FREE THE LOCKET OF DREAMS PDF Belinda Murrell | 288 pages | 01 Oct 2013 | Random House Australia | 9780857980212 | English | Milsons Point, Australia Dreams | HowStuffWorks By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! This doc about the man and his dysfunctional family—filmed by his son, Jeremiah—does benefit from a wealth of personal archival footage that would make Jonas Mekas envious. But given the blinkered view overall, the movie feels as if its creator is simply too close to his subject to cover all the angles; perhaps a director without blood bonds might have managed The Locket of Dreams less claustrophobic look at the clan. Go to the content Go to the footer Close Worldwide icon-chevron-right Worldwide. Time Out Worldwide. Get us in your inbox Sign up to our newsletter for the latest The Locket of Dreams greatest from your city The Locket of Dreams beyond. We already have this email. Try another? My Account My Profile Sign out. My Account. In a Dream. Film 3 out of 5 stars. Time Out says 3 out of 5 stars. More new Film reviews. Share Tweet. Premonitions in Dreams | HowStuffWorks They are played at parties, weddings, and proms, and can be heard in the background at grocery stores and shopping malls. The song catalog contains an impressive range: some were composed for fun but forgettable summer movies, while others trace their roots back to Italian operas; some tell stories of heartfelt love, while others are simply made for dancing. All were interpreted and recorded by one of the most successful performers American popular music has The Locket of Dreams seen. Elvis Presley Image The Locket of Dreams. Elvis Presley was one of the most successful performers in the history of American popular music. See more Elvis pictures. In the following pages, you'll find the stories behind some of Elvis' most celebrated tunes. You'll also learn about the smash hits that turned Elvis into a household name: "Heartbreak Hotel," Elvis' first single on the major label RCA, became a number one hit, but was originally inspired by a tragic death in Miami. When paired with "Don't Be Cruel" on the B-Side, the "Hound Dog" record became one of the most successful singles the music industry had yet seen. Many critics feel that Presley's early songs are among his finest; but later efforts reveal a fascinating intersection between the music and Elvis' rapidly growing fame. The song, written by W. Earl Brown, Elvis' musical director, was crafted as a somber but hopeful response to the recent assassinations of Robert Kennedy The Locket of Dreams Martin Luther King, Jr. By this time, Presley had his own television Christmas special called simply Elvisand, after an evening of holidays standards, "If I Can Dream" closed the program on a moving The Locket of Dreams personal note. In the later pages of this article, you'll find a few "best of" lists that can help any Elvis novice navigate his intimidating song catalog. You'll learn more about some of Presley's songwriters, many of whom were accomplished artists in their own right, and you'll also find information on some of Elvis' most famous covers. The article's final section contains a complete list of Elvis Presley's recorded work, arranged in alphabetical order for easy The Locket of Dreams. Go on to the next page to read about one of Elvis' most popular song topics -- falling in and out of love. Elvis Presley's love songs are some of the most famous tunes of his career. The song reached the top ten of the pop, country, and rhythm and blues charts. On September 1,Elvis recorded it straight and with feeling, turning it into a serious love song. Elvis recorded it in Hollywood on March 23, Elvis recorded this song again for his TV special, Elvisbut it was not used. Elvis recorded this beautiful love song in Nashville in the early summer ofand he sang it in the documentary Elvis on Tour. Recorded on March 27," Separate Ways " was biographical in that Elvis and Priscilla had just separated. Fans and biographers have often interpreted the song as a reflection of Elvis' feelings. Elvis was the first to record it, on March 29,but Brenda Lee's version was released first. InWillie Nelson scored a number-one country hit with it, while the Pet Shop Boys recorded a version in The Locket of Dreams most well-known version of "Unchained Melody" was released by the Righteous Brothers inthough it was written in for the movie Unchained. Elvis sang this earnest love song in concert during the s, and he recorded performing it live in Ann ArborMichiganon April 24, It was released posthumously. Elvis was credited as coauthor of this love ballad, though it was actually composed by Ken Darby, who served as the vocal supervisor on the film. Darby's wife, Vera Matson, also received credit. W Fosdick and George R. Almost years later, the song became a favorite again with the public, this time reincarnated as Elvis' "Love Me Tender. The Locket of Dreams movie version The Locket of Dreams the song had slightly different lyrics and contained an additional The Locket of Dreams. Elvis had always admired pop crooners such as Dean Martin, and "Love Me Tender" afforded him the opportunity to affect their gentle tones. When Sun's owner and operator Sam Phillips, needed a singer to record a ballad called "Without You," he remembered a young kid named Elvis Presley. Elvis had cut The Locket of Dreams couple of acetates at Phillips' Memphis Recording Service, and Phillips' assistant, Marion Keisker, had taped him for future reference. Phillips decided to let Elvis record "Without You," but the inexperienced singer wasn't able to master the new song. Elvis sang several other tunes for Phillips, who was sufficiently impressed to put him together with guitarist Scotty Moore for some seasoning. Moore, Elvis, and The Locket of Dreams player Bill Black were working together at Sun on the evening of July 5, trying to find a sound that clicked. Nothing seemed to be working. During a break, Elvis began fooling around with Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's country blues tune "That's All Right," singing it in a The Locket of Dreams, almost casual style. When Moore and Black jumped in, Phillips' voice boomed out from the control booth, "What are you doing? Though it did not reach the charts, it sent Elvis on his way to become a recording legend. Phillips was excited by the trio's sound and recognized its potential. He recorded "That's All Right" that night and backed it a few days later with The Locket of Dreams bluegrass classic "Blue Moon of Kentucky. He used a more relaxed The Locket of Dreams style and higher key for "That's All Right" than Crudup had. He sped up the tempo for "Blue Moon of Kentucky" and omitted the high-pitched bluegrass singing style. Two elements were added to both songs that would make Elvis famous -- syncopation and a "slapback" electronically delayed echo effect. Elvis' Sun style became the epitome of rockabilly. The single did not chart nationally, but it launched the recording career of the most famous singer of the 20th century. Born and raised just outside Florence, Alabama inSam Cornelius Phillips was greatly influenced by his rural Southern roots. Working in the cotton fields with African-Americans, Phillips was exposed to gospel and blues music, and he experienced the poverty and hard life of many Depression-era Southern families. As a record producer, he would draw on those experiences to shape a new musical aesthetic -- a purely Southern sound that combined black rhythm and blues and white country-western with a hardscrabble philosophy born of bad times. The new music that emerged -- a Dixie-fried sound called rockabilly -- would emanate from Phillips' Sun Records in the mids and Influence all of rock 'n' roll. Phillips' genius was recognizing talented singers and musicians -- black and white -- who could convey the aesthetic he envisioned. Of his desire to record Southern based music, Phillips mused, "I just knew this was culture, and it was so embedded in these people because of hardship Generation after generation, these [Southern] The Locket of Dreams have been overlooked -- black and white! To learn more about Elvis Presley, see:. Backed by "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" The Locket of Dreams the flip side, the song stayed on Billboard's country chart for ten weeks, The Locket of Dreams number ten. Gunter himself had been influenced by rockabilly artists, and he made a good model for Elvis, who had The Locket of Dreams a copy of Gunter's version the previous December at the House of Records in Memphis. Elvis made the song his own with the inclusion of the syncopated phrasing "babe-babe-baby" in the verse. He The Locket of Dreams tinkered with the lyrics, changing "You may have religion" to "You may drive a pink Cadillac" -- a humorous foretelling of the car that he would come to be identified with. The Locket of Dreams Phillips added drums to the recording session for the song, marking the first time drums were used on a Presley single. As the song received national exposure, it was called a country song in trade publications, and few connected it with the relatively unknown rhythm- and-blues artist who had inspired Elvis.