#elvis anecdotes

[doll-elvis]

MARTY LACKER : “I'll tell you something about Elvis. If he watched a football game on TV, he wore a helmet. He dressed for every occasion. If he watched guys on TV riding motorcycles, he would have his motorcycle helmet on. You'd walk in and it looked funny. I mean, you walk in, he's sitting there with a football helmet on. You’d say, ‘Good lord, Elvis, what are you doing?’. He’d say, ‘I'm watching the game'”

quote from “Friends remember Elvis Presley” on the Larry King show

[prettyprissyblvd]

Elvis introduced Priscilla as “Mrs. Presley,” and Jones got a kick out of him emphasizing the “Mrs.” He was about to say something, but Elvis cut him off and whispered in his ear. Elvis told Jones that he knew of his reputation with the ladies and he wanted to make it clear that Priscilla was a very married woman. With a huge smile on his face, Jones whispered back that married women were by far more exciting, and less likely to publicize their rendezvous.

Elvis’ mouth dropped open, to the accompaniment of Jones’ laughter. Elvis was never sure if the comment was a joke, but he made sure that Jones was never alone with his beautiful wife.

| An adorable excerpt from Elvis: Untold Stories Behind the Legend

[aconflagrationofmyown]

[doll-elvis]

“At one point Elvis had to go to the bathroom which was next to the room where we were sitting. Elvis excused himself and we heard the bathroom door open. All of a sudden we hear ‘clunk’, ‘clunk’, ‘clunk’, and Priscilla started laughing and said ‘it sounds like a knight taking off his armor doesn’t it?’. Evidently, when he went to the bathroom, he’d need to take off a couple of guns just so he could pee”

- Interview with Jerry Scheff

[doll-elvis]

“Elvis saw his parents as his babies. He called his mother his baby” - interview with Marty lacker, 1994

“He phones us every other night, no matter where he is. ‘How's my babies?' he asks us” - interview with Gladys Presley, 1956

“I recall one time I came over and saw a little 5 year old Elvis sitting on his mothers lap, playing with his toy truck. At one point he asked his mother ‘Can I get you anything, my little baby? Do you want a glass of water?’ It was the dearest thing I had ever seen” - interview with Alice Robinson, 1998

[prettyprissyblvd]

Though the quality isn't beautiful, if you look closely at Elvis' knuckles in this photo you can see they're a bit bruised. Such bruising was caused by him banging his fists on the car of a few girls after they got into a physical altercation with Priscilla outside of their California home. + an excerpt about it from Elvis & Me.

It's hard to imagine him in a fit of rage for me, but he had all the right reasons to be so angry in that situation.

[doll-elvis]

“At first, I was afraid, to open my eyes and look to see who it was. When I got my eyes open, Elvis was standing there looking at me. He stood in the doorway only a moment. Then he backed out and quietly shut the door. I told Vernon about it the next day while Elvis was at the base. ‘Elvis does that sometimes,’ Vernon said, ‘He’ll go around checking to make sure everybody is all right. He’ll wake up in the night and start to worry about everybody’”

this made me melt, he was the sweetest 😭

(excerpt from “Elvis: This one’s for you” by Arlene Cogan)

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Red West: “I knew the guys who were hassling Elvis, they were on the football squad. The guys who were giving Elvis a hard time were not really bad guys, just a bit noisy and stuff. But when I saw Elvis’s face, it just triggered something inside of me. I mean we were just kids and they weren't gonna kill him or anything, but there was that look of real fear on his face. He was looking like a frightened little animal and I just couldn’t stand seeing it. When you're very poor, you tend to let everyone look after their own troubles, but that face of Elvis’s, I can see it to this day. And I saw that face like that many times later, and it always had the same effect on me. It just churned something up inside of me. It’s a child’s face and it asks for help… and somehow, you know, that year, 1952, put me in a role of Elvis’s protector. It’s a job I took on readily and I had a lot of fun doing it and a lot of heartbreak. Sometimes he was like a damned spoiled child who needed to be spanked, and other times he was just so helpless and needing of help it was like he was your own child. And even now, I still feel it’s my job, even if I never see him again…”

excerpt from “Elvis: What Happened?” By Red and Sonny West, along with Dave Hebler