Classic rock songs can be deceitful above all things. Today, Elvis Presley’s “There Goes My Everything” sounds like it’s about his divorce from Priscilla Presley. Here’s a look at the star who actually inspired the song and what its writer thought about the “All Shook Up” singer covering his tune.
Elvis Presley’s ‘There Goes My Everything’ was about another celebrity’s divorce
“There Goes My Everything” was written by songwriter Dallas Frazier. Frazier is perhaps most known for writing and performing the original version of The Oak Ridge Boys’ “Elvira.” During a 2017 interview with The Tennessean, he discussed the genesis of the former. “It was born out of a divorce, and fortunately not mine, but a good friend of mine, Ferlin Husky,” he said. “It was the first song I wrote when I came to Nashville, Tennessee.” Husky was a country star who had hits in the 1950s,...
Elvis Presley’s ‘There Goes My Everything’ was about another celebrity’s divorce
“There Goes My Everything” was written by songwriter Dallas Frazier. Frazier is perhaps most known for writing and performing the original version of The Oak Ridge Boys’ “Elvira.” During a 2017 interview with The Tennessean, he discussed the genesis of the former. “It was born out of a divorce, and fortunately not mine, but a good friend of mine, Ferlin Husky,” he said. “It was the first song I wrote when I came to Nashville, Tennessee.” Husky was a country star who had hits in the 1950s,...
- 10/14/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Dallas Frazier, the songwriter behind such country hits as The Oak Ridge Boys’ “Elvira,” The Hollywood Argyles’ “Alley Oop” and Emmylou Harris’ “Beneath Still Waters,” has died, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s CEO Kyle Young. He was 82.
“Dallas Frazier is among the greatest country songwriters of all time. He could convey infectious fun with ‘Elvira,’ and then write something as stunningly sad and true as ‘Beneath Still Waters.’ His songs helped Connie Smith to become a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame,” said Young in a statement published the Country Music Hall of Fame’s official website. “He was a man of kindness, generosity and faith, who overcame a hardscrabble upbringing to offer smiling gifts to all of us. He lived a beautiful life of a beautiful mind.”
Born in Spiro, Oklahoma on October 27, 1939, Frazier released albums throughout his career including Elvira,...
“Dallas Frazier is among the greatest country songwriters of all time. He could convey infectious fun with ‘Elvira,’ and then write something as stunningly sad and true as ‘Beneath Still Waters.’ His songs helped Connie Smith to become a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame,” said Young in a statement published the Country Music Hall of Fame’s official website. “He was a man of kindness, generosity and faith, who overcame a hardscrabble upbringing to offer smiling gifts to all of us. He lived a beautiful life of a beautiful mind.”
Born in Spiro, Oklahoma on October 27, 1939, Frazier released albums throughout his career including Elvira,...
- 1/16/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Harry Melling and Pokey Lafarge perform a haunting gospel song in an exclusive clip from Netflix’s new Southern Gothic thriller, The Devil All the Time. The film is produced by Jake Gyllenhaal and music supervisor Randall Poster, and stars an ensemble cast that includes Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Mia Wasikowska, Sebastian Stan and Robert Pattinson.
Taking place between World War II and the Vietnam War, The Devil All the Time stars Skarsgård as Willard Russell, a soldier returning to his family from a tour in the War in the Pacific,...
Taking place between World War II and the Vietnam War, The Devil All the Time stars Skarsgård as Willard Russell, a soldier returning to his family from a tour in the War in the Pacific,...
- 9/16/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
It’s seldom that a found-footage horror movie pulls some new tricks in that overtaxed subgenre, and “Followed” runs no risk of being any such exception to the tedious rule. Sewing together ideas borrowed from other, better movies — notably “Grave Encounters” and “The Shining” — without exactly making a new whole, let alone lending them any novel flair or intensity, this vloggers-in-a-haunted-hotel opus isn’t really any better than 1967’s Ferlin Husky vehicle “Hillbillies in a Haunted House.” And that movie probably looked better at drive-ins, given its use of camera tripods and such.
As yet unreleased in home formats, Antoine Le’s feature is already playing on 40-odd U.S. drive-in and hardtop screens, adding another couple dozen this Friday. Watching low-budget horror cheese al fresco was surely better when the movies didn’t look as if they were shot to be watched on your laptop.
Making an immediately annoying...
As yet unreleased in home formats, Antoine Le’s feature is already playing on 40-odd U.S. drive-in and hardtop screens, adding another couple dozen this Friday. Watching low-budget horror cheese al fresco was surely better when the movies didn’t look as if they were shot to be watched on your laptop.
Making an immediately annoying...
- 6/25/2020
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
On April 6th, 2016, his 79th birthday, country music icon Merle Haggard died at his home in California’s San Joaquin Valley after a battle with pneumonia. In the three years since his passing, Haggard’s already sizeable legacy continues to inspire country artists and others touched by his image as the “poet of the common man.”
Merle Haggard was one of the chief architects of the Bakersfield Sound, the hugely influential West Coast-based sub-genre of country music. The city’s first recording studio dedicated to country music was Tally Records,...
Merle Haggard was one of the chief architects of the Bakersfield Sound, the hugely influential West Coast-based sub-genre of country music. The city’s first recording studio dedicated to country music was Tally Records,...
- 4/6/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
By 1985 Hollywood had still only dabbled in movies about the ‘shame that cannot speak its name,’ and in every case the verdict for the transgressors was regret and misery, if not death. Donna Deitch’s brilliant drama achieves exactly what she wanted, to do make a movie about a lesbian relationship that doesn’t end in a tragedy.
Desert Hearts
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 902
1985 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 96 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date November 14, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Gwen Welles, Dean Butler, James Staley, Katie La Bourdette, Alex McArthur, Tyler Tyhurst, Denise Crosby, Antony Ponzini, Brenda Beck, Jeffrey Tambor.
Cinematography: Robert Elswit
Film Editor: Robert Estrin
Production Design: Jeannine Oppewall
Written by Natalie Cooper from the novel by Jane Rule
Produced and Directed by Donna Deitch
Desert Hearts is a fine movie that’s also one of the first features ever about a lesbian romance,...
Desert Hearts
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 902
1985 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 96 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date November 14, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Gwen Welles, Dean Butler, James Staley, Katie La Bourdette, Alex McArthur, Tyler Tyhurst, Denise Crosby, Antony Ponzini, Brenda Beck, Jeffrey Tambor.
Cinematography: Robert Elswit
Film Editor: Robert Estrin
Production Design: Jeannine Oppewall
Written by Natalie Cooper from the novel by Jane Rule
Produced and Directed by Donna Deitch
Desert Hearts is a fine movie that’s also one of the first features ever about a lesbian romance,...
- 11/7/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
After his first, and very popular, top ten for Blogomatic3000 on virus outbreaks in the movies, author and critic Kim Newman is back once again with and all-new Top 10 inspired by the eminent release of the awesome comedy horror Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, which hits stores next week…
The clever joke at the heart of the witty horror comedy Tucker and Dale vs Evil is that college kids who go camping in the backwoods have seen so many movies about degenerate, inbred killer hillbillies they’re terrified even of basically sweet-natured, if ill-groomed folks like the eponymous duo played by Tyler Lebine and Alan Tudyk. In truth, the American cinema hasn’t been especially enlightened in its depiction of the rural poor of the Appalachians and other mountainous backwoods regions, but it hasn’t presented quite as overwhelmingly negative a vision as you might think.
Here’s a run-down...
The clever joke at the heart of the witty horror comedy Tucker and Dale vs Evil is that college kids who go camping in the backwoods have seen so many movies about degenerate, inbred killer hillbillies they’re terrified even of basically sweet-natured, if ill-groomed folks like the eponymous duo played by Tyler Lebine and Alan Tudyk. In truth, the American cinema hasn’t been especially enlightened in its depiction of the rural poor of the Appalachians and other mountainous backwoods regions, but it hasn’t presented quite as overwhelmingly negative a vision as you might think.
Here’s a run-down...
- 9/23/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Sad news for fans of "Gone" and "Wings of a Dove" country star Ferlin Husky: "Ferlin passed away today in the Critical Care unit of a Nashville-area hospital where he had been under intensive care for several days," reads a notice posted Thursday on the 2010 Country Hall of Famer's Web site. Husky was 85 and had suffered with heart disease. A star since 1953, thanks to his melancholy Korean War duet with Jean Shepard, "A Dear John Letter" (about a woman who is going to marry a soldier's brother), Husky generated hits that also included "A Fallen Star," "My Reason for Living,...
- 3/18/2011
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Veteran country music stars Jimmy Dean, Ferlin Husky, Billy Sherrill, and Don Williams have been announced as the newest members of the highly coveted Country Music Hall of Fame. The Country Music Association is recognizing the quartet for their contribution to country music.
Dean and Husky will be both inducted in the Veterans Era Artist category due to a tie in the voting. Williams will be inducted in the Modern Era Artist, while Sherrill, a record producer and arranger, will be welcomed in the Non-Performer category.
Cma Chairman of the Board of Directors Steve Moore said, "These four gentleman broadened Country Music immensely with their talents, exposing millions of fans around the world to our format."
"Their contributions to the genre and to popular culture are immeasurable, and we are proud to award them the highest honor in Country Music."...
Dean and Husky will be both inducted in the Veterans Era Artist category due to a tie in the voting. Williams will be inducted in the Modern Era Artist, while Sherrill, a record producer and arranger, will be welcomed in the Non-Performer category.
Cma Chairman of the Board of Directors Steve Moore said, "These four gentleman broadened Country Music immensely with their talents, exposing millions of fans around the world to our format."
"Their contributions to the genre and to popular culture are immeasurable, and we are proud to award them the highest honor in Country Music."...
- 2/23/2010
- icelebz.com
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