Baby, Let's Play House_ Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him - Alanna Nash [391]
415 “We talked a lot about religion”: Suzanna Leigh to Joe Krein, June 26, 2007, on the Web site Elvis 2001.
416 “This won’t do your career any harm, baby!” Elvis World magazine, no. 69.
417 “he did not dig it that [Wallis] was there”: “Donna Butterworth, “Won’t You Please Come Home?” by Bill Bram, in Elvis: The Man and His Music, issue 68, 2005.
417 “classy and quiet”: Donna Butterworth to Joe Krein, May 1, 2008, on the Web site Elvis 2001.
417 “How can Elvis”: “Donna Butterworth, Won’t You Please Come Home?” by Bill Bram, in Elvis: The Man and His Music, issue 68, 2005.
418 “Those guys are still down there”: Schilling, Jerry, with Crisafulli, Chuck, Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley.
418 “Do tell me all about Elvis Presley”: Suzanna Leigh quoting Queen Elizabeth, Elvis World magazine, no. 69.
418 “There was a silence”: Larry Geller to author, 1998.
418 “We all walked”: Ibid.
419 “Jo laughed like crazy, man”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
419 “would succumb that October:” Bill Black died October 21, 1965. Elvis told the Commercial Appeal that Bill “was a great man and a person that everyone loved. This comes as such a shock to me that I can hardly explain how much I loved Bill.”
419 “In the very beginning”: Joan Deary, Deary to Constant Meijers, raw interview transcription from the documentary Looking for Colonel Parker, 1999.
420 “Priscilla began sobbing”: Geller, Larry, and Spector, Joel, with Romanowski, Patricia, If I Can Dream.
420 “The black was so deep”: Lamar Fike to author, 1993.
420 “He called her ‘Ma’ ”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
421 “like getting hit”: Deborah Walley, in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
421 “We had a very close relationship”: Deborah Walley, quoted in Elvis International Forum magazine, vol. 8, no. 2, Summer 1995.
421 “was a turn-off”: Deborah Walley to Andrew Hearn, Essential Elvis magazine, no. 13, 2000.
421 “Whew! He spun her head around”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
421 “he didn’t talk much about her”: Deborah Walley to Andrew Hearn, Essential Elvis magazine, no. 13, 2000.
421 “Every time we’d stop”: Marty Lacker to author, 1994.
422 “It’s not so much”: Doll, Susan, The Films of Elvis Presley.
422 “He insulated himself”: “Priscilla Presley: Surviving Elvis,” by Sheila Weller, McCall’s magazine, May 1979.
422 “Roger Smith calls her”: Marty Lacker quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1993.
422 “Elvis never would have had a superstar as a wife”: Joe Esposito to author, 2009.
423 “He was just so sensitive”: Ann-Margret to Charlie Rose, The Charlie Rose Show, Februrary 11, 1994.
423 “What the hell is wrong with your boss?” Marty Lacker quoting Ann-Margret to author, 1993.
423 “Both of us knew”: Ann-Margret, quoted in People magazine, August 18, 1997.
423 “He got real upset about it”: Lamar Fike to author, 1993.
423 “Our relationship was extremely special”: Ann-Margret to Charlie Rose, The Charlie Rose Show, February 11, 1994.
424 “I’d just come to work for RCA”: Felton Jarvis to author, 1977.
424 first Grammy: Elvis won three Grammy Awards, all for his gospel recordings—in 1967 for the album How Great Thou Art, in 1972 for the LP He Touched Me, and in 1974 for a live rendition of “How Great Thou Art.”
424 “I’ve never seen a performer”: Schilling, Jerry, with Crisafulli, Chuck, Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley.
425 “Everyone else”: “Interview with Charlie Hodge,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, April 9, 2005.
425 “He was way too out of control”: Joe Esposito to author, 2009.
425 “Every night”: Joe Esposito to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
426 “We talked, smoked grass”: Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena, Good Rockin’ Tonight.
427 “radically wrong”: Letter, Hal Wallis to Colonel Tom Parker, September 6, 1966, Hal Wallis collection, Margaret Herrick Library, the Academy of Motion Pictures.
428 “Now, just a minute”: Elvis Presley, quoted in Doll, Susan, The Films of Elvis Presley.
428 “Soon,