US Charts
The "It's Christmas Time" compilation rises from #7 to #5 while "Merry Christmas, Love Elvis" remains steady at #8 on the Billboard Holiday Albums Chart for the week ending November 14, 2015.
The "It's Christmas Time" CD is also a re-entry on the Top Catalog Album Chart at 33.
The CD "Merry Christmas, Love Elvis" rises from #24 to #14 and the "Heart And Soul" compilation rises from #16 to #15 on the Country Catalog Album Chart.
The new "If I Can Dream" is a new entry on the Classical Albums chart at #17.
George Barris Died
George Barris, the car designer who created the iconic 1966 Batmobile for the Batman television series and also customised cars and tour buses for Elvis, has died. He was 89. "Sorry to have to post that my father, legendary kustom car king George Barris, has moved to the bigger garage in the sky," his son Brett Barris wrote.
Barris customised cars and buses for television shows, movies, and celebrities such as Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley including Elvis' famous Stutz Blackhawk. He was also a pioneer in designing small, plastic models of those cars.
The models popularised his wildly imaginative vehicles all the more when they were assembled by millions of American youngsters in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
Elvis' Birthday Celebration Schedule of Events Announced
The special guests this year are June Juanico and Glenn Derringer. June Juanico, a former beauty queen and an Elvis fan from Biloxi, Mississippi, dated Elvis in 1955 and 1956. Elvis took three weeks of vacation with June in 1956 after having recorded "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" at RCA Studios in New York. She met Elvis for the first time at one of his concerts in Biloxi in 1955, when he was on the verge of super stardom.
Pianist Glenn Derringer performed on the same Dorsey Brothers Stage Show in 1956 where Elvis made his TV debut. He's a music industry icon with more than four decades of unprecedented experience in the business.
(Source: Elvis The Man And His Music / FECC / Brian Quinn / Elvis Memories)