THE ELVIS PRESLEY DIARY 
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1960 01 18 Elvis visits Paris, he stays at the Prince De Gaulles Hotel 1960 01 20 Elvis is promoted to sergant 1960 03 01 Elvis holds a pressconferance at Friedberg Army Base 1960 03 02 Elvis flies to the U.S.A. The Army plane refueled in Scotland (only time Elvis visited UK soil) 1960 03 03 Elvis arrives at McGuire AFB. New Jersey in heavy snowstorm 1960 03 05 Elvis is discharged from the army and boards a train for Memphis 1960 03 07 Elvis arrives to Memphis as a civilian 1960 03 08 Elvis holds a pressconferance in Vernons office at Graceland 1960 03 20 Elvis records Soldier Boy and Make Me Know It at RCA Studio B Nashville 1960 03 21 Elvis records Stuck On You, Fame And Fortune, A Mess Of Blues and It Feels So Right at RCA Studio B Nashville 1960 03 22 Elvis stays at The Fontainbleau Hotel in Miami for The Frank Sinatra ”Welcome Home Elvis” TV-special 1960 03 23 Elvis stays at The Fontainbleau Hotel in Miami for The Frank Sinatra ”Welcome Home Elvis” TV-special 1960 03 24 Elvis stays at The Fontainbleau Hotel in Miami for The Frank Sinatra ”Welcome Home Elvis” TV-special 1960 03 25 Elvis stays at The Fontainbleau Hotel in Miami for The Frank Sinatra ”Welcome Home Elvis” TV-special 1960 03 26 Elvis stays at The Fontainbleau Hotel in Miami for The Frank Sinatra ”Welcome Home Elvis” TV-special. This day the show is taped 1960 03 27 Elvis stays at The Fontainbleau Hotel in Miami for The Frank Sinatra ”Welcome Home Elvis” TV-special. This day he boards a chartered Greyhound bus back to Memphis 1960 03 28 Elvis arrives in Memphis on a chartered Greyhound bus 1960 04 03 Elvis records Fever, Like A Baby and It's Now Or Never at RCA Studio B Nashville 1960 04 04 Elvis records Are You Lonesome Tonight, The Girl Of My Best Friend, Dirty Dirty Feeling, Thrill Of Your Love, I Gotta Know, Such A Night, The Girl Next Door Went A'Walking, I Will Be Home Again and Reconsider Baby in RCA Studio B Nashville 1960 04 20 Elvis laves Memphis by train with five friends, for the Beverly Wilshire, L.A 1960 04 21 Preproduction of G.I Blues begins 1960 04 27 Elvis records the soundtrack for G.I. Blues at RCA Hollywood. Songs: Shoppin' Around, Didja' Ever, Doin' The Best I Can, G.I. Blues, Tonight Is So Right For Love, What's She Really Like and Frankfort Special 1960 04 28 Elvis records the soundtrack for G.I. Blues at RCA Hollywood. Songs: Whistling Blues, Tonight Is So Right For Love, Wooden Heart, Big Boots, What's She Really Like, Pocketful Of Rainbows, Blue Suede Shoes and Wooden Heart 1960 05 06 Elvis records the soundtrack for G.I. Blues at Radio Recorders Hollywood. Songs: Big Boots, Shoppin' Around, Pocketful Of Rainbows, Frankfort Special and Tonight's All Right For Love 1960 07 03 Vernon Presley marries Davada "Dee" Stanley 1960 07 08 Elvis is out on McKellar Lake with 4 friends in his new blue racingboat with a 75hp engine. It costs $2500 1960 07 10 Elvis rents the Mid-South Fairgrounds amusement park. These post-midnight soirees were the only way that Elvis could enjoy the park in relative peace. Elvis' favorite rides were the "Dodgem Cars" and the "Zippin Pippin", a rickety old wooden roller coaster that is the prime attraction at the park to this day 1960 08 08 Elvis records the soundtrack for Flaming Star at Radio Records Hollywood. Songs: Summer Kisses Winter Tears, Black Star, Britches and A Cane And A High Starched Collar 1960 10 07 Elvis records Flaming Star at Radio Records Hollywood for the movie Flaming Star 1960 10 30 Elvis records Milky White Way, His Hand In Mine, I Believe In The Man In The Sky, He Knows Just What I Need, Surrender and Mansion Over The Hilltop at RCA Studio B Nashville 1960 10 31 Elvis records Crying In The Chapel, In My Fathers House, Joshua Fit The Battle, Swing Down Sweet Chariot, I'm Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs, If We Never Meet Again, Known Only To Him and Working On The Building at RCA Studio B Nashville 1960 11 07 Elvis records Lonely Man, In My Way, Wild In The Country and Forget Me Never for the movie Wild In The Country at Radio Recorders in Hollywood 1960 11 08 Elvis records I Slipped I Stumbled I Fell for the movie Wild In The Country at Radio Recorders in Hollywood 1960 11 11 Elvis begin filming Wild In The Country 1960 12 21 Flaming Star opens nationally. Although a double was hired for the fight scenes Elvis did the stunts himself and the double wasn’t needed |
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