The items have now returned to the home of the King, but not before leaving Jennings all shook up. “I’m like, Elvis touched this stuff. This is huge. This should not have left Memphis. Like, how did we get this?” said Jennings. Her husband had a clue. “He goes, ‘Oh, so-and-so, the wedding planner. He put it in our car. I thought it was yours.’”
Jennings said after her discovery, she called Graceland. They initially wanted her to mail the items back, but she said she was too nervous. “I want to trust that it’s going back to the Graceland where it deserves to be, so she agreed to come up to Iowa and pick it up,” said Jennings.
Jennings said she put the question to Graceland employees of how this box of artifacts was even able to get mixed up with her luggage in the first place. “We don’t know. We don’t know. She said it was a big accident. They had to review videos and footage,” said Jennings. “She did say it takes two keys to get to the vault. And that, in 40 years, this has never happened.”
You could say Jennings was the perfect person to make this discovery, both because she immediately worked to get the items home, but also because of how much Elvis means to her. “I was named after Lisa Marie. So that’s why we got married there,” said Jennings. “We incorporated some Elvis lines in our vows.“
She added, “My mom was pregnant with me when Elvis died, and I grew up an hour south of Memphis. So after he died, they opened up the gate, and she stole, not stole, but she took a leaf off his yard".
FTD Re-issues
The Follow That Dream collectors label announced that it will re-print their recent 'From Elvis Presley Boulevard' LP on black vinyl (the first edition came on blue colored vinyl) and re-released the 'His Hand in Mine' sessions CD-set.
The label also informed with fanclub if there was interest in re-prints of 'The Elvis Is Back Sessions', 'The Something For Everybody Sessions', 'The His Hand In Mine Sessions', 'The Pot Luck Sessions', 'Devil In Disguise - The 'Lost Album' Sessions', 'From Louisiana And Memphis '76' and 'Elvis As Recorded At Madison Square'.
An American Preview
Listen to 'An American Trilogy', the next track off of 'Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite' which will be out on August 11, 2023. It features expertly remixed new tracks of rehearsals and bonus songs, this iconic concert is one to own.
'An American Trilogy' is out now wherever you stream.
Listen here: https://elvis.lnk.to/AAT
Goldmine magazine joined in on the celebration of the TV-Special with the August 2023 release of their summer edition. The magazine goes in-depth with Binder about the making of the documentary which views the Elvis’ Comeback Special via Steve Binder’s lens, and his opinion on state of the Elvis Presley's legacy.
This is one of five alternate covers for the subscriber & newsstand including one on ' Elvis Presley Comeback Special'. The other covers are, The Kinks, Jethro Tull, The Damned and Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons.
(Source: Anthony Stuchbury / KCRG News / Goldmine / UEPS / ElvisMatters)