Elvis Revisited by Mae Boren Axton (1965 article)

Moderators: Moderator5, Moderator3, FECC-Moderator, Site Mechanic


User avatar

drjohncarpenter
Posts: 107277
Registered for: 20 years 11 months
Location: United States of America
Has thanked: 11789 times
Been thanked: 33910 times
Age: 89

Re: Elvis Revisited by Mae Boren Axton (1965 article)

#1677545

Post by drjohncarpenter »

Re-reading the article posted by the The fool back in 2013, I'm amending the date of Mae interviewing Elvis to mid-May 1965. The "Shindig!" program she mentions as "his most recent accolade" aired on May 5, 1965. So her visit to his home must have been within a week or two of that broadcast.



Image

James Burton playing "That's All Right - ABC-TV's "Shindig!" - Wednesday, May 5, 1965
Program was a "Salute to Elvis' 10th Year in Show Business."




Mister Moon on Fri Aug 30, 2013 12:17 pm wrote:There must be somebody on this planet who knows which were the names of Bob Neal's children. This is what I would like to know. Not an earth-shattering matter, but now that we're at it, it would be nice to learn about it.
And that somebody is ... me. :D

The names of Bob Neal's seven children are mentioned in his 1983 obituary:

Sonny
Kevin
Tobi
Anthony
Clay
Robert
Sean




830511_Nashville Tennessean_p8-D.JPG
Nashville Tennessean - Wednesday, May 11, 1983



It should be noted that even in the Music Reporter magazine article from twenty years earlier, which an "ex-member" sent for Jove to revive this topic, Bob called his first born son Sonny, not Charles, Charley or Charlie.

In Mae's piece, the friends Elvis was referring to in May 1965 were clearly Billy Smith, Bobby "Red" West and Charlie Hodge, as I posted back in 2013.


Below is a copy of the full page from the magazine, plus an ad Neal placed which promoted his two biggest acts that summer.


630629_Music Reporter_cov.JPG
630629_Music Reporter_p60.JPG
630629_Music Reporter_p100.JPG
Music Reporter - June 29, 1963
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.


.
Dr. John Carpenter, M.D.
Stop, look and listen, baby <<--->> that's my philosophy!
Post Reply