Ernie Banks was selected to the Hall of Fame on this day in 1977.
Banks was a three-time .300 hitter and retired with a .274 average, 2,583 hits, 1,305 runs scored, and 1, 636 RBI. He won the NL MVP in 1958 and 1959 despite playing for some bad Cubs' teams.
On May 12, 1970, Banks hit # 500 and finished with 512. He died in 2015.
Late last night, I flipped TV channels and found Ronald Reagan and Rhonda Fleming in "The Last Outpost". It was reissued later as "Cavalry Charge".
What's the plot? It is the story of two brothers who survive an Indian attack in the Old West.
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Flipping channels and then I find Elvis and "Wild in the country".
It's another of those serious movies that Elvis made, like "Flaming Star", the one I that I mentioned a few days ago.
Elvis is a troubled young man who needs a bit of "tough love". He wants to be a writer and Hope Lange plays his counselor. Tuesday Weld and Millie Perkins are the two ladies in the movie.
It's a good movie. There were no hit songs from this movie. Two tunes did end up as B-sides for other big Elvis hits.
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Elvis was born on this day in 1935 and we remember the story of Dolores Hart.
She gave Elvis his first "screen kiss" in "Loving you", the 1956 movie. Dolores was also one of the four girls in "Where the boys are", another huge film from that time.
Dolores gave up all of that fame and fortune and became a nun. She decided that there were more important things in this world than being rich and famous.
What a story and she always spoke very fondly of Elvis.
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Elvis was born on this day in 1935. He died in 1977 at the age of 42.
Incredibly, his music still sells and "everything Elvis" turns on the cash register, as we see in this article from Charles Passy:
"The fact that Mr. Presley, who died in 1977 at the age of 42, is continually rediscovered by new generations seems to only fuel Elvis tourism. Graceland, operated by a business partnership in conjunction with Mr. Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie, saw almost 600,000 visitors in 2014—a 5% increase from 2013 and the highest total in seven years.The partnership has its eyes on expansion: Ground has already been broken on a 450-room hotel/entertainment complex as part of Graceland, expected to open in 2016. A Graceland-organized temporary exhibition of Elvis artifacts, from cars to jumpsuits, is now running in London. And Graceland has plans to host a permanent exhibition in Las Vegas."
Elvis's success is probably due to a couple of reasons:
1) Elvis died young, a sure way to become a legend. See James Dean and Marilyn Monroe; and,
2) Elvis was a fantastic entertainer. His music still sounds great.
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Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on this day in 1935. Not surprisingly, his songs are still selling.
As an artist, Elvis sold over 1 billion records. Yes, I did say 1 billion!
He had:
"...no less than 149 songs to appear on Billboard’s Hot 100 Pop Chart in America.
Of these, 114 were in the top forty, 40 were in the top ten, and 18 went to number one.
His number one singles spent a total of 80 weeks at number one.
He has also had over 90 charted albums with ten of them reaching number one.
These figures are only for the pop charts, and only in America.
He was also a leading artist in the American country, R&B, and gospel fields, and his chart success in other countries was substantial."
In the US, Elvis had 150 different albums and singles certified gold.
