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{SPEAKER name="Warren Perry"}
On the flip side 'Heartbreak Hotel' - that was exactly where he was going in 1956.

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His last, or his latest we should say, number one record, was in 2002 - 'A Little Less Conversation' - it was the dance remix of 'A Little Less Conversation'

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Had a number one record 25 years after his death - I don't know that anybody has done that.

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The following statistics are compiled by Graceland - you can find these on 'elvis.com' -

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in one of Peter Guralnick's books there's also a lot of tables that discuss Elvis.

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And the numbers - the numbers are just amazing:

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He had no less than 149 songs to appear on Billboard's Hot 100 Pop Chart.

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Of these, 114 were in the Top 40 - 40 were in the Top 10 - 18 went on to be Number 1.

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His Number One singles spent 80 weeks on the charts at Number One.

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He also had 90 charted albums with 10 of them reaching Number One.

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If you've ever been to Graceland — everybody kids about Graceland and that's because the house stopped in 1977. And really it stopped a few years earlier than that

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because he never had it redesigned after - I think it was Bill Eubanks who did the final interior touches to it.

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So the house looks like homes did in the mid and late 1970s - so we all look at the earth tones and all that sort of thing, and we kinda laugh and say it's out of date.

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You may laugh at the inside of the house because it's no longer in fashion, but if you walk into the Trophy Room and you look down the Hall of Gold,

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it's about 50 feet long, and from floor to ceiling it's racked up with gold singles and gold albums.

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And you're going down and looking at the names of the records—

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and it says 'Don't Be Cruel' - well, a million here.

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Uh, 'Hound Dog' - a million there.

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'Jailhouse Rock' - a million there.

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'Love Me Tender' - a million there.

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You start thinking in terms of millions - and all these songs, just go all the way down the wall.

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Oh my goodness - he sang that, he sang that too! It's a pretty stunning sight.

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And they don't call it the Hall of Gold for no reason - it's all gold records straight down the hallway.

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It's estimated that Elvis has sold more than one billion record units worldwide.

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In America alone, he had 150 different albums and singles certified gold, platinum, or multi-platinum

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by the Recording Industry Association of America

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with more certifications expected as research into past record sales is completed.

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Research is also underway to document his record sales achievements in other countries—

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it's estimated that 40% of Elvis's total record sales have been outside the United States.

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And again when you go in the Hall of Gold in the Trophy Room you see awards from RCA and RCA divisions— from Scandinavia, from Africa, from Asia, from Europe —the trophies go on and on and on.

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He starred in 31 feature films, his two most critically acclaimed were "Jailhouse Rock" and "King Creole".

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He never received any big awards like an Emmy or an Oscar, but he does have three Grammys,

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interestingly all three of the Grammys- none of them are for rock n roll, they're all for his gospel recordings.

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He's - if I'm not mistaken - the only person in the Rock-n-Roll, and the Country, and I wanna say the R&B Hall of Fame,

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I think he's in all three of those Hall of Fames.

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His three network television specials — and this is how- this is an indication of how Elvis moved with technology —

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'Elvis in 1968' which is also called, 'The Comeback Special' -

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The 'Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite' - and the 'Elvis in Concert' special - stand among the most highly-rated specials of all time.

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His '68 special is one of the most critically acclaimed music specials of all time.

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His 1973 special 'Elvis, Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite' was the first satellite broadcast ever.

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It was seen in 40 countries by an estimated 1-1½ billion people.

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It made television history and it was seen on more TVs in the United States than the moon landing.
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