Baby, Let's Play House_ Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him - Alanna Nash [365]
33 “I always played”: Harold Loyd, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
33 “My mama never”: Elvis Presley, quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, September 11, 1965.
33 “But he’d climb”: Bobby Roberts, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Tupelo Years.
33 “I remember”: Odell Clark, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
33 “He said something”: Christine Roberts Presley, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
33 “We got sun-blistered”: Guy Harris, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
34 “I used to get”: Elvis Presley, press conference titled “Press Interview with Elvis Presley.” Brooklyn, N.Y. Source: “Elvis Sails” EP, September 22, 1958.
34 “Daddy”: Elvis Presley, quoted in “The Boy Who Would Be King,” by Steve Dougherty, This Is Elvis: Special Collector’s Edition of TV Guide, August 2002.
34 “Is this a dangerous thing?” Gladys Presley, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Tupelo Years.
34 “Son, wouldn’t you rather”: Gladys Presley, quoted in “The Boy Who Would Be King,” by Steve Dougherty, This Is Elvis: Special Collector’s Edition of TV Guide, August 2002.
34 “The papers always said”: Forrest Bobo, quoted in Dundy, Elaine, Elvis and Gladys.
35 “He got the bike”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
35 “From there”: Reverend Frank Smith, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Tupelo Years.
35 “a real humble”: Annie Presley to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript.
35 “on the hill”: e-mail, Roy Turner to author, 2009.
36 “Elvis would pick up”: Mertice Finley Collins, Mississippi Room Collection, Lee County Library (MRC), probably from the papers of Elaine Dundy.
36 “Elvis’s biggest fantasy”: e-mail, Bill E. Burk to author, 1999.
36 “She would dye”: Whitmer, Peter O., The Inner Elvis.
37 “Anyone wishing”: Dundy, Elaine, Elvis and Gladys.
37 “Oh, no!” Whitmer, Peter O., The Inner Elvis.
38 “They used to play”: Iris Sermon Leftwich to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript.
39 “I want to make it on my own”: Jessie Presley, quoted in Nash, Alanna, with Smith, Billy, Lacker, Marty, and Fike, Lamar, Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia.
39 “She did all the work”: Lillian Smith Fortenberry, raw interview transcript, Mississippi Room Collection, Lee County Library (MRC), probably from the papers of Elaine Dundy.
39 “Most people”: Unnamed classmate, quoted in “The Boy Who Would Be King,” by Steve Dougherty, This Is Elvis: Special Collector’s Edition of TV Guide, August 2002.
40 “I didn’t expect”: Magdalene Morgan, quoted in TomBigbee Country Magazine.
40 “There’s a story:” Billy Smith to author, 1993.
40 “Elvis would hear”: Gladys Presley, quoted in “The Boy Who Would Be King,” by Steve Dougherty, This Is Elvis: Special Collector’s Edition of TV Guide, August 2002.
40 “There has to be more”: Vernon Presley, quoted by Billy Smith to author, 1993.
40 “It broke my heart”: Magdalene Morgan, quoted in TomBigbee Country Magazine.
CHAPTER THREE
43 “was always hugging”: Billie Wardlaw Mooneyham, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Humes Years.
44 “Daddy and Vernon”: Billy Smith to author, 1993.
44 “I remember”: Ibid.
45 “so nervous he was bug-eyed”: Vernon Presley, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
45 “I was ashamed”: Elvis Presley to Wink Martindale, “Top 10 Dance Party,” June 16, 1956.
45 “He stayed there”: Billy Smith to author, 1993.
46 “very nice”: Vernon Presley, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
46 “I have this”: Billy Smith to author, 1993.
47 “Man, we really”: Buzzy Forbess, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Humes Years.
47 “I grabbed”: Farley Guy, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Humes Years.
47 “Farley said”: Doris Guy Wallace, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Humes Years.
47 “knocking him”: Buzzy Forbess, quoted in Burk, Bill