Elvis in Las Vegas Page #2

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And met teenage Priscilla, his bride-to-be.

# Ho-o-old me close, hold me tight

# Make me thrill with delight... #

After he returned from Germany in 1960,

they settled into Graceland and a home in Palm Springs.

# I want you, I need you

# I love you... #

They eventually married in Las Vegas

in a secretly-arranged ceremony at the Aladdin Hotel.

# Every time that you're near

# All my cares disappear... #

Of course, the Colonel invited the world's press to record this intimate event.

# I need you, I want you... #

To remould him as a romantic lead, not just for the tabloids,

but up on the movie screen, Colonel had already signed Elvis

for a string of money-spinning Hollywood roles

that lasted throughout the '60s.

Elvis wanted to make better movies.

But the Colonel kept telling him,

"Elvis, we're getting 1 million up front,

"50% of the picture and star billing.

"We've got an album from the picture.

"We're doing pretty dog-gone good. "

# Moo-moo here, moo-moo there

# Oink-oink here, oink-oink there... #

Elvis wanted to be an actor, do serious movies,

some comedies.

He didn't want to do musicals every time.

But that's what they did. Elvis riding a horse,

or singing to a cow, something like that.

That eventually got to Elvis.

DUCK QUACKS:

You take the rebel

and you make him the boy next door.

Elvis was not the boy next door.

I think Elvis found he had a choice

to creatively walk around with a chip on his shoulder

and be angry all the time or just try to go along with the program as best he could.

# In my beach shack

# Baby, we'll be alone

# I'll make you feel at home In my little beach shack... #

I said, "Colonel, the songs are not that great."

I said, "The songs are weak songs."

He said, "Well, what do we care, George? You get me 1 million,

"you can pick the songs. We don't care."

"But Colonel, what about the big picture down the road?"

"We'll worry about that later."

And when songwriters Lieber and Stoller tried to intercede with better material for Elvis,

they got short shrift.

The Colonel said if you ever dared try to interfere

in the career of Elvis Presley, you'll never work again in Hollywood,

New York or anywhere else in the world.

That was the response.

And it was, I guess,

among other things, shortly after that we just stopped writing for Elvis.

But Hollywood offered some compensation for Elvis and his entourage.

Being with Elvis anywhere where he's making a picture

is really great cos everybody comes around, it's very exciting

and the scenery wasn't too bad either, by that I mean the young ladies out to watch Elvis.

It was my job to go and invite them back to the hotel for a party after shooting that day

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