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The Colonel

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by Alanna Nash


  “Suspicious Minds,” ref1, ref2, ref3

  Sweet Inspirations, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” ref1

  Tamblyn, Russ, ref1

  T.A.M.I. Show, The (TV program), ref1

  Tamke, Beth, ref1

  Tampa, Florida

  Hillsborough County Humane Society, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  TP promotions for stores, ref1, ref2

  Tate, Sharon, ref1

  Taurog, Norman, ref1, ref2

  Tedesco, Tommy, ref1

  “Teenage Crush,” ref1

  Temple, Shirley, ref1

  Ten Commandments, The (movie), ref1

  Tennessee Plowboys, ref1, ref2

  “(There’s) No Room to Rhumba in a Sports Car,” ref1

  This Is Your Life, ref1

  This Week magazine, ref1

  Thompson, Charles C. II, ref1

  Thompson, Linda, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Thompson, Mary Agnes, ref1

  Thorpe, Richard, ref1

  Thunder Road (movie), ref1

  Tickle Me (movie), ref1

  Tie-in advertising, ref1, ref2

  Time magazine, ref1

  Tom Parker’s Hillbilly Jamboree, ref1

  Tracy, Spencer, ref1, ref2

  Travers, George W., ref1

  “Tribute to Elvis Presley” (Congressional Record), ref1

  “True Love,” ref1

  Truman, Harry S, ref1

  Tual, Blanchard E., ref1, ref2

  Tubb, Elaine, ref1

  Tubb, Ernest, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Tubb, Justin, ref1

  Tucker, Gabe, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23

  Tucker, Hoxie, ref1, ref2

  Tupelo, Mississippi, Star-O-Rama Canvas Theater in, ref1

  “Tutti Frutti,” ref1

  TV Guide, ref1

  Twentieth Century–Fox, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Uncle Dudley (Ernest Hackworth), ref1

  United Artists, ref1, ref2, ref3

  U.S. Army

  EP returns from service in, ref1

  EP serves in, ref1, ref2

  TP desertion from, ref1, ref2, ref3

  TP psychiatric confinement, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  TP serves in, ref1, ref2, ref3

  U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Upson, Dean, ref1, ref2

  U.S.S. Arizona concert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Valentino, Rudolph, ref1

  Vallee, Rudy, ref1

  van den Enden, Anna, ref1, ref2, ref3

  van den Enden, Johannes, ref1

  van den Enden, Wilhelmus “Willem,” ref1, ref2

  van der Kooi, Jorrit, ref1

  van Gend en Loos, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  van Gurp, Antonius H. W. “Toon,” ref1, ref2

  van Kuijk, Ad, Jr. (nephew of TP), ref1

  van Kuijk, Adam (father of TP), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  van Kuijk, Adam Franciscus (Ad; brother of TP), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  van Kuijk, Adriana Maria (Sjaan; sister of TP), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  van Kuijk, Andreas Cornelis (Dries)

  alcohol and, ref1

  appearance of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  birth of, ref1, ref2

  carnival life, ref1, ref2, ref3

  changes name to Tom Parker, ref1, ref2

  childhood years, ref1

  early jobs, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  early years in Breda, ref1, ref2

  education, ref1, ref2

  family background, ref1

  first trip to the U.S., ref1

  generosity, ref1

  in Hoboken, New Jersey, ref1

  love of fun, ref1

  love of hustling, ref1

  need to humiliate others, ref1

  and opposite sex, ref1, ref2, ref3

  possible murder in Breda, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  relationship with father, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  returns to Breda, ref1, ref2

  returns to the U.S., ref1

  secrecy, ref1, ref2, ref3

  See also Parker, Colonel Tom

  van Kuijk, Engelina Francina (Lien; sister of TP), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  van Kuijk, Johanna Huberdina (Anneke; sister of TP), ref1

  van Kuijk, Johanna (sister of TP), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  van Kuijk, Johannes (Jan; brother of TP), ref1, ref2

  van Kuijk, Johannes Wilhelmus (brother of TP), ref1

  van Kuijk, Josephus Andreas (Joseph/Sjef; brother of TP), ref1, ref2, ref3

  van Kuijk, Maria Elisabeth Ponsie (mother of TP), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  van Kuijk, Maria Wilhelmina (Marie; sister of TP), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  van Kuijk, Petronella Johanna (Nel; sister of TP), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Variety, ref1, ref2

  Velare, Curtis, ref1, ref2

  Velare, Elmer, ref1, ref2

  Velare, Ruby, ref1, ref2

  Vellenga, Dirk, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Vesco, Robert, ref1

  Viva Las Vegas (movie), ref1, ref2

  Voice (group), ref1, ref2

  Wald, Jerry, ref1, ref2

  Wallis, Hal, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24

  Walter Reed Army Medical Center (Washington, D.C.), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Warner Brothers, ref1, ref2

  Washington Post, The, ref1

  “Wear My Ring Around Your Neck,” ref1

  Webb, Del, ref1, ref2

  Webb, Jimmy, ref1

  Weintraub, Jerry, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  Weisbart, David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Weisbord, Sam, ref1

  Weisman, Ben, ref1, ref2

  Weiss, Allan, ref1

  Welk, Lawrence, ref1

  Welles, Orson, ref1

  Wenzik, Ernie, ref1

  Wertheimer, Al, ref1

  West, Joan Buchanan, ref1

  West, Mae, ref1

  West, Red, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  West, Sonny, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Western Recorders, ref1

  Westmoreland, Kathy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Wheeler, Kay, ref1

  Whitman, Slim, ref1, ref2

  Whitmer, Peter, ref1, ref2

  Wiggins, Joyce, ref1

  Wiggins, Little Roy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Wild in the Country (movie), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Wild One, The (movie), ref1

  Wilds, David, ref1

  Wilds, Lee Davis “Honey,” ref1

  Willard, Bill, ref1, ref2

  William Morris Agency, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26

  Williams, Hank, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Willis, Vic, ref1

  Willis Brothers, ref1

  Winkler, Irwin, ref1

  Wiseman, Mac, ref1

  Wolf, Steve, ref1

  Wolfman Jack, ref1

  Wood, Anita, ref1, ref2

  Wood, George, ref1

  Wood, Natalie, ref1

  “Wooden Heart,” ref1

  World War II, ref1, ref2, ref3

  WSM Artist Service Bureau, ref1

  Yates, Steve, ref1

  “You Are My Sunshine,” ref1

  Young, Faron, ref1

  Young, Gig, ref1

  Zanuck, Darryl, ref1

  Zenoff, David, ref1

  First published in 2003

  by Aurum Press Ltd, 74-77 White L
ion Street, London N1 9PF

  This eBook edition first published in 2013

  Published by arrangement with Simon and Schuster, Inc.

  All rights reserved

  Copyright © Alanna Nash 2003

  The right of Alanna Nash to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  This e-book is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publishers’ rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly

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  ISBN 978 1 78131 201 8

  Table of Contents

  Title page

  Dedication

  Contents

  PREFACE

  INTRODUCTION

  1 THE LITTLE DUTCH BOY

  2 BEHAVIOR MOST STRANGE

  3 “ALL GREAT NEPTUNE’S OCEAN”

  4 MISSING IN ACTION

  5 TURNING THE DUKE

  6 DANCING CHICKENS, TOOTHLESS LIONS, AND RODEO COWBOYS

  7 ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE

  8 DEEPER INTO AMERICA

  9 NASHVILLE’S NASAL WHINE: JAMUP AND HONEY, EDDY ARNOLD, AND HANK SNOW

  10 THE MAN IN THE SHADOWS

  11 “ELVIS MAKES PITCHAS”

  12 DIRECTIONAL SNOWING

  13 FRIENDLY PERSUASION: MOGULS, MILITARY MEN, AND MOBSTERS

  14 “MISTAKES SOME-ONE MAY HAVE MADE”

  15 TROUBLE IN THE KINGDOM: THE COLONEL TIGHTENS HIS GRIP

  16 BLACK LEATHER BLUES: THE ’68 SPECIAL

  17 LAS VEGAS: GLITZ, GREED, AND RUINATION

  18 GEEK FEVER

  19 “WE THINK HE OD’D”: THE DEATH OF ELVIS

  20 LIVING TOO LONG: LITIGATION AND LONELINESS

  NOTES

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  INDEX

  Copyright

 

 

 


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