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77 “I was like, ‘Good grief!’ ”: Dixie Locke in the documentary Young Elvis in Colour.
77 “I said, ‘I want him to sing’ ”: Ibid.
77 “After his records got so popular”: Ibid.
CHAPTER FIVE
80 “electric effect”: Carl Perkins, Go, Cat, Go.
80 “just boomed”: Scotty Moore, from the LP Elvis, Scotty and Bill: The First Year, Sun 1007, 1983.
80 “I had problems”: Bob Neal to author, 1977.
80 “it was pretty much”: Ibid.
81 “Do you think I can make it?” Bob Neal quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1977.
81 “He wanted”: Bob Neal to author, 1977.
81 “just like one of our kids”: Ibid.
81 “When Elvis started along”: Ibid.
81 “They were in shock”: Scotty Moore, from the LP Elvis, Scotty and Bill: The First Year, Sun 1007, 1983.
81 “If we really”: Ibid.
82 “It was earth-shattering”: Ibid.
82 “Mr. Franks”: Tillman Franks, quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1998.
82 “Ginny, . . . how in the world”: Ginny Wright quoting Elvis Presley to author, 2009.
82 “Well, . . . you take a deep breath”: Ginny Wright to author, 2009.
83 “has skyrocketed up the charts”: Frank Page, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
83 “looked like he was about to leap”: Page, Frank, with Kent, Joey, Elvis: The Louisiana Hayride Years 1954–1956.
83 “booed off the stage”: Ginny Wright to author, 2009.
83 “He really didn’t get much of a hand”: Tillman Franks to author, 1998.
83 “He said, ‘Ginny’ ”: Ginny Wright quoting Elvis Presley to author, 2009.
84 “The acts they’d come to know”: Page, Frank, with Kent, Joey, Elvis: The Louisiana Hayride Years 1954–1956.
84 “They reacted”: Scotty Moore, from the LP Elvis, Scotty and Bill: The First Year, Sun 1007, 1983.
84 “On the second appearance”: Tillman Franks to author, 1998.
84 “Those eyes!”: Jeanette Hicks, quoted in Page, Frank, with Kent, Joey, Elvis: The Louisiana Hayride Years 1954–1956.
84 “Betty, quick”: Betty Amos quoting Elvis Presley in Page, Frank, with Kent, Joey. Elvis: The Louisiana Hayride Years 1954–1956.
84 “absolutely thrashed”: Betty Amos to author, 2009.
84 “I was very fond of Elvis”: Betty Amos quoting Elvis Presley in Page, Frank, with Kent, Joey. Elvis: The Louisiana Hayride Years 1954–1956.
85 “I was dressed up:” Betty Amos to author, 2009.
85 “You need to be kissed”: Betty Amos quoting Elvis Presley to author, 2009.
85 “We more or less”: Betty Amos to author, 2009.
85 “I was as strong as he was”: Ibid.
86 “There was a piano”: Jim Ed Brown to author, 1981.
86 “were so amazed”: Dixie Locke to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.
86 “I felt I was not a part”: quoted in Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley.
86 “Before long, girls were swarming around him”: Logan, Horace, and Sloan, Bill. Elvis, Hank & Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride.
86 “After nineteen years”: Ibid.
87 “Everything did”: Billy Smith to author, 1994
87 “fourteen or sixteen will get you twenty”: Lamar Fike, quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1994.
87 “I sometimes drove”: Logan, Horace, and Sloan, Bill. Elvis, Hank & Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride.
87 “Everybody knew”: Maxine Brown to author, 2009.
88 “The rubber busted”: Moore, Scotty, as told to Dickerson, James, That’s Alright, Elvis.
88 “never break a virgin”: Elvis Presley, quoted by Alan Fortas to author, 1989.
88 “Many of the mamas”: Maxine Brown to author, 2009.
89 “Hi, Babies”: Telegram from Elvis Presley to his parents, November 26, 1954, as reproduced in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
89 “When we started”: Maxine Brown to author, 2009.
89 “speculated that J. E.”: Brown, Maxine. Looking Back to See: A Country Music Memoir.
89 “I’m not sure”: Dixie Locke to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.
90 “Elvis, . . . don’t you have any drawers?” Brown, Maxine. Looking Back to See: A Country Music Memoir.
90 “Honey, God, he was huge!”: Maxine Brown to author, 2009.
90 “I said to him one time”: Betty Amos to author, 2009.
90 “He’d have”: Ibid.
90 “wanted him to stay at home”: Maxine Brown to author, 2009.
90 “because I talked about Jesus and God”: Betty Amos to author, 2009.
91 “He was crazy about her”: Maxine Brown to author, 2009.
91 “He couldn’t get enough”: Maxine Brown to author, 2009.
91 “Before morning”: Ibid.
92 “On the road”: Jim Ed Brown to author, 1981.
92 “One night”: Maxine Brown to author, 2009.
92 “Elvis Presley was a highly sexed young guy”: Bill Randle, from the BBC Documentary Presley, part 1, “I Don’t Sing Like Nobody,” 1987.
92 “Cute little thing”: Betty Amos to author, 2009.
92 “One of the first questions”: Logan, Horace and Sloan, Bill. Elvis, Hank and Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride.
93 “When you come”: Carolyn Bradshaw to author, 2009. All quotes from Carolyn Bradshaw come from a 2009 interview with the author, unless otherwise noted.
93 “He was little”: e-mail, Nita Lynn to author, 2009.
94 “She really liked him”: Louise Alley to author, 2009.
94 “You will never guess”: Nita Lynn, quoting Carolyn Bradshaw in an e-mail to the author, 2009. She also writes about this in “She Turned Down Elvis!,” an article in Reminisce magazine, January 2008.
95 “because he was just madly”: Nita Lynn to author, 2009.
95 “All of his romances were short”: Frank Page to author, 2009.
95 “After a few times”: Nita Lynn, e-mail to author, 2009.
96 “She was very sharp and spunky”: Ginny Wright to author, 2009.
97 “She was a beautiful young lady”: Tom Bearden, e-mail to author, 2009.
97 “Anybody who’s ever claimed”: Shirley Dieu to author, 2009.
97 “You’re bound to remember me, Mr. Logan”: Anonymous caller, quoted in Logan, Horace, and Sloan, Bill. Elvis, Hank and Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride.
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99 “Bob, this guy is incredible”: Oscar Davis to Jerry Hopkins, from the Jerry Hopkins Collection, Special Collections, the University of Memphis, raw interview transcript.
99 “It was really Oscar who found Elvis”: Charlie Lamb, on tape made for author, 1998.
99 “We would see him walkin’ around”: D. J. Fontana to author, 1998.
99 “razzle-dazzle character”: Bob Neal to author, 1977.
100 “I always felt”: Ibid.
100 “I was just a poor, hungry guy”: Eddy Arnold, quoted in the documentary The Life and Times of Eddy Arnold.
101 “When Tom was driving”: David Wilds to author, 1998.
102 “His energy”: Roy Orbison, quoted in “Viva Fort Hood,” by Michael Hall, Texas Monthly, December 2000.
103 “We went out there”: Anita Carter, 1998, raw interview transcript, on the Web site msn.com Web Communities/country music.
103 “a kid with six pair of feet”: Red West, et al., Elvis: What Happened?
103 “I was so afraid”: Dixie Locke in the documentary Young Elvis in Colour.
104 “neither one”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
104 “It was kind of a mutual thing”: Dixie Locke, quoted in the Memphis Com
mercial Appeal, January 5, 2004.
104 “He felt like”: Dixie Locke to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
105 “healthier than a herd of cattle”: Red West, et al., Elvis: What Happened?
105 “Elvis got a crush”: June Carter Cash, quoted in Oermann, Robert K., Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain.
106 “You would have thought”: Red West et al., Elvis: What Happened?
106 “I kept praying”: June Carter Cash to author, 2003.
106 “I’ve got two or three”: Ibid.
106 “Elvis introduced me to Johnny Cash’s music”: Ibid.
106 “You know, son”: June Carter Cash to John Carter Cash, Anchored in Love.
106 “to rest”: John Carter Cash, Anchored in Love.
106 “Like most children”: Ibid.
107 “Hank Snow could follow anybody”: Colonel Tom Parker, telephone conversation with Ralph Emery, April 7, 1993.
107 “The Colonel sent”: Charlie Louvin to author, 1998.
107 “Girls, I’ll see you all backstage”: Elvis Presley, quoted in Cotton, Lee, All Shook Up: Elvis Day-by-Day, 1954–1977
107 “All of a sudden”: Mae Boren Axton, public appearance at Memphis State University, 1986.
108 “I heard all this screaming”: Ibid.
108 “I’m sure I must have looked like a giant blueberry”: Jackie Rowland to author, 2009. All Jackie Rowland quotes come from a 2009 interview with the author, unless otherwise noted.
108 “They really mobbed him”: Marty Robbins to author, 1977.
108 “When we went out on the beach”: Ibid.
109 “He had a quick, sensual smile”: Mae Boren Axton to Sandy Lovejoy, raw interview transcript, 1990.
109 “When I came back”: Mae Boren Axton to Joe Allison, for BMI.
110 “Here we were”: Kay Wheeler to author, 2009.
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113 “Daddy was booking all these people”: Martha Ann Barhanovich Ebberman, quoted on the Web site ScottyMoore.net.
113 “the teenagers just love him”: Newspaper story, reproduced on the Web site ScottyMoore.net.
113 “It was so different”: Salvadore “Penue” Taranto, quoted on the Web site ScottyMoore.net.
114 “My first thought”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
114 “I thought he was the most gorgeous thing I’d ever seen.” June Juanico to author, 2007. Portions of the June Juanico material previously appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal, August 2007.
114 “Come on, Glenda”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
114 “Where are you going?”: June Juanico to author, 2007, and Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
115 “Biloxi is such a small town”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
115 “In this business”: June Juanico to author, 2007.
115 “I have to go back”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
115 “the room’s a mess”: Ibid.
115 “Where did you learn to kiss?”: June Juanico quoting Elvis Presley to author, 2007.
115 “Soft, full lips”: June Juanico to author, 2007.
116 “Oh, my God”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
116 “Do you have to go in?” June Juanico quoting Elvis Presley to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
116 “By the way”: June Juanico quoting Elvis Presley to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
116 “I wasn’t”: June Juanico to author, 2007.
117 “I can’t explain it”: June Juanico quoting Elvis Presley to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
117 “I was the first one”: Wanda Jackson, quoted on the Web site CMT.com.
117 “getting popular real fast”: Wanda Jackson to author. Unless noted, all quotes from Wanda Jackson come from two interviews with the author, 2000 and 2007. Portions of the Wanda Jackson material originally appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal, August 2007.
119 “I had so much fun”: Tura Satana, quoted in Des Barres, Pamela, Let’s Spend the Night Together.
120 “Someday I’m gonna fly”: Ibid.
120 “for tempting those boys into raping me”: Ibid.
120 “We had leather motorcycle jackets”: Tura Satana to Psychotronic Video, quoted on Wikipedia.com.
120 “When I was dancing”: Tura Satana quoted on the Web site imdb.com.
121 “the most honest”: Richard Corliss, quoted in McDonough, Jimmy, Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film.
122 “Okay, where have you got your hands . . .” Tura Satana, quoted in Des Barres, Pamela, Let’s Spend the Night Together.
123 “He was on”: Scotty Moore, from the LP Elvis, Scotty and Bill: The First Year, Sun 1007, 1983.
124 “I had two motorcycles”: Jimmie Rodgers Snow to author, 2003.
124 “Basically, we were about the same age”: Jimmie Rodgers Snow to author, 2003.
125 “I’d better not”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
125 “that sizzling, sultry look”: Oberst, Stanley, and Torrance, Lori, Elvis in Texas: The Undiscovered King 1954–1958.
125 “the only serious writers”: Grover Lewis to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994. All Grover Lewis quotes come from this interview. In an e-mail to the author in 2009, Larry McMurtry questioned the veracity of the story. “Grover was a liar who fictionalized everything,” he wrote.
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130 “I just happened”: Tommy Durden to author, 2002.
130 “started jumping around”: Chet Atkins to author, 1981.
131 “My attitude”: Anne Fulchino to author, 1998.
131 “It scares me”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
131 “a scream”: Ibid.
132 “We went back”: Chick Crumpacker to author, 1998.
132 “the lead in a high school play”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
133 “appears to be a dream to me”: Ibid.
133 “meteoric rise”: Memo, Joe Hazen to Hal Wallis, June 11, 1956, Academy of Motion Pictures Special Collection Library.
133 “My ambition”: Elvis Presley to Hal Wallis, Academy of Motion Pictures Special Collection Library.
134 “My mom”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
134 “What’s an Elvis?”: Barbara Hearn, quoted in Essential Elvis magazine, no. 63, 2009.
134 “The first person”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
134 “It was so huge”: Ibid.
134 “She was a great old lady”: Ibid.
134 “certainly not outward”: Ibid.
135 “standing up and showing off their stuff”: Barbara Hearn, quoted in Essential Elvis magazine, no. 63, 2009.
135 “Elvis came to the window”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
135 “He said he was going on a tour”: Ibid.
135 “I wasn’t carried away”: Barbara Hearn, quoted in Essential Elvis magazine, no. 63, 2009.
135 “very personable”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
135 “Often, Elvis would drive up”: Barbara Hearn, quoted in Essential Elvis magazine, no. 63, 2009.
136 “She couldn’t actually play”: e-mail: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
136 “She was always neat”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
136 “I would telephone her”: Ibid.
137 “She was serious and concerned”: Ibid.
137 “I wrote most of Elvis’s fan letters”: e-mail: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
137 “He just reached”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
137 “a family of worriers”: Ibid.
138 “We were having a meal
”: Ibid.
138 “Elvis broke away”: Ibid.
138 “My husband tells everybody”: Ibid.
138 “Lots of hugging”: e-mail, Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
138 “He was very, very respectful”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
139 “Hell and high water”: Kay Wheeler to author, 2009.
139 “Hi, Elvis”: Harbinson, W. A., and Wheeler, Kay, Growing Up with the Memphis Flash.
140 “He pretty much groped me”: Kay Wheeler to author, 2009.
140 “I was on the same page with him”: Ibid.
140 “slipping casually”: Harbinson, W. A., and Wheeler, Kay. Growing Up with the Memphis Flash.
140 “Why buy a cow”: “Teeners’ Hero,” Time, May 14, 1956.
140 “because he looks so mean”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
140 “He should have been under freaking arrest”: Kay Wheeler to author, 2009.
141 “Where did you learn how to do that?”: Kay Wheeler quoting Elvis Presley to author, 2009.
141 “He couldn’t get out of the auditorium”: Kay Wheeler to author, 2009.
141 “It was almost”: Ibid.
141 “He asked me to show him the steps”: Ibid.
141 “I don’t know”: Ibid.
142 “a nice thing”: Ibid.
142 “They got an atom-bomb”: Colonel Tom Parker, quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, September 11, 1965.
142 “jumped up from their ringside table”: Crumbaker, Marge, and Tucker, Gabe. Up and Down with Elvis Presley: The Inside Story. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1981.
142 “After that first night”: Elvis Presley quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
143 “He would sing directly to me”: Nancy Kozikowski, quoted in “30 Years After Elvis’s Death, Local Fan’s Tender Memories Linger,” by Ollie Reed Jr., the Albuquerque Tribune, August 16, 2007.
143 “If anyone did it earlier”: Ibid.
143 “Because I had seen him”: Ibid.
143 “It was scary”: Nancy Kozikowski, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 50.
144 “Vegas was where”: Nancy Kozikowski, quoted in “30 Years After Elvis’s Death, Local Fan’s Tender Memories Linger,” by Ollie Reed Jr., the Albuquerque Tribune, August 16, 2007.