WHITE
CHRISTMAS
ELVIS
PRESLEY
SONGWRITER: IRVING BERLIN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ELVIS’ CHRISTMAL ALBUM
LABEL: RCA VICTOR
GENRE: CHRISTMAS SONG
YEAR: 1957
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August
16, 1977), also known simply as Elvis, was an American singer, musician and
actor. He is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century and is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or
simply "the King". His energized interpretations of songs and
sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix
of influences across color lines during a transformative
era in race relations, led him to great success—and
initial controversy.
Presley was born in Tupelo,
Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis,
Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old.
His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam
Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American
music to a wider audience. Presley, on
rhythm acoustic guitar, and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black,
was a pioneer of rockabilly,
an uptempo, backbeat-driven
fusion of country music and rhythm and blues.
In 1955, drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel
Tom Parker, who would manage him for more
than two decades. Presley's
first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", was released in January
1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. With a
series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records,
he became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll.
In November 1956, Presley made his film debut
in Love
Me Tender. Drafted into military service in 1958, Presley
relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially
successful work. He
held few concerts, however, and guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of
the 1960s to making Hollywood films and soundtrack albums, most of them
critically derided. In 1968, following a seven-year break from
live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed television
comeback special Elvis,
which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973,
Presley gave the first concert by a solo artist to be broadcast around the
world, Aloha from Hawaii. Years of prescription
drug abuse severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at his
Graceland estate at the age of 42.
With his rise from poverty to significant
fame, Presley's success seemed to epitomize the American Dream.
He is the best-selling solo music artist of all time,
and was commercially successful in many genres, including pop,
country, R&B, adult
contemporary, and gospel.
He won three Grammy Awards,
received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at
age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame.
Presley holds several records; the most RIAA certified
gold and platinum albums, the most albums charted on the Billboard 200,
and the most number-one albums by a solo artist on the UK Albums Chart and the most number-one singles by any act on the UK Singles Chart.
In 2018, Presley was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Elvis' Christmas Album (also reissued
as It's Christmas Time) is the third studio
album and first Christmas album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley on RCA Victor,
LOC -1035, a deluxe limited edition, released October 15, 1957, and recorded at
Radio Recorders in Hollywood. It has been reissued in numerous
different formats since its first release. It spent
four weeks at Nº. 1 on the Billboard
Top Pop Albums chart, and was the first of two Christmas-themed albums Presley would record, the other being Elvis Sings the Wonderful World of Christmas,
released in 1971. The publication Music Vendor listed Elvis' Christmas Album on
their singles charts for two weeks in December 1957 – January 1958, with a peak
position of Nº. 49.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Elvis' Christmas Album along with its reissues has shipped
at least 17 million copies in the United States. It is the first Presley title
to attain Diamond
certification by the RIAA, and is also the best-selling Christmas album of all
time in the United States. With total sales of more
20 million copies worldwide, it remains the world's best-selling Christmas
album and one of the best-selling albums of all time.
I'm dreaming of a
white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know.
Where those tree-tops glisten,
And children listen
To hear sleighbells in the snow.
I'm dreaming of a
white Christmas,
With every Christmas card I write,
A may your days be merry and bright,
And may all your Christmases be white.
I'm dreaming of a
white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know.
A may your days may your days may your days be merry and bright,
And may all your Christmases be white.
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