Reply With QuoteElvis & Ricky did meet but there weren't any photos taken. Elvis loved Rick's music. He told James Burton this exact thing when he (or rather, Joe Esposito) called James to ask him if he would front the TCB Band.
Is there any photo of Elvis and Rick?
It's been said their was families was friends and still is now.
How come there isn't any photo's of Elvis and Rick together?
Frank
Every man has a flaming star
Elvis & Ricky did meet but there weren't any photos taken. Elvis loved Rick's music. He told James Burton this exact thing when he (or rather, Joe Esposito) called James to ask him if he would front the TCB Band.
I was wondering the same thing. Why there are no photos of Elvis and Rick together? I know they knew each other. Elvis met Ricky Nelson, at a party in his hotel after the show at the Pan Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles on October 28, 1957. Elvis approached Ricky Nelson telling him "Man, I just love your new record" and that he loved the "Ozzie and Harriet Show" saying he watched it all the time. When photoplay editor Maria Borie told Elvis that Ricky was about to go out on tour for the first time and could use some advice, Elvis took Ricky aside and gave him some tips on what to do on tour. "You'll never know how much tonight has meant to me" Ricky told Maria Borie later in the evening. "Imagine Elvis Presley watching our show. He repeated episodes I'd even forgotten about! He remembered them word for word. And he gave me some great tips about things to do on my tour."
Goodbye Rosanne...Your "family" in TCB will always remember you.
It was actually October 29th.Originally Posted by LianaKaralivanou
Elvis and Ricky met for the second and final time in Elvis' suite in Vegas on September 10th, 1970.
Getlo - cute'n'cuddly
Are you sure of that date Elvis was in St. Louis on Sept 10th 1970 for his second concert of his first tour? The day before he was in PhoenixThe only reason I know this is because I tried to get tickets to that show and it sold out in hours.
IF you take this link you can hear Rick Nelson in interview.
http://blogs.tvland.com/blog/Rick-Nelson-Remembers
Rick Nelson Remembers …
I met Rick Nelson at a strange juncture in his life. It was 1984, and, at age 44, he was all grown up, his hit-making days long behind him. He was playing the Fairmont Hotel, in a room more accustomed to the likes of Tony Bennett and Ella Fitzgerald. But he was comfortable, tossing out his hits and his wonderful blend of country, rockabilly and rock.
Backstage, before his opening night show, I asked about Elvis. There were rumors about Col. Tom Parker being interested in managing him. He shrugged off that question, but talked openly about his old buddy. When Elvis died, he said, “I was really sad about it. He was a good friend of mine. He inspired a lot of people; he WAS rock and roll.”
Because of their touring schedules, he said, he didn’t see Elvis the last five or six years of Presley’s life. “But back in the 50s and early 60s, I saw a lot of him. We became real good friends. I was a big fan of his, and he listened to my records. He always liked the music, the guitar player, James Burton.” Presley even hired Burton to play behind him, at recording sessions and on tour.
Listen to Rick Nelson speaks about Elvis
"I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem."
Perhaps it was August. I may have misread my reference book. I'll check it later.
Getlo - cute'n'cuddly
Also lets not forget they met for team football games in the 60s. On the new dvd box set of "Ozzie and Harriet" TV shows their is commentary on one episode between Ricks youngest son and Ricks brother David concerning the football games between Elvis's team and Ricks team.
Sorry, that should have been August 29th, 1970 (I had two books open at once when I wrote September 10th ...)
Getlo - cute'n'cuddly
Read in an old "Elvis Monthly" that the first time Elvis and Rick met face to face was on the set of "Love me tender"......don`t know how true that is...no photo with the article..unfortunately.
I don't think that's possible because Ricky didn't hit the airwaves musically until his cover of Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'" in 1957.
Thats true Tony but Ricky had been on his parents TV show "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" since 1952. Elvis had watched the show and Ricky was a huge Elvis fan-before he started recording. He virtually started singing because his girl friend liked Elvis records. So it might be possible Ricky wanted to meet Elvis before he had recorded "I'm Walkin"
I still sorta doubt it. Seeing that Rick didn't record "I'm Walkin'" until 1957 and didn't start performing until that year (although I somehow do seem to remember that he did start performing in '56), how could Elvis had mentioned how much he liked his singing a year earlier? Maybe Elvis did somehow catch one of Rick's performances....
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Oh I did not know Elvis was suppose to have said how much he like Ricks singing in 56. I was just commenting that it would have been very possible for them to have met in 56 since Rick was part of a hit show on TV and liked Elvis. Rick did not start singing solo on the TV show until "I'm Walking" came out in 57-so Elvis could not have mentioned Ricks singing in 56 (unless he was talking about some of the family sings which were sometimes in the show. Ozzie was a retired band leader on the show(although the joke about the show was what did Ozzie do for a living since he was always home)
Yep, it could've been possible. I still find it very odd that no photos have ever surfaced of them meeting after all these years.
FWIW, Rick's sleazeball manager, Greg McDonald, convinced Rick to hire him (McDonald) as his manager by telling him he (McDonald) was related to Colonel Parker--which was B.S. By all accounts, McDonald was a latter-day Colonel Tom Parker in how he managed Rick.....
Last edited by Tony Trout; 03-13-2008 at 04:46 PM.
In the 55 or 56 year Halloween show from Ozzie and Harriet Ricky dressed up like Elvis as his costume with fake sideburns and guitar.
I have a picture of both Elvis&Rick together around 1957? I tried posting it but had no luck!!!
Just posted the picture of both Elvis and Rick together.Hope everyone enjoys it?
Yep thats the one I seen in the booklet of the Ricky Nelson Legacy Boxed set I have. I have played with it before to try and make it bigger so I could get a good look at it but it always distorts.
JD
Sorry, shelley, but that pic is fake. Whoever made it originally did a poor job as well. The pic of Elvis is very common.
Edit: come to think of it, I have the same pic in an old magazine, at another location. Rick is actually looking at a cardboard cutout of Elvis in this pic. The caption in the mag makes reference to it, as I recall.
Last edited by Getlo; 03-13-2008 at 08:27 PM.
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