Baby, Let's Play House_ Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him - Alanna Nash [369]
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.
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