The weekend to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Colonel's birthday is over. This event took place in Breda / The Netherlands, the hometown of Elvis Presley's manager. More than 11.000 visitors attended the event which was organized by Elvis Matters. (For more information about the event check www.colonelparker.info)

Members of the Praytome Publishing Team from Germany were invited to present the latest project, the book My Years With Elvis & The Colonel by author Charles Stone. This is definitively the very first book about "Elvis & The Colonel" that is written by a guy who was there. The storyline is based on Charles' memories, unlike previous Colonel books that were based on false assumptions and fabricated stories told by a third party.

We felt very honored when we were able to present the book to Ad van Kuijk, the nephew of Colonel Parker (see picture). A lot of people came to the booth of "Praytome Publishing" to have conversations with the members of the team and there were a lot of questions about upcoming projects, especially about the next product which is going to be the Multimedia Box Set "Dixieland Delight" by Bud Glass.

ElvisMatters also had invited author Sue McCasland from Las Vegas to talk about her Elvis' experiences. Sue attended more than 200 Elvis shows in the 1970's and also has been to the engagements at Lake Tahoe. Sue's second book entitled Elvis Presley live at Del Webb's Sahara Tahoe - World's Best Kept Secret was released in 2008 by Praytome Publishing. A lot of people kept her busy by asking and interviewing her about Elvis and of course people wanted to have her book signed. The book signing and the presentation of the new book by author Charles Stone were 2 out of 22 different activities during this 4day event.

June 29, 2009: Back in Germany, the packaging and mailing of the pre-orders startet. The team is looking forward to receive the first reactions and reviews which later will be made available online for you to read. In the same time we are also preparing the website for the new book so the information and content pages should be available soon.

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On June 25, Charles Stone's new book "My Years With Elvis & The Colonel" will premiere at the ElvisMatters four-day event "100 Years Parker, 1,000 Times Elvis" in Breda, The Netherlands. This latest Praytome Publishing project will be available to the Elvisworld when it debuts at this celebration of Colonel Parker's 100th birthday. For more information about the event, visit the official website www.colonelparker.info.

The weekend after next the book "My Years With Elvis & The Colonel" by Charles Stone will have its premiere during the festivities for the 100th birthday of Colonel Parker in Breda, Netherlands. The latest Praytome Publishing project will be presented to the Elvisworld during this 4-day event organized by ElvisMatters. For more information about the event visit the official website www.colonelparker.info

The printing process started last Monday at Dassel Druck.

The book will be on time for the Breda event, and fans can expect a high quality product -as always: a hardcover book with unreleased pictures allowing one an inside view of the memories of Elvis Presley's tour producer, Charles Stone.

Colonel Parker was a smart manager and naming one of Elvis' albums "Something For Everybody" was also a stroke of genius. The title not only fits the Elvis' LP, but also the content of the new book by Praytome Publishing: never-before-seen pictures, new information, new documents and paperwork, new inside views...

Today, we are happy to share with you the complete cover artwork. Below, is an image of how the back cover will look:

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On May 18, 2009 the latest “Follow That Dream" release - a 2-CD set titled 'Dixieland Delight' - has seen the light of day and is available now at your local Elvis dealer. For the first time ever, Elvis' official record label is supporting and cooperating with another company, which is well-known for delivering high-quality Elvis products. Because of this cooperation, the team of Bud Glass Productions and Praytome Publishing feels very honored.

The cooperation takes place in different areas of the product. The main topic for both the FTD-release and the Multimedia-Box set concerns the five consecutive performances of Elvis in Huntsville , AL , in 1975. On May 15th, the official press release by Praytome Publishing announced the concept of the box set, and details were revealed about the content. One of the highlights will be an extraordinary three-hour documentary with more than twenty interviewees - all of them original eyewitnesses to the shows. Also, dozens of high quality photos, as well as memorabilia and ticket stubs will be presented in a special hardcover book. Wait! There is more to discover in that box set....

To give the fans nowadays an idea of what the shows were like, the best idea is to provide them audio recordings of the performances. 'Follow That Dream', also known as FTD, liked the idea to dignify these special shows with an extra release. Soon after, the decision was made to release two shows from the Huntsville gigs (Matinee Show May 31, 1975 + Matinee Show June 1, 1975). Because the producers wanted to use all the space on the CD’s, the remaining free space was filled up with additional bonus songs from the other Huntsville shows.

When you have seen the design of the FTD package, you will quickly notice that the cooperation is clearly evident. FTD not only decided to adapt "Dixieland Delight" as the title – an original Bud Glass concept from the very beginning design for the book cover; but FTD also adapted the front cover shot of the "Dixieland Delight" book, a great shot taken by George Hill during the Matinee Show of May 31, 1975.

It's worth mentioning that this is the very first five-inch FTD release that comes with an exclusive eight-page booklet. All of the photos, tickets and memorabilia items you will find in the booklet were provided by Bud Glass Productions / Praytome Publishing. The detailed liner notes were written by Bud Glass, the author of “Dixieland Delight” and previous releases like Elvis – “Behind The Image” and “Elvis - Born To Rock”.

The package for the FTD release is really something special - not only because of the fresh artwork and classy design, but also for being a 2-CD set with an exclusive eight-page booklet. By creating this very special product, FTD producers, Ernst Jorgensen and Roger Semon, have set the tone that the five consecutive performances of Elvis Presley in Huntsville deserve very special treatment.

A special note on the inlay reads:

"In cooperation with Bud Glass Productions and Praytome Publishing for their up-coming multi-media box set: DIXIELAND DELIGHT"

As the official press release states, there will be a special placeholder where you can put your FTD release inside of the Multimedia box. That is the right place to be for the FTD!

Do not hesitate any longer! Ask your local dealer for the new FTD release, so that you will have the first collectible item - the "Dixieland Delight" 2CD Set - for the upcoming Multimedia box by Bud Glass Productions and Praytome Publishing.

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