Weekend Charts
The "Heart And Soul" compilation drops from #155 to #166 on the Billboard Album Chart for the week ending November 1, 2014. As of this week total units sold are 791,183.
The CD "It's Christmas Time" climbed from #14 to #6 while "Merry Christmas, Love Elvis" climbed from #19 to #10 on the Holiday Album Chart.The compilation "The Real... Elvis" re-entered the Italian Album charts at #97 this week.
The compilation “The Essential Elvis” remains steady at #17 on the Dutch Midprice Album charts.
Released
The Elvis Concert Fan import-label released the 2 CD set "Elvis 1975 - On Tour" containing three soundboard recordings from April 1975.
Elvis Presley home auction has been canceled
Any hopes of bidding on the former Palm Springs home of Elvis Presley have just been dashed. A public auction slated Saturday for the 1946 home located at 845 W. Chino Canyon was canceled Wednesday morning. The listing agent, Jeff Egan, announced the update in an email, saying that the seller had instead accepted a pre-auction offer.
The sale price and the identity of the buyer will not be disclosed until escrow closes within the next 30 days. At that point, the sale will become public record, Egan wrote. When the auction was first announced, the home originally had an asking price of $3 million. The price dropped to $2.59 million as the date drew near. The home attracted multiple offers and counter-offers, Egan said. Egan acknowledged that the home, which has sat vacant in disrepair for months, needs quite a bit of renovation.
During an open house in February, the carpet was stripped in at least one room, and modern updates were clearly needed. One area of the house retained the king’s fondness for the color red, which was hue of the master bedroom’s carpet and the tiles in the bathroom.
“The house needs work, and whoever buys it will have to make an investment,” Egan said. More than 200 people visited the home during recent open house tours of the 1.75-acre lot. Court documents show that US Bank National Association bought the foreclosed property at a Sept. 17, 2013, public auction for $1.7 million.
Presley bought the four-bedroom, seven-bathroom, home in 1970 for $105,000 and owned the property for seven years. The 5,040-square-foot house was one of the few Spanish colonial homes designed by famed architect Albert Frey, who is known much more for his modernist designs. After Presley died, Frankie Valli of The Four Seasons bought the home, and sold it in 1981 for $500,000.
(Source: Brian Quinn / FECC / Amazon Japan / Elvis On CD / The Desert Sun / Dutchcharts)