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...borne to platinum paradise on a great celebrity updraft -- this despite Miss Marmann, his eighth-grade music teacher, who told him he couldn't sing worth a lick and gave him a C. Guralnick writes evocatively and sympathetically of Presley's first wild fame -- That's All Right, Mama, his first recording, made him a millionaire -- and tracks the star through the shattering death of his mother Gladys and his entry into the Army. A second volume is set to cover Elvis' long downward trajectory...
This was at the beginning of the 1950s. By 1954, when Presley was still in high school and the family was still living at Lauderdale Courts, he had a record on the radio. Nothing about icy fingers this time. That's All Right, Mama was a butane-bright and street-nasty version of an old blues number by Arthur ("Big Boy") Crudup; the flip side, Blue Moon of Kentucky, was a wild and beautiful version of a bluegrass waltz popularized by the country star Bill Monroe in 1946. No one had ever heard anything quite like...
...heart of American popular music. Sam Phillips, who recorded all Elvis' early sides for his seminal Sun Records, called that elusive core the place "where the soul of man never dies." Presley would never have put it in such high-flown terms. When That's All Right, Mama became a hit, he simply let himself be borne heavenward in the great celebrity updraft. hurry home, he wired his high school sweetheart, Dixie Locke, who was on a family vacation in Florida. my record is doing great. Two years later Variety declared Presley a millionaire...
...teams go through this process sooner or later, the shaky start and the period of self-recrimination. Just stay calm--Mama Ronn says everything's gonna be all right...
...Coke can, they recognized his characteristic style. The proprietor of a Washington video store near EEOC headquarters tells the authors that Thomas was a regular in the X-rated section. A lawyer who knew him then recalls running into Thomas at the register renting The Adventures of Bad Mama Jama. Kaye Savage, a friend who once dropped by the bachelor apartment Thomas took after separating from his first wife, recalls that the walls were covered with Playboy centerfolds...