Tanya Tucker:
I was at Graceland when he (Elvis) died. I saw him in his coffin. But it
didn't look like him. That suit that they had him layed out in was horrible.
It was powder blue with a big, white tie. It just didn't look like him. I
don't think it was him. I don't think he's dead.
Ralph Emery (host):
Are you saying he's not dead?
TT:
I mean, he may be dead now, but I don't think he died back then.
This last line is EXACTLY what she said. I didn't tape it 'cause I was just
channel surfing so it just kinda came on. I stopped and watched her for
awhile (she is hot!), and then she started talking about Elvis and then
boom! I remember something about Merle Haggard saying something as well
about Elvis still being alive.
Any thoughts? Marty, did Tanya know Elvis? And, by the way, was the suit
that ugly? By the way, the suit that he was buried in looks eerily similar
to the one that he is wearing on the back cover of the "How Great Thou Art"
album.
Peace,
Ben in NYC
Tanya never met Elvis but she was obsessed with him even named her daughter
Presley. Might be when she saw him in the coffin she was on something and
might be that Merle was on something if he said that. They both had problems
with substance abuse. That was Elvis in the coffin.
Marty
Darrren
Yes it is. His cousin Billy Mann who Elvis didn't want anything to do with
sneaked a tiny minolta camera in when he was allowed to pay his respects at the
coffin and took the picture for the Enquirer who put him up to doing it. Billy
is now deceased.
Marty
Did anyone sneak a camera into Billy's funeral & snap a picture?
--GW
Billy Mann died mysteriously in a one vehicle accident.
Marty
He sold his soul (and betrayed his family) for $10,000 abd a week's vacation
in Palm Beach, FL.
The Enquirer bought 10 of what we called "spy cameras" at Ed's Camera shop
right here in Memphis, then set out trying to find 10 Judases. I don't know
if all 10 were handed out, but I know they bought 10.
It's the same with Der Stern, the highly-read German magazine. They offered
$30,000 for a color photo of Elvis in his coffin and would provide the spy
camera to do it with.
Both stories are detailed in "Elvis: Through My Eyes."
BEB/007
John
Pauley....
As I mentioned in a previous message, he died mysteriously in a one vehicle
accident. His pickup truck.
Marty
Melanie
Melanie,
My answer was based on the fact that I never saw her in the dressing room or
suite upstairs when I was there and I asked the other guys and they don't
remember her being there either. She might have, although they don't remember.
So I will not call her a liar.
Marty