Elvis - A Lighted Candle

by **Rainbow Light** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:46 pm

Hmmm yes, I wonder?

by **Blue Moon** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:54 pm

Thought I'd bring this interview back up for newer members to review. Ginger rarely gives interviews.

Has anyone heard, is Ginger coming out with a book? I thought I recalled reading something along those lines but can't remember now.

by **Rainbow Light** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:37 am

Thank you for bringing this interview back round Laurie, I've had a look round including the Australian website which is usually so good for information didn't hold any news about a forthcoming book by Ginger so maybe not though please don't quote me 100% on that! :wink:

by **MaryInTheMorning** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:44 am

Laurie thank you so much for posting this interview with Ginger and her sister and for bringing it back around again.

It was very interesting to read and Joe I would also like to thank you for the additional update you gave us as to the new girl that was going to be on the new tour.

Very interesting to know also.

How heartbreaking it must have been for Elvis to never have been able to realize if someone was in love with him or with "Elvis Presley". :cry:

This really makes me so sad because with all that is known about him, the man, thanks to Wanda to me it just seems like it would've been very easy to love the man rather than just the "image". There he was so hoping to be loved for HIMSELF by that one special woman while his "image" was adored by millions.

I can only imagine how that must have made him feel.

Also Wanda I completely agree with you 100% with what you said here about the ones that Elvis was going to get rid of that didn't deserve to be there " Not to rain on their parade, but I hope they get caught without umberellas and have to wade water to their necks-barefoot.". AMEN my friend!!! :wink:

by **Rainbow Light** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:08 am

Very interesting to know also. How heartbreaking it must have been for Elvis to never have been able to realize if someone was in love with him or with "Elvis Presley". This really makes me so sad because with all that is known about him, the man, thanks to Wanda to me it just seems like it would've been very easy to love the man rather than just the "image". There he was so hoping to be loved for HIMSELF by that one special woman while his "image" was adored by millions. I can only imagine how that must have made him feel

Me too, Mari! It must have been so difficult to know whether women loved Elvis for himself as a man or the Elvis Presley image and as you say, thanks to Wanda it seems like it would've been very easy to love the man rather than just his "image"!

by **Wanda June Hill** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:13 pm

He had a couple in mind-in case he needed a "backup" I guess. One was called Debbie I believe she was in Memphis and he'd met her where she worked. The other was on the West Coast and he had known her a while, she was a blonde too and very pretty, quite a bit like Linda T. in many ways. Loved poetry, liked listening to him read her things, was religious and inqiring and she was willing to give up everything to be with him for a while-something they all had to do...devote themselves to him. We knew her-it would have been good for a while, but he would have moved on-I don't think Elvis could possiblly be happy with one woman after all the women he'd been around and with. It seems to me that he would have expectations that one female could not fulfill on all counts. Maybe I am wrong, but I have always thought that after getting to know him. He may not have been totally aware that he was in my term for it, "addicted to the excitement of meeting new women" and without that continued excitement which might wear off after a while with any one, he would start to be bored or expecting more than could be given??? Just my theory and not based on any professional knowledge or training. I ain't smart-just not real stupid. quote from Elvis and it fits me too.

One other fact that not everyone realizes or knows about but will soon probably, is that from the time Elvis was born he never slept by himself...first he slept with his parents until he was older, then they lived in small quarters and he often slept with them even as a teenager..especially in wintertime. Elvis was afraid to be alone-not that he was "scared" exactly, but he had not ever been alone since being concieved...a very strong tie for twins was formed and he didn't get over it. Even as an adult he worried about being alone with all the people after him as he became more popular. He didn't want confrontations with anyone unexpectedly in the night etc: or day etc:. And too, he was a sleep walker, a dreamer who had nightmares and he needed someone nearby to watch over him. He liked to sleep with someone, often got in bed with relatives to sleep and thought nothing of it. He liked to have a woman with him just to be there, not always for sexual reasons at all which was and is distorted and misconstrued by many including his "trusted mm guys" etc:. They surmised the worst-guess those keyholes didn't always allow a clear view? Anyway, Elvis was a little bit weird in that way as he put it, not liking to sleep alone. He just needed to know someone was there if he needed them, had a nightmare, whatever. Many women who were with him say these things-it was common knowledge among the "groupy circuit of young starlets and hopefuls" who got to be a round him or knew others who had. But they didn't think he was strange except he often did not want to have sex with them, just wanted to cuddle and fall asleep knowing somebody was there who cared for him or about him. As he put it, "what's wrong with that"? He always said he wasn't the stud they made him out to be-he was just "a normal guy, in an abnormal situation, doing a public kind of job" and he "was no better, and no worse than most guys". He was "average" he said a few times...and I said "Really!"
And he laughed and said, "Well, we ain't gonna go measurin' nothin' personal to prove it-but I ain't nothin' special except I can sing pretty good and I grow lots of hair!" I have to say that was one time we laughed a while over! I miss my buddy. wjh

by **Rainbow Light** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:17 am

Thank you for the information and also your thoughts and comments, Wanda! His words and responses, the way he put things in general do make me smile or just plain crack up laughing sometimes and I can understand that you miss him too for sure!

by **MaryInTheMorning** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:52 am

I echo your sentiments above exactly dear Sue!

by **juliepresleyfan** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:41 am

having just finished the book , elvis and the memphis mafia , i think they mentioned a name as a replacement to ginger , not sure but think so.

by **juliepresleyfan** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:58 am

in the memphis mafia book , one of the guys said Elvis would get into their bed while they were asleep with their wife, and cuddle up talking then nodding off, they were used to it and let it go, kinda cute .
i know id have not been averse to a cuddle and reasure him lol
lifes not all about sex , but also companionship.

in this bit from the book theres a name ;

marty lacker ;
one night ginger started to go home, and elvis fired a pistol over her head , but it didnt stop her .
so he started seeing other women, even a fifteen yr old scool girl, Rise Smith , but he really wanted ginger , billy asked him o ne time , "why the hell do you put up with her?" and elvis answered "i'm getting too old and tired to train another one"

yes i agree wanda elvis should have stuck with linda or another older woman maybe,poor elvis , he needed a genuine woman , not a bimbo.
apparently ginger never cared for him , and it frustrated him no end.
just found another name Alicia Kerwin 21 yr old memphis bank teller , he dated during ginger ,
julie

by **Rainbow Light** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:28 am

In Larry Geller's interview regarding his new book (please see link in Laurie's post - BOOKS,DVD'S,WEBSITES section), he felt that while Elvis and Ginger dated, Larry didn't feel that Elvis would have married Ginger Alden in the end, l don't know so much about Ginger as perhaps others but feel this may be true.

by **Wanda June Hill** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:04 am

I agree, he had decided he wasn't going to marry Ginger. However, he might have asked her to marry him, gone into the whole thing, the dress, Graceland the entire dream in his mind of what his wedding would be etc;-a few days or nights before his death...and if he did do that as she says he did, it might have been his desire to "give her that dream" because he knew his time was limited and "at least she would have that dream" to remember. He would want to leave her with the best possible memories under the circumstances-I truly think that was something he would do-knowing how he tried hard to make people happy, wanted them to think well of him and give them something in return for their time with him. I thought that the first time I read her remarks in the first interview I read that she had given not long after his death. And I thought then, so like you Elvis, to leave her with loving memories. Of course, I believe he knew he was going to die and very soon-he was doing the best he could for everyone while he could.
When I heard he had not packed up his books, his personal things he liked to take with him and he was to be leaving the day he died, well I knew then that he knew he wasn't going to make it....He never went off without that suitcase of books etc:...his personal treasures that he always had with him...even on tour.
Especially his favorite Bible books- He knew the time was near- and he was ready. wjh

by **ALNA** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:40 am

I think that too Wanda.

Beautiful said tough.

You really seem to have peace with it now also, don't you.

by **Sarena** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:40 am

When I heard he had not packed up his books, his personal things he liked to take with him and he was to be leaving the day he died, well I knew then that he knew he wasn't going to make it....He never went off without that suitcase of books etc:...his personal treasures that he always had with him...even on tour.
Especially his favorite Bible books- He knew the time was near- and he was ready. wjh
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What you said here, Wanda, feels to be the truth! :roll:

by **Rainbow Light** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:09 am

He would want to leave her with the best possible memories under the circumstances-I truly think that was something he would do-knowing how he tried hard to make people happy, wanted them to think well of him and give them something in return for their time with him. I thought that the first time I read her remarks in the first interview I read that she had given not long after his death. And I thought then, so like you Elvis, to leave her with loving memories. Of course, I believe he knew he was going to die and very soon-he was doing the best he could for everyone while he could.

Thank you very much for your insight and comments, Wanda! This would be so very typical of our Elvis and how he would have given as much to Ginger as he could to remember him by, that's a beautiful thought specially I'm sure this would be a help and comfort to Ginger too who was so young when Elvis passed away, I feel your words would mean so very much to this lady too!

Elvis - A Lighted Candle

Ginger Alden interview

yes i think i read that

yes i read that too

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