Elvis Enters the Army 3-24-58, Negative Trims (1958, Frank Koza Collection) 

Yeah poor baby....they filmed everything..Nowadays, HIPAA would be an issue because the other guys are coming out on film whether they wanted to or not. The expressions of the guys is funny- you can "hear" all their thoughts through their expressions

Totally AGREE, and have thot so since I saw the pics in a magazine (or somewhere). I don't think the guys on either side of him in the pic I'm thinking of should have been photographed, either, just in their skivvies!!

Embarrassing I would think.

Couldn't agree more... Totally unnecessary n as the daughter of a career military officer I'm shocked they allowed private press on base at all... The military had it's own press corps there... I agree that , even if the military wanted to foster goodwill, being filmed in such an invasive manner was totally inappropriate! I would imagine , maybe not in 1958, but today if this happened ... N I don't think it would, all the other troops filmed would have to give consent to be in the film....

Right a bit too private!!!

Torn apart nothing. He was drafted into a peacetime Army. Did his duty and got out.

@@SkyKingofMaricopa you’re right, his mom didn’t stress about it at all.

She only lasted another 5 mths too young

He look’s just like the both of them that’s why lol.

Si tiene algo de parecido pero muy poco. Elvis es un ser perfectísimo... Alguien comentó una vez que estuvo en las Vegas en su show un señor de hecho. Y dijo que la hermosura de Elvis era casi irreal... Por eso las chicas casi desmayaban al verlo.... Yo que nunca lo ví en persona y que no fui de la época me derrito cuando veo sus videos. No puedo imaginarme si lo viera de frente... Agradezco a Dios por Elvis Presley el hombre más talentoso y hermoso que ha caminado por este planeta.

Its really astonishing. A dirt pore little family, one twin still born and buried in a shoe box, the other becomes this stunning, talented man. Famous all over the world to this day.

Ohhhhhhhh. Si que maravilloso comentario siento lo mismo. Gracias amor

I. Read. Elvis. Would. Buy. 13 cars. And. Give them. Away. Kind.

Yeah, like "what am I getting into?"

This is probably the only footage of Elvis with his Mum and Dad together apart from that brief moment he kisses his Mum goodbye from the film This Is Elvis released in 1981. I have been an Elvis fan for 35 years and never seen this footage before.

In the movie Loving You in a dance scene Elvia and both his parents are visible. Also footage of them exist when Elvis played the Tupelo Liveshows in ‘56. So this is not the only footage of them together. But sinde Gladys died a few months after this day, I suppose this could be the last footage as a whole family.

@@letonnyletonny6105 thanks, I forgot about that Tupelo footage even though it was just a few seconds. The footage from Loving You wasn't exactly Elvis together with this parents but I get what you mean. This new footage shows how close Elvis was to his Mother when they look at each other. You can see Elvis is worried about her and Gladys doesn't look well.

That's So Sad but I believe there's footage in Texas at Fort hood w her

He was robbed of time with his ill mother

Just 5 months after this video was filmed His mother GLADYS PRESLEY passed away - in August 1958 - -

Susan Slater: I know exactly what you mean 💙🇦🇺

Yes, mee too! I can't take my eyes of him! This beautiful face and the way he look and walk , i 'm total in love with him! The most handsome man on Planet!

Nunguem quer saber

Totally agree, Elvis only ever was a brand though to his master sorry manager. Gladys saw the shark the first time she met him, she was not wrong either. Sharks tug and tug till they pull you under, Elvis never stood a chance.

@@anY-bf9ud it breaks my heart 😣😞😭

Elvis had to join the army or he was going to go to jail, he was arrested and his manager parker made a deal with the judge that if he didnt put elvis in jail, he will join the army ,,Elvis was actually court ordered to join the army or go to jail

@@kay8698 No evidence of what you just wrote. Why would Elvis go to jail? If he was threatened it was just that a threat, but would not been able to stay in jail as he had done nothing wrong.

@@kay8698 ok, so if you know so much what was the charge then? Are you going to tell me the US Army would say they drafted him when they didn't? I doubt that. He was a very loving, upstanding guy, but they couldn't have conspired to keep that kind of thing a secret. Somebody would have leaked a copy the court order out over the years. He got drafted, period.

Yes, so true! ELVIS is always the best looking man!

Yes, ELVIS was so damn handsome and sexy, not from this world!

Yo la acabo de ver en el año 2023. 26 de julio En algo más de 15 días hará 46 años de su triste fallecimiento. Gracias por compartir. Elvis Presley, ÚNICO E IRREPETIBLE. EL REY POR SIEMPRE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Yeah, ain't it funny... how time slips away. 🎶

Gladys was unhappy long before this. According to what I read, close friends said as soon as Elvis became even partially famous, she was never happy a day after that again. All she wanted Elvis to do was stay home close to her and not go out and perform.

Love him 💖

Cute 😇

@Theodora Kazantzidou Me neither :)

Γειά σου οατρηοτησα... συμφωνώ μαζί σου❤

Magnifique commentaire. Salutations d'Algérie.

Thank You ! !

Looking back, I think going into the Army then actually helped Elvis' career. Not sure Elvis' popularity would have kept up at the same level had he never been drafted. A good pt you make about his acceptance of being drafted during success. Not to paint too broad a brush, but not sure I can picture successful baby boomer, Gen X, Millennial, or Gen Z types giving it all up to complete two yrs of military service?

I thot his mother looked as if her life was ending, right then and there. Vernon is proud of his son. But cannot protect him any longer.

He did, that's the biggest mystery for me about Elvis, where the hell did he get those looks from because to me he did not look like a normal human being, no human has such a perfect shaped nose, cheekbones, eyes/brows, chin etc, and it doesn't matter if you're black, white, caucasian, chinese, indian, etc, everyone has a flawed face, but he didn't, his face was like a work of art sculpted from stone. It's like he wasn't human or was of a different race of human that we don't know about. Elvis is often likened to a greek god of the statues of Apollo, but they were supposedly myths, but looking at Elvis with his striking resemblance to them it makes me wonder whether they actually existed. But how do two random white American's people produce a child that grows up to look like a statue of a greek god? lol.

I thought it was because Col. Parker didn't want him to sing without being paid.

RIGHT!!!

Elvis had to join the army or he was going to go to jail, he was arrested and his manager parker made a deal with the judge that if he didnt put elvis in jail, he will join the army ,,Elvis was actually court ordered to join the army or go to jail

Exactement vrai.

There is sounds in parts of it.

@@Seanryan2001 thanks Sean. I'll replay it

Junticos

They would’ve had a very dramatic scene of me fighting with the detailer for 2 hrs to get the job I wanted.

@@leinonibishop9480 Lmao! What branch and job were you?

@@eddieperez8111 i was in the navy and i was an aviation electronics tech (AT). they always try to fill the crappy jobs first so they started off with cook or hull tech or something stupid and i said, 'are you kidding me? did you look at my asvab scores??" they then offered me the nuclear program but i held out for aviation electronics. worked on helicopters and fighter jets on the flight deck. it was glorious.

Normally no one else is allowed in there but the inductees and the staff. So his family was the only ones allowed in.

WOW!!

Elvis had to join the army or he was going to go to jail, he was arrested and his manager parker made a deal with the judge that if he didnt put elvis in jail, he will join the army ,,Elvis was actually court ordered to join the army or go to jail

@@kay8698 He was drafted and did his duty. There is an entire book by one of the officers who was in his unit, Dr. William Taylor: Elvis in the Army, written in 1995. He was a good soldier.

Nui de joaca !!!

Just like everyone young man

Males are still required to register for the draft currently they just haven’t had to activate it and call anyone up since then. They still could though.

Elvis had to join the army or he was going to go to jail, he was arrested and his manager parker made a deal with the judge that if he didnt put elvis in jail, he will join the army ,,Elvis was actually court ordered to join the army or go to jail

@@kay8698 I read dozens of books on Elvis and never ever heard of this. Its sounds made up. I have been a fan since he was alive. When making wild claims like this, please provide a link, or some kind of evidence. Where or when was he arrested? He was drafted.

@@kay8698 That is the way the new Elvis movie tells it but it's not actually true. He was never forced to choose between jail or the Army. Elvis had to register for the draft at 18 like everyone else and then he got called up for duty. He probably could've gotten a deferral, because he was the primary breadwinner for his family and his fame caused a lot of problems while he was in the Army, but he decided to go ahead and serve his time like everyone else.

He got the nose job way before he went in the army

Bravo! Well spotted.

Vietnam War 1955 - 1975

It was ☮️time No active war🙄

@Rose Hoary Elvis wanted to serve his country. Whatever that means.

It was the draft. Millions of men were drafted at the time, including my own father. It wasn't a conspiracy. Sheesh.

@@Violetbunnyfish your father wasn't the first international super star! He served his country with his art and still do.

@@lechat8533 I didn't think so. He had to, but because of his patriotism and humility he served like another soldier without any special privileges. At a time when there was no war against the country, sending a national asset to military service has no necessity or meaning other than burning opportunities and destroying his career .

@@rosehoary8906it didn’t hurt his career, in fact it made him seem more heroic and less like a punk so people respected him more. And he might have wanted to serve just like the other guys but that is a ridiculously impossible idea. Normally military inductions are not filmed and your family can’t be there with you. So he already was getting special treatment. Part of his entourage went to Germany with him and he said in interviews that he couldn’t go out because the fans were just as crazy over there. Any kind of normal life was long gone for him by this time.