Wednesday, August 1, 2012: Elvis Presley - Never Been To Spain

We'll keep rolling on through our own special Olympics tribute here on CSOTD, today's focus is all about Spain.

Best Sports: They have won 17 medals in sailing - three more than they have in cycling. Tennis has also provided 11 medals throughout their history at the Olympics.

Star Performers: The Spanish football team - the reigning European under 21 champions - will be gold medal contenders and with European Championship winners Juan Mata and Jordi Alba in their squad they will are one of the hot favourites for gold. Rafael Nadal will return to Wimbledon having been knocked out to Lukas Rosol in the 2nd round of the 2012 Championships but he won gold in Beijing and has won at Wimbledon before. Beijing gold medal cyclist Samuel Sanchez, will provide stiff competition for Britain's Mark Cavendish in the men's road race.

Olympic Medal History: 34 Gold,  50 Silver, 31 Bronze

Medal Total: 115

Olympic Debut: 1900

Total Games Appearances: 21

(All Olympic information is courtesy of The Telegraph, and their excellent Olympics Country Profile page).

Sunday, January 8, 2012: Happy Birthday, Elvis!

Usually, there's no blogging on a Sunday, but we here at CSOTD just can't let January 8th go by without a special mention of The King's Birthday. So, here's to you, Elvis, take it away!

Wednesday, November 9, 2011: The Blue Elvis Edition

See, that's the think about Elvis Presley, you can't just blog one song. You just can't.

The one time I've posted about Elvis before, I went wild. As I will also do here.

Here's a bunch of songs Elvis sang with Blue in the title.

Please note that, even with this many, we've left out Blueberry Hill, Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, Blue Hawaii, Blue Moon, Blue River, Blue Suede Shoes, Beach Boy Blues, G.I. Blues and probably about enough songs to keep me posting until the Blue Christmas.

Speaking of which....

Saturday, January 8, 2011: Happy Birthday, Elvis Presley!

Happy Birthday, Elvis Presley!

You just can't imagine how much I dig Elvis Presley.



And with a career spanning decades, which accomplishments that will never be equaled or duplicated, with an influence on music, movies and popular culture that is neigh incalculable, where to you start with choosing some appropriate birthday music?



You just take wild stabs in the dark, play songs you like, and hope others will be inspired to get to know just how great the true King Of Rock & Roll was.



Enjoy.