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Topic History of: Fascinating Elvis trivia...
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DJones	He set up the publishing companies in 1956. Because of the co-publishing deals Leiber & Stoller stopped working for Elvis. But Parker is also responible for the glut of product. He decided what RCA had to release (and he was very much into Christmas albums and other corny stuff). The deal to sell the rights to future royalities to RCA for about $5,5 m (ten times the amount Presley earned on royalties each year in the early 1970s, he made much more money with concerts) in 1973 was made because Parker was in debt to the casinos in Las Vegas. And he just had signed a new contract with Elvis which gave him 50 % of this money (as opposed to 25 % on royalties). In the studio, Elvis had absolute control. In most of his work (soundtracks) he had no real interest and didn
In The Know	The gambling debts (the Colonel's) were legendary - that's why he agreed to Elvis performing in Las Vegas for 2 months a year - mainly so the Colonel could stay close to the tables ! (It's also rumoured that the "deal" for Elvis to be tied to Las Vegas was signed on a tablecloth in one of the Las Vegas restauarnts !)
Martin K	Difficult to say really, they were all in an exclusive and very powerful world. That article certainly confirms how broke they were at the time, and the gambling debts were revealing. A blissfully unaware entourage don`t you think? "Hey mate? What do you do for a living?" "I hang out with him over there. $$$$$$"
In The Know	and whilest on the subject of the Colonel, do we think he really was a murderer ? http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/m...is_4_28/ai_n15384170
Martin K	I hadn`t heard that one before ITK, and thanks indeed. After ordering many badges this week, I will now be ordering badges to the negative of the projects, Love it, great idea. Gawd, this boards` getting creative! It`s the ultimate challenging publicity isn`t it? A "Don`t buy my album.. it`s crap" badge. And yes , I am going to do it!