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" Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word. "
Song
Cry
End
" Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways. "
Old
Never
Like
" Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around. "
World
Lying
Rock And Roll
" First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids. "
End
Truck
Time
" I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times. "
People
Communication
Hanging
" If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy. "
Laugh
See
Nice
" I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there. "
Song
Die
Circle
" I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it. "
Elvis
Number
Never
" I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat. "
Having Fun
Song
Sitting
" I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it. "
Me
Think
Success
" In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years. "
Trying
Ghetto
Been
" I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away. "
First Time
Painting
Time
" It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record. "
First
Amazing
Record
" I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it. "
Golf
You
Said
" I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood. "
Worked
Hollywood
Company
" One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written. "
Goals
Hear
Real
" There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories. "
Chance
Black
Song
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