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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time luck and load. The Michael
darry Show is on the air. The liberal rack of
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Texas Tribune declares it in exis illegal aliens quote have
built apartment complexes and skyscrapers that changed skylines. They have
picked fruits and vegetables and fuels cooked in restaurant kitchens,
cleaned hospitals and started small businesses. They have become stitched
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into communities from Olpaso to Beaumont. You Jack asked, why
would you say Beaumont? Beaumont's not the eastern corner. Stupid.
They say that Texas leaders, business leaders are apprehensive about
Trump's deportation plan. Trump's deportation plan is why he won.
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Tell that to Alexis nunger A, how great these illegal
aliens are. Tell that to all the victims out there
of murder and rape. Tell that to all the people,
all the guys that it up. Go to work in
the morning and their truck's not there because an illegal
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stole it, or parts of their car have been sawed off.
I can't think of it. Catalytic converter? Is it the
catalytic converter? They still or the wheels are stolen. Well,
that's an awful sight. Come out and see your car
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up on blocks. I never had it happen, but I've
had friends who did just steal the whole damn thing.
I mean, that's just terrible. Do you not know how
just steal a car? I don't. I don't, but I'm
just saying I think I'd rather walk out and my
car not be there, then you put it up on blocks.
That's terrible. That's an indignity right there. Kyle writes. In
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nineteen seventy four, I was five and my father took
me and my brother to the Houston Road. It was
at the Astro Arena. Back then, Elvis was there. We
saw him sitting on the back of a Cadillac. We
ran down and climbed up on the railing. It's a
cherished memory because my father, Neil Finch Houston Police Department,
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passed just a couple of months after that. Bobby writes,
Mailman Vaughn did sound like Shelby Foote, but he reminded
me more of Alan Tucson. Boy, Ain't that the truth?
He really did? Woo Very Rich Voice Resident voice Jeff
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writes Fountain View Cafe was way better than Buffalo grill.
My mom is going to call you about her Elvis stories.
In Canada. We are a huge Elvis family. She even
claims I'm Elvis's love child. From his Winnipeg show. Dana
Pendleton Duncan writes, I saw Elvis live at the Houston
Livestock Showing Rodeo in nineteen seventy will forever have images
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burned in my mind. By the way, the offer of
the Elvis Museum tour still stands. It's in Willis, about
two miles west of Republic Grand Ranch. Joe writes, talking
about the Buffalo grill reminded me of Buffalo Hardware, which
was owned by the family Jim Brown, who had a
handyman show on KPRC on the weekends. Wonder whatever happened
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to him was that before your time? Remon you're an
old Houston guy. I didn't know if that was before you,
before you, before you were around as they say. June
of nineteen seventy seven, Elvis and his entourage had arrived
in Madison, Wisconsin at about one am after a concert
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in Des Moines. They were on their way to the
hotel when the limo stopped at a red light at
Highway fifty nine, sorry, fifty one in East Washington Avenue.
And you may say, Michael, does it matter that you
get fifty Warner fifty nine? Right, we're talking about des Moines. Yes,
we have listeners in des Moin Elvis saw a young
man on the ground being beaten by two other guys
in the parking lot of a service station. Elvis bled
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out of the car in full costume. I don't like
the word costume being used there, taking on a full regalia,
taking on a karate stance, and said I'll take you on.
The guys recognized him. How could they not stood and
shook hands and promised to stop fighting. Elvis then asked
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us everything settled down, He got back in the car
and went on to the Sheraton Hotel. He invited them
back to do blow off the back of strippers butt. No,
I'm just kidding. I made that part up. I made
that part up. He did not do that. That's a joke.
That's a stupid joke. He died fifty two days later
August sixteenth, nineteen seventy seven. You know Rose Kennedy, John F.
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Kennedy's mother said she wished people would remember her son's birthday,
not the day he was assassinated, because it was much
more important to her that he came into this world
than he left it and always stuck with me. The
late George Klein, friend of Elvis since nineteen forty eight
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when the Presleys moved to Memphis from Tupelo, Mississippi, remained
very close friends until Elvis's death in seventy seven. George,
in addition to being a friend and a Memphis Mafia member,
was also in eight of Elvis's movies, as were several
of his friends. G K, as he was known on
the air, the Geeker in Your Speaker, was a popular
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DJ in Memphis. On the night of December fifteenth, nineteen
sixty six, as George was leaving the radio station, a
limo pulled up and outstepped Jerry Shilling and a couple
of other Memphis Mafia members. They said to George, Elvis
wants to see you now. George climbed in the car
because if Elvis sent for you, you did not turn
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him down. Similar to Michael Berry, I didn't write this,
Paul Becker did. They headed in the opposite direction of
Graceland and would not tell George where they were. Going.
The car arrived at the front of a Cadillac dealership.
It was late in the evening and after business hours
for the dealership, but nonetheless, they all got out of
the car and went inside. The lights then dramatically came
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on and there was Elvis with a big smile, holding
a set of keys. George asked Elvis what was going on,
and Elvis handed the keys to George to a brand
new sixty six yellow Cadillact convertible and said Merry Christmas.
George was blown away by the kind gesture and wasn't
sure what to say or how to thank him. Elvis said,
what good is fame and fortune if you don't share
it with your friends? No, he didn't invite him back,
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stats to blow stop saying that December fifth, nineteen seventy,
Elvis Presley was George Kloin's best man at his wedding.
I've read varying reports on how many Cadillacs Elvis bought
for people. It's at a minimum twenty five, it could
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be fifty or morning. And you know what, when you're
raised poor, you spend your money on people in a
way that you don't if you're raised rich. Just a factor.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Hey this Tracy Bird, and I tip my hand to
the keeper the stars, and you want to.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Hear this forget my past.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I tolerate the early Elvis, but that's not Elvis. I'm
not a big early Elvis guy. That's true. I mean,
I'll tell the stories one because that's part of the
arc of Elvis.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Don't stop.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It's like the Baby Jesus stuff. I understand it's important.
It's in the Bible, but it's not. You know, it's true.
It's not the time with the Apostles. It's not the wisdom.
It's not if I go there, I prepare a place
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for you. You know, it's not that the Baby Jesus
stuff is well to me. The Sun Records phase is
the Baby Jesus stuff. It's interesting, it's part of the lore.
It's part of the you know, what makes the story
the story, but it's not the important part to me.
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Darren writes, hey, man, before the Christmas holidays, you were
talking about Woodville, Texas and the Picket House. What about
Wild Bills? That's also great food. I didn't know where
wild Bills was. Apparently it's at one ninety, just east
of Highway to eighty seven in Bell County, near Colleen
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to Belton. Never been there, never heard of it, Never
heard of it. Shay Lee, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
What say you?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Shy Lee?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Sure it's Cherie like Marie. But Cherie.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You won't believe this. It doesn't matter. National syndication. We
got over fifty stations. We added five more yesterday. All
everything I could ever hope for in my life I have.
But I still have to get up every morning and
come into a studio and know that there's going to
be a name put on the screen for me to
go to that may or may not in any way
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resemble the actual name of the person on the other end,
because Ramon had just he just he hears you say something.
He just throws a bunch of letters up there. He
literally just scatters letters up there. Chari. I'm just hooray.
I'm just curious. Did you not hear Shari? Or did
you thought? Are you doing a Japanese act? You can
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you mix the R because that would be funny. What
what what went through your mind that you wrote s
H A L E E? What what? I'm just no,
not sweet, I'm talking I'm talking about oh you asked
her three times, and all three times she said, Shali,
I find that hard to believe. How about this? Okay,
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so I just want to be I want to be clear.
So s h A l e E. And then you
would go, no, no, Charie, s h A r how
do you spell it? Just out of carest.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Well, it's actually s h E R e E.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
But it's like.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Marie, no I chi. It's an odd white woman's name
because I don't know where that comes from.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Well it is, I'm guessing it would have been.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It's it's some perversion of a French name. It's the
best I can guess.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
That's right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Okay, like my Charie, but that would have been c
h E r I I E. Yes, yeah, Stevie wonderstyle.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And then we and then we anglicized it with the
s h E r ee. Okay, all right, go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Huh yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
But for each person that calls in about Elvis, you're early,
but we're going to keep you anyway. I want you
to tell your name and your middle name also, I mean, sorry,
your age, your age and your middle name.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Sorry, go ahead, Okay, I'm seventy.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
My middle name is Sharie.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
What's your first name, Helen, Helen Schari.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Never go by it? Yeah, ye, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
What's your story, sweetheart?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Well, I actually saw Elvis twice in one day. I
lived in Midland, Texas, and he was in Odessa, and
my mother had bought tickets to go, and we went
real we had after tickets to the evening show, and
we went very very early, and she went over to
the highest dollar hotel over in Odessa, Texas, because she
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figured that's where he'd probably staying. So we went over
there and she started talking to people.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
She was a hairdresser, She talked to everybody, but she started.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Talking to this man and he's talked to us just
about stuff, and and then it it is about two
thirty when the next show was afternoon show was going
to start, and he said her, y'all go, and she
said no, we have tickets to the evening show.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And she talked to.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Him for about thirty minutes and he reached it in
his socks and pulled out four tickets to the afternoon show.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Theyll on the floor. Well, I didn't see him do it.
She was the one that was talking to him, but
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
It could have.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
If it was to see Elvis on the floor, I'd
have taken them.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
That's that's exactly right, man.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
Her.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
We agreed on Elvis. We loved Elvis. The only thing
we ever agreed on.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
What did you?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
So we went, We went, and we it was right
on the floor, and when it was about over, I
always always knew that when it was about over it
girls lined up in the aisle to run. I don't
know what they did, but I knew it was the
last song. And I got down in that aisle and
I ran up to the front and stopped because the
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stage was like circular, kind of half circle, and deputies
all around. So I stopped, and girls ran up behind me.
But I was first in line, and I knew it
was the last song, and he was about to leave,
because he leaves the building. And I started running and
those deputies that one of them hit, slapped me in
the chest and grabbed me by the stomach, and the
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other one got me by the feet, and I was
like midair, like I was flying, and I nearly touched
his booty, nearly did.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
But then he is gone.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We're going to make a montage of our morning calls
for this evening show, Ramon, make sure that Ramon includes
the line that I nearly touched his booty. You were
sweet sixteen.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
I was just about yeah, Yes I was, Yes, I was.
In fact, we saw him about I almost think it
was a year to the day he died. It was
in August nineteen seventy six. I have to look at
my ticket. I still have the ticket. Is a year
before he died, I don't yeah, year before he died.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
After that evening and saw him again.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I'm so glad you called. Let me get one more
on real quick. Pat, you're on the Michael Barry Show. Pat,
you are eighty six. Yes, you've got one minute, sweetheart,
go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
I saw him at Magnolia Gardens in Houston, that's where
I lived, and he was hadn't even gotten started yet,
you know, on his career. He was just up there
singing to entertain and he was so good then at
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that time, and so cute, so good looking. And that's
been eighty something years ago. I mean I was a
teenager myself at the time, and so that's all I
know about him.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I'm glad you called it.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
He still looks the same till he died.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yes he did. I could not thank you for saying that,
thank you for calling. We're a sweetheart. Please clap, please,
please clap.
Speaker 10 (16:30):
Falling.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I was sixteen years old. I'd just gotten my license
and I had a Volkswagen Rabbit four speed diesel. We
called it the go Mobile. It just rattled like that.
Glow plugs good. Then we didn't have a bad winner
because take a wafer. The glow plugs. They don't have
spark plugs on those. But it's a great little engine
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and a great little car. Fantastic little car for what
it was. What anything fancy? But I remember I was
at the store. Buddy of mine came up and knocked
on the window and he said, hey, can I get
a ride? Because he didn't have his license yet. Sure,
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hop in. So I started up the car and I
had a cassette tape in there, and this song is
playing and he said, who's this? I said, it's Elvis.
Shut up And that felt very beavisome, but head and
he said, dude, you're sixteen listening to Elvis. That's not normal. Well, there,
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you haven't. Pat went back in her memory to seeing
Elvis at Magnolia Gardens, and she said, shoot, I don't
remember that was eighty years ago, and I thought it
couldn't have been eighty years ago. It was. It was
April twenty fourth, nineteen fifty five. There's a documentary about
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that footage. The first that show the home footage or
the footage that was taken by non professionals who were
at that show. Is the first actual footage we have
of Elvis.
Speaker 11 (18:20):
In nineteen fifty four, Elvis recorded his first hit for
Sam Phillips's Son label. It became an overnight regional smash,
and Presley and his backup band hit the road. They
played small clubs throughout the South, and on April twenty fourth,
nineteen fifty five, a quiet Sunday in Balmy Houston, Texas,
Elvis was booked at a small suburban venue called Magnolia Gardens.
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As luck would have it, this was a very special moment.
A newly married couple had just bought a silent eight
millimeter camera and was testing it out. This is the
first time this remarkable footage has been shown in its entirety.
Speaker 12 (18:59):
By kemve He was captured that early in his career,
but it takes me back forty years meeting Elvis in
nineteen fifty four in a local playground in Memphis. And
this was the time when he was going to Texas Louisiana.
He was so vulnerable, still a little shy, still experimenting.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
That's Jerry Shilleyking. We talked about him anyway, Pat was
at that show. How about that, Cynthia, You're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
Go ahead, sweetheart, good morning, Michael. I saw Elvis in
Houston at the Rodeo in the Astronome seventy four in
nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
How old are you did?
Speaker 13 (19:45):
How old am I now? I'm seventy two, okay, And
I was twenty two when I saw Elvis that year, okay,
And I remember it was such a different world then.
I remember he that he wrote in a Cadillac. He
circled the Astronom dirt floor.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Are you sure?
Speaker 13 (20:11):
If you look it up. If you look it up
on YouTube, it shows a Bronco. But and I'm probably wrong,
but I remember him being in a convertible Cadillac. And
and the other thing that I remember that show, he
was throwing scarves when he stood up, and he was
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riding around the arena and and now you know, now
you would never have that close exposure, but.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
He insisted on My understanding, and I'll have to ask
my buddy Paul Baker, the private investigator, because he is
the expert on all things Elvis. My understanding is he
did not realize how big the stadium was, because even
in seven twenty four, the astronome was a unique thing,
and he did not realize that he was going to
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be out in the middle of this stadium and there
would be such a distance between them, and he wanted
he wanted the rides around the perimeter, which they had.
I don't know if they'd been doing it before that,
my guess is, but that became kind of part of
the deal as everybody took a ride around the perimeter,
so you were closer to the people. But my understanding
is that was very important to him because he was
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so far away. Thank you for the call, Cynthia stan
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 14 (21:31):
Go ahead, Hey, good morning, Michael. Appreciate you taking my call. Man, Yes, sir,
I was. I was fortunate then enough to see Elvis
three times. We saw him first and out in Albuquerque,
grow from Silverton, Texas, which is out there by love
and all the way to Albuquerque and saw him in
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April of nineteen seventy two, and later later Elvis came
in No Way member of the same year he came
to love him. We saw him again, and I think
he had some kind of beef with Amarella. But in
nineteen seventy four he swallowed his pride and went to
Amarella and we saw him there.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I love it, Emil. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, Emil.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
Yes, I got to see Elvis in Las Vegas in
nineteen sixty nine. My wife and I were on our
honeymoon and we just got lucky. I think that was
some of his first show or a few shows that
he when he got out of the military. Back then, No,
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that was muling.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Now you said sixty nine. Yes, okay, now it's much
later than that. But yes, anyway, are you still married.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
So far?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Good for you. Thank you for calling my man. Ray,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Good morning.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
I saw all this in nineteen seventy three in downtown
Fort Worth, and at the intermission I got talked to
the drummer. You know, backstage, you're kind of off side
of the stage, and I want to say I'm two
days older than Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Well you sound thirty years younger.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
I feel like thirty years younger as well. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
His drummer was Ron Tutt. That's probably who you were
who you were talking to. Mike, You're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I was a sophomore in high school. My mother got
tickets and a neighbor couldn't go, so my father didn't
want to go, so she took me along. It was
nineteen fifty six. It was at the CBS Studio fifty
at Sullivan Show now see at Sullivan Theater. He's sang
Don't Be Cruel and love Me Tender. And before during
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the commercial, before whether he was on ed, Sullivan told
the girls in the audience do not be to be
quiet during the show. Then after, right when he was finished, uh,
after he came back after Senor Wensis and he sang
a song I don't I don't remember it. But then
he said hand dog, and the girls went crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
You saw he said he did something. You don't know
if I remember it. What what did you say there?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
No? No, oh, he sang a song I don't remember
the name of the song now, but I remember after
then he sang hound Dog.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Remember asking if I remember from the set of Ed Sullivan.
I don't. I could look it up pretty fast, but no,
I don't remember it. I mean I remember everything.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Go ahead, the girls went crazy and uh, that's from
my mother used to play cars on Friday night. So
that Friday night playing cause I overheard it. She was
talking to the other women. Elvis's package.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
All right, if you've got an Elvis story, you got
one segment left to tell it. Seven one, three, nine, nine,
nine one thousand.
Speaker 15 (25:09):
Yet it's the Michael Barry's Show, my friend, let's say it.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
All right, I'm gonna get right to it. I hate
to interrupt my way back. I want to get everybody
in that wants to be in. Seven one three, nine, nine,
nine one thousand. We'll get them in and out. Let's
go down the list in the order there on Ramon, Brenda,
you're on the Michael Berry Show, sweetheart.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Go ahead, Well, Michael, I saw Elvis at the Astrodome, uh,
in the early seventies. Now, I don't remember a lot
about it other than he was amazing performance wise, and
he was dropped head, gorgeous and Also, we were stationed
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in Germany when he was stationed in Germany, but we
were in a different area.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
And you know, I was only.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Fourteen about fourteen at the time, and we used to
watch old reruns of of the Ed Sullivan Show, you know,
with him and the Beatles and all of that stuff
when we were in Germany. But anyway, he was a
great entertainer. Just really loved him.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yes he was. Roger. You are on the Michael Berry Show, Roger,
go ahead.
Speaker 16 (26:25):
Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Well.
Speaker 16 (26:26):
I saw Elvis in nineteen fifty six in the Cotton Bowl.
It was during the State Fair, and they used to
let the kids out of school for State Fair, and
we just stayed there and watched Elvis. I think it
cost a dollar and a half. He was in the
Cotton Bowl. And I didn't I was eight years old.
I didn't understand the dynamics of physical attraction very well
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until I saw Elvis and all those girls that were
sitting around me, and I got quite an education.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yes, indeed, I'm not going to retell the story now
because I've told it on the morning show, but I
will tell it this evening. But we were having dinner
at mar Alago two tables over from President Trump last year,
and it was the night before Lisa Marie Presley would die,
and she was having dinner along with her mother Priscilla
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at Marlago with President Trump, but they had their back
to us, and so we didn't know who it was.
And President Trump has an iPad that he programs the music.
He can override what's already programmed, and he kept playing
Elvis songs through the course of the evening, and it
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was like it was the first time I've ever since
his age, because it was like me running the music.
He would run the music up too loud, and it
would go too low, and he'd start a song and
start another song. He loves Elvis. A friend of mine said,
don't you wish Elvis was still alive, because you know
Trump would put him in his administration and he would.
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Trump has remarked multiple times over the course of his
life how much he looked that people would tell him
he looked like Elvis, and me saying that if it's
the first time you ever heard it, you may say, look, Michael,
I'm all for the Trump pumping and all that, but
that's too much. Go back and look at the picture
of Elvis at thirty and Donald Trump at thirty and
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you tell me, you tell me if they don't have very,
very striking resemblance. Stacy, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, Sweart, Oh, let's come back. That's weird. Richard,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead.
Speaker 17 (28:37):
Yes, I saw. We saw him at hal Finds Pavilion.
And at the time, we were big Cougar fans, and
we you know, we've gone to the hal Finds a lot,
but we got to see him and he was he
was a little bit overweight at that time, and he
was passing out that he was passing out the scarves
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and my son was four years old, and he went
he got up front to get one of those cars
that those ladies were not gonna let my son have
one of them scars. They grabbed that for those scars.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
They weren't gonna be nice about that. That scarf. They
had to have it. Stacey, you're on Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 15 (29:14):
Go ahead, sir, Yes, sir, Well, I told Ramon I
didn't know if he wanted the little old ladies to call,
but I could identify as a woman just to get
on here. But go ahead. I did see Elvis Presley,
I believe in nineteen seventy in an astronome.
Speaker 16 (29:28):
It was awesome.
Speaker 15 (29:29):
I was eight years old. The only thing I can
really remember is him driving around in the convertible red
car and leaving it everybody, And it was pretty cool
because I was at eight years old, I sang every
song that he sang. And also my mom seen him
in Magnolia Gardens, which I still have an autograph picture
from Elvis to her. It says too alta from Elvis Presley,
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so I still have that laminated pretty cool. I like it.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Got me thinking, anyway, thank you for the call. I
was thinking of which line it was when he said
we sang every song and it's me and Bobby McGee.
When he said we sang every song that driver new,
just went off on my head. Is that tawn? Dear God,
this person? I think it is okay. I didn't know
that ramone got it wrong or not?
Speaker 9 (30:15):
Go ahead, sweetheart, Well my fifteen minutes of claim the
fame is I spent the night with Elvis Presley in
April of nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
All right, go ahead, all right.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
As a stewardess.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
They were called stewardesses.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Back in those days. I had a flight from midnight
flight from lax to Memphis, and he had bought up
all the first class seats on my seven and seven aircraft,
and so we got the information from the gate agent
and we put the curtains clothes for all those people,
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about seventy people in the back, and we turned off
the lights as soon as we got them served, and
all the flight attents went to the first class and
the flight deck door was open. It was called the
cockpit back in those days. And the door was opened,
and one pilot was staying there and the others had
come out. And we spent the night just talking to
Elvis and the people that he had with in that night,
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and he told the captain, he said, just let me
know about thirty minutes out from landing and I'll walk through.
So we walked. We was with people up around six am,
and he walked through, and they had to circle Memphis
twice so that he could get through that back aisle
and talk to every person who wanted to talk to him.
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He kissed every woman who wanted to kiss him. He
was just the most gracious gentleman I'd ever met, and
I heard. I was in my sewing room and my
husband said, go call Michael Berry. Now tell him your story.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I'm glad you.
Speaker 9 (31:53):
So of course, when I got to the hotel, I
called my husband. He was well he wasn't my husband
a slight defense students couldn't be married in those days.
And I called him. I said, I spent the night
with Elvis Presley and we were engaged.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I love that. There's nothing I like better than the
little old ladies talk about when they were young, because
you hear it in their voices, in their minds, they
go back to that. I think it's the most adorable
thing ever. Juan, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, yes, Michael.
Speaker 18 (32:25):
I just want to let you know that I worked
for the Eastern Association Houston Astros Association back in seventy four,
and they gave me six tickets for the rodeo to
see Elvis, and I had a couple of friends they
were supposed to come over, and only two showed up.
So I had two tickets left, and I told my
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wife I was going to go outside and give them
for somebody. So I went out there and there's a
lot of people that were wanting to buy them from me,
and I saw an old lady with her granddaughter and
I said, look, I've got two tickets. You can have
them if you want them. Oh, how much do you
want for him? I said, it didn't cost me anything,
and I'm willing to give it to you. See just
broke out and he said, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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So they got to see Elvis for free. And of
course I was working, so I was down on the
ground watching the show as well.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You're not the former astro who emails me named one,
are you?
Speaker 12 (33:23):
No?
Speaker 6 (33:23):
I'm not.
Speaker 18 (33:23):
This is the first time I ever called you.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Okay, No, I got all this. There's a former astro
player who emails me under the name Juan and doesn't
want his real name given. I just it would have
the timeline would have worked out about the same. I'm
sorry I didn't get to everybody. Friday will be open
lines and you are welcome to call in and tell
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your stories in I appreciate all of you who did
call in on Elvis's ninetieth birthday. Wows
It's that time time time luck and load. The Michael
darry Show is on the air. The liberal rack of
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Texas Tribune declares it in exis illegal aliens quote have
built apartment complexes and skyscrapers that changed skylines. They have
picked fruits and vegetables and fuels cooked in restaurant kitchens,
cleaned hospitals and started small businesses. They have become stitched
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into communities from Olpaso to Beaumont. You Jack asked, why
would you say Beaumont? Beaumont's not the eastern corner. Stupid.
They say that Texas leaders, business leaders are apprehensive about
Trump's deportation plan. Trump's deportation plan is why he won.
(01:44):
Tell that to Alexis nunger A, how great these illegal
aliens are. Tell that to all the victims out there
of murder and rape. Tell that to all the people,
all the guys that it up. Go to work in
the morning and their truck's not there because an illegal
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stole it, or parts of their car have been sawed off.
I can't think of it. Catalytic converter? Is it the
catalytic converter? They still or the wheels are stolen. Well,
that's an awful sight. Come out and see your car
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up on blocks. I never had it happen, but I've
had friends who did just steal the whole damn thing.
I mean, that's just terrible. Do you not know how
just steal a car? I don't. I don't, but I'm
just saying I think I'd rather walk out and my
car not be there, then you put it up on blocks.
That's terrible. That's an indignity right there. Kyle writes. In
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nineteen seventy four, I was five and my father took
me and my brother to the Houston Road. It was
at the Astro Arena. Back then, Elvis was there. We
saw him sitting on the back of a Cadillac. We
ran down and climbed up on the railing. It's a
cherished memory because my father, Neil Finch Houston Police Department,
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passed just a couple of months after that. Bobby writes,
Mailman Vaughn did sound like Shelby Foote, but he reminded
me more of Alan Tucson. Boy, Ain't that the truth?
He really did? Woo Very Rich Voice Resident voice Jeff
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writes Fountain View Cafe was way better than Buffalo grill.
My mom is going to call you about her Elvis stories.
In Canada. We are a huge Elvis family. She even
claims I'm Elvis's love child. From his Winnipeg show. Dana
Pendleton Duncan writes, I saw Elvis live at the Houston
Livestock Showing Rodeo in nineteen seventy will forever have images
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burned in my mind. By the way, the offer of
the Elvis Museum tour still stands. It's in Willis, about
two miles west of Republic Grand Ranch. Joe writes, talking
about the Buffalo grill reminded me of Buffalo Hardware, which
was owned by the family Jim Brown, who had a
handyman show on KPRC on the weekends. Wonder whatever happened
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to him was that before your time? Remon you're an
old Houston guy. I didn't know if that was before you,
before you, before you were around as they say. June
of nineteen seventy seven, Elvis and his entourage had arrived
in Madison, Wisconsin at about one am after a concert
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in Des Moines. They were on their way to the
hotel when the limo stopped at a red light at
Highway fifty nine, sorry, fifty one in East Washington Avenue.
And you may say, Michael, does it matter that you
get fifty Warner fifty nine? Right, we're talking about des Moines. Yes,
we have listeners in des Moin Elvis saw a young
man on the ground being beaten by two other guys
in the parking lot of a service station. Elvis bled
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out of the car in full costume. I don't like
the word costume being used there, taking on a full regalia,
taking on a karate stance, and said I'll take you on.
The guys recognized him. How could they not stood and
shook hands and promised to stop fighting. Elvis then asked
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us everything settled down, He got back in the car
and went on to the Sheraton Hotel. He invited them
back to do blow off the back of strippers butt. No,
I'm just kidding. I made that part up. I made
that part up. He did not do that. That's a joke.
That's a stupid joke. He died fifty two days later
August sixteenth, nineteen seventy seven. You know Rose Kennedy, John F.
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Kennedy's mother said she wished people would remember her son's birthday,
not the day he was assassinated, because it was much
more important to her that he came into this world
than he left it and always stuck with me. The
late George Klein, friend of Elvis since nineteen forty eight
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when the Presleys moved to Memphis from Tupelo, Mississippi, remained
very close friends until Elvis's death in seventy seven. George,
in addition to being a friend and a Memphis Mafia member,
was also in eight of Elvis's movies, as were several
of his friends. G K, as he was known on
the air, the Geeker in Your Speaker, was a popular
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DJ in Memphis. On the night of December fifteenth, nineteen
sixty six, as George was leaving the radio station, a
limo pulled up and outstepped Jerry Shilling and a couple
of other Memphis Mafia members. They said to George, Elvis
wants to see you now. George climbed in the car
because if Elvis sent for you, you did not turn
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him down. Similar to Michael Berry, I didn't write this,
Paul Becker did. They headed in the opposite direction of
Graceland and would not tell George where they were. Going.
The car arrived at the front of a Cadillac dealership.
It was late in the evening and after business hours
for the dealership, but nonetheless, they all got out of
the car and went inside. The lights then dramatically came
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on and there was Elvis with a big smile, holding
a set of keys. George asked Elvis what was going on,
and Elvis handed the keys to George to a brand
new sixty six yellow Cadillact convertible and said Merry Christmas.
George was blown away by the kind gesture and wasn't
sure what to say or how to thank him. Elvis said,
what good is fame and fortune if you don't share
it with your friends? No, he didn't invite him back,
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stats to blow stop saying that December fifth, nineteen seventy,
Elvis Presley was George Kloin's best man at his wedding.
I've read varying reports on how many Cadillacs Elvis bought
for people. It's at a minimum twenty five, it could
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be fifty or morning. And you know what, when you're
raised poor, you spend your money on people in a
way that you don't if you're raised rich. Just a factor.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Hey this Tracy Bird, and I tip my hand to
the keeper the stars, and you want to.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Hear this forget my past.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I tolerate the early Elvis, but that's not Elvis. I'm
not a big early Elvis guy. That's true. I mean,
I'll tell the stories one because that's part of the
arc of Elvis.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Don't stop.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It's like the Baby Jesus stuff. I understand it's important.
It's in the Bible, but it's not. You know, it's true.
It's not the time with the Apostles. It's not the wisdom.
It's not if I go there, I prepare a place
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for you. You know, it's not that the Baby Jesus
stuff is well to me. The Sun Records phase is
the Baby Jesus stuff. It's interesting, it's part of the lore.
It's part of the you know, what makes the story
the story, but it's not the important part to me.
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Darren writes, hey, man, before the Christmas holidays, you were
talking about Woodville, Texas and the Picket House. What about
Wild Bills? That's also great food. I didn't know where
wild Bills was. Apparently it's at one ninety, just east
of Highway to eighty seven in Bell County, near Colleen
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to Belton. Never been there, never heard of it, Never
heard of it. Shay Lee, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
What say you?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Shy Lee?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Sure it's Cherie like Marie. But Cherie.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You won't believe this. It doesn't matter. National syndication. We
got over fifty stations. We added five more yesterday. All
everything I could ever hope for in my life I have.
But I still have to get up every morning and
come into a studio and know that there's going to
be a name put on the screen for me to
go to that may or may not in any way
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resemble the actual name of the person on the other end,
because Ramon had just he just he hears you say something.
He just throws a bunch of letters up there. He
literally just scatters letters up there. Chari. I'm just hooray.
I'm just curious. Did you not hear Shari? Or did
you thought? Are you doing a Japanese act? You can
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you mix the R because that would be funny. What
what what went through your mind that you wrote s
H A L E E? What what? I'm just no,
not sweet, I'm talking I'm talking about oh you asked
her three times, and all three times she said, Shali,
I find that hard to believe. How about this? Okay,
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so I just want to be I want to be clear.
So s h A l e E. And then you
would go, no, no, Charie, s h A r how
do you spell it? Just out of carest.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Well, it's actually s h E R e E.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
But it's like.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Marie, no I chi. It's an odd white woman's name
because I don't know where that comes from.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Well it is, I'm guessing it would have been.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It's it's some perversion of a French name. It's the
best I can guess.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
That's right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Okay, like my Charie, but that would have been c
h E r I I E. Yes, yeah, Stevie wonderstyle.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And then we and then we anglicized it with the
s h E r ee. Okay, all right, go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Huh yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
But for each person that calls in about Elvis, you're early,
but we're going to keep you anyway. I want you
to tell your name and your middle name also, I mean, sorry,
your age, your age and your middle name.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Sorry, go ahead, Okay, I'm seventy.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
My middle name is Sharie.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
What's your first name, Helen, Helen Schari.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Never go by it? Yeah, ye, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
What's your story, sweetheart?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Well, I actually saw Elvis twice in one day. I
lived in Midland, Texas, and he was in Odessa, and
my mother had bought tickets to go, and we went
real we had after tickets to the evening show, and
we went very very early, and she went over to
the highest dollar hotel over in Odessa, Texas, because she
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figured that's where he'd probably staying. So we went over
there and she started talking to people.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
She was a hairdresser, She talked to everybody, but she started.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Talking to this man and he's talked to us just
about stuff, and and then it it is about two
thirty when the next show was afternoon show was going
to start, and he said her, y'all go, and she
said no, we have tickets to the evening show.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And she talked to.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Him for about thirty minutes and he reached it in
his socks and pulled out four tickets to the afternoon show.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Theyll on the floor. Well, I didn't see him do it.
She was the one that was talking to him, but
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
It could have.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
If it was to see Elvis on the floor, I'd
have taken them.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
That's that's exactly right, man.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
Her.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
We agreed on Elvis. We loved Elvis. The only thing
we ever agreed on.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
What did you?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
So we went, We went, and we it was right
on the floor, and when it was about over, I
always always knew that when it was about over it
girls lined up in the aisle to run. I don't
know what they did, but I knew it was the
last song. And I got down in that aisle and
I ran up to the front and stopped because the
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stage was like circular, kind of half circle, and deputies
all around. So I stopped, and girls ran up behind me.
But I was first in line, and I knew it
was the last song, and he was about to leave,
because he leaves the building. And I started running and
those deputies that one of them hit, slapped me in
the chest and grabbed me by the stomach, and the
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other one got me by the feet, and I was
like midair, like I was flying, and I nearly touched
his booty, nearly did.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
But then he is gone.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We're going to make a montage of our morning calls
for this evening show, Ramon, make sure that Ramon includes
the line that I nearly touched his booty. You were
sweet sixteen.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
I was just about yeah, Yes I was, Yes, I was.
In fact, we saw him about I almost think it
was a year to the day he died. It was
in August nineteen seventy six. I have to look at
my ticket. I still have the ticket. Is a year
before he died, I don't yeah, year before he died.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
After that evening and saw him again.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I'm so glad you called. Let me get one more
on real quick. Pat, you're on the Michael Barry Show. Pat,
you are eighty six. Yes, you've got one minute, sweetheart,
go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
I saw him at Magnolia Gardens in Houston, that's where
I lived, and he was hadn't even gotten started yet,
you know, on his career. He was just up there
singing to entertain and he was so good then at
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that time, and so cute, so good looking. And that's
been eighty something years ago. I mean I was a
teenager myself at the time, and so that's all I
know about him.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I'm glad you called it.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
He still looks the same till he died.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yes he did. I could not thank you for saying that,
thank you for calling. We're a sweetheart. Please clap, please,
please clap.
Speaker 10 (16:30):
Falling.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I was sixteen years old. I'd just gotten my license
and I had a Volkswagen Rabbit four speed diesel. We
called it the go Mobile. It just rattled like that.
Glow plugs good. Then we didn't have a bad winner
because take a wafer. The glow plugs. They don't have
spark plugs on those. But it's a great little engine
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and a great little car. Fantastic little car for what
it was. What anything fancy? But I remember I was
at the store. Buddy of mine came up and knocked
on the window and he said, hey, can I get
a ride? Because he didn't have his license yet. Sure,
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hop in. So I started up the car and I
had a cassette tape in there, and this song is
playing and he said, who's this? I said, it's Elvis.
Shut up And that felt very beavisome, but head and
he said, dude, you're sixteen listening to Elvis. That's not normal. Well, there,
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you haven't. Pat went back in her memory to seeing
Elvis at Magnolia Gardens, and she said, shoot, I don't
remember that was eighty years ago, and I thought it
couldn't have been eighty years ago. It was. It was
April twenty fourth, nineteen fifty five. There's a documentary about
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that footage. The first that show the home footage or
the footage that was taken by non professionals who were
at that show. Is the first actual footage we have
of Elvis.
Speaker 11 (18:20):
In nineteen fifty four, Elvis recorded his first hit for
Sam Phillips's Son label. It became an overnight regional smash,
and Presley and his backup band hit the road. They
played small clubs throughout the South, and on April twenty fourth,
nineteen fifty five, a quiet Sunday in Balmy Houston, Texas,
Elvis was booked at a small suburban venue called Magnolia Gardens.
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As luck would have it, this was a very special moment.
A newly married couple had just bought a silent eight
millimeter camera and was testing it out. This is the
first time this remarkable footage has been shown in its entirety.
Speaker 12 (18:59):
By kemve He was captured that early in his career,
but it takes me back forty years meeting Elvis in
nineteen fifty four in a local playground in Memphis. And
this was the time when he was going to Texas Louisiana.
He was so vulnerable, still a little shy, still experimenting.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
That's Jerry Shilleyking. We talked about him anyway, Pat was
at that show. How about that, Cynthia, You're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
Go ahead, sweetheart, good morning, Michael. I saw Elvis in
Houston at the Rodeo in the Astronome seventy four in
nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
How old are you did?
Speaker 13 (19:45):
How old am I now? I'm seventy two, okay, And
I was twenty two when I saw Elvis that year, okay,
And I remember it was such a different world then.
I remember he that he wrote in a Cadillac. He
circled the Astronom dirt floor.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Are you sure?
Speaker 13 (20:11):
If you look it up. If you look it up
on YouTube, it shows a Bronco. But and I'm probably wrong,
but I remember him being in a convertible Cadillac. And
and the other thing that I remember that show, he
was throwing scarves when he stood up, and he was
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riding around the arena and and now you know, now
you would never have that close exposure, but.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
He insisted on My understanding, and I'll have to ask
my buddy Paul Baker, the private investigator, because he is
the expert on all things Elvis. My understanding is he
did not realize how big the stadium was, because even
in seven twenty four, the astronome was a unique thing,
and he did not realize that he was going to
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be out in the middle of this stadium and there
would be such a distance between them, and he wanted
he wanted the rides around the perimeter, which they had.
I don't know if they'd been doing it before that,
my guess is, but that became kind of part of
the deal as everybody took a ride around the perimeter,
so you were closer to the people. But my understanding
is that was very important to him because he was
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so far away. Thank you for the call, Cynthia stan
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 14 (21:31):
Go ahead, Hey, good morning, Michael. Appreciate you taking my call. Man, Yes, sir,
I was. I was fortunate then enough to see Elvis
three times. We saw him first and out in Albuquerque,
grow from Silverton, Texas, which is out there by love
and all the way to Albuquerque and saw him in
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April of nineteen seventy two, and later later Elvis came
in No Way member of the same year he came
to love him. We saw him again, and I think
he had some kind of beef with Amarella. But in
nineteen seventy four he swallowed his pride and went to
Amarella and we saw him there.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I love it, Emil. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, Emil.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
Yes, I got to see Elvis in Las Vegas in
nineteen sixty nine. My wife and I were on our
honeymoon and we just got lucky. I think that was
some of his first show or a few shows that
he when he got out of the military. Back then, No,
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that was muling.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Now you said sixty nine. Yes, okay, now it's much
later than that. But yes, anyway, are you still married.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
So far?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Good for you. Thank you for calling my man. Ray,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Good morning.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
I saw all this in nineteen seventy three in downtown
Fort Worth, and at the intermission I got talked to
the drummer. You know, backstage, you're kind of off side
of the stage, and I want to say I'm two
days older than Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Well you sound thirty years younger.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
I feel like thirty years younger as well. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
His drummer was Ron Tutt. That's probably who you were
who you were talking to. Mike, You're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I was a sophomore in high school. My mother got
tickets and a neighbor couldn't go, so my father didn't
want to go, so she took me along. It was
nineteen fifty six. It was at the CBS Studio fifty
at Sullivan Show now see at Sullivan Theater. He's sang
Don't Be Cruel and love Me Tender. And before during
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the commercial, before whether he was on ed, Sullivan told
the girls in the audience do not be to be
quiet during the show. Then after, right when he was finished, uh,
after he came back after Senor Wensis and he sang
a song I don't I don't remember it. But then
he said hand dog, and the girls went crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
You saw he said he did something. You don't know
if I remember it. What what did you say there?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
No? No, oh, he sang a song I don't remember
the name of the song now, but I remember after
then he sang hound Dog.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Remember asking if I remember from the set of Ed Sullivan.
I don't. I could look it up pretty fast, but no,
I don't remember it. I mean I remember everything.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Go ahead, the girls went crazy and uh, that's from
my mother used to play cars on Friday night. So
that Friday night playing cause I overheard it. She was
talking to the other women. Elvis's package.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
All right, if you've got an Elvis story, you got
one segment left to tell it. Seven one, three, nine, nine,
nine one thousand.
Speaker 15 (25:09):
Yet it's the Michael Barry's Show, my friend, let's say it.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
All right, I'm gonna get right to it. I hate
to interrupt my way back. I want to get everybody
in that wants to be in. Seven one three, nine, nine,
nine one thousand. We'll get them in and out. Let's
go down the list in the order there on Ramon, Brenda,
you're on the Michael Berry Show, sweetheart.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Go ahead, Well, Michael, I saw Elvis at the Astrodome, uh,
in the early seventies. Now, I don't remember a lot
about it other than he was amazing performance wise, and
he was dropped head, gorgeous and Also, we were stationed
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in Germany when he was stationed in Germany, but we
were in a different area.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
And you know, I was only.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Fourteen about fourteen at the time, and we used to
watch old reruns of of the Ed Sullivan Show, you know,
with him and the Beatles and all of that stuff
when we were in Germany. But anyway, he was a
great entertainer. Just really loved him.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yes he was. Roger. You are on the Michael Berry Show, Roger,
go ahead.
Speaker 16 (26:25):
Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Well.
Speaker 16 (26:26):
I saw Elvis in nineteen fifty six in the Cotton Bowl.
It was during the State Fair, and they used to
let the kids out of school for State Fair, and
we just stayed there and watched Elvis. I think it
cost a dollar and a half. He was in the
Cotton Bowl. And I didn't I was eight years old.
I didn't understand the dynamics of physical attraction very well
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until I saw Elvis and all those girls that were
sitting around me, and I got quite an education.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yes, indeed, I'm not going to retell the story now
because I've told it on the morning show, but I
will tell it this evening. But we were having dinner
at mar Alago two tables over from President Trump last year,
and it was the night before Lisa Marie Presley would die,
and she was having dinner along with her mother Priscilla
(27:16):
at Marlago with President Trump, but they had their back
to us, and so we didn't know who it was.
And President Trump has an iPad that he programs the music.
He can override what's already programmed, and he kept playing
Elvis songs through the course of the evening, and it
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was like it was the first time I've ever since
his age, because it was like me running the music.
He would run the music up too loud, and it
would go too low, and he'd start a song and
start another song. He loves Elvis. A friend of mine said,
don't you wish Elvis was still alive, because you know
Trump would put him in his administration and he would.
(27:57):
Trump has remarked multiple times over the course of his
life how much he looked that people would tell him
he looked like Elvis, and me saying that if it's
the first time you ever heard it, you may say, look, Michael,
I'm all for the Trump pumping and all that, but
that's too much. Go back and look at the picture
of Elvis at thirty and Donald Trump at thirty and
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you tell me, you tell me if they don't have very,
very striking resemblance. Stacy, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, Sweart, Oh, let's come back. That's weird. Richard,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead.
Speaker 17 (28:37):
Yes, I saw. We saw him at hal Finds Pavilion.
And at the time, we were big Cougar fans, and
we you know, we've gone to the hal Finds a lot,
but we got to see him and he was he
was a little bit overweight at that time, and he
was passing out that he was passing out the scarves
(28:59):
and my son was four years old, and he went
he got up front to get one of those cars
that those ladies were not gonna let my son have
one of them scars. They grabbed that for those scars.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
They weren't gonna be nice about that. That scarf. They
had to have it. Stacey, you're on Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 15 (29:14):
Go ahead, sir, Yes, sir, Well, I told Ramon I
didn't know if he wanted the little old ladies to call,
but I could identify as a woman just to get
on here. But go ahead. I did see Elvis Presley,
I believe in nineteen seventy in an astronome.
Speaker 16 (29:28):
It was awesome.
Speaker 15 (29:29):
I was eight years old. The only thing I can
really remember is him driving around in the convertible red
car and leaving it everybody, And it was pretty cool
because I was at eight years old, I sang every
song that he sang. And also my mom seen him
in Magnolia Gardens, which I still have an autograph picture
from Elvis to her. It says too alta from Elvis Presley,
(29:50):
so I still have that laminated pretty cool. I like it.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Got me thinking, anyway, thank you for the call. I
was thinking of which line it was when he said
we sang every song and it's me and Bobby McGee.
When he said we sang every song that driver new,
just went off on my head. Is that tawn? Dear God,
this person? I think it is okay. I didn't know
that ramone got it wrong or not?
Speaker 9 (30:15):
Go ahead, sweetheart, Well my fifteen minutes of claim the
fame is I spent the night with Elvis Presley in
April of nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
All right, go ahead, all right.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
As a stewardess.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
They were called stewardesses.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Back in those days. I had a flight from midnight
flight from lax to Memphis, and he had bought up
all the first class seats on my seven and seven aircraft,
and so we got the information from the gate agent
and we put the curtains clothes for all those people,
(30:53):
about seventy people in the back, and we turned off
the lights as soon as we got them served, and
all the flight attents went to the first class and
the flight deck door was open. It was called the
cockpit back in those days. And the door was opened,
and one pilot was staying there and the others had
come out. And we spent the night just talking to
Elvis and the people that he had with in that night,
(31:17):
and he told the captain, he said, just let me
know about thirty minutes out from landing and I'll walk through.
So we walked. We was with people up around six am,
and he walked through, and they had to circle Memphis
twice so that he could get through that back aisle
and talk to every person who wanted to talk to him.
(31:38):
He kissed every woman who wanted to kiss him. He
was just the most gracious gentleman I'd ever met, and
I heard. I was in my sewing room and my
husband said, go call Michael Berry. Now tell him your story.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I'm glad you.
Speaker 9 (31:53):
So of course, when I got to the hotel, I
called my husband. He was well he wasn't my husband
a slight defense students couldn't be married in those days.
And I called him. I said, I spent the night
with Elvis Presley and we were engaged.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I love that. There's nothing I like better than the
little old ladies talk about when they were young, because
you hear it in their voices, in their minds, they
go back to that. I think it's the most adorable
thing ever. Juan, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, yes, Michael.
Speaker 18 (32:25):
I just want to let you know that I worked
for the Eastern Association Houston Astros Association back in seventy four,
and they gave me six tickets for the rodeo to
see Elvis, and I had a couple of friends they
were supposed to come over, and only two showed up.
So I had two tickets left, and I told my
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wife I was going to go outside and give them
for somebody. So I went out there and there's a
lot of people that were wanting to buy them from me,
and I saw an old lady with her granddaughter and
I said, look, I've got two tickets. You can have
them if you want them. Oh, how much do you
want for him? I said, it didn't cost me anything,
and I'm willing to give it to you. See just
broke out and he said, thank you, thank you, thank you.
(33:08):
So they got to see Elvis for free. And of
course I was working, so I was down on the
ground watching the show as well.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You're not the former astro who emails me named one,
are you?
Speaker 12 (33:23):
No?
Speaker 6 (33:23):
I'm not.
Speaker 18 (33:23):
This is the first time I ever called you.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Okay, No, I got all this. There's a former astro
player who emails me under the name Juan and doesn't
want his real name given. I just it would have
the timeline would have worked out about the same. I'm
sorry I didn't get to everybody. Friday will be open
lines and you are welcome to call in and tell
(33:45):
your stories in I appreciate all of you who did
call in on Elvis's ninetieth birthday. Wows
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