Retooled Elvis album marks a new take on the King

Boston Herald ^ | 10/18/10 | AP

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A re-styled version of the Elvis Presley hit "Suspicious Minds" hit radio stations on Monday, part of an album being released later this year featuring newer, more contemporary takes on many of his hits.

"Suspicious Minds" is the first single off "Viva Elvis-The Album," set for mass release Nov. 9. The 12-track compilation is a companion piece to the Las Vegas show "Viva Elvis" by Cirque du Soleil, which began in February.

The new "Suspicious Minds" and the other reworked songs on the album could strike a dissonant chord with Elvis’ older fans. But the minds behind the new album said the new tracks won’t lose the qualities that made them hits in the 1950s and ’60s.

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I don’t know why anyone would want to claim Parker as one of their own, but I have heard a claim that he wasn’t even a Dutch sailor but a Polish Jew from Cracow who pretending to be a Dutch sailor. He was a scoundrel, to be sure, who earned more from Presley than Presley did himself, and gambled it all away in Las Vegas. Hank Snow and Eddy Arnold whom he managed before EP, were so upset, they wouldn’t talk about him. One quote attributed to him was that when his office employees informed him in August 1977 that EP was no more, he said, “Nothing’s changed, get back to work!”, which was true for a while, until Priscilla wrestled control of the estate from him. When in the 1970s the money was drying up, record sales were down, the movie career over, tour concerts being cancelled for medical reasons, Parker started releasing on his own record label, able to bypass the contract with RCA, the godawful series of Having Fun With Elvis On Stage, which have earned the distinction of being nominated for the worst ever rock’n’roll albums along such masterpieces as In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Chuck Berry’s My-Ding-A-Ling and the Grand Funk Railroad.

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Very pretty image devolve!

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Thanks potlatch -

I used to used animated Table BGs -

But WebTV and MSNTV2 users cannot see the animated BGs

I recalled the large composites I did using animated snow with Peanuts .gifs and gave this a shot
It worked out the first time - made:

980x735
980x375
500x375 - which I used here and enlarged using HTML and the Table BG frame

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Elvis is enclosed in Marz Starz, lol.

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Actually I made a 980x735 BLACK.jpg BG

BG Tiled a 100x100 /EP/Starz.gif over it

I forgot my ready-made large MarzStarz .gifs

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[I forgot my ready-made large MarzStarz .gifs]

We have tooooo much stuff. It has become a massive hodge podge that boggles the mind sometimes! I just found a webpage the other day with images missing, looked at the urls and they are no longer in the folder they were in, lol.

Gone forever!

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There are several 007 folders too

And no rhyme or reason or organization

I should have made a folder for each movie

DR.NO
THUN
GOLDFINGER
YOLT
DAF

It takes forever to hunt down the right 1000x375 graphic panel I want to use

Change them

All the webpages fall apart

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[Change them All the webpages fall apart]

Exactly! I have given it thought before but even if I checked the webpages I knew about there would be other things with red X’s.

We went hog wild, lol.

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- and I did not think I needed folders!

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LOLOL, I sometimes see things in the file manager that I didn’t know were there.....oh my, and you don’t dare delete.
Music just loose in there that I forgot about!

I’m now seeing something new with the FTP stuff that never happened before.

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Index Files are a bit confusing now

Esp. Main Index

No idea why he changed them

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Think he changed to a different server or something. It was worse before I complained and he fixed it!! I’d have to go back and look at his letters.

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Folders are OK

Main Index is wiiiiiiild!

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