Me and a Guy Named Elvis
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Church of Spiritual Humanism clergyman
Colonel Tom Parker and
Elvis on Tour (film)
Elvis Presley Enterprises creative affairs director
film career
Jerry Lee Lewis manager
karate documentary
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Blues Foundation
Memphis Shelby County Music Commission President and CEO
paychecks from Elvis
personal public relations job offer from Elvis
personal trainer for Elvis
solo trip by Elvis
Sweet Inspirations manager
See also Presley, Elvis
Schilling, Sandy (Jerry’s first wife)
segregated South
Self-Realization Fellowship
“Separate Ways” (Presley)
“Shake, Rattle, and Roll” (Presley)
“Sixty Minute Man” (Dominoes)
sleep problems of Elvis
Smith, Billy (Memphis Mafia)
Smith, Gene (Memphis Mafia)
Smith, Myrna (Schilling’s second wife)
Speedway (Elvis film)
spending habits of Elvis
Spinout (Elvis film)
spiritual exploration of Elvis
Stage Show (TV show)
Stanley, David (Memphis Mafia)
Stanley, Rick (Memphis Mafia)
Star Is Born, A (film)
Stax Records
Stay Away, Joe (Elvis film)
Steve Allen Show, The (TV show)
Stoll, George
Stone, Mike
Storm, Ray (Memphis Mafia) “Chief”
Strada, Al (Memphis Mafia)
Streisand, Barbra
Sun Records
“Suspicious Minds” (Presley)
Sweet Inspirations
Tau Kappa Epsilon
TCB (takin’ care of business)
teasing by Elvis
“Teddy Bear” (Presley)
“That’s All Right” (Presley)
Thomas, Rufus
Thompson, Linda (Elvis’s girlfriend)
Thompson, Sam (Memphis Mafia)
Tickle Me (Elvis film)
Top Ten Outstanding Young Americans (Jaycees)
Trouble With Girls, The (Elvis film)
Tutt, Ronnie
TV exposure of Elvis
Tyden, Paula (Elvis’s girlfriend)
“us against the world” spirit, Memphis Mafia
“U.S. Male” (Presley)
USS Arizona
Vietnam
Viva Las Vegas (Elvis film)
walk of Elvis
Wallis, Hal
WDIA
weight problems of Elvis
Weintraub, Jerry
West, Red (Memphis Mafia)
West, Sonny (Memphis Mafia)
William Morris Agency
Wilson, Brian
Wilson, Carl
Wilson, Dennis
Wood, Anita (Elvis’s girlfriend)
Wood, Natalie (Elvis’s girlfriend)
Yogananda, Paramahansa
“You’ll Never Walk Alone” (Presley)
Ziegler, Ron
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Elvis plays to the crowd at one of his legendary performances on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1956.
There I am on the Holy Names football team.
Me in high school, about the time I started hanging out at Graceland.
Elvis, throwing a pass in one of our games. I’m in the black shirt.
Elvis and me on the set of Paradise, Hawaiian Style.
Elvis with Hawaiian dancers on the set. Sandy is to his right.
Elvis, Priscilla, me, and Sandy in the Graceland Meditation Garden.
Elvis, Alan Fortas, Billy Smith, and me eating ice cream made from snow outside Graceland.
Elvis posing in his best motorcycle outfit in Beverly Hills.
Elvis and me preparing to cruise the PCH. I’m on a Triumph Bonneville, which Elvis bought for me.
The Tree of Life pendant the Memphis Mafia gave Elvis on his thirtieth birthday.
Elvis’s wedding, 1967. I’m second from the left.
Elvis riding a fake bull on the set of Stay Away, Joe as I look on.
Elvis punching Red West in Paradise, Hawaiian Style. I’m in the background in the Hawaiian shirt, and Richard Davis is to my left.
Elvis and me in Frankie and Johnny.
Elvis as the real Charro.
Me posing as Elvis’s photo double in Charro!
Elvis and Priscilla leaving the hospital with a newborn Lisa Marie. I’m on the far left.
Elvis riding down the Graceland lawn to greet fans at the gate.
Helping Elvis with a necklace.
President Nixon, Delbert West, me, and Elvis at the White House.
The Memphis Mafia, with badges. Standing, left to right, are Billy Smith, Bill Morris, Lamar Fike, me, Roy Nixon, Vernon Presley, Charlie Hodge, Sonny West, George Klein, and Marty Lacker. Kneeling are Dr. Nichopoulos, Elvis, and Red West.
Colonel Parker with Elvis. I’m in the background.
Elvis in his karate uniform, about to board the Lisa Marie. Dick Grob is in the foreground.
The Lisa Marie, a Boeing 707 which Elvis completely gutted and rebuilt to his liking. Note the TCB logo on the tail.
Elvis and me leaving a private jet while on tour.
Elvis and me leaving the stage.
Elvis performing as I attempt to hold back the crowd.
Handwritten notes from Elvis.
Me working for Elvis, wearing my TCB necklace.
Linda Thompson, Elvis, and me on tour.
Our trip to Vail, Colorado, in 1976 for Elvis’s forty-first birthday.
Me with the Beach Boys on tour in 1977.
Me with Lisa Marie, age twelve.
Me with Joe Esposito at Graceland. In the foreground is the eternal flame monument.
Me and Bono working on Elvis from the Waist Up.
At Grac
eland in 2006.