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King Creole is a 1958 American musical drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and based on the 1952 novel A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins.Produced by Hal B. Wallis, the film stars Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger, Vic Morrow, Liliane Montevecchi and Paul Stewart, and it follows a nineteen-year-old (Presley) who gets mixed up with crooks and ...
King Creole is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. [1] The song was performed by Elvis Presley and recorded in 1958, and laid foundations to a musical drama film, King Creole . The song is based on King Creole, a singer/guitar player from New Orleans who is proficient in all different styles of rock and roll.
Elvis' former wife Priscilla, family friend Jerry Schilling and others discuss details, including some personal experience, concerning the triumpant comeback performance for Elvis which aired on national television on December 3, 1968 and proved to be a gamble, but would result in his music career being revived following a long period of being more recognized for acting in feature films.
The following discusses plot points from the new "Elvis" movie and the real life of Elvis Presley. Stop reading if you haven't seen it yet and don't want to know. Stop reading if you haven't seen ...
Elvis Presley performed the song in the 1958 motion picture King Creole, and his recording was included on the soundtrack of the same name. "Trouble", featuring Scotty Moore on guitar, was one of only three songs written by Leiber and Stoller for the feature. Presley's performance in the film alludes to Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley. "If you're ...
It contains songs written and recorded expressly for the 1958 film of the same name starring Presley, and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. [7] The album was previously released as an EP album with two volumes, King Creole Vol 1 and King Creole Vol 2. King Creole Vol 1 peaked at #1 for 30 weeks on the EP album charts.
"Crawfish" is a song written by Fred Wise (lyrics) and Ben Weisman (music) and recorded as a duet by the jazz singer Kitty White and Elvis Presley. It was the opening song for Presley's 1958 film King Creole. [1] [2] [3] British musician and Clash frontman Joe Strummer described "Crawfish" on his radio-show as one of his favourite Elvis Presley ...
King Creole can refer to: King Creole, a 1958 film starring Elvis Presley "King Creole" (song), a song by Elvis Presley from the film King Creole; King Creole, an album by Elvis Presley, containing the soundtrack to the film King Creole; King Creole (Christer Sjögren album)