Elvis
Presley

2 Mar, 1960 Elvis Presley returned to America on 5 March and was demobilized with the rank of sergeant. Immediately start recording in the studio - the singer nothing recorded since June 1958. The result has been released a month later the album «Elvis Is Back!», Занявший 2 nd place and is considered one of the best of Presley. From Europe, Elvis moved Neapolitan songs: «O sole mio», «Sorrento», «La Paloma», which the musician quail in English. During 1960 came the new single «Stuck On You», «It's Now Or Never» ( «O sole mio») and «Are You Lonesome Tonight?», Ranked 1 st place in the charts. This was not a rock 'n' roll, for all it became obvious change is not only music, but also the image of Presley, shocked his fans with the advent of television in the Frank Sinatra. Now his work is addressed not only to fans of rock 'n' roll, how many ordinary listeners of popular music. In addition, the plan by Tom Parker, Presley's career focus was to move to a more lucrative field of cinema, that actually happened. Presley stopped giving concerts, but thanks to the cinema to see it several times a year, millions of people around the world.

The first film was a poslearmeyskim «Soldier's Blues», telling, quite naturally, about the American conscript-tank in Germany. The film, despite the cold reviews, turned out to be one of the most commercially successful kinorabot 1960. Not less popular soundtrack to the film with 12 songs. The success of the film convinced Parker and the Presley of correct choices. Following went movies «raging Star» and the «Wild In The Country», who were attempting to film studios to Presley's usual artistic kinoformat (because the songs are almost no). However, these films awaiting commercial fiasco. Then it was decided to return to the musical-comedy genre, the result of which became the movie «Blue Hawaii» (1961), which was one of the leaders of the box office in 1960-ies. in the United States and established the formula for subsequent films Presley. The success of «Blue Hawaii» predestinate further way the singer: he had almost ceased to record albums with the usual, negollivudskoy music: from 1960 to 1968. left with 5 of these albums (two of them - with the gospel) - v. 20 albums from the soundtracks to the films.

As a result of forced subordination to certain scenes in the film, kinopesni 60's. Elvis Presley's mostly been very limited stylistically. The subjects of films were constructed with the possibility of Presley to perform up to 10-12 songs, with the singer giving exotic roles: he played a sport avtogonschikov, the Indians, the Arab hostage, a fashion photographer, a tank, a boxer, a cowboy, etc. . Professional actor and actress of the second plan, as a rule, much less Presley in popularity - films specially written for the singer, however, a number of movies with Presley have been big stars in Hollywood: Charles Bronson, Ann Margaret, Nancy Sinatra, Ursula Andress , Angela Lensberi, Mary Tyler-Moore, and even Kurt Russell, snyavshiysya child in a passing episode. In the movies the hero always surrounded Presley girls, while imposing little scenes with the children - Presley marketirovalsya a movie for the whole family.