hanson discovered that Elvis played the song ‘Fools Hall of Fame’ during his Vancouver (August 31) and Seattle (September 1) shows which he introduced as ‘my next single’.
(09:45) There are 2 theories about a studio recording because according to DJ Fontana they did attempt the song in the studio. OR the song never got further than the rehearsal stage OR never a satisfactory take was recorded and the tape went missing or was erased during the 1959 RCA vault clean up. Collectors label Follow That Dream records announced the June 2025 release of the Harum Scarum Sessions triple CD set to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the recording session.
(10:22) CD’s 1 and 2 offer newly mixed masters and outtakes in far superior audio. And CD 3 has the original 1965 LP masters. Unreliable sources say that the set comes with a free turban. As I showed you in the video I would like to have some more free time for my Elvis hobby i still enjoy making the Elvis pressing news support videos and I know that my work is highly appreciated by you the disadvantage however is that it puts a lot of time pressure on me because everyone knows that my video goes live on the last Friday of
(11:08) each month in addition I noticed that news videos have a very limited shelf life i see that after a while the views drop sharply because after a month news becomes old news as a news reporter I am always dependent on the news that becomes available every month sometimes that’s a lot but more often it is little however I do foresee that as we move towards August 16 2027 there will be a few more major projects that I would like to report on but after the activities leading up to the 50th anniversary of Elvis’s death it will
(11:54) become relatively quiet around Elvis this has made me decide to stop with the Elvis Press news report as of December 2027 i will continue on YouTube but it will no longer be Elvis news videos the plan is to first take a rest and master a new video package as soon as I have mastered this new technique I want to start making videos about Elvis again this could be a review of a book or a CD or a moment from Elvis’s career that I would like to delve into a little more deeply so make good videos with more depth and without the time pressure i also want to make videos of
(12:47) non-ELE Elvis topics there’s a lot that interests me including history and the world we currently live in i think that there’s a market for that too by monetizing my channel a few years ago I managed to build me a small studio with the advertising money I was able to buy studio lights microphones a green screen and an expensive 4K camera every time you clicked onto my videos it brought me some money back into the cash drawer thank you for that but what I’ve learned most in recent years is
(13:28) that I now know how to edit a video so that it ultimately becomes a beautiful product and with these skills I want to continue making the riot videos after 2027 but without the time constraints and with more time for other fun things in life but until December 2027 I still will be spreading an Elvis Presley news report into the world every last Friday of the month [Music] goodbye As the years progress it is inevitable that more and more people who had a connection with Elvis are dying. And this month it is no exception that I have to report about it. The most well-known to
(14:19) Elvis fans is Elvis’s pianist David Briggs who played keyboards on multiple Elvis sessions as well as touring with the TCB Band. Briggs started working with Elvis in 1966 when he was asked to sit in until Floyd Cramer arrived at the’ ‘How Great Though Art’ sessions. The first thing Elvis asked Briggs was to play piano to the song ‘Love Letters’ and after an impressing performance Elvis told Briggs to continue playing keyboards on the rest of the session.
(14:56) On New Year’s Eve 1975 at Pontiac Stadium, David Briggs would join with the TCB Band and in 1976, after Glen Hardin left, he joined the band full-time touring with Elvis. David Briggs would leave the TCB Band after the February 1977 tour when Elvis discovered that David was having a relationship with Elvis’s ex-girlfriend Linda Thompson.
(15:24) The relationship between David and Linda would last for three years. In 1982 David Briggs produced the remix Sessions for ‘The Elvis Medley’. The single would chart at #51 UK and #71 in Billboard Top 100. A year later – in 1983 – he also produced the “overdub” sessions for the ‘I Was The One’ album which did not chart . David Briggs was 82. Will Hutchins was a co-star in two of Elvis’s movies.
(15:59) He first appeared as Tracy Richards in the 1966 movie Spinout. A year later he had a much bigger role when his character Tom Wilson played opposite Elvis in the 1967 movie Clambake. Fans probably will remember the duet in that movie of Who Needs Money in which Will Hutchins lips synced to the voice of Ray Walker. Asked about his experiences with Elvis, Will Hutchins was always very positive.
(16:29) Quote: “I’m sure if the Colonel had allowed him to accept meatier roles, he’d have won an Oscar. The camera loved Elvis. He was the most talented fellow I ever worked with. Will Hutchins was 94. Hollywood actress and singer Joan O’Brien played Elvis Presley’s romantic interest in the 1963 movie It Happened at the World’s Fair.
(16:59) She played the character of Diane Warren, the World’s Fair nurse and the love interest of Elvis’ character Mike Edwards. She attends to Elvis’s character in the movie when he suffers a leg injury after he asked a young boy (played by Kurt Russell) to kick him in the shin. At the end of the movie Joan O’Brien can be heard singing with Elvis to the song Happy Ending.
(17:23) Joan O’Brien has died at the age of 89 following a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease. it’s trivia time and because I do not want to exceed the 20inut mark of my videos I decided to keep the trivia section for this time short and snappy in last month’s video I was playing you three tiny snippets of Elvis songs and the question was what do these three songs have in common [Music] the answer is that a woman’s name is mentioned in all the song titles the trivia question for this month is relatively easy and because of that I challenge you to try to give an answer
(18:22) from the top of your head can you tell me what Elvis’s last 12in vinyl movie soundtrack was and when I say movie I don’t mean documentary and it must be recorded prior to 1977 so that one does not count post your answer in the comments below good luck everybody To prevent vandalism such as writing messages and names by Graceland visitors, a fence has been placed around the official historic marker on Elvis Presley Boulevard.
(19:02) In my opinion the new fence looks terrible and takes away much of the charm of the sidewalk in front of Graceland. Why didn’t they just place the historic marker behind the wall to prevent vandalism and as a side effect give the street its original appearance back? that was the news for this time check back next month if you want to keep up with all the latest Elvis news until then have a happy Elvis Presley day you have a happy you have a [Music] happy did I hear someone say something about Elvis
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