Baby, Let's Play House_ Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him - Alanna Nash [368]
69 “I got out of school”: Elvis Presley, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis.
69 “I came out of Tech”: Billie Wardlaw Mooneyham, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Humes Years.
69 “If it was okay”: Dixie Locke to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcripts, 1994, 1995.
70 “how high I was up in the church”: Dixie Locke to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript 1995.
70 “She told us several times”: Ibid.
70 “But I don’t know”: Ibid.
70 “Sometimes they would let me help wire”: Elvis Presley to Robert Carlton Brown, March 24, 1956, from the LP Personally Elvis.
71 “You had to keep your mind”: Ibid.
71 “So many”: Dixie Locke in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
71 “Man, . . . that sonofabitch”: Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis.
71 “She and I were real close”: Dixie Locke to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
72 “I no more”: Sam Phillips to Debra Evans Price, raw interview transcript, 1998.
72 “He sang it well”: Ibid.
72 “There is not”: Ibid.
72 “You’re doing just fine”: Sam Phillips quoted in Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis.
73 “If you make a mistake”: Sam Phillips to Debra Evans Price, raw interview transcript, 1998.
73 “just a lot of hair”: Scotty Moore, from the LP Elvis, Scotty and Bill: The First Year, Sun 1007, 1983.
74 “Well, the boy sings pretty good”: Ibid.
74 “The door to the control room”: Scotty Moore, from various sources, including his interviews with Jerry Hopkins and with the author, and from the LP Elvis, Scotty and Bill: The First Year, Sun 1007, 1983.
75 “Hell, that’s different”:Sam Phillips, early take, “Blue Moon of Kentucky.”
75 “We just sort”: Scotty Moore, quoted in Peter Guralnick’s liner notes for Elvis: The King of Rock ’n’ Roll: The Complete ’50s Masters.
75 “I think we all knew”: Scotty Moore to Jerry Hopkins, from the Jerry Hopkins Collection, Special Collections, the University of Memphis, raw interview transcript.
75 “I was totally stunned”: Dixie Locke to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
75 “It was almost”: Dixie Locke, quoted in the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, January 5, 2004.
76 “My wife, Steve”: Charlie Fisher, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Humes Years.
76 “My daughter dates him”: Dixie Locke in the documentary Young Elvis in Colour.
76 “Why don’t you put him on the bill?” Bob Neal quoting Sam Phillips to author, 1977.
77 “When Elvis came on”: Ibid.
77 “But still he made”: Bob Neal to Jerry Hopkins, from the Jerry Hopkins Collection, Special Collections, the University of Memphis, raw interview transcript.
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