[REX]

* 1970s *
-WORLDWIDE-
~ELVIS NEWS SERVICE~
~WEEKLY~

( 355 Numbered # Issues in the 1970s )

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Attached Info on my Elvis weekly's - E-mail to reserve numbers, post to order any.

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My personal Signed and Message copy from JERRY HOPKINS
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See ELVIS INFORMATION NETWORK for:

*My 3 part phone Interview with Nigel + Extra E-mail Questions (Part 4)

*My 1000 word Memories about MARIA DAVIES and her 1969 Vegas visit.

*Maria's 24 page report on Vegas '69 Pictures/Logos Sourced by myself.

*The Antiques Roadshow pictures of Elvis Jan 1960 (Review+Photos by me)

*The pictures of Lisa's "TWIN" Babies ~ Photo Feature ~ (Souced by me)

*Priscilla at Graceland for CNN's "Larry King" January 2009 (Photo Feature)

* AN EXCLUSIVE -Special Investigative Look at:- E L V I S'
~ TWO STARS ~ 49th Year Anniversary from 1st Day of the 1st Stars
~on Hollywood Blvd~Walk of Fame with Great History Time Line.
(includes 3 articles ~almost 3000 words about the Stars, with over 12 montage pictures)

The ELVIS INFORMATION NETWORK N O W

LINK (Page Index) to 14 Features by myself on EIN
http://www.elvisinfonet.com/rexmartin_page.html

hope you find this of interest. SincerELy ... R e x ...

[REX]

ELVIS WEEKLY (more FRONT COVERS attached)

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[REX]

Hi.

New ELVIS WEEKLY animated Gif

just click on for motion, has 4 second delay.

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REX

[carlito]

Hi, Rex
thanks a lot for those cover scans, they are prceless. Anyhow I have them all in my collection (IMG:http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/style_emoticons/default/whistling.gif)
so, how about some scans from 1970-71 issues? They are very rare to find nowdays.
You were ahead in those years let me tell you for sure. (IMG:http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/style_emoticons/default/notworthy.gif)

[REX]

Hi, Rex
thanks a lot for those cover scans, they are prceless. Anyhow I have them all in my collection (IMG:http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/style_emoticons/default/whistling.gif)
so, how about some scans from 1970-71 issues? They are very rare to find nowdays.
You were ahead in those years let me tell you for sure. (IMG:http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/style_emoticons/default/notworthy.gif)

ELVIS WEEKLY'S 1970~71

Most of the very first/early Elvis news service weekly's were printed using a typed stencil cut sheet, and printed on a hand rotary machine, (really terrible to use and messy) So the first 30 or so issues, didn't have any pictures, just loads of printed (word) Info, so visually the scans won't look to interesting when you check against the ones I've scanned so far.

However the Giant foolscap issues up to # 100 are really good looking, and will scan a lot more in stages to add to the News Service Story thread. (Hope to upload a few more tomorrow..) GREAT thanks for the interest. SincerELy REX

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[carlito]

Great scan, this is first hand information about august 1971 season. keep it coming please,....... (IMG:http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/style_emoticons/default/notworthy2.gif)

[REX]

Great scan, this is first hand information about august 1971 season. keep it coming please,....... (IMG:http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/style_emoticons/default/notworthy2.gif)

Another Elvis Weekly # Scan (San Bernadino pictures cover) also Special Weekly Flyer sent out only to USA~CANADA FANS.
ENJOY.....REX

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[carlito]

wow. USA fans were collaborative to let you know about Elvis concerts at the time. (IMG:http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

[REX]

wow. USA fans were collaborative to let you know about Elvis concerts at the time. (IMG:http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

This is a re-vamped Internet version of my Sept 08 postal flyer.

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Incase anyone missed this (I put it on as a Picture file attachment at first)

E - Mail = REX.MARTIN57@YAHOO.COM 2 0 0 9 ~ A Longer Note from “R e x”
At the Start of JANUARY 2004 I retired from running a Very Large Retail Shop in Fleetwood. For the past 4 years, I've been working through various Photo, Slide Show and music projects on a Computer for Myself and my Mother.
FIVE TRIPS TO SEE ELVIS from 1972 – to – 1977 ( TOTAL = 64 Concerts )
1972 - Vegas (Mid August for 9 days and then short 5 day break - then all NINE September shows including 3am Show and meeting Elvis 'for 8 minutes' on the final night just before the 8pm Dinner show.. )
1973 - Vegas (February, - including the 15th Feb left stage, then closed the show twice. Plus Riot Show on 18th)
1974 - TOUR (June – picked up at CLEVELAND the whole of the ground floor moved forward & the Front rows were raiding the Low Stage Left – Right – and Centre from start to end “Wild” ~ (Took one day off to visit with a good friend) then all shows up to the 3 shows in Omaha, Neb. Ending 1st July )
1976 - TOUR (March from all 3 in Johnson City, Tenn ~ 6 City tour –then on following day flight to Memphis)
1976-GRACELAND-saw Elvis many times going out thru Gates - at the Airport, Elvis/Linda took small Lear Jet up circling over Gracelands, & Leaving Cinema early AM, + saw him over the side Graceland Church fence. Plus met VERNON outside his home. + Talked to Sam Phillips on Phone in Alabama (Twice) - then sent his son to meet me.
1977-TOUR (March ~ Norman Ok, to Alexandra Lousiana - bit of a strange tour, flew home thinking he's still touring – but when I get home find out the following day Elvis cancelled and went to his Memphis Hospital)
Plus around 22 sightings most in Daylight
Coming out Back of Hotels getting into cars - 9 times -
(One time I was in the Lobby inside security because I was staying on the floor below him),
Travelling over a rise 'slowly' on a Arena Campus road towards Venue ~I had a portable floodlight !!!
(Twice in White Ford LT and once standing next to Driver of Greyhound Bus)
going down ramps into Arena (3 times) /Once Arriving at an Airport(Bloomington) & all the Memphis sightings
The next thing is to start Converting all my Live! Film to Digital High Definition on Hard Drives and edit plus upgrade the Sound and Vision Plus add Titling to Blue ~ Ray D V D' s. (Its a very Big Project – and will take some time to complete) Besides my own film, I have a lot of Footage that I arranged other fans to take for me. (for Instance ~ Almost a complete show with Original Sound in Seattle 12 Nov'70 White Fringed suit with Green Beads “not multicoloured as TTWII”) Also have an original film professionally taken IN FULL TRUE COLOUR (silent) from the September 1957 Tupelo Show.(Not a fan film + Not on the Tupelo DVD last year although some of it was in Blk & Wht) I've had this for 40 years.. A film of Elvis leaving the Philly Hilton for the Afternoon show (in Daylight)'74 ~ wearing Peacock Jumpsuit with Long Black Leather Coat over his Shoulders shot in 64 frames per second, so when shown back at 18fps, super quality in Slow Motion. (As seen in 'Essential Elvis' magazine picture spread recently)
None of the 26 + hours of film I took has ever been transferred direct to
any type of DVD format. Some of it is around on VHS, many generations
down on how the Original Film looks. (Also I didn’t put out the VHS stuff)

My QUEST - INFO WANTED
The Elvis fans -Janet Barker + Alan Trower (from England) + Gitt Nymand & May Britt Berlind (from Sweden) ~ Taken backstage to meet Elvis with me in 1972 – to re-live the memories of the event with them. +”Bill Pallister (Virginia Beach, Virginia ~USA)” + “Martha Collins (California? USA)” + Also would like to contact “Elaine Coons” L.A. California., ~”Madeline Burt ~ (daughter of Jane Winston in California)” “the 'Two' AUSTRALIAN fans I shared a room with in Vegas 1972” MANY THANKS, R e x . . .

REX MARTIN'S - ELVIS PRESLEY WEEKLY NEWS SERVICE.
Issued between 1969~1978 this fantastic little mag was produced by UK super fan Rex Martin and proved to be one of the most amazingly accurate sources of up to date info ever published on any artist. Initially the newsletter was produced on a duplicator machine and without any photos but crammed full of reviews of Elvis live concert performances from the fans who actually attended the shows. Later issues developed into a more sophisticated photocopied format sometimes spreading over four five and even six pages to an issue.

Many times Rex would follow Elvis on his USA tours and send back full details of each show for inclusion in the newsletters. Reports of those shows would land on subscribers doormats within a couple of days of Elvis' performance thanks to Rex and his newsletters. As the years (and issues) progressed it continued to offer on the spot concert reports but had developed into a booklet style but still full of those fantastic concert reviews plus photos & scans of newspaper cuttings devoted to the concerts reviewed and the life and movements of The King before/after leaving the stage. Just about every live concert Elvis performed was reviewed in some way within the pages of these newsletters, from the songs he sang, the things he said and the suits he wore. Attendance figures, backing band/vocalist info, celebrities present, newspaper reviews of the shows and loads of other great titbits of detail were all contained within Rex's newsletters. Snippets of info would be crammed into every piece of available space on the pages as Rex tried to report on just about everything happening in the Elvis world. Advance reports of Elvis upcoming single and album releases from around the world would be reported on in this little publication which is still fondly remembered by long time Presley fans.

As a reference source for detailing or studying Elvis' live performances these magazines are invaluable and never fail to astound with the sheer detail included in just about every issue. Published in small qualities of a few hundred they have become true collectors treasures as very few have managed to survive the ravages of time. It's now been around thirty years since the last issue was sent to subscribers.

[REX]

Great scan, this is first hand information about august 1971 season. keep it coming please,....... (IMG:http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/style_emoticons/default/notworthy2.gif)

Hi.
for my first trip to the States in August 1972, I decided to print an extra 1000 copies of Issue number # 71, I re-vamped the back page. To hand out as samples at the Hilton in Vegas.

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This is One Copy I had to bring back.
Kathy Westmoreland signed it for me in Blue Ink (just below Elvis' Knee) and added HIGH VOICE.

Of the 1000 copies, one other went to the most famous person in the building. At an early August show, at a front row
table with 3 friends, when Elvis came over in our direction, everyone stood up, a sea of hands pointing towards Elvis
(waiting to get scarfs and kisses), my hand was up with my ELVIS WEEKLY SAMPLE ~ Elvis' hand came down through this sea of hands to take his Elvis News Sheet, he stepped back, legs stance, head ducked down my Weekly Sample between both his hands, and....... scanned it back and forth in Fast Motion, before handing it back towards Charlie, you could tell he was pleased plus he had made a little act out of it.

On 4th september pre 8pm show, I gave Elvis 2 bound editions of the WORLDWIDE ELVIS NEWS SERVICE WEEKLY's, putting in on the leather arm rest of a chair he was standing next to. Elvis bent down and quickly flicked through the opening pages
and then Shook my hand for a second time, thanking me very much (at the same time with a Great Expression of Meaning in his Eyes)

I also managed to shake his hand from the front stage area in august.

So this Issue, apart from the Member Readership post out, turned out to be a nice Adventure Weekly for me.....

SincerELy , REX

[REX]

INSIDE an ELVIS NEWS SERVICE WEEKLY.. request by Susan....

Some of these scans are 2 weeks after Elvis passed away

The BILLBOARD and VARIETY Trade Magazines - a in some ways Even more Important than the MEMPHIS PAPERS...

(TWO OF THESE DOUBLE ISSUES,
I REPRINTED EACH PAGE A4 SIZE FOR A SPECIAL FOLDER BOOKLET
DUE TO THE SPECIAL NATURE OF THE CONTENTS.)

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Both MEMPHIS Newspapers ~ I had a daily subscription to, from 1976 to 1978

Variety a trade paper on Showbusiness, carried the Concert Gross's, Number attending, venue name and IF SOLD OUT
(They also had a Top 5 and sometimes Top 10 listing, and much trade info on release dates of product
my Weekly sUbscription also started early in 1976)

BILLBOARD trade Weekly USA listed Charts for all types of Music, including World Charts, Pop, Country, Hot 100,
R&B, soul, Xmas charts and more, and more, + Artist Singles and Album reviews, many trade reports, reviews
and a lot of Date! information, Cat: Numbers, RCA adverts, really every week Elvis had something in this..
My Subscription started sometime in 1975 - but I had bought it most weeks when in London at Specialist Importers.

Other Pages in the weekly, just had as much Text as you can cram on a page, from many Inspired Elvis Fans Reviewing....

[susan]

wow

Do you have clippings like this in all your mags?

There is a book form elvis world which has a lot of stuff from 1972. I`am I able to compare that with your mags?

[REX]

wow

Do you have clippings like this in all your mags?

There is a book form elvis world which has a lot of stuff from 1972. I`am I able to compare that with your mags?

DEPENDS IF SOME FANS ARE SO INSPIRED THAT THEY WRITE PAGES AND PAGES ABOUT VEGAS OR SOMETHING,
THEN IT COULD BE MORE OF THEM THAN NEWSCUTTINGS

LETS FACE IT ELVIS FANS ARE FAR MORE ACCURATE THAN NEWS REPORTERS, WHO TAKE THINGS OUT OF CONTEXT..

I can tell you one thing - my Elvis News Service weekly.............wasn't for....................

WHITE SPACE FANS

[susan]

I see just wanted to because I wanted to start a collection of newsclippings.

Therefore it is important for me to know if there are clippings included. Thanks for being so kind.

[REX]

I see just wanted to because I wanted to start a collection of newsclippings.
Therefore it is important for me to know if there are clippings included. Thanks for being so kind.

The fan reviews in a way are the MOST INTERESTING AND BEST BITS,
If you have read MARIA DAVIES review in the KINGS COURT on the HOUSTON ASTRODOME and
the ELVIS INFORMATION NETWORK feature I sent to Nigel, about Maria's ELVIS 1969 SHOWS REPORTS

Well she set the bar for what was expected from Myself and all the other fans that Saw Elvis, and did a review

Only a very few News Papers, did anything as good and as Close as some of the fans.

They did capture a little about THAT DAYS SHOW as an overall experience,
But never really gave full songs performances, detailed Jumpsuit info..
They also sometimes gave incorrect Times for the length of the show,
put songs in the wrong order in the Review..
Called the song sang, by the incorrect name, or incomplete in some way.
Made out Elvis to be someone he wasn't
didn't understand all Elvis' Illness's when commenting on his appearance...

From Elvis at 40, they just picked on him because of a word "FORTY"....

FOR ME most Elvis Newpaper Reports are 60% Bad, and only 40% good
but they do document something......

Also the best part of getting a Review from a Newspaper...
......... is you can order the GLOSSY 10X8 bw's photos in the Review.
And sometimes more they didn't use.....

The WHITE SPACE FANS comment -- is from a
Spoof Version a Dutch fan made up about my Elvis Weekly's
Even sent me a Demo copy (quite funny)

A bit like Rocky Barra's STRICTLY ELVIS - having a STICKLY ELVIS version.. Sincerely REX

[charlierogers]

ELVIS WEEKLY'S 1970~71

Most of the very first/early Elvis news service weekly's were printed using a typed stencil cut sheet, and printed on a hand rotary machine, (really terrible to use and messy) So the first 30 or so issues, didn't have any pictures, just loads of printed (word) Info, so visually the scans won't look to interesting when you check against the ones I've scanned so far.

However the Giant foolscap issues up to # 100 are really good looking, and will scan a lot more in stages to add to the News Service Story thread. (Hope to upload a few more tomorrow..) GREAT thanks for the interest. SincerELy REX

conversion to jpeg - let's see if it's like converting canadian $ into british pounds - did it get >2x smaller?

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