"And so Elvis was going to come over and take the whole bunch of us out to have ribeye steaks, and so I was so excited. I'm in doing a "vogue," I can't believe Elvis is going to walk into the studio and he's gonna see me singing. I couldn't believe it, I was just flipped out. So anyway, the phone rings and Scotty Moore answers the phone, and he looks out. He says "Come on in" and I went in. It was Elvis on the phone and he couldn't make it over. And Elvis was "I'm sorry man, why don't you guys come over to Graceland when you can" and "We'll be in town for awhile, come on over to Graceland," and I was so disappointed, I really was, but it was great meeting, him on the phone, I never met him in person. I only had a couple of days left in Nashville and we had to finish up the album so I never made it over to Memphis. And I always regretted that..."
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Tommy James, on the day in Nashville, in 1971, when he almost met Elvis, as published in a March 2020 youtube interview with Steve Ludwig. .
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Elvis Presley
film actor, singer, composer
1935 – 1977 · United States
(8 January 1935 – 16 August 1977) was an American singer, musician, and actor. Popularly known by his first name as "Elvis," as "The King of Rock and Roll" or simply as "The King," he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.
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