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April 26, 1961:

Joan Blackman and Elvis Presley finished location filming in Hawaii for Blue Hawaii production.

#Uh oh #Sam! You better come get your man #He’s doing it again #Barely keeping it together in those white shirts #It’s -this-photo again I’m afraid 🤭 #Sploosh #Love of my life #Elvis Presley #Blue Hawaii

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My favorite 50s!Elvis photos, part 152 of ∞;  ✨Friday Smiles✨

#Happy Friday everyone!! #Please enjoy this beautiful boy and his beautiful smile today 💖 #50s Elvis has me in a stranglehold #Love of my life #Elvis Presley

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April 26, 1956:

Elvis Presley and The Blue Moon Boys performed another painful set of shows for an adult Vegas audience at the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Bill Willard, a reviewer for the Las Vegas Sun Link newspaper, panned the performance, writing, “For the teen-agers, the long, tall Memphis lad is a whiz; for the average Vegas spender or showgoer, a bore. His musical sound with a combo of three is uncouth, matching to a great extent the lyric content of his nonsensical songs.”

Willard may have captured the dismay that older Vegas audiences had with the young upstart, but Las Vegas resident Ed Jameson caught a vision of the future Elvis would have in Vegas. Penning a rebuttal to Willard’s review, Jameson wrote, “He is not a Rock ‘n’ Roller nor is he a cowboy singer. He is something new coming over the horizon all by himself and he deserves his ever-growing audience. Nobody should miss him. Parents would do well to take their children to hear him. It would be a good way to get to know and understand your own kids.”

Photos: Elvis relaxing by the pool and being photographed with girls, girls, girls, at the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada; April 26, 1956.

#D'awww #Good morning indeed #They just weren't ready for you yet baby #These photos are still some of my favorites 💖 #He's so dreamy I can't #Love of my life #Elvis Presley #Elvis History

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From the moment I laid eyes on him, I instantly fell in love ❤️

#Lordy lordy #My heart can't handle it #He's just too much and I'm so weak #Bless Alfred Wertheimer for these photos #My life has never been the same #Love of my life #Elvis Presley

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My favorite 50s!Elvis photos, part 151 of ∞;  Forever Grateful To Alfred Wertheimer

#I know I made a post about this before but I couldn't help but do so again #His photos are some of my absolute favorites--there's a rare intimacy that we would never see again #50s Elvis has me in a stranglehold #Love of my life #Elvis Presley

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What I love about the Marvin Israel 1956 photos is how they capture what the mainstream adult world must have thought about him at the time: dark, foreboding, dangerous hoodlum ready to break innocent hearts and *enjoy* doing it.

And then, out of nowhere this slightly stunned, overwhelmed kid appears.

What a fucking year

#Oh my heart #You guys are killing me today #I adore how he goes from every mother's nightmare--that smirking greasy-haired boy with the dangerous hips #To the nervous boy who has no idea what's going on a split second later #Who loves his mama and wants to go out for burgers like everyone else #He's such a fascinating juxtaposition and I can't get enough #Love of my life #Elvis Presley

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what do I need to do right for THIS to be my reality in the next life?

#Oh my lord #You guys are just trying to kill me I see #Good -lord- what I'd give #He's so dreamy in this movie #But what I'd give...😩 #I need him your honor #Love of my life #Elvis Presley #Change of Habit

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Baby boy ❤️

#There he is #There's my baby boy #He's too precious I can't handle it #Bless Alfred Wertheimer for these photos #These were Alfred's photos weren't they? I believe so... #Either way #He's so dreamy #Love of my life #Elvis Presley

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i love who ever took this photo i owe u sm

#Oh my #Well hello there #You gotta warn me before you just show up to my house like this #Peace out guys my ride's here #Love of my life #Elvis Presley

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#Oh sweet Jesus #I do not need this right now #He’s just trying to kill us and let me say—it’s working #I’m going to need a moment #Sploosh #Love of my life #Elvis Presley #The 68 Comeback Special #Video

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April 22, 1956:

Elvis flew from Houston, Texas, to Las Vegas, Nevada, for a two-week engagement that would be shortened to one week. It would be Elvis’ first major career setback.

Photo: Elvis in a 1956 publicity photo.

#Oh I adore that photo so much #He's so beautiful #They just weren't ready for you baby #Love of my life #Elvis Presley

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elvis in baby blue?!? UGH YES

#Oh my heart #He looks so soft here #From his hair to that beautiful color #He's practically angelic #I need him your honor #Love of my life #Elvis Presley

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#There he is #There's my boy! #Vince Everett my beloved #Looking positively cuddly there #Don't mind me as a curl up beside him there #Love of my life #Elvis Presley #Jailhouse Rock

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#There he is #There's my baby #He looks so cuddly here #Come here baby let me treat you right #Love of my life #Elvis Presley

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What wouldn't I give to touch you just once?

#Oh my heart #What I'd give... #Just once and I could die happy #I'd give anything #Love of my life #Elvis Presley

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April 20, 1960:

Elvis Presley returned to Hollywood to film G.I. Blues.

Photos: Elvis Presley on the train to California; April 20, 1960.

#Oh lordy #He's so dreamy my goodness #I can't with him #But lord....he does something to me that I can't explain #I need to get my hands in that hair to start #Love of my life #Elvis Presley

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Never seen this one before!

#Lord have mercy #He's just so dreamy #...that glimmer of chest hair does something to me... #I'm going to need a moment #Sploosh #Love of my life #Elvis Presley