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59 “The nuns”: Regis Wilson Vaughn, People magazine, July 17, 1989.
59 “About two in the morning”: Regis Wilson Vaughn to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript.
59 “Some of those spirituals”: Elvis Presley, quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, September 11, 1965.
59 “I would look at him”: Regis Wilson Vaughn, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Humes Years.
59 “Sometimes”: Guy Coffey, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Humes Years.
60 “I got the impression”: Regis Wilson Vaughn to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript.
60 “It was the most exciting thing”: Regis Wilson Vaughn, People magazine, May 27, 1996.
60 “I felt like Cinderella”: Regis Wilson Vaughn, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Humes Years.
60 “Just think”: Regis Wilson Vaughn, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Humes Years.
60 “he would show up”: Regis Wilson Vaughn to author, 2009.
61 “That’s all right”: Regis Wilson Vaughn, “On His Prom Night, Elvis Didn’t Know How to Boogie,” by John Hughes, Fort Lauderdale News & Sun-Sentinel, as run in the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger, May 24, 1989.
61 “I jumped at the chance”: Regis Wilson Vaughn to author, 2009.
61 “girls didn’t call boys in those days”: Regis Wilson Vaughn, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Humes Years.
61 “I’ve always regretted that”: Regis Wilson Vaughn to author, 2009.
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63 “Negro artists of the South”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
63 “There had never been”: Marion Keisker to Jerry Hopkins, from the Jerry Hopkins Collection, Special Collections, the University of Memphis. Unless noted, all Marion Keisker quotes come from this raw interview transcript.
63 “Somehow or another”: Sam Phillips to Debra Evans Price, raw interview transcript, 1998.
64 “Some of my best friends”: Ibid.
64 “real alive”: Sam Phillips to Constant Meijers, raw interview transcription from the documentary Looking for Colonel Parker, 1999.
64 “the worst thing”: Sam Phillips to Debra Evans Price, raw interview transcript, 1998.
64 “None of these people”: Sam Phillips to Constant Meijers, raw interview transcription from the documentary Looking for Colonel Parker, 1999.
64 “I got off my back”: Sam Phillips to Debra Evans Price, raw interview transcript, 1998.
65 “worked as an assembler at the M.B. Parker Company”: One of the oft-repeated fallacies in Presley lore is that Elvis drove a truck for Crown Electric when he first set foot in the Memphis Recording Service. The notion now appears rooted in the American consciousness. A press release from RCA/Legacy Records announcing the 2010 release of Elvis 75—Good Rockin’ Tonight, a four-CD, one-hundred-song collection, repeats the error, saying the set “begins in 1953, when an eighteen-year-old truck driver fresh out of a Memphis high school recorded a self-financed performance of ‘My Happiness.’ ” Elvis did not begin working for Crown Electric until April 20, 1954. He recorded “My Happiness” in the summer of 1953.
66 “He tried not to show it”: Sam Phillips, quoted in Peter Guralnick’s liner notes for Elvis: The King of Rock ’n’ Roll: The Complete ’50s Masters.
67 “He was the most gorgeous”: Dixie Locke, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 71.
68 “I had tried to tell”: Dixie Locke in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
68 “My parents”: Dixie Locke in the documentary Young Elvis in Colour.
68 “adored him”: Ibid.
68 “almost a baby talk”: Dixie Locke to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
68 “We knew almost immediately”: Dixie Locke, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 71.
69 “Oh, I just do that”: Linda Thompson, quoting Elvis Presley to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript.
69 “kind of lost himself”: Dixie Locke, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 71.
69 “It was serious right away”: Dixie Locke to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
69 “We knew that that was what was supposed to be”: Dixie Locke in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of