When Elvis Presley acted in the movie "King Creole" he would take a big step in his artistic career towards his great dream, to be a great actor.
His Danny character in the film conveys much more with his performance than he could imagine. During the film we can observe all his movements, his phrases, moments that are recorded with great naturalness and strength, which is transmitted to the viewer.
Elvis knew a lot about the pain that can be suffered from rejection, from loss and from lack of value, which was what he had to play in his role.
Really, the experience in his young life could be brought to his character, because he was always a different boy and for this reason he felt the rejection of others, he would also have felt the loss, when they went from one house to another and due to the lack in his life. family and the lack of value, you could see it reflected in many cases in your own family or social environment.
Danny was a boy who loses his home, his mother and finds himself immersed in a neighborhood where he has to defend himself from the world and face the change in his father, who had lost his business and everything is going to have repercussions in an aggressive attitude towards the others. the rest.
Elvis shows us in many scenes the good work of him, such as when he talks to the director of his institute how he had to work before getting to class to earn money and help in his house. When other boys played he was cleaning, delivering or picking up to earn money. His attitude is defensive at all times against the environment and Elvis understands the character and carries it to the end.
Even that duality in his way of looking at the two female characters represented by the naive and good girl who wants a serious relationship and the other girl from the world, more mature and experienced who invites him to temptation. In these moments he also reflects in the way of looking at them different performance of him.
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The scene where his father is hospitalized where you can feel the pain through his expression, his look is authentic, dramatic.
Of course about the music, the songs and his interpretation as a singer we can only say, impeccable. The songs are very well adapted to the movie script so it's easy and everything can be enjoyed. The rest of the actors also play a good role, so Elvis would feel sheltered and supported by his companions with whom he would come to have confidence.
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The whole character is very well interpreted by Elvis Presley, who had a good review from the press who said, "In addition to singing, he knows how to act."

It is true that this was a good opportunity to move forward and from then on choose good characters, suitable scripts to continue on this path and reach the chosen goal, which was to be a good actor.
Everything was pointing in that direction, but military service, confusion and overconfidence in his manager Tom Parker caused him to spoil that very promising future.
Although he was still able to make a movie that could have a decent script, over time the Colonel forgot his promise to choose painful scripts, music that did not have great quality and the result would be to reject the good opportunities that were offered for economic reasons that they offered. easy money.
Sometimes dreams come true, but as in the story at midnight they turn into a pumpkin.
"Following the Path of the King..."

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RCA Victor had a new studio in Nashville at the corner of Seventeenth Avenue South and Hawkins Street. Studio B was where the June 1958 session was to be recorded.
These sessions were prompted by pressure from Steve Sholes for new material to release, in Elvis's protracted absence. It was already planned that from September he would have to go to Germany to continue his military service. A photo session was held during Elvis Presley's leave for two weeks in June for the recording in Nashville.
Freddy Bienstock had contacted the composers to obtain more scores to offer good material because they wanted to release a new single.

In Nashville, at RCA's new Studio B, Chet Atkins assembled a group of session musicians that would come to be called the “Nashville A-team,” made up of well-known musicians. They were the best of the moment, the most competent band to accompany Elvis Presley. Since they had definitely ruled out Scotty and Bill as chaperones and they wanted the sessions to be productive.
The guitarist Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland, was the one who stood out the most from this team of musicians, due to his own recording career, he had created a new form of music, "hillbilly jazz". He had already played with Elvis in the fall of 1957, when Scotty and Bill quit.
Dj Fontana the Drummer was the only remaining member of the original group, which was accompanied on percussion by Buddy Harman on Bongos. Bob Moore was the new bass. Floyd Cramer was the pianist and had already played with Elvis in the Hayride days. Finally the wonderful Jordanaires that vocally enriched Elvis's work.
It was a different environment that surrounded these sessions, that had nothing to do with Radio Recorders, they wanted to do a lot of takes so that Steve Sholes could choose the best work and perfect the songs. Everything was very professional and as a consequence more active, there was not much relaxation.
The interesting thing about this is that Elvis felt much more secure because the result that the musicians brought was a solid endorsement.

During the songs they contributed his best work and even the arrangements made it easier for the type of recordings that had to be made.

"I need your love tonight."
During this song, Elvis was having fun and in complicity with the musicians, he would use word games to give the lyrics more intention. The atmosphere was light and lively considering that the lyrics were very simple and without any special message.
Ray Walker replaced Hugh Jarrett as bass singer in the Jordanaires. He was accepted by Elvis easily, as he started asking him to double several words and lines in the first song, while the rest just said "ooh". Ray and Elvis shared a microphone while Ray dubbed various words and lines.
The atmosphere continued to rise, Hank Garland's guitar did a great solo and although it seemed to be simple the song was not accepted by Elvis until take eighteen.

"A Big Hunk O' Love" a song also lively but with a bluesy accent. You hear a spirited Elvis voice and crisp, clean backing.

"Ain't That Loving You Baby" was composed by Clyde Otis and Ivory Joe Hunter when they were in Louisiana after a duck hunt, they got a call from Hill and Range, asking if they had any songs for Elvis and they said yes. But the reality is that they sat down to compose and wrote this song
There hadn't been the same energy in this song that there was in the first, so Chet Atkins would come out of the control booth and grab a guitar, playing a walking bass line that would help the rhythm. But they were not yet satisfied. They would play it in two different rhythms, one version faster than the other.
"(Once in a while there's) a fool like that."
This song was a hit in 1953 for Hank Snow and Tom Diskin encouraged Elvis to record it. During the recording Chet Atkins played rhythm guitar.
In the last song "I Got a Stung", Elvis, who was very involved and at full speed, was already tired with the musicians. Mistakes were already being made because of this fatigue. At the end Elvis would alter the melody and say during the recording: "Man, you better hurry, my brain is getting weaker by the minute."
A session against the clock that the soldier Elvis Presley had attended because of his commitment and with his best intentions.
So far Elvis had made 16 albums and each one had sold more than a million dollars, was what Steve Sholes told the press. Elvis chose all of his songs and was a once-in-a-lifetime artist.
"Following the King's Way..."