1/3/2024 0 Comments Elvis tell me why![]() As the press cameras clicked away, and the freshly painted Potomac gleamed in the background, the Colonel chuckled to himself. He graciously accepted the “piece of shit,” as Thomas is said to have called the boat, to sell for cash. ![]() Jude, the Memphis research hospital Thomas had founded to help find cures for catastrophic childhood diseases. With them was actor Danny Thomas, there on behalf of St. On February 14, 1964, five days after the Beatles made their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, Elvis sat at a press conference with the Colonel on the pier at Long Beach, California. feather in the cap of his only client: Elvis Presley. He would donate the rusting hulk to charity and put a P.R. He saw the Potomac as just another snow job, as he called his art of the con. Some called it his “Floating White House.” But Parker, who was born in Holland in 1909 as Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk and never became an American citizen, didn’t care about that. ![]() An ideal world that can be reached by the strength of every single man who will not abandon the desire and hope for a better world, and who will not give up on this difficult undertaking.In 1963, Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s audacious manager who had gotten his start selling candy apples in carnivals, read in the paper that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidential yacht, the U.S.S. The similarity with Martin Luther King’s speech is both in form and content of the text: the meaning of the song consists precisely in the wish for a better world, a world where one can live in peace and harmony, where pain can be transformed into serenity. ![]() If I Can Dream: the lyrics and their meaning ![]()
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