History Trivia / ElvisPresley

** Also, the completely separate songs "I'll Be Home for Christmas", "I'll Be Home on Christmas Day" and "If I Get Home on Christmas Day" (the latter two were even sequenced back-to-back on ''Elvis Sings the Wonderful World of Christmas'').

* ReferencedBy: Canadian figure skater Nicolas Nadeau performed to Elvis Presley's music for [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x59b5x8 his long program]] during the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 competitive seasons. The songs are "That's Alright", "Bridge over Troubled Water" and "Blue Suede Shoes".

** Music/BarbraStreisand wanted Presley to star with her in her remake of ''Film/{{A Star Is Born|1976}}'' but Col. Parker nixed it, insisting Elvis get top billing and a huge amount of money. Parker also didn't like the fact that producer Jon Peters was virtually unknown at the time. Kris Kristofferson got the role instead.

** In October 1958, Bill Haley and the Comets toured Germany. Presley attended at least two of the concerts (one in uniform, the other in civilian clothes) and there was talk of him doing a number or two with Haley, but owing to the riots and other violence already plaguing Haley's performances, it was decided this was too risky.

** 1974's ''Music/HavingFunWithElvisOnStage,'' Colonel Tom Parker's attempt to have an Elvis album he owned outright - as in, bypass paying royalties to [=RCA=] for use of any actual ''songs'' - and kickstart a record label for himself, Boxcar. It's nothing but stage banter from an Elvis concert, with all the music cut out. This "talking album only" (as described on the cover) wound up being re-released on [=RCA=], who didn't like Parker's attempt to circumvent them and insisted that they had the rights to this album too. Somehow, the re-release briefly charted, but by that time, Elvis was ''furious'' when he found out about this release, and personally made sure it was withdrawn from the market.

** Memphis [[ProfessionalWrestling wrestling legend]] Wrestling/JerryLawler wrote in his book ''It's Good To Be The King... Sometimes'' about how he almost managed to get Presley involved with Memphis Wrestling in some capacity, and even got to speak with his father, Vernon Presley, on the phone to iron out some details about it. Unfortunately, this was 1977, and we all know what kind of condition Presley was in by then - in fact, a few weeks after that phone call, Memphis was down a King, as Elvis had died.

** He never toured outside of the US (except briefly in Canada in 1957), mainly because Parker (real name: Andreas van Kuijk) was an illegal immigrant from UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands was fearful of getting into trouble if he applied for a passport, though only a select few people even knew of his immigrant status. The money-grubbing Parker obviously was aware of the potential financial windfall from overseas touring, and with his persuasive skills and his huge network of connections with powerful people, he absolutely would have had little trouble obtaining American citizenship. The fact he didn't try is probably the biggest mystery in the whole Elvis saga.[[labelnote:Background]]On the surface, Parker had two seemingly clear qualifications for legal citizenship: he'd served the US Army, and was married to an American citizen, Marie Mott. But writer Alannah Nash, who wrote the 2003 biography ''The Colonel'', did some digging and found that much of his Army service record disappeared. Also, he got charged with desertion, was diagnosed as a psychopath, and spent time in a military psychiatric hospital, though his discharge was honorable. As for the marriage, there's no surviving record of a marriage license for Parker and Mott, suggesting that it was a common-law marriage. As for why Parker didn't want his identity to be revealed, Nash reported that there have long been whispers in Holland that he may have had connections to the death of Anna van den Enden, a 23-year-old grocer's wife killed in what appeared to be a home invasion robbery in May of 1929, in his hometown of Breda, just days before he left for America. The police never formally named him as a suspect, and it's officially a cold case now. He finally admitted to being an immigrant in 1982, to fend off a lawsuit by claiming that he was TheStateless, since his American military service meant that he'd forfeited his Dutch citizenship. However, [[https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/a-new-light-on-colonel-tom-parker.shtml one researcher]] got a confirmation from the Dutch government that he stayed on the record as a Dutch citizen because the government never received an official report about his Army service during his lifetime. Also, any concern that he might have been charged in the Anna van den Enden murder would've been moot, since Dutch law puts a 30-year statute of limitations on murder suspects, so as of 1959 Parker couldn't have been arrested for it.[[/labelnote]]

** He never toured outside of the US (except briefly in Canada in 1957), mainly because Parker (real name: Andreas van Kuijk) was an illegal immigrant from UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands was fearful of getting into trouble if he applied for a passport, though only a select few people even knew of his immigrant status. The money-grubbing Parker obviously was aware of the potential financial windfall from overseas touring, and with his persuasive skills and his huge network of connections with powerful people, he absolutely would have had little trouble obtaining American citizenship. The fact he didn't try is probably the biggest mystery in the whole Elvis saga.[[labelnote:Background]]On the surface, Parker had two seemingly clear qualifications for legal citizenship: he'd served the US Army, and was married to an American citizen, Marie Mott. But writer Alannah Nash, who wrote the 2003 biography ''The Colonel'', did some digging and found that much of his Army service record disappeared. Also, he got charged with desertion, was diagnosed as a psychopath, and spent time in a military psychiatric hospital, though his discharge was honorable. As for the marriage, there's no surviving record of a marriage license for Parker and Mott, suggesting that it was a common-law marriage. As for why Parker didn't want his identity to be revealed, Nash reported that there have long been whispers in Holland that he may have had connections to a 1929 murder in his hometown of Breda that occurred around the same time he left for America. He finally admitted to being an immigrant in 1982, to fend off a lawsuit by claiming that he was TheStateless, since his American military service meant that he'd forfeited his Dutch citizenship. However, [[https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/a-new-light-on-colonel-tom-parker.shtml one researcher]] got a confirmation from the Dutch government that he stayed on the record as a Dutch citizen because the government never received an official report about his Army service during his lifetime.[[/labelnote]]

** He never toured outside of the US (except briefly in Canada in 1957), mainly because Parker (real name: Andreas van Kuijk) was an illegal immigrant from UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands was fearful of getting into trouble if he applied for a passport, though only a select few people even knew of his immigrant status. The fact that Parker, a man who prided himself on his persuasive skills and his huge network of connections with powerful people, never tried seek American citizenship is probably the biggest mystery in the whole Elvis saga.[[labelnote:Background]]On the surface, Parker had two seemingly clear qualifications for legal citizenship: he'd served the US Army, and was married to an American citizen, Marie Mott. But writer Alannah Nash, who wrote the 2003 biography ''The Colonel'', did some digging and found that much of his Army service record disappeared. Also, he got charged with desertion, was diagnosed as a psychopath, and spent time in a military psychiatric hospital, though his discharge was honorable. As for the marriage, there's no surviving record of a marriage license for Parker and Mott, suggesting that it was a common-law marriage. As for why Parker didn't want his identity to be revealed, Nash revealed that there have long been whispers in Holland that he may have had connections to a 1929 murder in his hometown of Breda that occurred around the same time he left for America. He finally admitted to being an immigrant in 1982, to fend off a lawsuit by claiming that he was TheStateless, since his American military service meant that he'd forfeited his Dutch citizenship. However, [[https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/a-new-light-on-colonel-tom-parker.shtml one researcher]] got a confirmation from the Dutch government that he stayed on the record as a Dutch citizen because the government never received an official report about his Army service during his lifetime.[[/labelnote]]

** He never toured outside of the US (except briefly in Canada in 1957), mainly because Parker (real name: Andreas van Kuijk) was an illegal immigrant from the Netherlands and couldn't get a passport. Ironically, this seems a case of CriticalResearchFailure on Parker's part: he had served in the US Army and was married to an American citizen. Parker could have applied for legal citizenship at any time based on either of those two factors (maintaining his Dutch citizenship, however, did prove advantageous to him in dealing with legal trouble).[[note]][[http://preslaw.info/rca-records-v-hanks-1982 An American court]] ruled in 1982 that by serving in the Army, he'd forfeited his Dutch citizenship, which would mean he died stateless. However, [[https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/a-new-light-on-colonel-tom-parker.shtml one researcher]] got a confirmation from the Dutch government that he stayed on the record as a Dutch citizen because the government never received an official report about his Army service during his lifetime.[[/note]] However, according to Parker's biographer Alannah Nash, it's possible that he fled the Netherlands because of a DarkAndTroubledPast (specifically, a murder case in Breda of which he was a suspect or person of interest) and was fearful of having his true identity revealed.

** Also, the completely separate songs "I'll Be Home for Christmas", "I'll Be Home on Christmas Day" and "If I Get Home on Christmas Day" (the latter two were even sequenced back-to-back on ''Elvis Sings The Wonderful World of Christmas'').

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: He recorded songs called "Trouble" (1958) and "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" (1975).

** Presley was to go on another tour beginning on August 16, 1977 in Portland, Maine. However, he died that day at the age of 42.

** Elvis recorded the occasional track that he felt was either too low-quality or too silly to be commercially released, and with a few exceptions was successful in preventing many of these "old shames" from being officially released during his lifetime.

** According to the book ''Elvis: The Illustrated Record'', a number of top songwriters of the 1970s, including no less than Music/BruceSpringsteen and Music/JohnLennon, were on record as offering to write songs for Presley, but there's no indication of their offers ever being taken up.

** He never toured outside of the US (except briefly in Canada in 1957), mainly because Parker (real name: Andreas van Kuijk) was an illegal immigrant from the Netherlands and couldn't get a passport. Ironically, this seems a case of CriticalResearchFailure on Parker's part: he had served in the US Army and was married to an American citizen. Parker could have applied for legal citizenship at any time based on either of those two factors (maintaining his Dutch citizenship, however, did prove advantageous to him in avoiding legal trouble.) However, according to Parker's biographer, it's possible that he fled the Netherlands because of a DarkAndTroubledPast (specifically, a murder case in Breda of which he was a suspect or person of interest) and was fearful of having his true identity revealed.

* SimilarlyTitledWorks: He recorded songs called "Trouble" (1958) and "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" (1975).

** Presley was to go on another tour beginning on August 16, 1977 at Portland, Maine. However, he died that day at the age of 42.

* FanNickname: The lesser-known "Elvis the Pelvis", among others.
** Might've been used as a detractor nickname, too. Presley notably disliked the nickname, saying something along the lines of "I can't fathom what sort of adult would come up with that" in an interview (which can be viewed in Graceland, Memphis, if you take a tour of the estate as it is).
** Despite the official name ''Elvis'' or the ''[[Music/ElvisNBCTVSpecial Elvis NBC TV Special]]'', Presley's 1968 concert is widely known as ''The Elvis '68 Comeback Special''.

** While his name appeared in some of his early songwriting credits as part of publishing deals, it was well-known that he didn't really write them and he's always had a reputation for not actually writing songs. But he recorded two songs at the start of TheSixties that he genuinely helped write: the ballad "That's Someone You Never Forget" (co-written with old school buddy/bodyguard Red West) and the Flamenco-tinged "You'll Be Gone" (co-written with West and longtime SecondBanana Charlie Hodge). After his death, a third song - the only one to credit Elvis as sole songwriter - was found in a studio outtake, the jam session "I Didn't Make it on Playing Guitar" (though the song title is the extent of the tune's lyrics).

** Perhaps the biggest was Presley getting offered the role of Tony in ''Film/WestSideStory''. Granted Elvis wasn't a Broadway singer, but there's a good chance he wouldn't have had to have been dubbed like Richard Beymer and Creator/NatalieWood were. And Elvis literally playing a modern day Romeo? A role like that was made for him.

** Memphis [[ProfessionalWrestling wrestling legend]] Wrestling/JerryLawler wrote in his book ''It's Good To Be The King... Sometimes'' about how he almost managed to get Presley involved with Memphis Wrestling in some capacity, and even got to speak with his father, Vernon Presley, on the phone to iron out some details about it. Unfortunately, this was 1977, and we all know what kind of condition Presley was in by then - in fact, a few weeks after that phone call, [[AuthorExistenceFailure Memphis was down a King.]]

** Henever toured outside of the US (except briefly in Canada in 1957), mainly because Parker (real name: Andreas van Kuijk) was an illegal immigrant from the Netherlands and couldn't get a passport. Ironically, this seems a case of CriticalResearchFailure on Parker's part: he had served in the US Army and was married to an American citizen. Parker could have applied for legal citizenship at any time based on either of those two factors (maintaining his Dutch citizenship, however, did prove advantageous to him in avoiding legal trouble.) However, according to Parker's biographer, it's possible that he fled the Netherlands because of a DarkAndTroubledPast (specifically, a murder case in Breda of which he was a suspect or person of interest) and was fearful of having his true identity revealed.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Presley was to go on another tour beginning on August 16, 1977 at Portland, Maine. However, he died that day at the age of 42.

** Presley never toured outside of the US (except briefly in Canada in 1957), mainly because Parker (real name: Andreas van Kuijk) was an illegal immigrant from the Netherlands and couldn't get a passport. Ironically, this seems a case of CriticalResearchFailure on Parker's part: he had served in the US Army and was married to an American citizen. Parker could have applied for legal citizenship at any time based on either of those two factors (maintaining his Dutch citizenship, however, did prove advantageous to him in avoiding legal trouble.) However, according to Parker's biographer, it's possible that he fled the Netherlands because of a DarkAndTroubledPast (specifically, a murder case in Breda of which he was a suspect or person of interest) and was fearful of having his true identity revealed.

* CreatorBacklash: Presley grew to hate the movies he was starring in (several sources such as the documentary ''This is Elvis'' suggest he even got physically ill from them at one point), and certainly you can scour Presley's live performances from 1969 to 1977 and except for one or two exceptions that became regular parts of his act (most notably his sign-off, "Can't Help Falling in Love") you'll find very few performances of movie songs from the post-1960 era.
** A big part of the reason he hated his movies was that he was actually a terrific actor in a way most musicians who make films aren't, and he knew it. Elvis wanted nothing more than to put his chops to the test with real film roles and bar a couple of occasions (King Creole, his favorite role, for example), he never got the chance.
** MagnumOpusDissonance: Presley greatly preferred his gospel recordings to his more popular records (as did the Grammys; during his lifetime the only Grammys he won were for spiritual performances).