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Loving You is a 1957 American musical drama film directed by Hal Kanter and starring Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, and Wendell Corey. The film was Presley's first major starring role, following his debut in a supporting role in the 1956 film Love Me Tender. The film follows a delivery man who is discovered by a music publicist and a country ...
March 23, 1956. Elvis Presley's self-titled debut album was released in March 1956. It was his first rock 'n roll album to ever hold the number one spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart, where it ...
The Elvis Movies. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-3073-6. Rose, Frank (1996). The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business. New York, NY: HarperBusiness. ISBN 978-0-88730-807-9. Templeton, Steve; Craig, Yvonne (2002). Elvis Presley: Silver Screen Icon: A Collection of Movie Posters. Johnson City, TN ...
"Poor Boy" reached no. 35 on the U.S. Billboard pop singles chart in December 1956, in an 11-week chart run. [1]Instead of a full long-playing album soundtrack, for Love Me Tender the four songs appearing in the film were released as an extended-play, seven-inch 45 RPM record on RCA Records, Love Me Tender, catalog EPA 4006, during November 1956.
Elvis Presley performed "Love Me Tender" on The Ed Sullivan Show on September 9, 1956, shortly before the single's release and about a month before the movie, Love Me Tender, was released (for which the reworded song had been written). After that, RCA received more than a million advance orders, making it a gold record before it was even released.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Calypso Heat Wave: Fred F. Sears: Johnny Desmond, Merry Anders, Meg Myles: Musical: Columbia: The Careless Years: Arthur Hiller: Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, John Larch
The song was a U.S. No. 1 hit during the summer of 1957, staying at No. 1 on the Billboard charts for seven weeks, the third of the four number-one singles Presley had that year. "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" would also hit No. 1 on Billboard's R&B Best Sellers List, becoming his fourth No. 1 on that chart. [ 2 ]
According to Noisey, the director of Home Alone, Chris Columbus, addressed this mystery in the audio commentary of the movie. "They are convinced, these people, that this is Elvis Presley," he said.