The Real Gone Music label announced the release of a heart-shaped picture-disc entitled "7-Love Songs EP" which is due April 15, 2013. Side One: Love Me Tender / Are You Lonesome Tonight
Side Two: Can't Help Falling In Love / Wooden Heart
Tracks:
Single 1: That's All Right Mama / Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Single 2: I Don't Care If The Don't Shine / Good Rockin' Tonight
Single 3: Milkcow Blues Boogie / You're A Heartbreaker
Single 4: I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone / Baby Let's Play House
Single 5: Mystery Train / I Forgot To Remember To Forget
Record Collector News
Elvis Presley is featured on the cover of the Californian Record Collectors News magazine. Inside an article on the "Aloha From Hawaii" re-issue.
On the site you can read the article including a small interview with Ernst Jorgensen. Site: Record Collector News.
Follow That Release-date
The Follow That Dream collectors label have advised that it now looks like an April 20 release date for the following FTD titles. But this is subject to change. The Follow That Dream Collector's label will release four titles, From Elvis In Memphis (FTD 7" 2 CD Classic Album Presentation), Stay Away Joe (7" Classic Album Presentation) the book, Summer '61 and a Special Limited Edition of On Stage on a vinyl 2 LP.
Here is the cover art for the upcoming 400 page book "Elvis Music FAQ: All That's Left To Know About The King's Recorded Works" by Mike Eder which is due from Backbeat Books on October 15, 2013.
From the publisher:
"Why is Elvis Presley's body of recorded work still so relevant nearly 60 years after he began recording? Elvis Music FAQ is for anyone who has been inspired by an Elvis Presley record. Following in the tradition of the FAQ series, in Elvis Music FAQ , a lot of rare information is woven together in one concise, entertaining package.
There are chapters about every year of Elvis's career, including a look at his pioneering original record label Sun; insight on his management; the continued importance of television in his career; a summation of each Presley concert tour; the inside scoop about the role Elvis's band members and songwriters played in his sound; stories about the amusing musical oddities created by those trying to ride on the Elvis success train; details about the contentious role drugs played in his career; and, finally, a full review of every record the King ever issued.
One might say that the only truths about Elvis Presley can be found in the grooves of his records, where his natural talent and passion for music comes through always. Elvis Music FAQ aims to be the one essential companion that explains the reason why the voice heard over the speakers still carries such resonance. Dozens of rare images accompany this engaging text."
This is the cover of the 400 page book "Elvis Films FAQ: All That's Left To Know About The King Of Rock 'n' Roll In Hollywood" by Paul Simpson which is due from Applause Theatre and Cinema Books on September 17, 2013.
From the publisher:
"If Elvis Presley had not wanted to be a movie star, he would never have single-handedly revolutionized popular culture. Yet this aspect of his phenomenal career has been much maligned and misunderstood partly because the King himself once referred to his 33 movies as a rut he had got stuck in just off Hollywood Boulevard.
Elvis Films FAQ explores his best and worst moments as an actor, analyzes the bizarre autobiographical detail that runs through so many of his films, and reflects on what it must be like to be idolized by millions around the world yet have to make a living singing about dogs, chambers of commerce, and fatally naive shrimps. Elvis's Hollywood years are full of mystery, and Elvis Films FAQ covers them all!
Which of his own movies did he actually like? What films did he wish he could have made? Why didn't he have an acting coach? When will Quentin Tarantino stop alluding to him in his movies? And was Clambake really the catalyst for his marriage to Priscilla?
Elvis Films FAQ explains everything you want to know about the whys and wherefores of the singer-actor's bizarre celluloid odyssey; or, as Elvis said, "I saw the movie and I was the hero of the movie."
(Source: FECC / Record Collector News / Amazon / Elvis Club Berlin)