Fan, Sonny Hugues and Elvis Presley, December 5, 1968.

68 years ago today, music history was made On December 4, 1956, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins came together at Sun Studio in Memphis for an unforgettable jam session. Known as the “Million Dollar Quartet,” this spontaneous gathering of legends shaped the course of rock ‘n’ roll forever.

Elvis was wearing pink slacks, a pink shirt and white buck shoes, the way Scotty remembers it, and after the initial awkwardness had passed, Elvis and Scotty began playing their guitars, with Elvis singing several songs recently popularized by Eddy Arnold and Hank Snow, two established country artists, and Billy Eckstine, one of Elvis's favorite popular black artists. Bill Black, a bass player who lived just three doors away from Scotty, wandered in about halfway through the two-hour session and after listening for a short time wandered out again, returning after Elvis had left.

"I said, 'Well, what did you think?" Bill said, 'Well, he didn't impress me too damned much. You know-snotty-nosed kid come in here with the wild clothes. We didn't think much about it at all. So I called Sam Sunday afternoon, I told him, 'Well, the boy's got a good voice. I told him the songs that Elvis did and I said, 'He didn't do them any better than the originals did. And so forth. Sam said, 'Well, tell you what. I'll call him and we'll set up an audition for tomorrow night, Monday night. We won't bring the whole band in, the hillybilly group with the steel guitar, the whole thing.' He said, 'Just you and Bill come over, something for a little rhythm. We'll put down a few things and we'll see what he sounds like coming back off the tape recorder." I said okay." What followed was not a simple audition but several months of hard work. No one seems to remember precisely how many months. Almost every day, after they finished work, Bill and Scotty and Elvis met in the small Sun studio to rehearse, to (quoting Marion) "develop a style." Elvis appeared with Scotty's full band in a local club a few times, but Sam said he didn't sound right with that much instrumentation behind him.

"Mostly I think they were coming in every afternoon to please Sam," said Marion. "He kept saying, 'Keep it simple, keep it simple.' Sam was listening while doing other things. They were trying to evolve something that was different and unique. Finally one night—I don't know whether Sam decided he was ready or he had finally heard something he said, 'Okay, this is the session.'"

"The first thing that was put on tape was 'I Love You Because,'" said Scotty. "Then he did a couple of those country-orientated things. They were all right. Little while later we were sitting there drinking a Coke, shooting the bull, Sam back in the control room. So Elvis picked up his guitar and started banging on it and singing 'That's All Right, Mama.' Jumping around the studio, just acting the fool. And Bill started beating on his bass and I joined in. Just making a bunch of racket, we thought. The door to the control room was open, and when we was halfway through the thing, Sam come running out and said,

'What in the devil are you doing?' We said, 'We don't know.' He said, 'Well, find out real quick and don't lose it. Run through it again and let's put it on tape. So to the best of our knowledge, we repeated what we just done and went through the whole thing.”

©️ELVIS , THE BIOGRAPHY-Jerry Hopkins

November 27, 1977: The Meditation Garden at Graceland was opened to the public. Fans were allowed for the very first time to visit Elvis' grave to pay their respects.

It turned out that Vernon Presley didn't ever have to approach the neighbors with Elvis's counteroffer. While Elvis had been in Los Angeles in March of 1957 filming Loving You, Mr. and Mrs. Presley had looked at an estate off of Highway 51 South in Whitehaven, close to the Tennessee-Mississippi border. It was nearly fourteen acres of wooded land around a beautiful brick mansion. The place was empty and needed a lot of work, but the Presleys felt it would make a perfect, private home for the family. Elvis hadn't seen it yet, but the beauty and peace and quiet of the estate was captured in its name: GRACELAND.

Just days before I headed out of town with Elvis to begin my career as a

"travel companion," he and I took an afternoon drive together down Highway 51 South so that he could take a look at the property his mother and father were so excited about. Graceland wasn't much more than a shell of a house when we first saw it, but I can tell you that Elvis fell in love with the place right away. There wasn't any kind of neighborhood at all around it back in those days, and driving up the driveway to the house you had the feeling you were approaching some secluded, forgotten palace. What was really amazing, even on that first visit, was the feeling the grounds gave you. There was a peacefulness and a serenity there that made it more comfortable than any place I'd ever been. I know Elvis felt it, too, because within days he'd worked out a purchase deal and had started hiring designers and contractors to work on the new home.—

©️GK ,Elvis my best man

November 14, 1972

Long Beach, California

Elvis Presley’s honeymoon house in Palm Springs is an iconic mid-century modern gem with a fun and fascinating story! Known as the "House of Tomorrow," this futuristic home boasts a unique design with curved walls, a floating fireplace, and an open layout that perfectly captures 1960s glamor.

Elvis and Priscilla Presley spent their honeymoon here in 1967 after their whirlwind wedding in Las Vegas. According to local legend, the house was also supposed to be the site of their wedding, but the couple changed plans to avoid paparazzi. The home is often remembered for its retro vibe and the pink-and-black master bedroom, rumored to have been a favorite spot of the King and his bride.

The house remains a popular tourist attraction, drawing Elvis fans and architecture buffs alike who love its unique style and connection to rock 'n' roll history. 🎸🎤🎶

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Elvis Presley's 1976 Harley Davidson Electra- Glide Liberty Edition

The evening of November 19, 1976

“A security guard soon emerged from the darkness and approached the driver’s side of the car. Terry lowered her window and asked, “What should we do?”

Smiling, the guard replied, “Try knocking on the front door.”

My sisters and I climbed out of the car, laughing at ourselves and the guard’s comment as our nerves got the better of us. Passing between two huge lion statues, we jokingly chanted, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” in an effort to relax.

We walked up the stone steps to the front porch where Rosemary, always the bravest among us, pressed the doorbell beside the green wrought-iron front door. Expecting Elvis to appear at any moment, my earlier concerns about showing up uninvited resurfaced. I grew increasingly anxious, wondering, “What if Elvis really doesn’t want Rosemary and me here?”

“I hung back, letting Rosemary and Terry wait at the door. When it opened, George Klein greeted us, which surprised me. Naive as this may seem, because this was Elvis’s house, I expected him to answer the door.

George was the same age as Elvis, forty-one, and a friendly guy with black hair. It had been his Talent Party show that I once briefly modeled on. I didn’t say anything about this, because I didn’t think he would remember.

He introduced himself and then beckoned for us to follow him. Feeling like Alice stepping through the looking glass, I took a deep breath and entered Graceland for the first time.

My feet sank into thick, red shag carpet, which extended into the foyer and up a staircase with a gold-and-white banister and railings. George invited us into the dining room. Passing beneath an enormous, ornate crystal chandelier, I glanced to the right and saw a room decorated all in red with French provincial furniture.”

Excerpt Elvis and Ginger. By Ginger Alden

Elvis running to his limo after his performance at Philadelphia Pennsylvania.