By Bob Berry

Elvis fans, rejoice!  There’s a new set of goodies coming our way on August 12th, from the United States Postal Service.

It’s a new Young Elvis stamp, to be unveiled by Priscilla Presley as part of  Elvis Week 2015. The picture, seen above,  was shot in 1955 by photographer William Speer. Individual stamps will cost cost 49 cents, and they, like Elvis, will be “forever”.

Think that’s cool? Cue the Ronco Man: “But wait! There’s more!”

Also being released on August 12th, is a new Elvis CD,  Elvis Forever, with 16 of E’s biggest hits-from “That’s All Right” to “The Wonder of You”, plus 2 previously unreleased versions of “If I Can Dream” and “What Now My Love”.

While you’re waiting for the stamps and CD, I’ll leave you with one of the definitive Elvis performances. The original version of “If I Can Dream”, written to order by Walter Earl Brown, as the closing number of the ’68 “Comeback Special”.