Q: Elvis didn't stay long in a hotel before he rented a home, right? He was born and raised in Decatur. -Elvis Presley-, Hi all I met Charlie recently there in feb when he came over to Ireland for a convention. I remembered Jimmy Wakely ending his show on a ballad like that, sometimes. And she just more or less ran wild. For security reasons, Elvis was always ensconced on the end of the 18th floor. We just cranked up and left there. So, I got a wet check on top of that. When come back in, it wasn't with the orchestra. The Foggy River Boys always ran out on stage to begin their show. Charlie, a gifted guitarist and gospel singer from Dacatur,Alabama was with Elvis almost at the beginning and at the end. And it was unique. And we got in the back of this car. Q: I always wanted to know what happened that time during Are You Lonesome Tonight when Elvis laughed so much, I heard that he laughed at a bald guy in the audience? He remembers huddling with them in his trailer, “where we cried like crazy.”, With a shake of his head, West added, “And the thing is, right off, I knew what had brought it (the death) on.” He nodded glumly. And so anyway, that's what got him out of that hotel. What set all the drug talk in motion was a tell-all paperback, published just 15 days prior to Elvis’ death. Q: So, when Elvis went to Germany, you were over there with him too. Included we see a live performance of the elusive Long Tall Sally seen here for the first time ever. And Glen D. came in later. In writing “Elvis: What Happened?,” West lost the friendship of some of the “Memphis Mafia.” And he is no longer in touch with Col. Tom Parker--with whom he had many disagreements over the management of Elvis’ career. Because at that time, we were in the Trousdale Estate house. Oh, yeah. Then suddenly, he wasn’t.”, So West opted not to talk. We had a group of people, especially Joe and I hope so myself, that could think. By Elvis Unlimited Sweden, Mar 17, 2005. And so, Elvis sold all the Gertrudis cattle. Vernon (Presley, Elvis’ father) was especially touched.”, Soul man James Brown had already made an appearance. The guy replied 'yes' and Charlie said 'well I dont need to know it' A wicked sense of humour though, I asked him about the footage I saw in the video 'Elvis I knew'. You know, and then I'm out there singing a duet with him. And Elvis took me over and said, 'Charlie, just watch the paper, and you'll know where I am'. This song could mean as much to the faithful, as Enyas' song did to the Twin Towers disaster. Such visits meant fielding phone calls from fans, processing increased mail (“He always got lots of teddy bears”) and, of course, responding to the press. There was a virtual scramble to interview anybody who had known Elvis. It was an interesting thing one time to the Colonel. But that first meeting with Priscilla was something else. I remember they used to take Pepsi-Colas and put sugar in them, you know, and shake them up and drink them, things like that. Elvis Presley wife: Why did Elvis and Priscilla split up? I wanted to be in a gospel quartet. INTERVIEW WITH CHARLIE HODGE INTERVIEW WITH CHARLIE HODGE. We went there. Like the time he accompanied Elvis to California for the filming of “Jailhouse Rock.” Klein shook his head and recalled, “It was awesome. I don't remember that much about it. It was going from the Eiffel Tower to the Arc de Triomphe and turn around and come back. Like some of the numbers he did he felt were just like the movies he's been doing, you know, where they'd choreograph him and had a fight scene like that. But it was me just sitting there having fun, you know. And when we first did the '68 comeback, we had the full orchestra and a choir in the same room. And that's what happened. Because he was pretty far gone. Charlie didnt have a bad word to say about Elvis and told the crowd there he doesnt regret a single day being with him and the 'memphis mafia' said he still talks to Red and Sonny and understands why they wrote 'Elvis what happen' but he didnt elaborate much about that, One guy asked him to sign a autograph writing his full name and charlie said 'Do you know you're last name?' But I had met them before. A: Yes, he had a bad experience on that the Dorsey Brothers Show. No one had ever sang a full duet with Elvis like we did on album, 'I Will Be Home Again'. could handle Elvis' clothes and everything. Elvis said, 'Charlie, I can't read music. The excitement of those visits, said Elliott, never prepared him for the events of Aug. 16, 1977. A: The Colonel wanted that to be a Christmas show. And then, it was all night long up until I guess about 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning or something like that. Q: Was there ever a time when you wanted to get away from the chaos being around/associated with Elvis, if so please comment? Interview with Charlie Hodge "Charlie Hodge Dies" Charlie Hodge on IMDb; Last Will and Testament of Elvis A. Presley This page was last edited on 20 August 2020, at 06:22 (UTC). Someone should have asked Charlie if it hurt when Elvis slapped him, because he got drunk and was talking out of line with some new members of the entourage. Wouldn’t you have done that?”, He added, “You have to remember what Memphis was like at the time. Because in those days, see there was many adults in there. And then Elvis was going to go to Hollywood to do the movie he did just after he came out, 'G.I. I know Lisa Marie asked me one time when I used to go pick her up at Priscilla's house and bring her to the house in Hominy Hills there, I'd bring her there for the weekend. And everybody would come and eat breakfast. 'Can't Help Falling In Love' became his signature song, the one he ended on, and he never changed it. Instead, she delivered straightforward descriptions of those she saw in Graceland, including Elvis Presley, whose “face seemed swollen and his sideburns reached his chin.” And she included descriptions of the interior, such as: “Potted plastic palms surrounded the coffin and on the wall was a painting of a skyline on black velveteen.”), A few would see the Kennedy piece as somewhat of a journalistic coup. At 5'3", the guitarist had to stand on an empty Coke crate to reach the microphone. Elvis didn't sing, but he played piano for some of those that did sing. We’d always been such Kennedy supporters, you know. “And I called up from the lobby, and Lamar Fike answered the phone. Charlie Hodge, Elvis’ longtime guitarist, kept a brush handy. It’s also ironic that since the death of the very private Elvis, there has been a veritable blitz of books about Elvis. And at 20 years old, I went on network television. A: I remember one time Red West told us about a club out in... which became famous later. So, we did. The only interesting question was the one about "You'll be gone". In October of 1977, the Shelby County medical examiner would announce that 10 drugs were present in Elvis’ bloodstream when he died. Everybody, quote, knows who took that picture. A: Well, I was like Elvis in a lot of ways. A: It was the Perugia Way house. I said, 'All it needs is paint. He said, 'My name is so-and-so'.
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