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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.
212 “From the age of seven”: Dolores Hart, “Actress Turned Nun Revisits Hollywood,” Associated Press, April 11, 2006.
212 “I’m positive”: Dolores Hart to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
212 “charming, simple young boy”: Dolores Hart, “Actress Turned Nun Revisits Hollywood,” Associated Press, April 11, 2006.
212 “I couldn’t take myself away from him”: Ibid.
213 “my ears started getting purple”: Dolores Hart, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 65.
213 “I’ve always thought”: Lizabeth Scott to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
213 “I simply decided”: Lizabeth Scott, quoted in Film Fan Monthly, November 1971, no. 125, by Dan Stanke.
213 “You couldn’t have”: Lizabeth Scott to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
214 “They weren’t of the same mettle”: Ibid.
214 “a bright gold gown”: Byron Raphael to author, 2005.
215 “When any girl”: Byron Raphael, quoting Colonel Parker to author, 2005.
215 “I want to take your picture, honey”: Valerie Allen, quoting Elvis Presley in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
216 “I was at a party”: Jeanne Carmen in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
216 “She did not look seriously ill”: E-mail, Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
217 “It was so obvious”: Lizabeth Scott to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
218 “He wanted me”: June Juanico to author, 2007.
219 “You don’t need any clothes”: June Juanico to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
219 “I can still see him”: June Juanico to author, 2007.