Blue Mountain Village

Collingwood Elvis Festival

"The truck Elvis drove was a Ford pickup with a carry-back for equipment, and sometimes on his way to pick up or deliver supplies he'd pass the Memphis Recording Service, a small but lucrative sideline to the Sun Record Company, both of which had been founded and were being operated by Sam Phillips...

"The office was full of people wanting to make personal records.  It was a stand-and-wait-your-turn sort of thing.  He came in, said he wanted to make a record.  I told him he'd have to wait and he said okay.  He sat down.  Of course he had his guitar.  They all had their guitars in those days...

"While he was waiting his turn, we had a conversation I had reason to remember for many years afterward, because later I had to tell the story so often.  He said he was a singer.  I said, 'What kind of a singer are you?'  He said, "I sing all kinds.' I said, 'Who do you sound like?' He said, 'I don't sound like nobody.'  I thought, Oh yeah, one of those.  I said, 'Hillbilly?  He said, 'Yeah, I sing hillbilly."  I said, 'Who do you sound like in hillbilly?'  He said, "I don't sound like nobody.'"

~ Marion Keisker, ELVIS by Jerry Hopkins, 1971, Simon and Schuster.

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