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Terry Mike Jeffrey is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, musical director, arranger and actor.
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Terry Mike Jeffrey is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, musical director, arranger and actor.
Born in Paducah, Kentucky, Jeffrey was singing on stage by the age of three. Throughout childhood he mastered the guitar, piano, sax, and drums. During high school he made records, TV commercials, jingles, and played the lead role in his high school senior play. His career later included some international appearances a notch above his high school play. On August 1, 1969, at age 15, he met Elvis Presley at the International Hotel, in Las Vegas Nevada, later the Las Vegas Hlton, now the Westgate. Decades later, he continues to perform "The Songs of Elvis" with his band and symphony orchestras across the U.S., and he is featured monthly on Sirius/XM's Elvis Radio.
Jeffrey has been fronting his own band since the early 1970s with live performances in England, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Hawaii, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean. He performed live shows with such stars as Jewel, Los Lobos, Dixie Chicks, Fats Domino, The Mavericks, Steve Wariner, Ricky Skaggs, Leon Russell, Chet Atkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Travis Tritt. He toured the US and Canada, with stops at the Fox Theatres and a Broadway run in the late 1980s, 2001–02 "Stand By Your Man – The Tammy Wynette Story" (Ryman Auditorium, Nashville), played Tammy's father and understudied all-male acting and music roles (2003 in Ft. Worth, Texas).
Jeffrey has appeared 56 times as a guest on TNN's Music City Tonight with Crook & Chase (mid-1990s). A regular as a solo vocalist and musician on the show, he shared the stage with the likes of Shania Twain and Eddy Arnold. During this time his country project was released, with Billboard Magazine's declaration that the album was "impressive" .
Jeffrey's other musical theater adventures have included regional productions of Beehive and You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown . He was featured vocalist with symphony orchestra "pops" series concerts (his guitar work is spotlighted on a Warner Brothers symphonic album). He was musical director and had a starring role in Elvis – An American Musical, a New York City-produced multi-media show organized by the producers of Grease and Beatlemania .
Jeffrey received a 1997 Emmy Award nomination (songwriting for TV's Sesame Street ).
Jeffrey and his wife, Debbie, reside in their hometown of Paducah, Kentucky. He was one of many performers to honor the memory of the late Todd Morgan at the University of Memphis Rose Theater in April 2008. [1]
Elvis Aaron Presley, also known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Known as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Presley's energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, brought both great success and initial controversy.
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1957.
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Lawrence Gordon "Larry" Muhoberac, Jr.; was an American musician, record producer, and composer who was also known under pseudonyms "Larry Owens" and "Larry Gordon".
The TCB Band is a group of musicians who formed the rhythm section of Elvis Presley's band from August 1969 until his death in 1977.. The initials TCB stand for Taking Care of Business, a personal motto Presley adopted in the early 1970s. Although personnel changed over the years, the original members were James Burton, Jerry Scheff (bass), John Wilkinson, Larry Muhoberac (keyboards) and Ron Tutt (drums). They first appeared live at Presley's first Las Vegas performance at what was then known as the International Hotel on July 31, 1969.
Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential '70s Masters is a five-disc box set compilation of the recorded work of Elvis Presley during the decade of the 1970s. It was released in 1995 by RCA Records, catalog number 66670-2, following similar box sets that covered his musical output in the 1950s and 1960s. This set's initial long-box release included a set of collectable stamps duplicating the record jackets of the LP albums on which the tracks in the box set were originally released by RCA. It also includes a booklet with an extensive session list and discography, as well as a lengthy essay by Dave Marsh, some of it excerpted from his 1982 book on Presley. The box set was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on July 15, 1999.
An Afternoon in the Garden is a live musical album recorded by American singer and musician Elvis Presley at Madison Square Garden on June 10, 1972. The album was released by RCA Records on the 25th anniversary of the concert in 1997 and on March 8, 2018 received an RIAA Gold Record certification for 500,000 copies sold.
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