https://conradaskland.com/blog/bye-bye-birdie-trivia/ Music Director and Music Technology Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:12:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://conradaskland.com/blog/bye-bye-birdie-trivia/#comment-232327 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:12:54 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/08/bye-bye-birdie-trivia/#comment-232327 Another piece of trivia: for the 1963 film version of “Bye Bye Birdie”, the producers approached Elvis Presley for the role of Conrad Birdie. Presley was interested, but his manager, Col. Tom Parker, nixed the idea as he did not want Elvis to play a role that was a parody of himself.

]]> https://conradaskland.com/blog/bye-bye-birdie-trivia/#comment-39597 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:40:08 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/08/bye-bye-birdie-trivia/#comment-39597 Just to be clear, think those were from Wikipedia…

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