Otto
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My very first record was bought for me by my mother when I was very young. It was a double LP called "That's the Way It Is". I remember the shop called CNA (Central News Agency) in Central Johanneburg quite distinctly. Johannesburg was a good place to call home back in 1973. If you were white.
I have been an Elvis fan since I was five, but the legacy boggles the mind:
LONDON - Unable to use video footage of Elvis Presley on tonight's 'Top of the Pops', BBC producers have booked an Elvis impersonator to sing the number one single 'One Night', the UK's 1,000th chart-topper.
Producers scouted Mario Kombou, the star of Elvis musical 'Jailhouse Rock', to help with their problem. They were unable to secure the rights to use video footage of The King.
A 'Top of the Pops' spokesman said: "It's a very special number one as it's the UK's 1,000th. We wanted to pay tribute to Elvis in the best way we know how, so we thought getting a professional would be the best way for 'Top of the Pops' to do that."
Last week, 'Top of the Pops' used still pictures of Elvis to accompany his number one 'Jailhouse Rock'.
'Jailhouse Rock' and 'One Night' are the first two of 18 early Elvis UK number ones to be released by SonyBMG over the next few months. The copyright protection on his early songs is expiring, because copyright on sound recordings lasts 50 years after the recording was made.
The BBC said that Kombou is likely to appear on 'Top of the Pops' again next week because the next Presley re-release, 'A Fool Such as I', is on course to give him his third number one in three weeks.
http://www.brandrepublic.com/mediabulletin/news_story.cfm?articleID=233041&Origin=MB21012005
I have been an Elvis fan since I was five, but the legacy boggles the mind:
LONDON - Unable to use video footage of Elvis Presley on tonight's 'Top of the Pops', BBC producers have booked an Elvis impersonator to sing the number one single 'One Night', the UK's 1,000th chart-topper.
Producers scouted Mario Kombou, the star of Elvis musical 'Jailhouse Rock', to help with their problem. They were unable to secure the rights to use video footage of The King.
A 'Top of the Pops' spokesman said: "It's a very special number one as it's the UK's 1,000th. We wanted to pay tribute to Elvis in the best way we know how, so we thought getting a professional would be the best way for 'Top of the Pops' to do that."
Last week, 'Top of the Pops' used still pictures of Elvis to accompany his number one 'Jailhouse Rock'.
'Jailhouse Rock' and 'One Night' are the first two of 18 early Elvis UK number ones to be released by SonyBMG over the next few months. The copyright protection on his early songs is expiring, because copyright on sound recordings lasts 50 years after the recording was made.
The BBC said that Kombou is likely to appear on 'Top of the Pops' again next week because the next Presley re-release, 'A Fool Such as I', is on course to give him his third number one in three weeks.
http://www.brandrepublic.com/mediabulletin/news_story.cfm?articleID=233041&Origin=MB21012005
