Elvis Blog – Post #16
DATELINE: Amelia Island (near Jacksonville, Florida)
Remembering Saturday 11 August 2012
ELVIS QUOTE:
“When I was a kid I’d sit on our porch and watch those long, low cars whiz by. I told myself then that when I was grown, I was gonna have me not one, but two Cadillacs sitting out front of Mama’s and Daddy’s house. Well sir, I guess you can say I’ve done a little better than that.”
ELVIS TRIVIA:
What is the subtitle of the song ( ) Baby, I don’t care.”
ELVIS HISTORY:
12 August 1954
About this time, Scotty and Bill split off permanently from the Starlite Wranglers. The trio of Elvis, Scotty, and Bill played the night club (which sat over the changing room of the Clearpool Complex) called the Eagle’s Nest. In January he’d cut a second acetate at the Memphis Recording Service. “I’ll Never Stand in Your Way,” and “It Wouldn’t be the Same Without You.” Both country songs. He wanted to attract the interest of Sam Phillips, but had no luck, yet.
Earlier in the year Elvis and his cousin, Gene Smith, attended the First Assembly of God Church in South Memphis—probably as a way to meet girls. The Blackwood Brothers Quartet were members. The nephew of one of the Blackwoods lived in Lauderdale Courts, where the Presleys lived. Elvis met fourteen-year-old Dixie Locke at this church. He overheard her plans to go to a roller rink, the Rainbow Rollerdome (an intentionally loud announcement by Dixie?) and he went, dressed in the bolero jacket and bumped into her (an intentional bump by Elvis?). He drove her home in the 1941 Lincoln. He called her the next day, and two weeks later he brought Dixie home to meet the folks. Dixie and Elvis saw each other virtually every day in the spring and summer of 1954, usually going to double-feature movies. Elvis tried out for the Songfellows (the Blackwood’s junior group) but was told he couldn’t sing. He was crushed.
AMELIA ISLAND, FLORIDA:
Saturday 11 August 2012
Final Day of Early Voting On Amelia Island
I’ve enjoyed these past four days with a great group of co-volunteers, but miss my dachshund and can’t wait until today is over. Woops. That’s a negative attitude. I’ll rephrase. I’m happy and successful and will enjoy this day until it’s over then get to see Brunne-Hilde, the world’s sweetest dog. I’m reading I Will by Ben Sweetland. It’s about how positive thinking is a kind of self-hypnosis. Ben warns us to be careful about speaking about attitude or age. Saying things like, You’re getting old “…will give one a consciousness of age, which will put the processes of Nature to work to hasten age.”
Saying, “You look tired” will make the person feel tired. Well, Ben. I’m happy and successful and hanging in there (REALLY, I AM. REALLY). I’ll no longer say, shoulda, woulda, coulda. I’ll not even say, I can. Thanks for writing the book, Mr. Sweetland. From now on I’ll say, I will.
TRIVIA ANSWER:
You’re so Square.