#after memphis

[alliluyevas]

Was engaging in my favorite hobby of Curating Lists (specifically in this case of the states I have visited and the ones I have yet to visit) and was wondering…which state would you all most like to visit that you haven’t been to yet and what city/area/site would you want to go there for?

[mrsthunderkin]

Sometimes you just gotta go a little nuts

As a treat

[hooked-on-elvis]

SOMETIMES FANS COULD BE A LITTLE INCOVENIENT ALRIGHT... EP TREASURED THEM ANYWAYS.

To illustrate the story, pictures of Elvis with fans in 1957.

CONTEXT: Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee during Christmastime 1957 -- One day, Elvis and his gang were driving down the gates on their way to the Rainbow Skating Rink. Arlene Cogan was sitting on the passenger seat next to Elvis, who was driving his big black limousine while other friends were on the back seats and a few more on the line of cars following them close behind.

Elvis eased the long limousine into the swarm of fans around the front gate. He stopped directly by a girl in a wheelchair and rolled down his window. He reached out his hand to her and she touched it. "How you doin', darlin'?" he said with a big smile. She said something but all the talking around her drowned it out. People began shoving pieces of paper through the window at him. The caravan of his cars behind us stopped, headlights in a curving line down the hill. Elvis didn't carry a pencil or a pen. People gave them to him and he wrote his name and handed them back. Every kind of piece of paper came through the window. Torn out pages of books. School notebook paper. Department store bills. Novels. Pictures. Candy wrappers. Autograph books. And everybody was asking questions about Elvis' tours, his movies, his girlfriends, his Christmas plans - everything. Girls kept telling him how "gorgeous" he was. Elvis looked across at me. He shook his head. "Can you believe all this?" he said. Girls even stuck their arms through the window for him to write his name on. Elvis was not annoyed in any way. He just loved it all. "If it wasn't for these people," he said, "I wouldn't be where I am today. I'll never forget them." A bare, dirty little foot came through the window. It nearly hit Elvis in the face. There was a pen stuck between two toes. Elvis took the pen, wrote his name on the bare leg and shoved the pen back between the toes. The leg withdrew through the window. Elvis rolled up the window. "Thanks," he said. "Merry Christmas." Fans stayed pressed up against the window. From the other side they stared curiously at me and tried to see who else was sitting in back. Elvis eased the limousine forward through the crows and out on the highway and headed north. The caravan of headlights followed him. "It's unbelievable," he said. "It never ceases to amaze me."

Excerpt "Elvis, This One's for You" by Arlene Cogan; Chapter 4: "A Call From Memphis"

[doll-elvis]

imagine being on back of Elvis’ motorcycle, riding through the gates of Graceland, with your hands on his chest 💫…

(courtesy of “matt stone as elvis” on yt) @be-my-ally his harley girl vibes 🤭

[cilly-the-writer]

Clemens, Isaac, Michael, Reeve, and Memphis standing on an unpictured staircase for a photo.

[blaylists]

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[morewonders]

Turns out I wasn’t depressed, I just needed to listen to a Women of 90s Country playlist while tidying my room

(this is a joke but I DO feel marginally better for it)

[sunset-mp4]

Memphis: -and that is why your sibling is a cat

Sunset/Sunrise {whichever name eurehhd}: ......... You found her in a bush?

Shadow: SHE WANTED TO PUT ME UP FOR ADOP-

Memphis: SHHHhhh

with how things are right now I think it would be more like: memphis: *appears with shadow* sunrise: SO YOU TAKE IN THAT CAT BUT NOT KURO??? Memphis: I didn't ask for this- sunrise: OK. COPE!??? SEETHE!??????

[reasoningdaily]

Memphis mother speaks out after her four kids were shot on I-240

Why should this be happening in 2024? this is what we need to know today - this woman’s children were in their car, and were shot - riding in the car. NO MEMPHIS NO

Pepper Baker talks with the mother of four children who were all shot in a road rage shooting on I-240 last week

[claudiaeparvier]

adventures on Beale Street 🥰

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: March 18

"Break Down Here" by Julie Roberts

[brightspine]

yesterday i had the spontaneous thought of "you know what? you're a cool person to know" and i keep thinking abt it. it was just nice!

[camelspit]

actively having my heart torn out rn holy shit

[lllsaslll]

Today's lil' Elvis Music Gem🙏

Yes, again with more Back In Memphis! But this time we've got "And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind" and the interesting Neil Diamond-filled story of the famed American Sound Studio sessions.

In 1969 just the day after his Elvis' 34th birthday when Elvis was planning his return to music recording, Marty Lacker successfuly convinced Elvis to skip on Nashville and to instead give Chips Moman and his Memphis-based American Sound Studio a chance. When Elvis agreed (without even consulting the Colonel first) but with a tight turn around, Moman had to reschedule the recording sessions of Neil Diamond that had already been set just four days out. "Fuck Neil Diamond, he'll just have to be postponed. Tell Elvis he's on." Moman told Lacker as he called from the front hall phone at Graceland.

Soon after, during a break in recording due to Elvis' cold turning to laryngitis, Elvis and the guys were going through the demos back at Graceland. When realizing the selection of songs being brought in by the Colonel were aweful Elvis made an important declaration; that from then on he would pick his own music. He asked that everyone be bringing in songs, "... from now on I want to hear every song I can get my hands on, and if I've got a piece of the publishing, that's fine, but if I don't and I want to do the song, I'm going to do it."

And the boys got to work, bringing in new music for Elvis to sample beyond the usual songs that the Colonel had special interests in. George Klein having connections with artists through his TV show then immediately got on the phone with Neil Diamond. He may have been kicked from his original recording slot, but Elvis' prior L.A. next-door neighbor agreed to him singing "And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind" when the sessions resumed in late January and February.

[apollosbane]

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