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Speaker 2: A very happy Tuesday, to you Inside Scoop coming up
Speaker 2: after Top of the Hour News and one Hour from
Speaker 2: Now and Daniel Davis Deep Dive and the latest on Ukraine, Israel,
Speaker 2: and of course Russia in the meantime. Welcome to the
Speaker 2: fifty five KRC Morning Show. Elvis Fan extraordinary Michael Mercer.
Speaker 2: He's going to be doing an empower Youth seminar and
Speaker 2: it's actually more than just a seminar. It is a
Speaker 2: whole evening of fun and games. Show up live so
Speaker 2: you can enjoy beer, wine, appetizers and enjoy a live concert.
Speaker 2: After Michael's speech on Elvis, Welcome to the program, Michael.
Speaker 2: It's a great have you on today.
Speaker 1: Hey, thank you Brian very much.
Speaker 2: You've been an Elvis fan your entire life. Apparently I
Speaker 2: understand you. You actually made a trip to Graceland with
Speaker 2: your dad back in the day a few years ago.
Speaker 2: That was I suppose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've made two trips. One my dad and
Speaker 1: I took a road trip from Boston to Graceland in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety and then in two thousand and nine, my
Speaker 1: own son and I took a trip from Cincinnati to Graceland.
Speaker 2: Oh that's cool, sir. You know I've always seen pictures
Speaker 2: of Graceland, and you know, most recently, I guess the
Speaker 2: movie Zombie Land had Graceland in and after the zombie
Speaker 2: apocalypse and was all dilapidated and everything. The one thing
Speaker 2: that I've been told and I've heard other people say,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to get your impression on that, is that,
Speaker 2: you know, given how big homes have gotten over the years,
Speaker 2: and you look at these twenty thirty forty fifty thousand
Speaker 2: square foot ridiculous houses out west and out east, it's
Speaker 2: a lot smaller than you would think it would be
Speaker 2: given how historic Graceland is. Is that your impression?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say yes, yes. You know, you walk
Speaker 1: in and there's a dining room in the left and
Speaker 1: a living room in the right, and then you go
Speaker 1: through a hallway and then you have a kitchen and
Speaker 1: like a bedroom in the back, and then that that
Speaker 1: famous jungle room. But I'd agree with you, don't It
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like a huge, you know, Hollywood mansion really Now?
Speaker 2: Was he kind of a humble guy in his in
Speaker 2: his real life, you know and outwithstanding the amazing stage
Speaker 2: person he put on. What kind of guy was he?
Speaker 2: You know, sort of day to day.
Speaker 1: Well, if you that's the great thing about the Internet.
Speaker 1: It's given you know, all these Elvis obsessed fans with
Speaker 1: all of this information, you can you can hear interviews
Speaker 1: with all of his friends and the people that performed
Speaker 1: with him and acted with him, and you know what
Speaker 1: you hear is he was this enormously generous person. I
Speaker 1: think like everyone who everyone in the Memphis mafia that
Speaker 1: and people that work for me. You bought them a
Speaker 1: home and cars, and he was always giving anonymously. There
Speaker 1: was a story that was revealed recently that sometime in
Speaker 1: the seventies there were like consecutive Christmases where on Christmas
Speaker 1: Eve he could go to the the Memphis prison, the
Speaker 1: jail and talk to every inmate and see what he
Speaker 1: could do for them to help them, you know, whether
Speaker 1: it was money for their family or whatever. But he
Speaker 1: was this really you know, down to earth. Everyone says
Speaker 1: he was really down to earth, kind and generous. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, what's and I covered the in
Speaker 1: the talk. So many people say that he had this
Speaker 1: this aura that you could feel electricity, Like you could
Speaker 1: be in a room and he'd enter the building and
Speaker 1: you didn't know he was there. You could physically feel
Speaker 1: that he was there, and you knew he was there.
Speaker 1: He gave off like an energy and electricity that many
Speaker 1: people talked about. So he was he was very humble,
Speaker 1: but I think there was something going on there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I understand that. And I guess one of
Speaker 2: the things I learned and I get your reaction on
Speaker 2: the movie that was made about him that Tom Hanks
Speaker 2: was in, But when I read Bill O'Reilly's Killing the Legends,
Speaker 2: I came away with this absolute and I wouldn't say hatred,
Speaker 2: that's a tough word, but disdain for Colonel Tom Parker.
Speaker 2: He worked Elvis Presley to death. I mean you can
Speaker 2: almost say that literally.
Speaker 1: Right, And that's you know, that's something that I think Elvis,
Speaker 1: from what I've heard from you know, and everythings his
Speaker 1: bodyguard said and the Mephosmalfia that in the seventies he
Speaker 1: became aware of that Colonel Parker had a serious gambling problem,
Speaker 1: and that, you know, Elvis was I think he was
Speaker 1: doing like performing one hundred and eighty nights a year
Speaker 1: in the seventies, and sometimes he'd be two shows, like
Speaker 1: in Vegas, he took two shows a night for thirty
Speaker 1: days straight. So he felt like he was being worked
Speaker 1: to death, and it was partly to pay off Colonel
Speaker 1: Parker's gambling deaths because he'd lose you know, a million bucks.
Speaker 2: You know, in a moment, how is a guy like Elvis,
Speaker 2: with all the money he was made, how popular he was,
Speaker 2: all the access to the multitudes and the masses of people,
Speaker 2: was he able to be kept in such a confined
Speaker 2: space and domineered by so much by Tom Parker that
Speaker 2: he didn't get some sort of independent financial advice or
Speaker 2: get someone to sort of grab him by the neck
Speaker 2: and say, dude, do you realize you are being ripped
Speaker 2: off and work to death? For that man's issues.
Speaker 1: That I really don't understand, because I know he knew
Speaker 1: he was being worked to death. But on another level,
Speaker 1: I think that Elvis implicitly trusted Colonel Parker because he really,
Speaker 1: you know, in the fifties made him so successful. He
Speaker 1: really attributed his mega success to a great extent to
Speaker 1: Colonel Parker's promotional abilities. You know, and I know I've
Speaker 1: seen in interviews with Elvis's father he said the same thing, like,
Speaker 1: you know, you can trust a guy like Colonel Parker's
Speaker 1: I think there was a real naivete. I think they
Speaker 1: implicitly trusted Colonel Parker on we well financially in terms
Speaker 1: of like the deals, right, but I think they're very naive,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of like business and finances, and
Speaker 1: really weren't fully aware of how much she, you know, COURL.
Speaker 1: Parker was taking from him, you know, financially.
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of taking obviously muchly. A dramatically different racial
Speaker 2: environment existed back in the fifties when you know, he
Speaker 2: made his bones in music and became popular, and I
Speaker 2: think of a guy like Pat Boone who sing black
Speaker 2: music for a white audience. You know, that was for
Speaker 2: the purposely designed so it was acceptable. I know Elvis
Speaker 2: has been accused of that, of stealing the music of
Speaker 2: that belonged to the black culture. Was he aware of
Speaker 2: those criticisms during his lifetime or did these come up
Speaker 2: later in life he.
Speaker 1: Was, And well, I don't know for sure, but I
Speaker 1: get the sense that he was, because there were multiple
Speaker 1: times where you know, he didn't appropriate that music. He
Speaker 1: really transformed black rhythm and blues into his own thing,
Speaker 1: and that's why it was so popular. You know, it
Speaker 1: was something new, and of course you've probably heard when
Speaker 1: when they first started playing his records in the South,
Speaker 1: white listeners thought thought he was black. So people thought
Speaker 1: he was black initially, but he was doing something different
Speaker 1: with the music. He was transforming it and making it
Speaker 1: his own. But there are multiple interviews in press conferences
Speaker 1: that he did where he would say, my music was
Speaker 1: really a combination of gospel or them and blues and
Speaker 1: country combined. So he he always knew that he was
Speaker 1: borrowing and taking as the basis of his music black
Speaker 1: gospel and rhythm and blues, you know, and transforming it
Speaker 1: into his own thing. But he always acknowledged that it
Speaker 1: wasn't you know, this appropriation where he tried to sound
Speaker 1: like a black performer and claimed the music as being
Speaker 1: just his own. He always credited black performers.
Speaker 2: Well, get that he started out with gospel. Was Was
Speaker 2: he a profoundly religious man himself?
Speaker 1: He was? He was and his his girlfriend Lynda Thompson
Speaker 1: in the seventies, he used to talk about how he
Speaker 1: would wear across and a star of David and I
Speaker 1: forget the Islamic symbol because he said he didn't want
Speaker 1: to be kept out of heaven on the captality. But
Speaker 1: he had a He had a trunk of two hundred
Speaker 1: books that he would take with him on his tours
Speaker 1: in the seventies. He was very really an intellectual, became
Speaker 1: an intellectual, and a lot of them were I always
Speaker 1: had the biblenexser's bed, and a lot of them were
Speaker 1: spiritual books. He would read about different faiths, you know,
Speaker 1: from all different cultures. He was extremely spiritual.
Speaker 2: And one of the things I have to comment on
Speaker 2: before we part coming today Michael Mercier. We're just scratching
Speaker 2: the surface of his topic, which obviously Elvis Presley. The
Speaker 2: event Thursday, six point thirty pm. We got an early
Speaker 2: star time. If you're showing up a two twenty five
Speaker 2: Northern Boulevard, that's when the appetizers and the beer and
Speaker 2: wine start flowing. Michael's going to start speaking at seven,
Speaker 2: and then at eight o'clock you're going to hear from
Speaker 2: the Sincerely Elvis Tribute band. He's going to be playing
Speaker 2: for an hour with all the Elvis music and of
Speaker 2: course the Elvis experience and the moves and the as
Speaker 2: is described here in my notes Electric Vibes. So it's
Speaker 2: going to be a fun full evening. But back over
Speaker 2: to the question I wanted to end on this morning,
Speaker 2: Michael with you his film career. Now, some obviously better
Speaker 2: than others, and I have seen quite a few Elvis movies.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't exactly call any of them Academy Award winning material,
Speaker 2: but there are some of them that I have a
Speaker 2: feeling that Elvis had to be really really embarrassed to make.
Speaker 2: And of course not Viva Las Vegas, because Anne Margaret
Speaker 2: was smoke and hot in that movie. But clam Bake,
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, man, seriously, Michael, you're the biggest
Speaker 2: Elvis fan on the planet. You can't defend clam Bake.
Speaker 1: No, No, Honestly, I think I found Elvis personally to
Speaker 1: be a mediocre actor. I think he had potential, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't like a Rod Steiger, right, He wasn't
Speaker 1: a native actor in my opinion. And yes, he was
Speaker 1: giving all given all those terrible films, and it frustrated him.
Speaker 1: You might have heard this story where Barbara streisand approached
Speaker 1: him about taking the lead and a Star is Born,
Speaker 1: and he wanted to do it. He thought this could
Speaker 1: be my big break to get into dramatic films, and
Speaker 1: the Colonel Parker demanded too much money, and she declined.
Speaker 1: Oh so he gave up the Yeah, he gave up
Speaker 1: the film career and said, dad a, Hollywood doesn't want
Speaker 1: me anyone back to music, which which was great in
Speaker 1: the seventies.
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 2: You know, well that's great, Michael. It's been a real
Speaker 2: pleasure having you on today, and it's gonna be a
Speaker 2: really interesting conversation. You'll do Q and A at this tonight,
Speaker 2: will you? Yeah, we're on Thursday, Yes, Thursday, not tonight.
Speaker 2: I don't want to Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday. The information
Speaker 2: of my blog page fifty five cars, bring an appetizer.
Speaker 2: If you're showing up in person for the six thirty social,
Speaker 2: you're encouraged to bringing appetizer or dessert. Again, they'd be
Speaker 2: beer and wine flowing. You get an hour's worth of
Speaker 2: conversation with Michael, and then you get an hour's worth
Speaker 2: of music with the band. Michael has been a real
Speaker 2: good have fun on Thursday. I know it's going to
Speaker 2: be a great event. A lot of people are going
Speaker 2: to check it out, So have fun and uh I
Speaker 2: will probably talk with you again down the road.
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks so much, Brian.
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