Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Gene Austin arrived in Tampa in January of 1939 with his new, self-financed movie, Songs and Saddles, he was at loose ends.
When Colonel Tom Parker approached Sam Phillips in 1955 with a proposal to arrange a recording contract for a little-known, but promising singer named Elvis Presley, Phillips was not only exasperated ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He first became aware of the boy in early 1955 through an old pal in Texarkana, Arkansas, a DJ, radio personality, and promoter ...
What if we got it wrong about Colonel Tom Parker? That’s the provocative question raised by music historian Peter Guralnick’s latest book, “The Colonel and the King” (Little, Brown, 624 pp., out now), ...
Elvis Presley and his manager Colonel Tom Parker in Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1956. Film Critic The story of Elvis Presley is the story of America in the last half of the 20th century, so explosively ...
The music historian Peter Guralnick’s new book, which draws on documents Tom Parker left behind, paints a different picture of an infamous industry figure. By Ben Sisario In the history of rock ’n’ ...
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick's latest book, "The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the ...
A major milestone was reached in Elvis Presley's career 70 years ago today when he left Sun Records and signed with RCA as part of a complex deal carefully negotiated by Elvis's manager, Colonel Tom ...
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