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144 “He was always nice and flirty”: Ibid.
144 “Very nice and sweet”: Nancy Kozikowski, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 49.
144 “I was only thirteen”: 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.
144 “How could you not know”: Judy Spreckels, quoted in “Elvis’ Gal Pal Shares Memories: Elvis ‘Sister’ Breaks Silence, Reminisces Life in Inner Circle,” by Linda Deutsch, the Associated Press, August 12, 2002. Unless noted, all Judy Spreckels quotes come from this interview.
145 “Where did you learn”: Gloria Pall to Elvis Presley, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 59, in an excerpt of her book, I Danced Before the King.
146 “He went back”: Joan Adams Shoofey to author, 1999. All quotes from Joan Adams come from this interview with the author.
148 “sexual self-gratification on stage”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
148 “I applaud parents”: Hedda Hopper, in undated item, probably June 1956. Margaret Herrick Library, the Academy of Motion Pictures.
149 “Oh, by the way”: June Juanico, quoting her brother to author, 2007.
149 “Well, let’s go take a look”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
150 “Somebody told me”: Ibid.
150 “I think I probably was the first female guest on Audubon Drive”: June Juanico to author, 2007.
150 “She saw me as domesticated”: June Juanico to author, 2007.
150 “You’ve got to pick a name”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
151 “She thought I was a good catch”: June Juanico to author, 2007.
151 “Let’s go see your room first”: June Juanico, quoting Elvis Presley to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
151 “and we hugged”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
151 “June, . . . I’m not going to hurt you”: June Juanico, quoting Elvis Presley to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
151 “That’s what happened”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
151 “We’d spent so much time together”: June Juanico to author, 2007.
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153 “will not be allowed”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
153 “a piece of good luck”: “An Interview with Steve Allen,” by Steve Roeser, Goldmine, December 11, 1992.
153 “worked to our advantage”: Ibid.
153 “this tall, gangly”: Ibid.
153 “I could see”: Ibid.
153 “I personally came up with the two ideas”: Steve Allen, letter to author, 1997.
154 “talented, hungry kids who’d work cheap”: Anne Fulchino to author, 1998.
154 “had the right personality”: Ibid.
154 “were probably the first”: Wertheimer, Alfred, Elvis ’56: In the Beginning.
154 “Basically I was covering”: Al Wertheimer to author, 1998.
154 “the sexiest picture”: Al Wertheimer quoting Diane Keaton on the Web site elvispresleynews.com.
155 “flipping through some of the pages”: Wertheimer, Alfred, Elvis at 21: New York to Memphis.
155 “continued to be at turns”: Ibid.
155 “Do I leave them their privacy”: Al Wertheimer to author, 1998.
156 “I think Elvis kissed thousands of girls”: Ibid.
157 “I’m planning for seven”: Elvis Presley to Hy Gardner, July 1, 1956, as quoted in Osborne, Jerry, Elvis Word for Word.
157 THE KING IS GONE: Quoted on the Web site roadsideamerica.com.
157 “He was very awkward in that era”: Wink Martindale, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 29.
158 “several newspaper stories”: Hy Gardner, July 1, 1956, as quoted in Osborne, Jerry, Elvis Word for Word.
159 “a model of gentility”: Wertheimer, Alfred, Elvis ’56: In the Beginning.
159 “Let’s dance”: Ibid.
159 “I didn’t want”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
160 “those people in New York”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen. Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
160 “We didn’t get to say anything”: Carolyn Bradshaw to author, 2009.
163 “There was a group”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
163 “You told everybody”: June Juanico quoting Elvis Presley to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
163 “Elvis, how are you?”: Unknown interviewer to Elvis Presley, WNOE Radio, July 9, 1956, as quoted in Osborne, Jerry, Elvis Word for Word.
165 “She would just dig into him”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
165 “He said, ‘I can’t get married right away’ ”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
165 “It was very embarrassing”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
165 “great care”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
166 “They said”: Ibid.
166 “But I know Elvis”: Regis Wilson Vaughn, quoted in “Elvis Was My Prom Date—But He Wouldn’t Dance,” San Jose Mercury News, May 23, 1989.
166 “I just wish”: Regis Wilson Vaughn, e-mail to author, 2009.
167 “He was very casual”: Jay Leviton, in Leviton, Jay B., and Rijff, Ger J., Elvis Close-Up.
167 “aroused fans”: Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis.
167 “frozen stiff with outrage”: Leviton, Jay B., and Rijff, Ger J., Elvis Close-Up.
167 “bizarrely spasmodic and purely sexual”: Pond, Steve, Elvis in Hollywood.
167 “They really wanted Daddy”: Marilyn Gooding to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1993.
167 “They had me convinced”: Marion W. Gooding, quoted in “They Said the Boy Was Downright Depraved,” by Ann Hyman, Florida Times-Union, August 11, 1978.
167 “impairing the morals”: Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis.
168 “I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
168 “with the sort of good manners”: Marilyn Gooding to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1993.
168 “I’m going to put him in jail”: Marion W. Gooding, quoted in “They Said the Boy Was Downright Depraved,” by Ann Hyman, Florida Times-Union, August 11, 1978.
168 “Wait a minute”: Elvis Presley, quoted in “They Said the Boy Was Downright Depraved,” by Ann Hyman, Florida Times-Union, August 11, 1978.
168 “The kids went nuts”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
168 “It hurt his feelings”: Ibid.
168 “He went back to his chambers”: Eunice Gooding to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1993.
168 “Everybody in the audience”: Marilyn Gooding to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1993.
168 “Baby, you should have been there”: Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis.
169 “You’ve got to get your butt down here!”: June Juanico quoting Elvis Presley to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
170 “Elvis was gone”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
172 “You know how Elvis”: Ibid.
173 “I have to call my mother before I go to sleep”: June Juanico quoting Elvis Presley to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
173 “He told her”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
173 “Whenever we went to bed”: Ibid.
173 “He sat straight up in his bed”: Ibid.
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176 “Really, Mr. Berle”: Elvis Presley quoted in Pond, Steve, Elvis in Hollywood.
176 “I’ll admit”: Debra Paget quoted in Goldman, Albert, Elvis.
176 “When I came back”: Mildred Dunnock to Jerry Hopkins, from the Jerry Hopkins Collection, Special Collections, the University of Memphis. All Mildred Dunnock quotes come from this raw interview transcript.
178 “People think”: Elvis Presley quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
179 “I thought it might be”: Paul Beaulieu, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys, Ritz, David, editor.
179 “I cracked open my door”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis By the Presleys, Ritz, David, editor.
179 “A press agent came by”: Unidentified reporter, quoted in Pond, Steve, Elvis in Hollywood.
179 “The three of us”: Leonard Hirshan to author, 1999.
180 “Tell your bosses”: Byron Raphael quoting Colonel Tom Parker to author, 1998.
180 “I could tell they were hot for each other”: Byron Raphael to author, 2005. All quotes from Byron Raphael about Elvis’s encounter with Natalie Wood come from this interview. Portions of the Byron Raphael material originally appeared in Playboy magazine, in the article “In Bed with Elvis,” by Byron Raphael and Alanna Nash, November 2005.
180 “every time you went to see Elvis”: Glen Glenn in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
181 “and just told her”: Sharon Sheeley in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
181 “When she got her driver’s license”: Mary Jo Sheeley in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis. All quotes from Sharon and Mary Jo Sheeley come from this film.
183 “He always said”: Debra Paget, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
183 “I love ’em all”: Elvis Presley, quoted in Goldman, Albert, Elvis.
183 “There were stories”: Debra Paget, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
183 “I was very shy then”: Ibid.
184 “almost a three-some”: Natalie Wood quoted in “Natalie Wood: Show-off or Show-Woman?” by Louella Parsons, Los Angeles Examiner, December 16, 1956.
184 “Natalie and I”: Tab Hunter in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
184 “He was the first person”: Natalie Wood, quoted in Goldman, Albert, Elvis.
185 “Elvis handed me something”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
185 “America’s Number One Entertainer”: Liner notes from the LP set, Elvis: A Golden Celebration, RCA CPM6-5172, 1984.
185 “The last time”: Victor, Adam, The Elvis Encyclopedia.
186 “What did I want?”: Judy Hopper, interview, on the LP set, Elvis: A Golden Celebration, RCA CPM6-5172, 1984.
186 “It made me feel bad”: Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis.
186 “I’ve been looking forward”: Liner notes from the LP set, Elvis: A Golden Celebration, RCA CPM6-5172, 1984.
186 “How about Natalie?”: Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley.
187 “All of a sudden”: Ibid.
187 “all the good people”: Vernon Presley, interview, on the LP set Elvis: A Golden Celebration, RCA CPM6-5172, 1984.
187 “ ‘Baby, Play House’ ”: Gladys Presley, interview, on the LP set Elvis: A Golden Celebration, RCA CPM6-5172, 1984.
187 “And you’re a star”: Jack Cristil, interview, on the LP set Elvis: A Golden Celebration, RCA CPM6-5172, 1984.
187 “the nicest person”: Nick Adams, interview, on the LP set Elvis: A Golden Celebration, RCA CPM6-5172, 1984.
188 “He was just about broke”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
188 “The road was single lane”: e-mail, Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
188 “all of the time”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
188 “was disgusting”: Barbara Hearn quoting Elvis Presley to author, 2009.
189 “I was mortified”: Barbara Hearn, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 41.
189 “I look so sad and bedraggled”: Barbara Hearn, quoted in Essential Elvis magazine, no. 63, 2009.
189 “It was really neat”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
189 “own sweet self”: Ibid.
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191 “Hi, wioole”: Telegram, Elvis Presley to June Juanico, August 21, 1956, reproduced in Osborne, Jerry, Elvis Word for Word.
191 “I told him no, no, no”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
191 “Elvis would just look at me”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
192 “big ol’ box of cash”: Ibid.
192 “He was constantly stuck up Elvis’s butt”: Ibid.
192 “Elvis didn’t invite Natalie”: Ibid. However, Natalie Wood told author Albert Goldman, “His parents called my parents and asked if I could be their house guest.”
192 “I said, ‘No, Nick’ ”: Ibid.
193 “Elvis felt sorry for him”: June Juanico to author, 2007.
193 “Nick was always up”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
193 “after the show”: Barbara Pittman, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
193 “A lot of people”: Barbara Pittman, quoted on the Web site Elvis Information Network.
194 “they were very congenial to me”: Phillip Barber to author, 2009. All Phillip Barber quotes comes from this interview.
194 “I’d just get so giddy”: Phillip Barber quoting Barbara Pittman to author, 2009.
194 “I hadn’t been around”: Natalie Wood, quoted in Goldman, Albert, Elvis.
195 “Elvis”: Barbara Hearn quoting her aunt to author, 2009.
195 “Man, Gladys was stoned”: Barbara Pittman, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick. Elvis Up Close.
195 “We just sang”: Suzanne Bancroft, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 29.
195 “too fond of the men”: Lillian Smith Fortenberry, raw interview transcript, Mississippi Room Collection, Lee County Library (MRC), probably from the papers of Elaine Dundy.
196 “she didn’t like”: e-mail, Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
196 “new girlfriend”: Finstad, Suzanne, Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood.
196 “She looked like a rat”: Michael Zimring, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood.
196 “Heaven help us!” Byron Raphael quoting Elvis to author, 2005.
197 “Wow. . . . He’s beautiful”: Marilyn Evans Knowles-Riehl, quoted in the Chicago Tribune, November 16, 2008. All quotes from Marilyn Evans come from this interview.
197 “and there was Elvis”: Dottie Harmony, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis.
198 “I want you”: Hal Kanter quoting Hal Wallis, Academy Oral History Program, Margaret Herrick Library, the Academy of Motion Pictures. All Hal Kanter quotes come from this interview, except as noted.
199 “It looked like an elephant”: Logan, Horace, and Sloan, Bill, Elvis, Hank & Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride.
199 “She appeared”: Hal Kanter, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis.
200 “for refreshments”: Kanter, Hal, So Far, So Funny: My Life in Show Business.
200 “not saying a word”: Brown, Maxine, Looking Back to See: A Country Music Memoir.
200 “a souped-up Chevy”: Kanter, Hal, So Far, So Funny: My Life in Show Business.
200 “It was so successful”: e-mail, Kay Wheeler to author, 2009.
201 “the kelly green sport coat”: The coat seemed lost forever, an Elvis mystery. But in 2009, a swatch of it turned up for sale on eBay. In 1971, the Colonel allowed the coat to be cut up. RCA offered the remnants as promotional pieces placed in
envelopes (“Something from Elvis’ wardrobe for you”) in the four-LP set Elvis: The Other Sides—Worldwide Gold Award Hits, Vol. 2.
201 “sat on their hands”: Ibid.
201 “I didn’t want”: Kay Wheeler to author, 2009. All remaining quotes from Kay Wheeler come from this interview unless otherwise noted.
203 “nearly 10,000 of them”: Frank Page to author, 2009.
203 “noise enough to peel paint”: Logan, Horace, and Sloan, Bill, Elvis, Hank & Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride.
203 “I’d wonder”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
203 “I never knew”: Ibid.
204 “keep me right next to him”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
204 “But you don’t”: Ibid.
204 “If it had been Elizabeth Taylor”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
205 “It was a pretty shaver”: e-mail, Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
205 “I don’t have a record player”: Georgia Avgeris, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Humes Years.
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207 “He said I had the worst voice”:e-mail, Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
208 “I said, ‘There he is’ ”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
208 “I did Love Me Tender”: Elvis Presley in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
209 “He didn’t pay any attention”: Frances Forbes, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
209 “He was fascinated with them”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
209 “When you were in that room”: Gloria Mowel, quoted in Goldman, Albert, Elvis.
210 “Elvis was always kissing”: Frances Forbes, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
211 “never again would he completely change it back”: In such movies as Follow That Dream and Kid Galahad, he backs off the hard black dye for a warmer brown. In the latter film, a hint of his natural hair, gone to grey, can be seen peeking through at his left temple.
211 “On lunch hour”: Tony Curtis to author, 2004.
211 “Barbara’s nose”: Andrew Hearn, Essential Elvis magazine, no. 63, 2009.