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Today (Aug 16) marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley.
Through the magic of digital music and video, Lisa Marie Presley appears in this video with her dad, singing "In the Ghetto".
She released the video and gave an exclusive interview with www.spinner.com about the re-release of this song:
And this video is not only for the 30th anniversary, it's also for a good cause.
All of this -- the song, the video -- is going to charity. The money from the downloads is going to help build another Presley Place in New Orleans, which is a transitional housing program that we started in Memphis. Families come in and live there, get their life skills and get it together. They get jobs ... and then about a year later, they move out when they can get back on their feet. This program has been doing incredibly well for the past few years, so I wanted to branch it out. It's something [Elvis] was very interested in, because it's kinda where he started from. And Presley Place is near where he was raised. I wanted to do this [video] and use it for something good. All fingers pointed towards New Orleans. I landed there to do the video and I looked around when I got off the plane, and it looks like Katrina happened six months ago. That's when it all fell together. And all proceeds -- not a portion of -- all proceeds are going towards building a transitional housing building in New Orleans.
The song was written by Mac Davis and was originally released in 1969. It tells the story of a boy growing up in urban Chicago, and became Elvis first Top 10 single in over 4 years!
Long live the King.
�August 16, 2007 11:13 PM� vu my♥posts [email protected] www.elvis.com
