WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:03.799 It's a night's Eyes with Dan Ray unknowing you crazy 2 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:05.320 Boston's news. 3 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:11.839 Radio one hour ago, to be more specific, fifty three 4 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:17.239 minutes or so to go before we wave goodbye to 5 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:22.440 twenty twenty four and hello to twenty twenty five. If 6 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:26.280 you're out and about Boston, all the things they have 7 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:31.719 for you, people celebrating First Night. And by the way, 8 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:35.880 if you didn't know, the history of First Night began 9 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:39.280 with Boston in nineteen seventy six. We were the first 10 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:43.799 city to do it and it caught on like wildfire. Everybody 11 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:46.920 after that started doing it, but we were the first. 12 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:54.640 So if you're out there tonight, yes, enjoy yourselves. Be careful, 13 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:58.520 pretty pretty please. I want to make sure that everybody 14 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:04.000 out there tonight has an enjoyable night, but a safe night, Okay, 15 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:09.079 and I thank you about that. Let's go back in 16 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:14.519 our memory. You gotta go back to and I'm not 17 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:20.920 sure the exact year. I think it was nineteen fifty 18 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.040 forty nine. I'll have my guests tell us once I 19 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:29.760 bring him in. And eventually, over the fifties into the sixties, 20 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:36.000 you're introduced to a gentleman who had tremendous talent. His 21 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:42.959 name Elvis Presley, and my next guest has made a 22 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:50.840 living mimicking Elvis in front of thousands of people every 23 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:55.040 year in Las Vegas. He does a show called Big Elvis. 24 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:59.079 If you are anywhere near Vegas for any length of time, 25 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.760 check out the show. You will be amazed at this 26 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:09.680 gentleman's talent, his voice. Close your eyes and you hear 27 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:15.520 Elvis Presley. His name is Peter Valley, and he's been 28 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:22.479 doing Big Elvis as his main act in Vegas several locations. 29 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:29.240 It's been at Harris Piano Bar Center Strip on the 30 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:32.439 Strip for a decade or more. He used to be 31 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:40.039 at Bill's Gambling Holland Saloon prior to that the Barbary Coast, 32 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:44.000 which was the same place, just a different name. And 33 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:49.439 I met him back in the early two thousands and 34 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:53.199 we built up a fast friendship. He's been kind enough 35 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:57.960 to let me do my trivia shtick as a break 36 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:01.879 on his show off and on for the past I 37 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:08.400 guess ten to fifteen years. Please welcome Big Elvis tonight's 38 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:12.000 side Tete, How are you doing really good? 39 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:14.719 Happy New Year's to your Morgan and to your people 40 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:17.599 out there on the East Coast. From Las Vegas. 41 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:22.280 Happy New Years to you. What is Vegas doing to 42 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:24.879 celebrate New Years? All? 43 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:28.199 Right? Now? The road on Las Vegas Boulevard is shut 44 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:32.400 down and they are going to do a massive firework 45 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:35.360 display off of all the top of a lot of 46 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:37.240 the casinos thro out the city. 47 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:43.919 Now, you live about thirty miles outside of the town, correct. 48 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.680 I do. I live out on the suburbs. It's a 49 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:50.400 sleepy little town called prompt but it's about forty minute drive. 50 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:54.680 And the last place you want to be is anywhere 51 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:57.199 near the Las Vegas Strip on New Year's Eve. 52 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:01.400 It's wall to wall people. I mean the strip is 53 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:04.080 closed off and you just say nothing, but you know 54 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:05.840 there's this mass people there. 55 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:09.719 Yeah, and who wants to be a part of that 56 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:13.439 if you live there? And I'm sure one of the 57 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:18.360 TV stations KLAH or one of the other stations are 58 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:20.600 covering it so you can watch it on TV and 59 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:22.360 it's almost like you're really there. 60 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:27.079 Yeah, all the local stations are covering it, that's for sure. 61 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:34.040 Yeah. So do me a favorite. Tell your backstory of 62 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:37.759 how you get to be big Elvis. 63 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:42.519 Well, you know, it started probably back in nineteen seventy nine. 64 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:45.959 I was It's just a kid, I loved Elvis music. 65 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:51.040 I was fourteen and I was in a classroom where 66 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:53.639 a teacher really loved Elvis, and so, you know, I 67 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:55.839 started singing at church, but I started learning some of 68 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:58.800 the songs and one day afternoon I said, you know, 69 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:01.920 I know Elvis saying for her and she said, oh, 70 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.680 you've got to be in the talent contest. So she 71 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:07.439 he put me into being the talent contest in high school. 72 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:11.759 And what I went saying there, you know, it was infectious. 73 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:14.040 I knew that that's what I wanted to do totally. 74 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:16.680 And then a year later my mom said, you know what, 75 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.480 when we moved to Las Vegas, and see if that 76 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:21.360 can happen for you, you know, And that's kind of 77 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:22.120 how it all started. 78 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:28.959 A lot of times an occupation chooses you, not the 79 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:36.120 other way around. And I'm guessing the power of performing 80 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:41.240 as Elvis chose you because you could do it. It did. 81 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:43.639 I naturally had a you know, my voice sounded a 82 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:47.560 lot like is so it just it did choose me. 83 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:50.279 And that's and people really like that kind of music. 84 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:53.279 They still do, but back then it was really an anomaly. 85 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:57.360 So it it took off, you know, just that's how 86 00:05:57.399 --> 00:05:59.120 it all started. 87 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:04.560 Now, Hemden hard in the beginning about this, but when 88 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:07.600 is the birthdate of Elvis Presley? 89 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:11.839 January the eighth of nineteen thirty five? 90 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:21.720 Okay, and I was way off when I said late forties, 91 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:26.600 but nineteen thirty five. And what I have tried tried 92 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:31.199 to do twice a year, every January, have you on 93 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:37.240 to celebrate his birth and every August to commiserate that 94 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:41.399 we lost him in August of what nineteen seventy five, 95 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:50.360 seventy seven, seventy seven. So I automatically call you to 96 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:53.279 book you around those two times every year. 97 00:06:54.600 --> 00:07:00.000 You too, It's been really great. I mean, that's it's. 98 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:02.360 Elvis's legacies is unbelievable. You know. 99 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:06.879 So a lot of people saw that movie from a 100 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:13.800 couple of years ago and felt that reflected truthfully his history, 101 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:18.560 his legacy and his history. Well, anything that you know 102 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:22.959 of that did not get the proper spotlight. 103 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:29.519 In that movie, well there's you know, there's several different things, 104 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:32.279 and of course, you know, to really do a biography, 105 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.439 you'd be you'd be you know in Elvis, you you 106 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:38.439 could go five or six hours easily. So they had 107 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:40.839 to admit obviously a lot of things, and there was 108 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.959 a lot of things in there that wasn't put in there, 109 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:49.240 but you know, it basically got the uh, the drift across. 110 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:51.759 It was done really well. I mean, the the the 111 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:55.120 gentleman that that he worked for two years studying somebody, 112 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:58.480 and he really fit the part well. And Tom Hanks, 113 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:00.600 I mean he speaks for himself. I think he's a 114 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:03.600 fablous actor, and he really you know, I had the 115 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:07.480 part of the colonel down the way he was so 116 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:11.879 and the sets were, you know, meticulous. The Hilton. I 117 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:14.920 actually was in the Hilton as you were. Morgan, Yes, 118 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:19.680 in the set right, So you probably realized when you 119 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:24.439 saw that the Hilton. I could not believe how close 120 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.839 that stage was replicated. It was the exact same stage 121 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:32.039 because I stood on that stage back in nineteen eighty 122 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:34.799 eighty two or eighty three, whatever it was. But to 123 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:39.120 make a long story short, the whole movie was done 124 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:42.600 really rather well, I thought, And it was it was 125 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.320 you know, like I say, some of it's Hollywood, but 126 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:48.399 a lot of it was really close to what happened. 127 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:51.039 And you know, like I said, the actors and the 128 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:53.960 sets and the kid that portrayed him, the young man, 129 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.080 he did a fabless shop. So it was and it 130 00:08:56.159 --> 00:09:01.000 actually really got a new, you know, revital Elvis to 131 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:03.080 a lot of the younger kids a couple of years ago. 132 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:07.879 True, and it helped boost record sales when they re 133 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:10.360 released Elvis one. 134 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:13.480 That's right, that's right. 135 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:16.519 I've got a break to take, but when we come back, 136 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:21.480 you've had a movie career, and we'll talk about you 137 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:24.440 on the big screen. Anyone who wants to call in 138 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:27.919 six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty or eight eight, eight, 139 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:33.039 nine to nine, ten thirty. I guarantee you. I guarantee you, 140 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:39.600 Pete will know whatever you bring up, so you're more 141 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:42.279 welcome to join us here on nights Side time and 142 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:45.679 temperature eleven fifteen forty four degrees. 143 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:49.720 Now back to Dan Way live from the Window. 144 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:54.600 World Light Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. Happy almost 145 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:57.879 New Year, everybody. This is Morgan's filling in for Dan. 146 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:01.399 Dan We'll be back tomorrow. This is his microphone. Every 147 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:03.159 now and then, I just get a chance to mind 148 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:07.799 it for him, and I am interviewing currently mister Peter 149 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:13.039 Valley aka Big Elvis. And before I take any phone calls, Pete, 150 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:17.519 you yourself have been in two movies if I'm not mistaken. 151 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:21.159 Actually there's been there have been a two documentaries and 152 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:23.120 an actual movie. 153 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:26.159 Well then tell people about you on the big screen. 154 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.120 A movie that was meaning about ten years ago was 155 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:37.200 a comedy with Connor pet who begin with files. It 156 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:40.399 was a takeoff of kind of a comedy kind of 157 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:44.559 like two cops that are kind of like Andy Griffith, right, 158 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:48.480 and I'm kind of the guy in the middle where basically, 159 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:51.519 you know, I get the women at the end of 160 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:54.240 the show and sing a bunch of songs and through 161 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.639 the whole thing, these guys are bumbling kind of sheriffs 162 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:00.639 in a small town and it's it's just really humorful. 163 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.679 I mean, to watch, it's funny, it's loving, it's endearing. 164 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:06.799 And the thing that was great about the movie was Morgan. 165 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:09.799 It was you know, really family fun, you know, I mean, 166 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.200 it was not swearing or not anything that was you know, 167 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:16.279 you know, it was really a clean film, kind of 168 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:19.399 like the way the Elvis movies were down in the sixties, right, 169 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:21.200 So it was it was fun, it was it was 170 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:23.799 a nice movie. And then the other two were you 171 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:25.759 were part of one of them. They were a documentary 172 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:30.559 that a nice gentleman out of Wisconsin has a company 173 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:34.519 and he put together a documentary in My Life. And 174 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:36.480 then the other one was for sun Dance with Robert 175 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:40.360 Redford and had Sam Elliott narrating. And it's a short 176 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:44.080 about fifteen minutes actually on the Sundance Festival, I think 177 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:49.879 in twenty eighteen, but it's called Big Elves fifteen minutes 178 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:50.399 short of it. 179 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.799 So little did you know that when you snouted because 180 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:59.000 a Keidrin high school said you should injure a talent contest. 181 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:05.759 The many years later it's your living. You are doing 182 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:06.759 this infessionally. 183 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:12.519 Yeah. And you know, here's the really irony Morgan if 184 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:15.320 somebody who said, you know, you'll be doing this forty 185 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:18.480 years from now. But I've never thought in a million 186 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:21.200 years this like you just said, this would have been 187 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.480 my entire life. I mean, I just am shocked that 188 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:26.799 this has become my entire career in the whole world, 189 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:27.000 you know. 190 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:33.240 And you have jumped both feet into this. You have 191 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.039 the jumpsuits that you that you wear. I don't know 192 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:39.600 how many of them you have, but I've seen you 193 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:42.559 in five different jumpsuits. How many do you have? 194 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:46.279 Right? Oh? Sure, I've got probably probably at least ten 195 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:49.240 now still like a lot of you know I've put away, but. 196 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:53.919 Okay, and you style your hair the way Elvis styled 197 00:12:53.919 --> 00:13:00.600 his hair, the sideburns, the pompadour look. Every thing about 198 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:04.120 you screams Elvis. 199 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:06.360 The first time. I've still got the hair to do that. 200 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:10.240 I've been tying that hair to them for forty years. 201 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:14.039 But you know what it just become. You know, somebody 202 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:17.320 said it best if you become that person long enough. 203 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:19.759 I mean, that becomes part of your personal not that 204 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:22.799 I think I'm Elvis or anything like that, but it 205 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:25.080 becomes part of you. If that makes sense, you know 206 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:25.639 what I mean. 207 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:29.039 It does makes perfect sense. Let me take a phone call. 208 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:32.840 Invite more anyone who wants to call in. Here's your 209 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:36.679 chance to speak to a man who knows almost all 210 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:40.919 there is about the king of rock and roll. Mister Elvis, Presley, Howard, 211 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:44.679 and Randolph. You're up and you are talking with mister 212 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:47.840 Peter Valley aka Big Elvis. 213 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:50.519 Well happy in healthy new year, Morgan and mister Peter Valley, 214 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:55.840 Big Elvis. I'm a regular of Morgan's trivia shows, and 215 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.480 he always speaks very highly of you, with a lot 216 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:02.080 of affection and respect, and we always want to be 217 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:05.639 so often, you know, a segment on Elvis songs and 218 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:06.360 Elvis movies. 219 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:10.039 Right, He's a great time. Morgan's a great guy. 220 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:13.279 Pete. Let me tell you Howard has see me do 221 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:16.639 my show dozens and dozens of times, as you have 222 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:22.960 seen me do my show, and the people who are 223 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:26.600 in their twenties and thirties yet and still they know 224 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:31.120 the facts about Elvis, and I have to be right 225 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:35.600 on when I do a question about Elvis. I can't 226 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:38.639 be off by a title. I can't be off by 227 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:42.799 a song. And they catch me on it if I 228 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:48.120 dare make a mistake. Didn't you mean to say force 229 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:51.320 of habit instead of horse of habit? Not that I 230 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:53.960 ever made that mistake, but the point of it is, 231 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:58.639 if I do make a mistake. So I'm twenty something 232 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:00.840 and thirty something kid, it is going to tell me 233 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:04.279 I thought it was X and not Y. They know. 234 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:07.960 Yeah, no, it's unbelievable. I see it at the show 235 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:09.519 all the time, all the time. 236 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:13.639 And I'm going to tell you I've come out there 237 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:17.600 a couple of times where I didn't call you and 238 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:21.799 say I'm here. Can I do a break on on Wednesday. 239 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:24.080 I don't know when yet, when I'm going to be 240 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:27.399 out there sometime in the spring, and I will let 241 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:30.120 you know. And if you will allow me to, I'm 242 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:36.919 gonna letting me do a lot out there. Howard, did 243 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:38.240 you want to say anything else? 244 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:42.080 Yeah, Peter, what is your favorite elist movie? 245 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:45.879 You know, there was a couple of them. I really 246 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:49.360 liked I think that and Elvis like too. And King 247 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:52.159 Creole was probably one of the one of the best 248 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:54.960 movies ever put out. It was it was made actually 249 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:59.399 for uh, Jimmy Dean and James Dean and or Marlon Brando, 250 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:03.960 and Elvis filled that role unbelievably and it really showed 251 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.759 the character that he had as a youngster, how he 252 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:10.080 could have really progressed have been a good actor. I 253 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:12.240 think the rest of them, by the ten of sixties, 254 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.159 of all the movie scripts just kept going down the hill, 255 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:17.320 you know what I mean, I think they were They're 256 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:19.679 getting worse and worse. But if you ever watched King Creole, 257 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:23.600 the movie was written by a director called Michael Curtis. 258 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:26.720 Was that guy was a huge Morgan You probably know 259 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:30.000 Michael Curtis was a great director for in the fifties. 260 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:34.279 And sixties and forties, so he was anyhow, Yeah, so 261 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:37.039 I mean it wasn't and he had Walter Matho behind him. 262 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:40.519 I mean, you know he had it's really Carolyn Jones. 263 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:43.639 I mean I think, who's the other guy, Dean Jagger 264 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:46.200 and just did The list goes on and on. So 265 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:49.480 he didn't have slouches for people underneath him. And his 266 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:52.600 acting ability, I mean, he was just as good as 267 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:56.399 any one of those actors. I think Elvis really really 268 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:59.360 could have been an unbelievable actor given the chance. 269 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:06.400 Elvis was a gift from God. He had just talent 270 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:09.559 oozing out of every pore for an old phrase that 271 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:15.559 I borrowed, because his singing voice better than any His 272 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:19.960 ability to capture your attention on the big screen, whether 273 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:25.440 he was in a scene with an actress like Anne 274 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:30.920 Margaret or he was up against somebody like Walter Mathow 275 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:37.759 who had great acting chops himself, Elvis could do it all. 276 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:40.440 What's the question, Peter, are they doing anything for this 277 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:42.920 is every year's ninetieth birthday? Are you going to be 278 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:45.279 doing any kind of a special tribute above the MIGA 279 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:47.200 what you normally do? 280 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:49.839 You know what? We work at different places, but every 281 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:51.640 time we work. On the eighth we do a tribute. 282 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:54.160 It's you know, not that we don't do it every day, 283 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:57.960 but we do, you know, all Elvis. At this other 284 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:00.319 club I've been playing, they have fan club show up 285 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:04.000 on the We do it on the sixteenth of August 286 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:06.960 for his passing, and then on the eighth of January 287 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:10.480 and they have all day Elvis music and then fans 288 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:13.359 show up and contests and kind of things like that. 289 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:16.160 So we always honor that. And I mean, of course, 290 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.160 you know it's in Vegas. It's a big thing. All 291 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.480 the different shows that are Elvis like there do the same. 292 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:24.960 I mean, it's you know, it's a huge celebration. This 293 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:27.839 year he would have been ninety years old, so it's 294 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:33.599 going to be a pretty big celebration, I think, Harris, 295 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:37.720 I've been working at this other club that the man, 296 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:45.480 actually the regional entertainment gentlemen made this club a couple 297 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:49.799 of years ago, you know, you bought it and remodel it. 298 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:51.880 It's called the Composer's Room. So I do play there 299 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:55.079 once in a while, other than Harris. For special events. 300 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:57.799 They sell tickets and you know, we have a band 301 00:18:57.839 --> 00:18:59.480 and stuff like that. So it's a little bit more 302 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:03.000 expanded to what I do just at the Piano bar. 303 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:05.880 Where in Vegas is the Composers Club. 304 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:11.599 It's on Sahara and right at Philas Vegas by the 305 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:14.400 Sahara Hotel. It's in the Commercial Center, but they've remodeled 306 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:16.839 it and it's a really really nice place now. 307 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:20.359 So it's Commercial center, so. 308 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:23.839 Right, they have the lotuses I am that's went in there, 309 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:26.400 and they've got some really nice places going in there now. 310 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:30.039 They've redone that whole area that are down there, so 311 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:31.160 it's very nice. 312 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:36.160 For a while, you necessarily weren't comfortable going through the 313 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:37.079 Commercial Center. 314 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:43.880 It was actually, you know, no, it was very rough 315 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:46.599 up until the last three or four years, and then 316 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:50.000 the city got involved and they've re you know, they've 317 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:52.680 they've really cleaned it up, and it's really nice places 318 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:55.880 in there now. So it's a very very nice area now. 319 00:19:56.279 --> 00:20:00.480 Right Because you know me, I know my Vegas and 320 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:03.839 I just don't know your street, the streets that Sandwich 321 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:08.759 to the commercial Center and right up up until as 322 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:12.880 you say, the past four or five years, you had 323 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:16.880 to be aware of where you were, Yeah, walked through 324 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:22.319 and you kept your windows up and doors locked. 325 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:25.799 You sure dead, Sure that was a rough spot. 326 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:28.240 Howard, do you have anything else that you want to 327 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:28.680 bring up? 328 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:29.599 Yeah? 329 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:32.400 One last thing. God continued success to you. Peter and 330 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:36.599 Morgan also, and both have a happy and healthy New Year. 331 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:38.279 And I'll see you next year, Morgan. 332 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:42.680 I look forward to that, Howard, say you take care 333 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:51.279 all right? So Elvis is would have been ninety. Speculations 334 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:58.880 speculate had he not have we not lost him, what 335 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:01.480 would he be like at ninety? Would he still be 336 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:05.720 active or just sitting on his laurels, retired collecting royalties? 337 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:07.039 What would he be like? 338 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:12.079 Oh? Boy, you know what, it's hard to spect it. 339 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:14.559 I mean, had he been in good health still and 340 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:18.000 like lot there are people that are I'm sure he 341 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:21.759 would have done projects or have been behind projects. I 342 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:23.680 know he loved gospels, so you might have been in 343 00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:26.440 the middle of that a little bit. You know. I 344 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:28.799 think if Elvis would have lived, you'd have brought a 345 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:30.599 lot more great music, if he could have got back 346 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.839 into acting, and you know who knows how I mean, 347 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:37.200 I know, at forty two years old had passed away, 348 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:40.319 he could have gave at least another twenty thirty years 349 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:42.599 with us. I mean you know, look at William Shatner, 350 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:46.440 so he could have went on for goodness knows how long, 351 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:46.759 you know. 352 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:51.440 And I just read somewhere where Dick Van Dyke just 353 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:56.279 turned ninety nine years old and still the video things 354 00:21:56.319 --> 00:21:57.960 like a soft shoe. 355 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:04.279 Yes, you did it. I can't do that now, give 356 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:05.440 me Paul, I. 357 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:08.240 Couldn't have done it twenty twenty five years ago. Tell 358 00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:11.920 you what. Let me make my news hit. Anyone who 359 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:16.279 wants to speak to a gentleman who has personified everything 360 00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:21.519 about Elvis Presley, and he does it three or four 361 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:25.880 nights a week in Las Vegas. It's his living, it's 362 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:28.960 his honor to do it for you, the people that 363 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:32.920 come to see him. So give a call six one, seven, two, five, 364 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:36.680 four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, two nine, 365 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:39.759 ten thirty. And when we come back, I'm gonna tell 366 00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:44.759 Pete about a piece of Elvis memorabilia that I own. 367 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:50.519 Here we go. Time and temperature on night Side eleven 368 00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:56.559 twenty no, correct that, eleven thirty forty seven degrees. 369 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:04.599 You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZY, Boston's 370 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:05.279 news radio. 371 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:09.079 Time is a dwindling. We almost have run out of 372 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:12.720 time for twenty twenty four. My name is Morgan. I'm 373 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:14.519 filling in for Dan Ray. I've been here for the 374 00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:18.279 past nine days filling in for Dan Ray. But he 375 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.079 Dan Ray will be here tomorrow. This is his microphone. 376 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:25.880 Nightside belongs to Dan, and Dan belongs to night Side, 377 00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:29.680 So he'll be back tomorrow eight o'clock to midnight to 378 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:34.559 begin twenty twenty five. And Pete, I have in my possession. 379 00:23:35.480 --> 00:23:38.480 I have a lot of memorabilia I've collected over the years. 380 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:43.279 And there was a poster that was put out when 381 00:23:43.359 --> 00:23:47.920 Elvis first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. And on 382 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:52.079 that poster there's a shot of Elvis in his gold 383 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:59.240 lamet suit. It's a white poster with black lettering appearing 384 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:09.359 tonight at Sullivan Show, and the name Elvis Presley is 385 00:24:09.359 --> 00:24:13.480 in red and see him, see him sing his hits 386 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:20.400 like hound Dog and Blue Sweight Shows and I forget 387 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:25.519 the third song that's mentioned if and I'm not going 388 00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:28.200 to but if I were going to sell this, it's 389 00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:32.839 a replica of an original poster. Do you have any 390 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:34.359 idea what that might be worth? 391 00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:38.720 Well, you know, it's almost like a thing, right it. 392 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:42.240 It depends on how many replicas are out there. If 393 00:24:42.279 --> 00:24:45.640 it's varied in numbers where there's not many of them, 394 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:49.000 of course the price will go up. If they're been 395 00:24:49.079 --> 00:24:53.279 copied in mass more than then you're looking at. You 396 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:56.039 know that, probably a lot less. So it would depend 397 00:24:56.079 --> 00:24:59.079 on how many of you know, if you had the 398 00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:03.440 original obviously be priceless, but they're having a copy. If 399 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:07.599 there's not many made, you could probably fetching decent money 400 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:10.599 for it, you know you I don't know the check. 401 00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:13.680