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 song was originally recorded. On the following day, RCA received 1 million advance orders, making it a gold record before it was even released.

Elvis Video and Photos ~ It’s Now Or Never. Your In The Army Now! Then The Home Coming! (wafflestop.wordpress.com)

A Little History on the Waffle Stop ♔

Posted on 11/05/2012 by greeneyezwinkin3@aol.com

Elvis Presley hit town in 1956 for a performance at the Florida Theatre (today’s Sarasota Opera House) and ate at the Waffle Shop (today’s Waffle Stop on Washington Boulevard, which is a veritable shrine to him.

“Elvis Ate Here” reads a glaring sign on an otherwise non-descript restaurant front on U.S. 301 near downtown Sarasota. It’s a fact anyone who has driven by the Waffle Stop knows, but none so well as 89-year-old Sarasota resident Edith Barr Dunn. She served “the King”—who was in town playing at the Florida Theatre (now Sarasota Opera House)—two mornings in a row at the Waffle Stop back in 1956. When Presley and three cohorts pulled up in a pink Cadillac and took some seats at the bar, Sarasota history was made. According to Dunn, Presley ordered three eggs with bacon, pan-fried potatoes, toast and three glasses of milk. “And,” she says, “he was good lookin’!” Work cited

Works Cited

LaHurd, Jeff. (2010). Sarasota‘s rich and famous. Sarasota Herald Tribune.

Walch, Sarah. Icon. Sarasota’s Premier Magazine.

Elvis Video and Photographs~ Burning Love ♔

Posted on 11/05/2012 by greeneyezwinkin3@aol.com

The song was also released on an album titled Burning Love and Hits from his Movies: Volume 2 on November 1, 1972. Despite this album’s subtitle, none of the movie songs on it were ever hits. The only actual hit on the album was the title song, “Burning Love”.

Elvis Video and Photos ~ It’s Now Or Never. Your In The Army Now, Then Come Home!

Posted on 11/05/2012 by greeneyezwinkin3@aol.com

On December 20, 1957 Elvis received his draft notice. In a letter dated December 24th he formally asked for a deferment to finish filming the movie he had already in the works. On December 26, 1957, the Memphis Draft Board granted Elvis a deferment until March 20, 1958 so he could film “King Creole.”