After roughly a decade, Angelique Pettyjohn resumed her career as a supporting actress in the movies. In 1979, for instance, she appeared as...

Unmentioned in any account of her life that I have come across, Angelique Pettyjohn had been married and divorced before she married Otho A....

According to Dr. Flynn, Dorothy Perrins graduated high school early, at age 17, immediately moved to Las Vegas, and immediately became a sho...

They say rock ‘n’ roll will never die. If so, then neither will the myths about it. Among the most persistent myths are those that claim dur...

How many critics—of the theater, movies, music, contemporary fine arts—wake up each morning with the uncomfortable feeling that someday they...

Note: This blog is an amalgam of observations I've made previously, with a few additional remarks added. It seemed appropriate to (re)...

According to This Day In Rock , on 15 April 1955 CBS talent scout Arthur Godfrey turned down the chance to sign Elvis Presley. However, acco...

Among the many nice gifts I received for Christmas this year were two Elvis CDs containing rare outtakes, one titled '60-'61 Session...

According to a Fox News exclusive published today, Elvis may not have died in 1977 from cardiac arrhythmia, as has been widely reported, but...

Today I screened for my students Elvis ’56 , a documentary about Elvis’s emergence as a national figure in 1956. While I was aware of how qu...

There’s a fine essay by Charles Wolfe, titled “Presley and the Gospel Tradition,” in the now somewhat aged but excellent book edited by Kevi...

The sequence in Jailhouse Rock (1957) showing a dirty, sweaty Elvis Presley (playing Vince Everett) in the prison coal yard is the closest ...

The long-playing (“LP”) microgroove record, what is commonly referred to as the vinyl LP, which in its final form held about 20 minutes of m...

Roughly every four weeks, or about every twenty-eight days, a full moon rises, which normally means there are twelve full moons a year. But ...