![]() Scotty Moore - NBC TV Studio Burbank. NBC Studios. Burbank, CANBC Color Television Studios on West Alameda in Burbank - ca. Photo by Frank Thomas. In June of 1. 95. Elvis, Scotty, Bill and DJ made their second appearance on the. Milton Berle Show, only this time at NBC’s original West Coast facility in Hollywood. The night the once and future king came back. Percentage of users who rate a movie or TV show positively. What's the Tomatometer? Audience Reviews for Singer Presents Elvis - Outtakes From 1968. Some of the songs in this program were aired in his TV. Singer Presents Elvis - Outtakes From 1968 Special Features Elvis in an informal setting as he recalls. AMERICAN TV producer Steve Binder says Elvis Presley died a “saloon singer in Las Vegas”. Binder became friends with the legendary rocker when he helmed the Elvis. It was located at the corner of Sunset and Vine across the street from. Wallich’s Music City. Austin in 1. 93. 8, it was initially built for radio and called Radio City but by 1. NBC Studios on West Alameda Ave. NBC executive Bob Finkel was keen to find a producer/director to work on Singer Presents Elvis. Finkel had heard about the controversy of the Clark special, and. Elvis (1968 TV Movie) Release Info. Singer Presents Elvis: World-wide (English title) (promotional title) Elvis: '68 Comeback Special. In observance of Elvis Week and to honor the life of Elvis Presley, this is Part 4 of a countdown of his greatest songs. Elvis Presley Timeline. Releases the album Singer Presents Elvis Singing Flaming Star and Others. 1968: Releases Elvis - NBC - TV Special. Photo courtesy Wes. As the production and popularity of television increased the facilities at Radio City became too small for NBC’s operations prompting its parent company, RCA, to build a television studio from the ground up. It was originally an old riverbed wash and part of Warner Brothers Studio's exterior backlot, though used infrequently. Nicknamed NBC Color City, it was the first major color television studio in the country to be built from the ground up. NBC Color City television center on West Alameda. Ave. 1. 0, 1. 95. The Austin Company, courtesy Wes. Interior of Studio 2 under construction just six months from it's. The Austin Company, courtesy Wes. Clark. Corridor leading to Studio 2 on left. The Austin Company, courtesy Wes. Clark. Aerial view of the $7,0. NBC Color City television. West Alameda Ave. In April of 1. 95. Burbank, Studio 2, which NBC promoted as the “first studio to be built exclusively for color broadcasting. The facility was officially dedicated on March 2. Entertainment, 1. NBC Color City on Alameda Ave. Photo courtesy Nick. Faitos. Bob Newhart Show at NBC Burbank - 1. Photos courtesy. Eyes of a Generation. Not long after NBC announced plans to build Studio 4 in time for the 1. It was identical to Studio 2. At 1. 39 feet long, 8. They were primarily reserved for color specials, and later for music and variety series television productions such as Milton Berle, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Eddie Fisher, Dinah Shore, Andy Williams. Wheel of Fortune, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Danny Kaye. Fun Factory, Days of Our Lives, Lux Video Theatre. Bright Promise, Return to Peyton Place and others. NBC's Color City in Burbank now with Studio 4 built and. KNBC- TV located there - ca. Photo courtesy Wes. Clark. The Andy Williams show at NBC Studio 4 in Burbank - . Photo courtesy. Eyes of a Generation. In November 1. 96. KNBC moved to the new facility from the Sunset and Vine location in Hollywood changing its call letters from KRCA in the process and the Hollywood property was sold and demolished by 1. RCA- NBC did however purchase property one block west of there to keep its FCA license intact and to use as recording studios and offices. Nation Broadcasting Company Studios Burbank, CA - 1. Postcard Photo by Ellis- Sawyer. In 1. 96. 1 there were talks to record and broadcast the USS Arizona Memorial Benefit concert in Hawaii on NBC and as early as 1. Colonel Parker had been negotiating with NBC’s Tom Sarnoff to finance and premier a motion picture with Elvis domestically. In October of 1. 96. Colonel proposed to Sarnoff the idea for a Christmas special which would be Elvis’ first television appearance since Sinatra’s. Welcome Home Elvis special in 1. According to Peter Guralnick, Elvis, by now growing discontent, was not happy about singing a bunch of Christmas Carols on national TV and viewed it as a just scheme to get another Christmas album. Ad for the 1. 96. NBC- TV special: Singer presents Elvis. Photo courtesy e. Bay. Bob Finkel was the executive producer who had put the NBC package together which was sponsored by the Singer sewing company, and who ultimately had swayed the sponsor, network and the Colonel from the idea of simply putting Elvis on a stage to sing Christmas songs for an hour. The stipulation was however that it essentially be a “one- man show” (no other contemporaries) and RCA get a soundtrack and Christmas single out of it. Meeting with Elvis in May of 1. Elvis wanted this show to depart completely from the pattern of his motion pictures and from everything else he has done, wanted everyone to know what he could do and was not interested in what Colonel Parker had to say about this show. Finkel decided on Steve Binder and his partner Bones Howe as producers. Production moved into NBC on June 1. Scotty and D. J. The idea was to prerecord everything except the two live performances (the Concert and the informal segment with Scotty and. DJ). Recording started up on the evening of the twentieth at Western Recorders at 6. Sunset. Blvd. Session musicians, including Al Casey. Hagstrom guitar would be noticed by Binder and. Elvis in segments of the show. While in town, Scotty and DJ had gone to dinner at Elvis' house after. Scotty thought it was unusual that Elvis wanted to talk to them in private. He usually felt free to talk in front of his bodyguards. When they were alone, Elvis asked if they would be interested in doing a European tour with him. I said, yeah, and if we are going to do the European tour let me know ahead of time so I can get someone to fill in for me. He asked me what would be the chances of us going into the studio and just locking the doors for a couple of weeks to see what we could come up with. I told him sure, to just let me know when. He didn’t say what was on his mind. I know he was tired of the movie songs. He might have wanted to go back to where we were in the early years. Knowing his mindset at that point in time, it gave me renewed hope. He just wanted to try something without somebody saying, . He felt that unscripted Elvis. Scotty, DJ and the others performing. Essentially just winging it. On stage were Elvis with his 1. J2. 00, and entourage members Charlie Hodge with his Gibson L4 and. Alan Fortas with a classical guitar prop used in the special and/or a. DJ played. percussion on an empty guitar case and Scotty was the only one onstage. Super 4. 00. Lance Le. Gault, Elvis, Charlie Hodge, Scotty, Alan Fortas. DJ on stage in Studio 4 - June 2. Photo courtesy Doug Ferich. Since they were told they'd be sitting Scotty said he didn't put straps. Elvis' acoustic. 4. He knew how meticulous Scotty was about his guitar. Elvis was a flogger and I knew he was afraid he’d scar up the guitar. During the. show(s), Elvis decided to stand to play, adlibbing. According to Guralnick, Binder said that distribution of tickets was left to the Colonel though early. NBC had announced an upcoming special in TV Guide and some fans had requested and received tickets through the mail. Only. about 5. 0 of these were rumored to have been given out though and according to. Binder there was a last minute scramble to find people to attend. As in the. '5. 0s, the Colonel then proceeded to bring the most adoring female fans. Parts from each of these segments were later mixed with the other production numbers used for the special and which basically was a review of his career to date through performing and the movies all set to the theme of the song. Guitar Man.”Elvis with Al Casey's 1. Hagstrom Viking II (with the . His recent TV special was a testimony to the vitality of his original style. How many rock stars of today might be able, ten years from now, to do an hour of the songs of 1. Presley at his best is about as eternal as rock and roll can ever expect to. Elvis in concert on stage in Studio 4 - June 2. Photo courtesy 6. Retrospective, source. Landau's observations though were short lived and change was right around the corner. The European tour obviously never happened, and likewise neither did they ever lock themselves away in Scotty’s studio. In fact recording the special that June was the last time that Scotty and Elvis ever saw each other. Elvis with Al Casey's 1. Hagstrom Viking II in Studio 4 - June 3. Photos courtesy 6. Retrospective, source. FECC Motivated by its success Elvis returned to Memphis to record a new album, outside of the norm and routine production and material that had become stagnant. At American Sound Chips Moman had a proven hit making team and was not going to change. In 1. 96. 9 with his movie commitments all but up Elvis returned to live performing, but he did so with a new band and Scotty decided to hang up his guitar and focus on his studio and engineering. NBC Studios in Burbank - ca. Photo courtesy Kinescope. HDThe Burbank studios would host many of the best- remembered game and variety shows through the 1. In 1. 97. 2 Johnny Carson moved. The Tonight Show to NBC's Burbank Studios from New York where it stayed until 2. Jay Leno, was briefly replaced by Conan O’Brien. It returned when Jay did. However, space. was leased at the Burbank site until May of 2. Outside Studio 2 at NBC in Burbank - 2. Photo . The last nationally televised show to be broadcast from the NBC Burbank Studios was the MSNBC show on March 1. The facility is now called The Burbank Studios. NBC Studios at 3. W. Alameda Ave in Burbank, CA - Feb. Times February 0. Site of the Week 2/1. Last Days of NBC Burbank. Scott Fybush, courtesy North. East Radio Watch. The Night Elvis Reclaimed His Crown. Spotlight by - Robert Lloyd, LA Times. Fifteen years earlier, he had walked into Sun Studios in Memphis to make a record as a present for his mother, or so the story goes, and changed history. He regains his voice - - and in so doing becomes at once who he was and who he'll become. His singing has the lilt of youth but with a mature edge. He is 3. 3 years old, lean and chiselled and - - what he had not seemed in years - - a little dangerous. Fifteen years earlier, he had walked into Sun Studios in Memphis to make a record as a present for his mother, or so the story goes, and changed history. They have their charms, but by and large they show an Elvis domesticated, marginalized and to all appearances barely interested in music. Paley Television Festival, which this year moves to the LA Cinerama Dome. The special begins in darkness, to the sound of a whomping, Muddy Waters- ish blues riff, and then a famous face fades in, turning toward the camera, filling the screen, meaning business. If you're looking for trouble. You came to the right place. If you're looking for trouble. Just look right in my face. I was born standing up. And talking back. My daddy was a green- eyed mountain jack I don't know what a . But he disappeared from the small screen in the 1. He was an actor in musical pictures, but less obviously a musician and more and more remote a figure. But television is a medium of the here and now, and for Elvis to step back into the small screen was for him to engage the world in an intimate and immediate way. He regains his voice - - and in so doing becomes at once who he was and who he'll become. His singing has the lilt of youth but with a mature edge. He is 3. 3 years old, lean and chiseled and - - what he had not seemed in years - - a little dangerous. The show is specifically designed to take him back to his roots. In a sequence that would now be called . Fontana, who came along not long after, keeping time on a guitar case; and some of his Memphis pals. Dressed head to toe in black leather, with a big, head- framing collar costume designer Bill Belew based on paintings of Napoleon, Elvis sweats real sweat as he sings the old songs with new energy. It is not all equally a revelation. There are two extensive, heavily choreographed production numbers, energetic but amusingly dated; Elvis, who has marks to hit and pre- recorded vocals to lip sync, is relatively contained. The first is a gospel medley, the second a picaresque adventure built around Johnny Reed's . Dressed all in white, planted before his name in lights 4. It is, for all the planning that went into it, as raw and real as any performance I've ever seen. It's the beginning of the last phase of Presley's career: He would make his return to live performance in Las Vegas the following July. If much of what followed look like decline, it was also an apotheosis. He had nine years to live. Spotlight by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer. 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