I bought this as a gift for my sister-in-law, a Elvis nut for 40 yrs. It is great-now I want some more as bridge prizes.

it was really good and i hope everyone will read it! it is all the information u could imagine about elvis presley and elvis fans will just love it. i know i did!

Elvis Presley 1956 is not the same than other Elvis Presley books. It is shorter than any other books about Elvis Presley. And has more pitcures. The pitcures were taken by Marvin Israel but he didn't live to see this book because in the spring of 1984 he died of a heart attack.

The pitcures were taken in 1956. And they are never seen before pitcures of Elvis Presley. Marvin Israel took a pitcure of Elvis Presley's high school diploma. But Elvis Presley is not living at Graceland yet. If Marvin Israel lived to see this book, would he be happy to see his pitcures in this book.

Maybe not if he wanted the pitcures to be private. But like it or not he had no choice since he is dead. Marvin didn't want to follow in the family business which was making clothes. But still a great book for your Elvis Presley fan.

[Referring to the 1982 Midas edition]: It has been almost 20 years since I purchased this book and in that time have found no book on the subject to be as informative - the author uses a "music appreciation" approach and provides an invaluable work which surpasses all other similiar works I've found. The individual tracks are examined for their musical value and originality, whereas other writing either recounts the tracks' actual session history or gives a highly subjective view. In a few cases here the author does gloss over some very worthy songs and albums (i.e. "You'll Never Walk Alone" single and the 1974 live Memphis album, etc.), but the overall presentation is excellent. I am not aware of any "updated" edition, but considering that RCA has, since the mid-80s, basically opened the floodgates for Presley previously unissued material, I hope that such a book would be forthcoming from this writer.

I love Elvis. In fact I think he is the best singer who ever lived.This book is the best book I have ever read in my whole life.It tells all about his life and how he got famous.Elvis was more than a singer.He acted in movies too. He started out poor and got very rich. A lot of people like Elvis. This is a good book for anybody who likes Elvis.

This book is a great resource for the collector of Elvis Memorabilia. Contains hundreds of photos and prices on old and new items such as dolls, sheet music, records, etc. Estimated price is included on featured items. Don't miss out!

A Good book,you read about what happenend to and with Elvis in his own hometown. It's a honest book!

Can you please tell me how I can get in touch with Billy, Ric ,or David Stanley?

I happened on to this book by just browsing through ..., a great way to find books I would not ordinarily run across. Unfortunately most of the Elvis books I find are very disappointing such as that recent (2001) travesty of a bibliography on Elvis that basically imparts very little information about each entry. Then again, I sometimes luck out and run into a book so fabulous and well done, I want to tell the world. Such a book is Aaron Webster's Elvis: A Radio History from 1945 to 1955. I would have thought that Mr. Guralnick's exhaustive works on Elvis would have covered just about everything but Mr. Webster proves otherwise. This book is detailed, accurate and features much new information, especially on the radio interviews Elvis did in his first full professional year, 1955. The information on Elvis at the Louisiana Hayride is equally as exhaustive. In my opinion, this book shows what a natural communicator Elvis was and how fascinating he would have been, and probably very happy as well, had he been able to interview, visit radio stations, put on live shows, and more, throughout the sixties, instead of being stuck away making some interesting but not too exciting films. Not only is the writing very incisive and to the point, the charts at the end of the book are well constructed and very informative, allowing me to fully understand much of what Elvis did in detail that year plus before he moved on to record for RCA Records. Congratulations Mr. Webster, on a fresh new look at early Elvis and a book truly worthy of ranking up there with the classic works on Elvis such as those done by Mr. Guralnick and Mr. Jorgensen.

This book has several very interesting photos through the years...most, I've never even seen anywhere else; very, very little repetition to other books. Rare photos in the blue '70 jumpsuit with oriental trim, a rare photo in the white '69 karate gi, excellent photo in his '72 Conquistador suit, one of the best pics in the Burning Love red suit, Elvis in his funky western style mod cowboy garb (arriving in Houston for shows at the Dome in '70) etc. etc. Also has by far the best detailed photos I've ever seen of the orange target, bear claw, and aloha suits on display. Very neat room to room Gracelend pics. What a find. I absolutely love this book, among the best values around, too. Long live the King.