Ryan73 wrote:TonyS wrote:Colin B wrote:Ryan73 wrote:...Am I the only one that remembers many many years ago that upgraded clips of the Dorsey show were available for a price?
I think they did about 3 and then for whatever reason they stopped offering them...
That was back in 2009.
It was going to be an on-going weekly thing.
The first week, we got
Shake, Rattle & Roll &
I Got a Woman from the first
Dorsey show on 28th January, 1956.
The second week, we got
Baby, Let's Play House &
Tutti Frutti from the second
Dorsey show on 4th February, 1956.
Then it stopped & we got no more.
Because.... I’m lead to believe/was told that the ‘Gleason Corps/estate’ got wind of it and put a stop to it.
I don’t know how true that is, but they won’t license out their Elvis footage anymore.
I suspect there’s a conflict with EPE, I can’t prove it and I only have hearsay, but it really wouldn’t surprise me.
That would definitely make sense then. Man, I really wish these golden performances would be restored in my lifetime.
Imagine a time, before video, DVD, Blu-Ray, or the existence of the internet, where you lived in a country that they were never even shown on TV !
Moving forward to 1968 and then 1973, imagine knowing about his ‘TV Special’ and then ‘Aloha From Hawaii’ and those not being shown on TV in your country until after Elvis died either ?
It’s little wonder the fan club(s) and certain collectors that had 16mm film prints of these shows from the USA became well known and loved within the Elvis community.
In fact it was the UK Elvis fan club and Todd Slaughter that got permission from Colonel Parker for the very first showing of the 68 TV Special outside of the USA, and THAT was quite a scoop back in the day.
I remember purchasing the ‘Hound Dog’ performance from the June 5th Milton Berle show on Super 8mm back in the early 80’s and that was mind blowing to see for the first time.
I still have that reel and screen it occasionally.
It’s all too easy and disposable these days IMO, we’ve lost the thrill of the hunt and the excitement and appreciation of finding these things to ‘own’ as part of our collections.
That’s probably why I enjoyed the recent ‘Sinatra show’ acetates discovery so much.
To coin a well known phrase, the youngsters today don’t know they’re born, it’s all too easy now.