Elvis - A Lighted Candle

[Rainbow Light]

HA, YEAH, HE WAS PRETTY CUTE AND ADORABLE, HUH?!

[Elvis'SweetSweetSpirit]

He sure was cute an adorable and he sure could move!!!
Fran

[Barbara Lea]

SHOOT FRAN ALL ELVIS WOULD OF HAD TO DO IS JUST STAND THERE, HE WOULD STILL LOOK MIGHTY FINE! BARB!

[Rainbow Light]

FOR SURE, EITHER WAY, HUH?!!!

[Elvis'SweetSweetSpirit]

Oh yes either way he looked mighty fine and gorgeous!!

[Rainbow Light]

I'll second that one Laurie!

[Rainbow Light]

Love the original conversation between Wanda and Elvis, please feel free to check it out, can't believe he thought he needed any surgery or anything to make him look better???!!!! Bless!

[Rainbow Light]

Recycling this topic for any new members of ELC to check out or anyone who hasn't had the chance to read this yet!

[Amanda Viola]

That funny part about Elvis stepping with one feet on Wanda's table would be a wonderful piece for YouTube, indeed! We would love to see it, maybe getting a glimpse of Wanda and family.

[Wanda June Hill]

Just for the Holiday's a little fun and insight-from interview tapes not used/WR,E. talking about trying to stop biting his nails. The time he refers to is when he was about 27years old.]

Elvis: Not really...eh...one time had enough to manicure-(Snickers) had good reason to let 'em grow that time-was worth it!
Wanda: And that was....
Elvis: (Laughing) Maybe you don't wanta know.
Wanda: One of those incidents-well, just to toss you a curve-tell me!
Elvis: Oh... eh, it's not nothin' bad-jus' funnin' with you really.
Wanda: Uh-huh...
Elvis: There was this girl...at the studio when we were makin' a film for Paramount an' she was a manicurist-it was her job to make sure we all had nice lookin' hands... You know for films, 'cause ever thin' showed up big time on screen.
Wanda: So you were letting them grow so she could do your hands-I see.
Elvis: (Laughs) Guess you could...put it that way. Sure wanted her to.....do ....me, yeah.
Wanda: Watch it bud...
Elvis: (Snickers) Would 'ove... She was a good lookin' chick man, from Portugal an' she had dark hair that shone like it was laced with gold, soft brown eyes an' a smile that lit up the room...'n then man, she was jus' fine ever where else...lordy, close ma eyes an' still can seeher an' that smile. Anyway, enough of that! I let 'em grow to get a date-she wouldn't date none of us-no body in the business you know. Not one actor for sure she said. I was doin' ever thing I couuld to get her to-to give me a chance. But she wouldn't do nothin' but make sure my hands were okay-that nothin' showed up you know, doin' Karate an' stuff I'd get marks and such an' sometimes my nails would be bruised an' all that. She was all the time gettin' on me for bein' so rough on my hands-said I had such nice hands, masculine but delicate an' sensitive an' once she said I had healin' hands and she put my hand over her heart. Liked to died man, that was a big deal with her-nobody ever had her do nothin' like that before...none of the guys, ya know...(Laughs).
Wanda: So who did you make a bet with-half the studio?
Elvis: What...no, didn't, not that time. (Laughs) But they were all waitin' to see if I had what it takes.
Wanda: And?
Elvis: Well, she was on her way to her car an' I followed her out to talk see, an' she was talkin' real nice with me an' I asked her out an' she kind of smiled and said somethin' 'bout me singin' to her. So I sang Love Me Tender...an' when I got to the part about makin' all my dreams come true, she come up real close an' put her arms around me for a hug, an' then whispered if I'd s top bitin' my nails an' she could file 'em she'd think about makin' all my dreams come true. Lord, she was...was so soft- in all the right places...lordy, lordy. So I let 'em grow out...jus told ma self ever time started to chew on 'em ...think of how it felt huggin' her-an it worked!
Wanda: Good grief, I might have known!
Elvis: We went out-well, she came over to the house, an' we had dinner an' watched a couple movies an' it was Christmas nearly an' she was goin' home for that. We sat outside an' watched the lights comin' on down in town ya know, an looked at the stars-she knew 'em all too. So we talked almost until time to go to work an' she went home. (Big sigh)
Wanda: That was it huh?
Elvis: Yeah...she got married a couple months later to some guy she met from her country-had known him for years. 17 years older'n her too- Gawd...what a difference...in ages, I mean. Looked like he was her daddy! But can't tell about love...'n she loved him she said, so can't fault her for that. I tried to change her mind but she wouldn't budge,so guess it was a good thing. Last I heard, they still were together back in Portugal. Lord! Story of my life-let'n the good ones get away...

[Wanda June Hill]

I wish I had a picture of him performing with his foot on our table! We had one taken of all us by the photo girl but he hadn't come on yet. And the bootleg tape is not ours- we aren't in it except for heads-mostly the back of our heads too! He's in it though-it's on beta of course!
All our stuff is on beta that we had when he was alive-and right after when all the bootleg stuff started coming out-this one guy had sooo much stuff he'd filmed in Vegas, Tahoe and on tour as well-he sold it of course, and we had some of it. Still do-I have to get that darn beta fixed! Starla remembers it as not being good quality but I recall seeing it-of course that was on big screen at the pizza palor where we'd all got to watch films of him and etc;...it looked pretty good on a big screen-that's also where we saw the aura's of his and the guys on stage-how they'd leap from his hand to them if he came up and touched or reached out to get a scarf. That was erie to say the least and also wonderful-it wasn't good film of anything but the aura's! We have lost touch with that guy and all those people except for a few who don't know where most of the others are now either. I think the fellow with the film has gone to his reward-so have no clue as to where or what happened to his stuff. Some of it has shown up on video and probably DVDs too. Quite of abit of the bootleg things are available that way now-including his, I guess.
Wjh

[Lighthouseseeker]

how sweet and innocent ,trying hard for that lady.. thanks Wanda..
and maybe tapes can be copied from beta to vcd's, but it's not a good idea to give them to anyone for anything

[Blue Moon]

Well no wonder why that lady was playing so hard to get. She had marriage plans to another fellow already in her heart when Elvis met her, and poor Elvis didn't know it until well after he was smitten with her. Still, he took it all in stride.

[Rainbow Light]

For sure he did and it got Elvis to stop biting his nails if nothing else!

[Wanda June Hill]

He didn't chew them off so much when he was with Linda either-there were some times he actually had a bit of nail on both hands! I think as he got older he kind of got a handle on it some-though the last time I saw him, he didn't have any left but he had a bruised fingernail and a black spot on his thumb nail- one would think he had been a carpenter or something! he also had scratches in various stages of healing on both hands up to where his sleeves protected his wrists. He had been on tour of course, and just couldn't keep from reaching out to people where they could reach him. He said, sometimes he just felt that he "had to touch them". I sure have enjoyed the Aloha DVD and am going to watch the last part of the second one tonight...like now! wjh