Word: presley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HARVARD-BROWN: A biggie If Elvis Presley and Paul Anka made comebacks, maybe John Yovicsin and Harvard football can, too. But if not in Providence, when pray tell? One hopeful sign is that Fred Gajewski's finger is healed, and the Gorilla says he's ready to plug up some of those big holes again. Yovicsin said last Saturday to the press. "We're not a real good football team. I'm sure you fellows know that. "Well, today he and his boys go to Providence with reasonable hopes of bringing back an even record. Look, Sec Joe throw. Brown...
...long-gone folk hero often leaves behind the legend that someday he will return to his people. Barbarossa still sleeps, and the horn of Roland has not sounded again, but Elvis Presley is appearing in the flesh before an audience for the first time in nine years...
Comeback Bid. Presley's backup sound is much fuller now than it used to be, and more electronic; he has a soulful quartet called the Sweet Inspirations, a 35-piece orchestra loud with drums and guitars and a couple of Beatles songs (Yesterday and Hey Jude) plus Ray Charles' What'd I Say. But the newest thing about the new Elvis is social consciousness. Recently released as a single, his version of In the Ghetto, a mawkish ditty about big-city slum life, came close to the top of the pop music charts...
...return of Elvis at 34 is a characteristically careful piece of timing by the canny "Colonel" Tom Parker, his manager since the days when Presley was nothing but a sexy-looking young truck driver with a guitar. For the last 13 years Parker has kept his charge virtually invisible to live audiences-limiting him to records, movies, one TV special and no interviews. Now is the time, the Colonel senses, for the comeback bid. Teen-agers seem to be tiring of bloodless electronic experimentation and intellectualism, and may be ready to discover for themselves the simplistic, hard-driving Big Beat...
...Elvis Presley (NBC), 5) Heidi (NBC), and the Academy Awards Show...