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February 1966
Elvis records the
soundtrack music and shoots his
twenty-second motion picture, Spinout, co-starring
Shelley Fabares.
March 1966
Frankie and Johnny
opens nationally and doesn’t do particularly well. The
soundtrack album goes to number twenty.
June 1966
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
is released and doesn’t do well. The
soundtrack album peaks at
number fifteen.
June-September 1966
Soundtrack recording and shooting for Elvis’
twenty-third motion picture (to be the twenty-fourth released),
Double Trouble.
September 1966
Soundtrack recording and filming for Elvis’
twenty-fourth motion picture (the twenty-third to be released),
Easy Come, Easy Go.
November 1966
Spinout
opens nationally and doesn’t do well. The
soundtrack album goes
to number 18.
December 1966
Elvis formally proposes marriage to Priscilla.
February 1967
Elvis buys a 163-acre ranch in Mississippi,
minutes across the Tennessee state line from Graceland.
He and his entourage and their wives had become
interested in horseback riding after Elvis purchased a horse for
Priscilla as a gift. The hobby had outgrown the pasture at
Graceland.
Over the months to come, Elvis and the gang will
enjoy spending a lot of time at the Circle G. It becomes a happy
diversion for Elvis as his frustration and unhappiness over the
state of his career reaches its height.
March 1967
Easy Come, Easy Go
opens nationally and doesn’t do well.
RCA releases Elvis’ second gospel album,
How
Great Thou Art, which was recorded in mid-1966.
It gets very good reviews and goes on to earn
Elvis the Grammy Award for Best Sacred Performance from the
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. This is the first
of his three Grammy wins.
February-April, 1967
Soundtrack recording and filming for Clambake,
Elvis’ twenty-fifth movie. It is the third of three Elvis movies
to co-star Shelley Fabares.
April 1967
Double Trouble
opens nationally. Although better than some of his recent screen
efforts, it doesn’t do well at the box office.
May 1967
On May 1, Elvis and Priscilla are married in a
private ceremony amongst a small group of family and friends at
the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, just after 9:30 AM.
A press conference and breakfast reception
follow. The couple honeymoon for a few days in Palm Springs.
Elvis wraps up some over-dubbing on Clambake. Then they
return to Memphis.
May 29, 1967
Elvis and Priscilla dress in their wedding
clothes and have a second wedding reception in the trophy room
at Graceland to accommodate family and friends who were not in
Las Vegas for the wedding.
June-July 1967
Soundtrack recording and filming for Elvis'
twenty-sixth movie (to be the twenty-seventh released),
Speedway, co-starring Nancy Sinatra. During the production,
news of Priscilla's pregnancy is announced.
September-November, 1967
Soundtrack recording and filming for Elvis'
twenty-seventh movie (to be the twenty-sixth released), Stay
Away, Joe.
In this western-themed comedy he once again plays
a character who is part Native American.
It's a real departure from the virtually
interchangeable plots and characters in most of the films over
the past several gruelling years. He has fun with this one.
December 1967
Clambake
is released nationally and goes to number fifteen at the box
office. The soundtrack album goes to number 40.
February 1, 1968
Priscilla gives birth to Lisa Marie Presley nine months to
the day after her marriage to Elvis. It is a time of great
happiness.
March 1968
Stay Away, Joe opens to mixed reviews and doesn't
do well at the box office, though like all of Elvis’ films, it
makes a profit.
Soundtrack recording and filming for Elvis'
twenty-eighth movie, Live a Little, Love a Little. It is
a sexy, more adult kind of comedy/ melodrama.
It, like Stay Away, Joe is a real
departure from the typical Presley film. It is yet another
breath of fresh air.
June 1968
Speedway
is released nationally and doesn’t do very well. The
soundtrack
album goes only as far up the chart as number 82.
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