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It has been reported that Elvis was invited to the concert, as he was appearing close by. He was not in the lineup, but showed to meet fans. It appears that he did perform - lip syncing to his first record, stretching the show, as one act was running late; but the camera operator(s) refused to film him, as there was a limited amount of film. [1]
At the age of 13, Vallee learned to play guitar. Even at that age, he was quite sizable. One day when he was singing in a choir, his pastor heard him and commented that he sounded like Elvis. He later was in Washington as part of a group called Ricky and the Starfires. [6] Vallee started his Elvis act around 1996 and came to Las Vegas in 1997. [7]
Contrary to popular belief, Elvis impersonators have existed since the mid-1950s, just after Elvis Presley himself began his career. The first known Elvis impersonator was a young man named Carl 'Cheesie' Nelson from Texarkana, Arkansas, who in 1954 built up a local following on WLAC radio with his renditions of "That's All Right, Mama" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky."
When someone mailed poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and others in 2013, investigators quickly zeroed in on a conspiracy-theory addled Elvis Presley impersonator from Tupelo, Miss., as ...
The charges were eventually dropped against the Elvis impersonator, and suspicion formed instead around another Elvis impersonator named James Everett Dutschke. "We called him douchebag," a ...
One is that Jessie was delivered stillborn 30 minutes before Elvis was born on January 8, 1935. The other is that according to official records, Elvis (pretty infamously) died of a heart attack on ...
Jenkins was known for his faith healing, through the use of "miracle water".In 2003, while based in Delaware, Ohio, Jenkins' "miracle water", drawn from a well on the grounds of his 30-acre (12 ha) religious compound known as the Healing Waters Cathedral, [2] was found to contain coliform bacteria by the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998), who used the stage name Orion at times in his career, was an American singer. His voice was similar to Elvis Presley's, a fact which he and his record company played upon, making some believe that some of his recordings were by Presley, or even that Presley had not died in 1977.