A Complete Guide to Elvis Presley's Memphis - Welcome to Graceland Pt.1!

We show you what you can expect to see at Welcome to Graceland. This part covers exhibits on Elvis's life and career!
TIMESTAMP
0:00 Walking from Guest House at Graceland
0:18 Intro
0:37 Still walking
0:55 Entrance to Welcome To Graceland
2:30 Gift shops
2:57 Entrance overview
3:56 Sam Phillips / Sun Records exhibit
4:48 Tupelo / Hollywood Backlot exhibit
6:10 Rock 'n' Go Cafe
7:16 Elvis talk
9:02 Gift shop / Lisa Marie exhibit / VIP exhibit
11:09 Minnie Mae's Sweets
11:40 Elvis the Entertainer exhibit
14:11 Outro
A complete guide to Elvis Presley's Memphis - Welcome to Graceland Pt.1! This is the first part of 3 parts of our complete guide to all the exhibits at Elvis Presley's Memphis - Welcome to Graceland. In part 1 I talk about some of the exhibits you can see in Elvis Presley's Memphis including exhibits on Sam Phillips and Sun Records, Elvis' early years in Tupelo, Mississippi, movie sets used in Hallmark's 'Christmas at Graceland' film and CMT's 'Sun Records' TV series. Unfortunately, you are not allowed to film in any of the Elvis exhibits or Elvis gift shops so I've included plenty of pictures to give a taste of what you can see (but only a very few compared to all that's on show here). Then it's on to Elvis Fashion For A King exhibit and a small Lisa Marie exhibit concentrating on Lisa Marie Presley items including toys, clothes and the golf buggy used to zip around the grounds of Graceland. As we had booked Elvis VIP tickets, this gave us access to an exclusive Elvis exhibit showcasing some of Elvis' pistols, Elvis jewellery, Elvis clothes and Elvis gold telephone that was in Elvis bedroom at Graceland. Refreshment breaks today were lunch at the Rock N Go cafe and a milk shake in Minnie Mae's Sweets named for Elvis grandmother Minnie Mae Presley, or Dodger as Elvis called her. Finally in this part the main part of this Elvis exhibit space is Elvis the Entertainer where all aspects of Elvis singing career and Elvis movie career are covered and include fantastic items covering Elvis music, Elvis movies, Elvis awards, Elvis concerts and Elvis platinum and gold records.
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So this is the morning that we are walking from the Guest House of Graceland.
It's almost like walking up Main Street in Disney World - just Graceland is the castle.
Some would argue it's sort of getting a bit like that, a bit Disney World.
You don't have to have a ticket to go in these gift shops or Vernon's Steakhouse or Minnie Maes Sweets
That first bit was the Sam Phillips / Marty Stuart exhibit They have got the original piano that was used on the Sun recordings from 1950 to 1960. All the recordings and the Million Dollar Quartet - Elvis played that piano. The Ampex tape machine is there.
Sam Phillips' cool car They have got James Burton's guitar Sun artists like 'Fluke' Holland, who played drums for Carl Perkins, the drum kit that 'Blue Suede Shoes' was used on 'Blue Suede Shoes' and countless other Carl Perkins songs of course.
this was outside the original Graceland Plaza that was torn down to make way for this new complex just over two years ago. We have just done the Hollywood Backlot and Tupelo exhibits they are called. The Tupelo exhibit is a few artifacts,
It is sets from the Hallmark film Christmas At Graceland.
And the CMT Sun Records Story TV show and they have got clips of it playing in the background and it's inaccurate in that they've got Sam Phillips going to Dewey Phillips in the Chisca Hotel
and played Blue Moon of Kentucky rather than That's All Right (Mama). He hadn't recorded Blue Moon Of Kentucky at the time, it was definitely That's All Right (Mama).
Yes that was 'Rock n Go' and 'Gladys' Diner'.
That was the fashion sort of exhibit and Lisa Marie Presley exhibit.The red Phoenix jumpsuit from 75 to 76.
This is 'Minnie Mae's Sweets'. Minnie Mae was Elvis's grandmother of course, Vernon's mother.
Elvis called her 'Dodger'.This is the 'Entertainer Career Museum'
Each one of these exhibits seems to have its own gift shop.
So that was 'Elvis the Entertainer' section, probably the best part of the museum over here.
It starts off with Sun Records.
the contract signed on the 15th and formalised on the 21st of November '55 at the Peabody.
It's got shoes Elvis wore on the Hayride and TV appearances.
Then it goes into movies - it's got the 'Jailhouse Rock' shirt,
The '68 Comeback Special, it's got a mock-up of the ring.
All the outfits that Elvis wore in the special
it's got the Grammys that he won for How Great Thou Art
because he won a Grammy for the performance of How Great Thou Art at Memphis in 1974,
It's got a section on Hawaii, 'Aloha from Hawaii', with the outfits of course,
And gold records - gold records that used to be in the racquetball building in Graceland,

they are now in their own section here because the racquetball building has been put back to a racquetball court