WalterHaleJnr wrote:WOW !!! Look at the release date of the RCA soundtrack Elvis T V Special.
https://www.discogs.com/Elvis-Presley-O ... se/2478493
I don't know if this is authentic or not and what country, i guess it would be the USA, but this is pretty damn close to my birthday where i too will turn 5o.
WalterHaleJnr wrote:https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-elvis-presleys-legendary-1968-comeback-special-w477303
Norman wrote:No, that is still the case – the Colonel wanted a Christmas special, with around 20 themed songs.
Rolling Stone says this:
'[Colonel] asked [NBC] to produce a special of Presley singing Christmas songs.'
Bones Howe said the following:
'Later I found myself in the studio with [Elvis], and then even later I was on the TV show [as co-producer and music director]. Bob Finkel, the executive producer with NBC, came to us and said, "You guys gotta help me out with this one. The Colonel has talked NBC into doing a Christmas special, and Elvis is gonna sing twenty-four Christmas songs." So we went in to the meeting with these people and [producer] Steve Binder and I managed to corner Elvis in a room by himself. Steve said, "Elvis, it's a shame nobody ever gets to see you the way you really are. I mean, you've done Ed Sullivan and a lot of TV, but it's too bad we can't do a special where you do the rock songs you're famous for, and some of the new songs. It'll be in-color and state-of-the-art sound." Elvis talked The Colonel into it. '
So key people Bob Finkel, Bones Howe and Steve Binder referred to it. People who were there during conversations. Maybe, the Colonel didn't bother to write up the discussion that led to his change of mind. He probably trusted Binder to just get on with it.
WalterHaleJnr wrote: I'm siding with Colonel's explanation about this as they're appear to be based on fact.
WalterHaleJnr wrote:Good on you Colonel.
I would like to know what was CTP's rationale/reasoning (December 1967) in wanting Elvis to do a Christmas special ?
WalterHaleJnr wrote:Norman wrote:No, that is still the case – the Colonel wanted a Christmas special, with around 20 themed songs.
Rolling Stone says this:
'[Colonel] asked [NBC] to produce a special of Presley singing Christmas songs.'
Bones Howe said the following:
'Later I found myself in the studio with [Elvis], and then even later I was on the TV show [as co-producer and music director]. Bob Finkel, the executive producer with NBC, came to us and said, "You guys gotta help me out with this one. The Colonel has talked NBC into doing a Christmas special, and Elvis is gonna sing twenty-four Christmas songs." So we went in to the meeting with these people and [producer] Steve Binder and I managed to corner Elvis in a room by himself. Steve said, "Elvis, it's a shame nobody ever gets to see you the way you really are. I mean, you've done Ed Sullivan and a lot of TV, but it's too bad we can't do a special where you do the rock songs you're famous for, and some of the new songs. It'll be in-color and state-of-the-art sound." Elvis talked The Colonel into it. '
So key people Bob Finkel, Bones Howe and Steve Binder referred to it. People who were there during conversations. Maybe, the Colonel didn't bother to write up the discussion that led to his change of mind. He probably trusted Binder to just get on with it.
And so how long ago did Bones Howe state that , Norman ? Maybe the gentlemen recollections have became vague or they chosen not to ruin the legend.
Sorry mate, but I'm siding with Colonel's explanation about this as they're appear to be based on fact.
It could have been another Christmas special, but Binder flat put his foot down, and that helped Elvis go up against the Colonel. Elvis was really all for it, even though he was saying. “Yes sir, Colonel,” and “No sir, Colonel.” But then when they got off to themselves, he’d say, “Look Colonel, Steve’s more right than you think. That’s basically what I want to do.” But he didn’t say it to Colonel in front of Binder because he wouldn’t do the Colonel that way. And at the same time, I guarantee you he as talking to Binder, saying “Don’t budge, man. That’s what I want to do.” (Elvis and the Memphis Mafia)
May 1967 Finkel met with the Colonel and Singer Sewing Machine Company. Finkel suggests expanding the Christmas theme. “He’d like to embrace material from Elvis’ long career,” he said. Parker approved, as long as a Christmas sing closed the programme and Elvis controlled the music publishing throughout.
Finkel, after a series of meetings with the Colonel had finally persuaded the sponsor (the Singer Sewing Company), the network, and most importantly, the Colonel, himself, to abandon the original plan of simply presenting an hour of Elvis singing Christmas songs on a bare stage.
In the Memorandum Report of the May 8 meeting it was noted that Singer representative Alfred DiScipio “was able to convince Parker that the program ought not to be a purely Christmas oriented show “ but instead should feature Elvis’ hits of the last eight or ten years…
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