Elvis - A Lighted Candle

[Lighthouseseeker]

..poor JD..

[Rainbow Light]

Yes, indeed, bet JD cracked up over Elvis' 'disguise' with the scarf, great picture!

And here today, we have the 'Arab Prince' look modelled by our very own - Elvis Presley! ....

[Barbara Lea]

I don't know how JD kept singing do you Sue? I found some Bloopers I have downloaded, they are really Funny and Cute. Barb!!

[Rainbow Light]

No, I surely don't know how J D kept singing but most of the time, somehow he was able to be able to hold it together! Do you have the link for the bloopers you downloaded? Thanks!

Sue

[Lighthouseseeker]

Lord have mercy!! Wanda,I laughed too hard 'n, now I'm dying of coughing..

[Barbara Lea]

I CAN'T COMMENT ON THIS, NO WAY!! I can't even tell what I'M THINKING!!

[Rainbow Light]

SO funny and oh boy, Elvis sure sounds like he was ultra-cute when flustered, sometimes it must have been tempting, I guess, just to tease him to get such a reaction, huh? Tee hee!

[Wanda June Hill]

Yes, the temptation was tempting and sometimes I liked to get him on the spot just to see that "shy, inhibited boy" of Glady's come out. And it was so easy to do-if you got past the macho Elvis thing he held up like a big shield at times. Catch him off guard and he must have squirmed like a kid caught doing something he shouldn't-and to get a "confession" out of him was funny as every thing. He stammered at those times...and if he didn't get angry, he'd get so young sounding too. He could turn into a dangerous man if threatened or if he had to, but deep inside he was just a big kid-and he knew it too.
I think though that is what most guys are, unless they refuse to acknowlege that part of themselves-maybe why they are so into their "toys" that's the only outlet for them. Elvis just let it come out and bubble over, playing like a kid would and often coming across as one too. Though he tried so hard to be macho and live up to what he thought people, his fans wanted from him. It still came out-and sometimes was so funny and also so sad, one never knew whether to hug him or beat him with a stick at times. I liked the kid in him, and think that was the big attraction for me, he was vunerable and child like and so open with his affections-and got stepped on a lot for being that way. I tend to mother-too much sometimes-and when I think back and read some of the transcripts, I can't help but wonder why he didn't just tell lme to shut my mouth or just refuse to talk to me. But he never did, not once- it was amazing and now it just floors me that he didn't. That was my boy, my buddy.
Bless his little boy heart, wjh.

[Rainbow Light]

Yes, that quality of vulnerability and being like a little boy sometimes even while being totally 100% masculine gets to me! so sweet and charming in one sense yet could be heart-breaking as far as not being to say no to certain people or how some would treat him but then again you had the funny, witty, cheeky Elvis who loved to play jokes and tricks on others and crack people up on stage with his antics!

I can't speak for others here, but for me, it's great to know that, even when he was down or needed a bit of a joke or someone to tease him to 'shake off the blues', you were there to do that for our boy and that really does mean so much and a source of comfort and reassurance!

[Wanda June Hill]

Thanks Sue, I tried to keep him built up when he was so down as he said once, I'm so low today, have to reach up to grab my shoe strings..." Sometimes I worried about him quite a bit, prayed for him daily along with Suzy and other friends, and tried to find things that would give him a lift, books, conversation, funny things and to get him talking about the "old days on the road" etc: that would usually crank him up quite a bit. At the end he didn't have many of those early people with him, the security were new guys and the old guys were out partying and Elvis was left asleep, being guarded by hired people apparently. And too, they didn't have to sing all night with him, baby sit him if he was sleeping...that worked out well for them. ulterior motives-I'd bet on it.
And by now they are probably very sorry...for themselves-that things turned out as they did. wjh.

[Lighthouseseeker]

it is comforting to know someone was there for him,a real person ..and he felt at ease so he spoke to you even that personal..I can see how honest and really innocent this boy was,even when he think he wasn't at all..

[Rainbow Light]

At the end he didn't have many of those early people with him, the security were new guys and the old guys were out partying and Elvis was left asleep, being guarded by hired people apparently. And too, they didn't have to sing all night with him, baby sit him if he was sleeping...that worked out well for them. ulterior motives-I'd bet on it.
And by now they are probably very sorry...for themselves-that things turned out as they did.

Ulterior motives .... yeah, I'd be prepared to bet on that too and no doubt they now have a great deal of self-pity that things turned out as they did - but if Elvis were still here, I can't help feeling they would have been the same and done the same things, still would been trying to grab everything of Elvis' that wasn't nailed down! and just being their usual 'charming', manipulative selves! -

Though, with any luck, Elvis would have ditched the whole lot of them by now, if he'd wanted any help I'd have been more ready to beat their butts to every corner of the earth to get rid of 'em for him, no problem!!!!

[Wanda June Hill]

I've heard baseball bats...esepcially the new light weight metal ones...work very well. Me TOO! Gladly. wjh

[Rainbow Light]

I'll keep that in mind should I ever meet any of 'em!

[Wanda June Hill]

Right Sue, it wouldn't have matter how much, it would never have been enough for what they thought they were worth---wjh