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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2015

There is another prestigious poll in which we can all participate.  This time it is to put Elvis’ home, Graceland, in the top spot for Best Musical Attraction in a USA Today’s  poll.  

I just cast my first vote.  We are allowed to vote once each day…so let’s put that on our to-do list along with voting Elvis as the King of Music.  Graceland is currently #1.  Let’s keep it that way.  Below is the link to the voting site.

Vote for Elvis Presley’s Graceland in USA Today’s 10 Best Reader’s Choice for the Best Musical Attraction.

footnote:  Voting has ended in this poll.

Sorry, voting has ended in this category. Winners to be announced on Friday, June 12th at 12:00pm EDT.

Current Best Musical Attraction Standings:

http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-musical-attraction/graceland-memphis/share/ 

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SENT TO JESSE THROUGH THIS POINT ON FRIDAY,  JUNE 5, 2015

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MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2015

I apologize for my absence for the past few days.  When I turned on our computer on Friday morning, in order to prepare my weekly package for Jesse, our computer was dead in the water.  After much to do, our computer service guy narrowed it down to our keyboard, of all things.  Our normal desktop is still in his shop getting a routine cleaning since it is already there.  So, I am making do with a patched together system until we get it back.

Then, to make matters worse, we have been without phone service since Friday night.  No dial tone on any phone in our house.  ATT has scheduled a repairman to arrive this afternoon before 4 o’clock. 

Jesse has been trying to call us for a couple of days.  He got worried and called my best friend last night and left her a message that he was trying to reach me and that our phone stayed busy.  So, my friend called me last night via my husband’s cell phone to let me know that Jesse had been trying to reach us.

footnote:

I did speak with our go-between later today and he will let Jesse know about our phone issues.  The phone was repaired close to 6:00 this afternoon.

So that has been our weekend…technological Purgatory!  LOL

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Once again, I want to express my heartfelt appreciation to everyone who visits my web site.   It proves how much people all over the world care about Elvis (the image) and Jesse (the inner man).  It is so very rewarding for me to be able to play a small part in bringing good news and happiness to my visitors.  I thank each of you, especially, for passing on word of my web site to others.  This is an immense help in the growth of my site.  Love, light and peace to each of you.

Below is the number of visitors for the past 30 days…phenomenal!

Visitors to “Linda Hood Sigmon Truth”

There have been 13601 visits (27046 page views) at lindahoodsigmonstruth.com in the past 30 days:

You may view the above display  by clicking on the map logo at your top left screen…menu column.  You will see an enlarged view of the detailed map with the above display of visits/views  at the top of the map.  Also, you may view the locations of the 20 most recent visits by scrolling down below the map.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015

The following article is from The Washington Post and pays respect to the success of the  1993 Elvis stamp which generated a lot of income for the U S Postal Service.  The reason that stamp made so much money for the USPS was, in part, due to the fact that fans, like myself, bought whole sheets of those stamps and NEVER used them at all.  So, the USPS was in a win – win situation.  It was a huge seller and they did not have to carry out their work of delivering mail using those stamps.

Federal Eye

Can USPS find magic again with a new Elvis stamp?

By Lisa Rein June 9 at 1:18 PM

For 22 years, the U.S. Postal Service has been trying to re-create the blockbuster product that brought contemporary subjects to the face of postage stamps and helped the agency’s balance sheet: the Elvis Presley stamp issued in Memphis in January 1993.

This summer postal officials are going to try again, dedicating a second stamp at a First-Day-of-Issue ceremony on Aug. 12 at the late entertainer’s Graceland estate. And the financially struggling mail agency will hope “the King” will still generate multimillion-dollar sales, even as the stamp fades from consciousness along with the hand-written letter.

“His life and talents are an incredible story,” Postmaster General Megan Brennan said of Presley in last week’s announcement. “Spanning from his humble beginnings in a Tupelo, Mississippi, two-room house to becoming one of the most legendary performance artists of the 20th Century, Elvis Presley’s works continues to resonate with millions the world over.”

Elvis will be commemorated on a Forever stamp, whose design is being closely held, as the sixth artist in an ongoing series celebrating music icons. He will get his own Twitter hashtag, #ElvisForever. He’ll be featured with a different design from the first version, which sold for 29 cents.

But will the most popular collectible stamp in U.S. history come close to bringing in the revenue that flowed to the Postal Service in 1993, when it printed  500 million Elvis stamps? No one has done it so far, not Marilyn Monroe, Batman, Frank Sinatra, or even Harry Potter.

“There are still millions of Elvis fans out there who will buy the stamp,” said Michael Baadke, senior editor at Amos Media, which publishes Linn’s Stamp News, a popular magazine for stamp enthusiasts. “But it’s unlikely it will make a big a splash. The numbers are likely to be reduced, simply because fewer people are using letter mail.”

The post office considers a stamp successful when collectors buy it but hang onto it. In 1997, officials boasted that Elvis’ “retention rate” made it the biggest seller, Baadke said, with 124 million stamps never used, about $36 million in sales. (USPS spokesman Ray Saunders said only 1 in every 5 of the 500 million printed were collected).

Saunders gives credit for the turn in postal history to Anthony M. Frank, a California savings and loan executive who was postmaster general in the early 1990s. Frank wanted an Elvis stamp against the recommendations of the powerful yet conservative Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, which chooses the images that go on stamps.

[The stamp committee has been roiled by tensions over how commercial stamps subjects should be]

Frank had a public relations savvy that has eluded current postal leaders in a digital age. He announced on Larry King Live that the Postal Service was bringing out an Elvis stamp. “The next day, his office was swamped with reporters,” Saunders said.

At a press conference at the Las Vegas Hilton in January 1992, postal officials made another smart public relations move, announcing that customers could vote on which image of Elvis they wanted on the stamp. People magazine got in the act, including official tear-out ballots in its April 13, 1992 issue.

Ballots were sent to all 40,000 post offices, and 1.1 million votes were cast by, yes, mail, Saunders said. The younger Elvis received 851,000 votes, the older Elvis 277,000 votes.

On the day of the debut, busloads of fans traveled to Memphis just to watch a stamp be dedicated.

“I have attended many stamp ceremonies since than rainy night, but I have never seen anything to match the enthusiasm of those crowds in Memphis or the Presley birthplace of Tupelo, Miss.,” Bill McAllister, Washington correspondent for Linn’s, recalled in an essay after news broke of the second stamp.

For the U.S. Postal Service, those were glory days.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/06/09/can-usps-find-magic-again-with-a-new-elvis-stamp/

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THIS DAY, JUNE 9TH, IN MUSIC HISTORY…

Elvis Presley begins the first of an unprecedented four sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in 1972, his first-ever New York City concert. Two Beatles were in attendance – George and John – as well as Bob Dylan, David Bowie and Art Garfunkel. Selections from the shows eventually made up the music album ‘Elvis: As Recorded At Madison Square Garden’.

http://www.examiner.com/article/music-history-for-june-9-2015

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2015

Re:  The USA Today poll, about which I posted recently (see above), for the number 1 reader’s choice Best Musical Attraction, that poll has now ended.   So, we will need to keep an eye out in the news to see if Graceland won first place.

Sorry, voting has ended in this category. Winners to be announced on Friday, June 12th at 12:00pm EDT.

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Also, I see that the other poll in which we have all been so diligent with our voting in order to keep Elvis in first place as The King of Music, it appears that the web site is no longer active.  Please do keep checking though as it could just be a temporary glitch of some sort. 

footnote next morning:  Good news!!!  The The King of Music  polling site is back in full operation.  So, this was some sort of glitch. 

footnote #2:  This is now posted on TheKingOfMusic polling site:

Webpage did not work because of a hackers attack. No harm was done, nevertheless we increased security level.  Sorry for inconveniences!

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This is from Elvis’ 1972 Madison Square Garden shows.

Phil Gelormine

The Garden lowered the American flag at each show during “An American Trilogy”. The entire audience stood at his point, many with their hand over their hearts.

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Jesse called me late this afternoon.  He is doing well.  He has gotten the dental problem taken care of, so that is a very good thing.  We had a few things to discuss and did not talk too long other than that. 

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SENT TO JESSE THROUGH THIS POINT ON FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2015

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SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2015

Below is the link to a YouTube video which may be of interest to those who are newer to the facts about Elvis faking his death.  This was the first TV documentary which Bill Bixby did regarding the question of Is Elvis Alive.  This first show was excellent.  They came to Gail and immediately signed paperwork for a second show to be done.  Gail was to be involved in the second show just as she was the first one…the one seen on the below video.  However, it is my opinion that Gail’s pursuing this further was not acceptable.  So, Gail was removed from the equation of the 2nd show.  If I recall correctly Gail did attempt legal action because of her contract.  When the second show aired, it was done for the purpose of sabotaging the evidence provided in the first documentary.  Gail did publish several subsequent books after this show.  Jesse had shown some degree of support and trust in Gail, but she lost that when she continued on her path of money making without regard for him and his safety.

Please do bear in mind always that Jesse said to me, during one of our phone visits, these exact words:  “I don’t want that woman to make any more money off of me.“

Also, in the introduction to his book, he wrote the following regarding Gail’s work:

Is Elvis Alive 2: The Bill Bixby Documentary

Rob D. Miller

Published on Dec 25, 2012

https://youtu.be/ctGcjW-t_5s

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Best Musical Attraction? Readers Say Graceland!

Sun Studio, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grand Ole Opry and Stax Museum also winners

Beyond music festivals and live concerts, the world is filled with attractions deserving of a spot on any music lover’s bucket list. We asked USA TODAY 10Best readers to vote for their favorite musical attractions from a pool of 20 museums, memorials, historic studios and epic record stores.

After four weeks of voting, one legendary attraction won the title of Best Musical Attraction by a landslide: Graceland. Each year some 600,000 people visit the former home of Elvis in Memphis, making it one of the most-visited private homes in the country and a clear favorite with our music-loving readers.

The Elvis love continues in the number two finisher. Sun Studio, also in Memphis, snagged the runner-up spot for Best Musical Attraction, likely because it’s one of the most famous recording studios on the planet and the place where The King recorded his first song.

Tennessee proved its place as a bucket list destination for music lovers with four out of the top five winners.

http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-musical-attraction/

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https://vault.fbi.gov/

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TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2015

My good friend, Lucilia, posted this beautiful video to her Facebook page and I want to share it here for all to enjoy.  Spectacular shows in 1977…going away gifts to all of us.

https://youtu.be/otIvUH2kxjw

httpv://youtu.be/otIvUH2kxjw

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

I just signed the below petition to the Grammy Recording Academy requesting that they create a tribute to Elvis.  I feel sure that all of my visitors will want to sign as well.  No one is more deserving of this recognition than Elvis. 

Tribute to Elvis Presley

Petitioning Grammy Recording Academy

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I have constructed a new page for Current News and Events for the remainder of the month of June, 2015.

Below is the link to that page:

https://lindahoodsigmonstruth.com/current-news-events/current-news-and-events-june-2015-contd/

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