Baby, Let's Play House_ Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him - Alanna Nash [429]
About the Author
Winner of the 2004 Country Music Association Media Achievement Award, ALANNA NASH is the author of six books, including The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley, winner of the 2004 Belmont Award for the best book in music; Dolly: The Biography; Behind Closed Doors: Talking with the Legends of Country Music; and Elvis and the Memphis Mafia. She also coedited the Belmont Award–winning Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music in America, and is the recipient of the 2009 Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism. She has written about music for such publications as the New York Times, Vanity Fair, People, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, Ladies’ Home Journal, USA Weekend, TV Guide, and Reader’s Digest, where she was a contributing editor from 2004 to 2008. Nash, whom Esquire named one of the “Heavy 100 of Country Music,” was the first journalist to see Elvis Presley in his casket. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Also by ALANNA NASH
Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music in America (coeditor)
The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia
Behind Closed Doors: Talking with the Legends of Country Music
Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch
Dolly
Copyright
BABY, LET’S PLAY HOUSE. Copyright © 2010 by Alanna Nash. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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EPub Edition © 2009 ISBN: 9780061987632
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One - “My Best Gal”
Chapter Two - An Ideal Guy
Chapter Three - Blue Heartache
Chapter Four - Dixie’s Delight
Chapter Five - “You Need to Be Kissed”
Chapter Six - “A Great, Big, Beautiful Hunk of Forbidden Fruit”
Chapter Seven - Biloxi Bliss
Chapter Eight - “An Earthquake in Progress”
Chapter Nine - Love Times Three
Chapter Ten - Hillbillies in Hollywood
Chapter Eleven - Showgirls and Shavers
Chapter Twelve - Twin Surprises
Chapter Thirteen - “The Most Miserable Young Man”
Chapter Fourteen - Nipper Dreams
Chapter Fifteen - Private Presley
Chapter Sixteen - “Wake up, Mama, Wake up”
Chapter Seventeen - Fräulein Fallout
Chapter Eighteen - House Full of Trouble
Chapter Nineteen - Priscilla
Chapter Twenty - “Crazy”
Chapter Twenty-One - Going Under
Chapter Twenty-Two - “A Little Happiness”
Chapter Twenty-Three - Nungin, Thumper, and Bug
Chapter Twenty-Four - Satyrs and Spirits
Photo Insert
Chapter Twenty-Five - “You Don’t Really Love Me!”
Chapter Twenty-Six