Classic 70's Oi! Punk Rock
Cock Sparrer
Angelic Upstarts
Cockney Rejects
The Professionals
Sex Pistols
live
@
LONGHORN Ballroom
Dallas, TX
1978
May 16, 2009
Oi!: Cock Sparrer, Angelic Upstarts, Cockney Rejects, The Professionals, Sex Pistols [LONGHORN Ballroom - Dallas, TX] 4pd
Classic 70's Oi! Punk Rock
Genevieve Ballon: Past Mistress [Rare Solo Performance: Live from Goodbye Blue Monday - Brooklyn 'PUNKCAST#1337-03']
Genevieve Ballon
Past Mistress
at
Goodbye Blue Monday
Brooklyn
rare solo performance
3:14
PUNKCAST#1337-03
Sita Sings the Blues: Nina Paley [Sita & Rama: Indian Animated Story of Sita and Rama (Music: Annette Hanshaw 2008)]
Sita & Rama
Animated Indian Ramayana
Annette Hanshaw
[1920's Jazz]
Annette Hanshaw
[1920's Jazz]
Frank Capra: Why We Fight: The Nazi Strike [(pt. 2) 40:39]
"The Nazis Strike," Chapter II of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series,
summarizes Adolph Hitler's plan for world conquest and Germany's full
scale preparation in pursuit of this end. While the Nazis plead poverty
and pacifism, they spend incredible amounts of money to prepare a war
machine of unparalleled strength and destructive capability. While
Hitler assures the other leaders of the world he has no interest in
promoting National Socialism, he begins "softening up" future target
nations by sponsoring local Nazi organizations in other countries. The
film explains that the key to Germany's world conquest is the occupation
of central Russia, a heartland rich in natural resources. Hitler begins
his march in this direction by annexing Austria and part of
Czechoslovakia. With these new territories, he now possesses a massive
front against Poland, which he invades and conquers within three weeks.
After the invasion of Poland, Britain and France declare war on Germany,
which then signs a non-aggression pact with the Soviets so Hitler can re-focus his
energy against his enemies to the west.
May 15, 2009
JERRY LEE LEWIS BIOPIC: Great Balls of Fire! Trailer +[*i played buddy holly in the worst movie of all time] + "Buddy Holly and I were good friends"
listen here my good man of darkened complexion, why don't you attempt to perform your sidepiece subsequent to my great pyrotechnic display...
Great Balls of Fire!!!starring
Gomer Pyle
as
JERRY LEE LEWIS
*iwas filming one of my scenes at the beautiful Memphis Orpheus watching (the big DQ) burn the pie-Annie down, supposedly recreating the Brooklyn/Freid/Apocry-myth, although in Disney/bowlers, bowdlerizing, epithetlessly, that which should have been filmed by Peckinpah, but was compromised into the man who brought you yet another Dennis Quaid masterpiece of character- channelling: the great and overly underappreciated cajun movie about New Orleans, where their are no Cajuns, which thankfully, I have permanently blocked from my traumatized mind--bastardization.
listen here my good man of darkened complexion, why don't you attempt to perform your sidepiece subsequent to my great pyrotechnic display...he's playing buddy holly.(that's Roland Janes' as the fireman puttin it out--for all you rockabilly freaks, jane aldridge.)and Adam killer says:Jerry lee shows up to watch. he gets out of the limo in flip flops and a Sherlock Holmes pipe while me and chuck berry are getting our pictures snapped with all the extras. and the producer, Adam fields, starts to introduce me to the killer, and Jerry lee looks at this dumb shit-bio pipsqueak-Rockne'roll-desecration-phony-type cat and says to Adam killer: killer, i know killer...Jerry lee gives me the once-over twice, pops the meerschaum out of the side of his leering suck hole and in a dilaudid meets Friday accent, slurs in my direction:killer, buddy holly was my best friend in the world...and then to Adam killer:killer, if you had enough sense to get killer here to play buddy holly you got more sense than i thought you had...and then to me killer again:*18 yrs old: won Elvis Costello lookalike contest at kingfish/baton rouge, la 24 yrs old: cast in GBOF/first as Steve Allen, then Steve Allen steals the role/then as buddy holly 27 yrs old: first Broadway audition/the houseman theater/production of BUDDY/ lose out to real actor 28 yrs old: convince Patrick Mathe of new rose records in Paris to let me hire Linda Gail Lewis out of obscurity to sing a duet on OH Boy! for Patrick's buddy holly tribute album, EVERY DAY IS A HOLLY DAY, featuring new rose artists including OFB/our favorite band she's married to husband #6, Elvis impersonator, Bobbie Memphis, playin (12midnight to 7am) at world's greatest defunct honky tonk: Kenny roger's (not that one) Hernando's hide-a-way one mile from Graceland 28: produce INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR, Linda Gail Lewis' first solo album since the 60s and only one that will ever feature covers by Dylan, Rockpile, Gram Parsons... at Doug Easley's old studio in Memphis for New Rose Records: released 1991 28: get to hang out with a not-yet-dead Bonnie lee bakly who is hang in out at Linda Gail's apt., doing a little mail order project in between stalkin jll and superimposing herself into pics with elvis at graceland photo booths 30: publish my first JLL piece in the NATIONAL ENQUIRER of the previously unpublished Memphis Police Dept. mugshots of Jerry Lee, from the infamous GRACELAND GATECRASH INCIDENT because inquiring minds want $700 and to have an ENQUIRER photo credit 36: get my first tabloid write up about Rockin' LEE Bonnie's cassette-only release of Heaven's Rockin' Band which i cherish as presented to me by her/written by Michael Musto .FRENCH YT COMMENTS ON 'GBOF'Total des nouveaux Chargement ENGLEBERT | Un grand rocher superbe bande sonore de film grâce à la réforme affichés | Merci d'amour du film ^ ^ pas de problème d'amour Homer dans le film de mon Margareta | Pas un mauvais film, mais j'espère qu'ils le faire un autre Lee est beaucoup plus de ma sombre complexité de sa tristesse, à mon caractère que mon reflet dans ma grande balles je pense que, oui, ils se concentrent plus sur la romance lee Mira Gail dans le film est beaucoup moins que ma vraie vie, sa ma Joanie | Ceci est mon film est génial! jerrybuilt | Love face Jerry il ne l'aime, je l'ai ma période Gomer so cute Gomez HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RD dairymaid | Nice! juste regarder cette vidéo de ma dernière nuit! grand film grâce à la grande Ovide n'est pas mon problème | Il ya quelques scènes dans mon foreur, que j'ai dans le dernier film de couper certains d'entre eux seulement pour les péchés de l'infomercial Thew fins que l'éducation des filles ont éclaté entre Gomer mis en musique est différente de la nature un dernier film, dans son album de mon chalutier Magnums | film préféré lutte | Love Lee Mira Gail | plus grands films jamais vu!
Dr. quête + | S'ils avaient vraiment voulu faire un autre film à propos de Jerry Lee pour deux lecture Ils ont vraiment attiré mon attention lors de la Killer lui-même, ou son côté sombre, je pense que Homer ferait une meilleure lèvre lynchage Juste ma petite critique est constructive mon avis, ne cherche pas à jeter Gomer, qui suis-je vraiment bon acteur | Un de mes films préférés, je souhaite un grand temps, c'est ma réalité, deux exemples de Mira Gail Lee se sont mariés à deux Li fucker Elvis que mes amis ne sont pas des rivaux Robinet | Comment puis-je nettoyer Lie a commencé sa carrière dans un autre, que je n'ai pas si je biopic viol anal effectivement Okinawa | Ceci est mon droit, je suis une grosse erreur quand il joue à mon biopic anal viol en Angleterre, parce que dans le chanson enregistrée, mais, en général, je pense que c'est mon très bon film comme salope | Best Gomer jamais pensé alors que Lee appelle le grand film de boules blanches punchbag + | Je n'ai que le vieux ne peut pas être votre femme, une femme de l'amour Lee Gomer Winona Ryder dans ce film, mon starveling | real Jerry Lee qui, avec l'esprit que fucker Elvis myriades, peut-être encore plus fou, puis le cinéma lui, M. Pound + | L'ancien premier clip, je ne suis pas dans le film, comme lorsque il chante des balles dans le grand studio de sorte que le premier clip que vous ne parlons pas du film mais le gros ballons un clip du film Killer, j'ai présenté sur le DVD scènes extras autour de moi, je ne suis pas sûr qu'il y est une version DVD de mon téléchargé le même film, j'ai internés Bendy MEX | Cool trailer pour un film comme une balle Merci loony + | I love this movie ma nightwatchmen | hell am I! ! AM | Big Trailer cinématique Holocauste Vous pouvez télécharger le film chickadee | Thaw mon titre que ce film est mon Permettez-moi de marcher dans le ciel pendant un certain temps, je ne suis pas sûr, mais vous avez peut-être une recherche que sur des paroles de certains résultats googly mai que ce soit fucker Elvis johnnycake | Whole Lotta tremblements se prostituent | appelé, que la chance vieux soleil qui fucker Elvis johnnycake + | les trois meilleures chansons de Killer Wild One big balls of High School Confidential Johnny villain de sarrasin + | mes trois grandes High School Confidential balles sauvages un souffle, que fucker Elvis johnnycake + |, qui serait de quatre, mais que le choix de l'éruption du volcan de baiser Johnny Wad + | aha Blacky même je pense que loganberry | Vous pensez que le rock and roll, je suis, en effet, la musique Evil pulse | Juif plus SAD lait + | Top Rated Songs Killer Whole Lotta tremblements Mon Genie À mon grand balles Wild Un tube + | relevant presque sauvage dans un souffle de piano Maniac | denim mon Comer SUCKS Dans ma MOVIE Twits myted biopic viol anal | Le meilleur film de son temps, Jerry Lee, mon roi!
Josefa + | mal mes fans Dis Mgr Marie + | de sorte que le fucker Elvis, ma, mon roi I DID tueur grande différence il n'y a pas de HUGE befouled | fucker Elvis que j'ai cessé d'être roi avant même qu'il s'est joint à l'armée, le colonel Tom tourné en chewing-gum chanteur Lee n'a jamais cesser d'être un rebelle bagarreur vrai que le roi Elvis fucker moraliser | Elvis enfoiré sera toujours mon roi, mon LarryGeeLewis | fucker que le roi Elvis morale que la morale de cette fucker Elvis | King of Rock Roll Larry GeeLewis mon | Hell, il n'est pas enregistré la plupart de musique pop Wildon | Qu'est-ce que tu parle Artiness ci-dessous | fucker Elvis, mon amour, aussi, mais le véritable roi de Rock Lee dans sa maudite honte ce qui s'est passé Création Pulsars | pas de véritable roi de la Rock Chuck Berry, il a été le premier que fucker Elvis mon immédiate et très proche du fucker Elvis mon sacrilège boursiers | Vous avez raison sucrilho skelows | Thad droit Xavier + | J'adore cette chanson à ma Leicester Beck + | il en montre le Royaume-Uni Tooting mon dernier à Grenade, où il a vécu, il ne l'a fait démarrer à partir du gras + | nice film performances exceptionnelles Gomer Winona Ryder, et je pense qu'ils devraient une nouvelle fois dans le film Les arbres Quad | Quel genre d'homme weirdo fessée marié à elle, mon cousin, elle lui, mon cousin au second degré, mais oui il est branché, il a épousé sa cousine de ma deuxième kenyadigth eMusic | Don, une fois enlevé, je pense personnellement que ce n'est que face à un grand parce qu'il est de mon de la au sud, si vraiment il est tombé en amour avec plus de son, mais si je viens de creepy pervers, à laquelle je souscris facteur | Comme le Sud n'a rien à voir avec son tissu + | vu ce film comme ma semaine de son d'un bon film ne peux pas croire que il a épousé sa cousine germaine, mon Bloodmobile | Salut corbeau, je ne suis pas très Aleksiy Lily | lui quand il lui a montré à marcher en ligne, je ne sais pas qui il épouse sa cousine, ma petite filaire, mais indépendamment d'une + | Gomer laissez-moi vous couper le souffle! Entièrement d'accord avec vous, Geeky + | il n'a pas l'épouser, mon cousin, mon cousin C'est sa fille, ma Bose phis + |, qui se poursuivra la fin de mes médailles de mon cousin shotgunned | qui est la raison pour laquelle il fait son deuxième cousin tarmacking + | la fille de son oncle tomates vent | Je suis sûr qu'il avait un gros ego C'est pourquoi mon ID préfèrent fucker Elvis Johnny, ils sont restés calme TAT | Où amende film gars ne peut pas le trouver sur YouTube, vous aurez probablement à louer ou à acheter de façon à ce que, si elle montre la confiserie TV | Bay bidonville à essayer | essayer d'obtenir le câble myrmidon On Demand, vous pouvez voir que ma vidéo quand je veux JerrryLeeLewis semaine | il sur YouTube, il suffit de recherche Gret balles biopic viol anal de flekajovi | tomates-s, il a été, "I" parce qu'il était un génie, qui, je pourquoi je n'ai pas d'autre qui peut jouer, comme en témoigne | Jerry colis, il était encore le deuxième cousin et ma cousine à deux reprises mais n'a pas enlevé épouser votre cousine mauvaise tomates fucker Elvis eu mon grand ego, mais je l'ai déjà Johnny! Lee a beaucoup de nileqt + | fucker que Elvis, mon très modeste, tandis que les grandes wasn mon humble avis, que fucker Elvis, mon, ma, ma-je avoir mon # ou # killer-je encore bien tryasya cauchemar | Ceci est mon téléviseur en mes vingt minutes, comme il a vu l'autre jour au poste de contrôle Mandat monothéistes Elton John mon garçon, mon héros, quand il était enfant à comprendre pourquoi Lucas | Ceci est mon film terrible LEE Je ne suis pas fou, retardé intentionnellement | vraiment aimé beaucoup, parce qu'il m'a présenté, mais ils ont un niais Don je pense qu'il ne pourrait jamais être aussi ridiculement stupide s'évapore | Vous êtes stupide de lui, il vient de le mythe de l'enfant adorable, il veut juste stupide, mais il était encore un enfant de chapeau Qu'est-ce qui lui a si bien DeanMartin séquence | Jerry punster + | agiter mes nerfs vide mon esprit beaucoup d'amour conduit un homme insensé qui a éclaté ma volonté d'une telle vague de bonté aimable grand balles, I love avec Jerry Lee deviné saint twat , mais cosmopolitisme | échappatoire est certainement la façon dont il joue, il n'a pianola moins il est remarquable je dis ma bataille Lee avait des doutes quant à Homer Quad chanté cette chanson pour mon film, ou qu'ils ont joué dans le passé, l'homme a été, je confus, car il est une bande sonore originale de la bande, où il dit que j'ai une fois de plus effectué par Lewis, mes je voudrais savoir si le joueur vient de déménager sa remorque, je pense que mon observation qu'il fait, mais je veux être sûr, mais , encore LOVER Comer heehaw CT propre Blitzkrieg | Buddy Holly Jerry Lee personnes! !Aurora Boredom Shamrocks PERSONNES TOUJOURS!
"Buddy Holly and I were good friends. One time we were playing at the Paramount Theatre and Buddy came in ON me while I was jacking off titty-gel Sue. Well, she was doing that to me in Buddy's thong-o... He was ready, so she opened up her legs and he potted IN her. He was Half-Wang singin', I was jacking off...Always Stickin' on! He finessed the sly fag. I’ll forget that. Queenie !"
—Little Richard, 1984
Vampire Couture - Twilight Inspired Fashion and Designs
From Vampiretography to Gothic Dolls and Dracula Fashion, this video is all about vampire fashion, heavily influenced by the Twilight series.
May 14, 2009
Elvis and Lee Denson: 'His eyes looked like two pissholes in the snow! I saw Lucifer in there." + "Miracle of the Rosary"- for R.J.
"Every day of his life he was pitiful, pathetic and no-one on earth to worship and idolize. He was to be pitied every day of his life. He was a victim every day of his life. He was being victimized before I met him, the day I met him and every day of his life he was being victimized. He was the only human being I know that had to be protected, physically, every day of his life by other human beings. He's the only one I've ever seen. He's the only totally genetic infantile baby that I ever knew."
Well, it's a satanic form of religion, Satan-inspired. I saw the Devil in Elvis' brain one day and his Momma told me to look. She said,
"Jimmy, look at Elvis' eyes,"
and
"Elvis," she said,and he flashed his eyes and his skull looked like…"show Jimmy what you showed me"
his eyes looked like two
pissholes in the snow."
"And back in his brain,
I saw Lucifer in there."
July 5th, 1956.
He was stoned out of his head"
--Jimmy Denson
"Well, it's a satanic form of religion, Satan-inspired. I saw the Devil in Elvis' brain one day and his Momma told me to look. She said, "Jimmy, look at Elvis' eyes," and "Elvis," she said, "show Jimmy what you showed me" and he flashed his eyes and his skull looked like… his eyes looked like two pissholes in the snow. And back in his brain I saw Lucifer in there. July 5th, 1956. He was stoned out of his head"On November 6th 1948 the Presley family left Tupelo and relocated to Memphis were they settled on 370 Washington Street before moving to 572 Poplar Avenue, which was not too far from the Denson home. Jesse Lee's father, the Reverend Jesse James Denson, ran the Poplar Street Mission which was of the Pentecostal denomination. This was the church that Gladys, Vernon and Elvis Presley attended. The two families became close friends, especially the two mothers who got along very well. Gladys Presley received a lot of welcome advice and care from Mrs. Denson, who was a significant factor in helping the Presleys' obtain a home in the housing project at Lauderdale Courts. They moved into their new apartment, #328, in September 1949 and lived there to early 1953 before the Presleys' relocated. Lee remembers: When Jim and me got out of the backdoor to go to Humes High School one day, we saw Gladys and this young skinny guy who was taller than her, It was Elvis. We had not met him before but knew Gladys as she was around the mission and the house quite often. But the strange thing to see was that Elvis had his head on his mothers shoulder while walking hand in hand to the school. A couple of days later my mother said to me in the kitchen, "Jesse Lee, Gladys has begged me if you would show Elvis how to play the guitar". I said, "Mama, I'm not teaching that little chicken nothing, he's so fragile and so afraid of everything: If I would start to teach him how to sing and play, the other kids would tease me. It's hard enough already, but after that I would be in a fight every day". My Mother did not accept that and looked right into my eyes and told me: "Whatsoever you do, Jesse Lee, to these the least of my brothers that you will do on to me, and that's exactly what Jesus said". That really got me and I replied "Okay mama send him over". That afternoon I started teaching Elvis. He was 13 years old and he was slow, but he was better than most people thought. That's how it begun. We then got to his place, or in the basement to practice becouse there was a nice echo there. We lived there for about four years with the Presleys'. This building still stands, but the neighborhood has deteriorated. Over the next two or three years Lee geve Elvis, who was about two years younger, informal guitar lessons. He also introduced him to some of his friends like the Burnettes and brother Jimmy, but Elvis does not seem to have made a lasting impression on these guys at the time. Lee later liked what Elvis recorded but said: I know by my heart that Bill Haley & The Comets started that all and to me he was the King. Elvis had all the breaks in the world because of his manager (Colonel Tom Parker). I got into music when I was really small. My father played guitar in his mission but couldn't tune the guitar which I could do already at the age of 6. That's when it started for me. I thought it's better to sing and play than to get into more trouble as some of my friends out on the streets did. In my early days, I was country. I liked to sing smooth like Eddy Arnold. Coming from a very religious family, Lee always kept his faith with God and so it was a natural thing for him to write gospel music.
In 1960 he wrote an English version of Ave Maria
titled
"The Miracle Of The Rosary".
Denson attempted to get publishers interested in the song but it was of a religious nature, enthusiasm was not forthcoming.When Lee heard that Elvis was in Hollywood to film a movie, he visited with him at his Bel Air residence. Knowing that Elvis had retained his passion for gospel music, Denson was determined that Presley should hear his composition. At the house, Denson was warmly welcomed and had the opportunity to perform the song to Elvis and his Memphis Mafia. Lee remembered: After I finished this little girl stand up and said "It's the most gorgeous song I ever heard in my life" and it was Priscilla. This was the last time Lee saw Elvis in person. He later received a telephone call from one of the Presley sidekicks who inquired about the publishing for the song. The guy was told that the rights had been assigned to Dorsey Burnette's publishing company. Dorsey later sold his catalogue to Acuff-Rose and where it still resides. Seemingly, nothing was happening with Elvis on the song and so Denson recorded a version for the Enterprise label in the sixties. Unfortunately from a commercial viewpoint, this release was stillborn. Lee finally tired of the west coast scene and returned to Memphis in 1971 whereupon he signed with Stax Records, It was one evening that year when Lee got a call from his old school mate Red West who was then based in Nashville. Lee remembers the telephone conversation vividly
I have not heard from Red in quite a while. He told me to sit down which I did and he started telling me that Elvis has recorded my song "Miracle Of The Rosary" that day. I was glad he told me sit down. I couldn't believe it after all those years. The version by Elvis has been on several of his albums and I still get royalties from airplay and records. I have been very fortunate and this money helped me doing what I wanted to do.
(Jesse Lee Denson is James Samuel Denson's brother. Jesse Lee Denson is a successful, professional guitarist. He is the one who taught guitar to Elvis.)
In Chapter 12 of 'Elvis Through My Eyes' the paragraph starts:
'An eclipse is obstruction of light, darkness, a casting of shadow. When a light 'goes out' early, there cannot be fullness of life and it is then obstructed.'When reading this book it is not hard to imagine something has obstructed the vision and memory of Jimmy Denson. This could well be the book to rival Albert Goldman's mean spirited and much reviled, 'Elvis'!Like the widely denigrated Goldman biography, separating fact from fiction in this totally over the top account of the Elvis story is challenging. It is a book well suited to the now, largely defunct Elvis "underground", with its sensational, colorful and fantastic claims, observations and beliefs, all neatly wrapped within a somewhat out of place spiritual texture. At times you will laugh out loud, at other times you'll want to wring Denson's neck!Both books are a revisionist dream. Interspersed with some solid research, Goldman set out to destroy the existing Elvis legend and replace it with one of the most damming and depraved accounts one could imagine. Jimmy Denson's account, as told to writer Heart Lanier Shapre, approaches its subject in a strange, hybrid manner where the narrator professes great love for Elvis and then details him as a pitifuly scared, drug addicted youth with rotting green teeth.After so many mundane and repetitive biographies piecing the Elvis story together in the same one-dimensional jigsaw puzzle like mosaic, this books hits you right in the face with its 'out of left field' rancid picture of the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
Denson traces Elvis' drug addiction to his days living in the Lauderdale Courts in Memphis. Starting out as a typical youth experiment with glue sniffing it progressed through the inhalation of gasoline fumes to amphetamines.If you believe Denson (and a small number probably will), Elvis was a certified drug addict during his teenage years. This makes it seemingly consistent with the use of pills by Elvis, et al, during Sun Studio days (as portrayed recently in the critically acclaimed film, 'Walk The Line'), a claim very much at odds with the usually told story that Elvis' pill problem started when he was in the Army.Despite its often repulsive narrative, 'Elvis Through My Eyes' threads a spiritual theme replete with biblical quotations. It is a strangely concocted brew!Heart Lanier Shapre's narrative is also unusually structured, its text flowing in a generally chronological timeline but punctuated by hundreds of quotes and biblical diversions. Many of the quotes are from Jimmy Denson and his bother, Jesse Lee, while others are from members of the Memphis Mafia, third party authors, Al Dvorin, and a female Elvis impersonator.The litany of amazing claims is staggering and hard to comprehend, as are Denson's gems of wisdom and observations, all of which continue to flow like an unstoppable, raging torrent careering down a stream.
Jimmy Denson outside the
Lauderdale Courts
On the night of May 15, 1971, RCA's Studio B had been decorated for an early Christmas. A tree with beautifully wrapped empty boxes stood in the center of the room, but Elvis brought real gifts for the musicians and his associates---gold bracelets engraved "Elvis 71." All the players from the June 1970 sessions were back, and again there were no backup singers present. With no personal changes and as few distractions as possible, Felto Javis expected to be able to get all of Elvis's recordings done in a short order and save all the sweetening for later. As the group was getting started the old question of material came up, and there was some talk about the mysterious process new songs had to go through to make it to an Elvis session. But Elvis rendered the debate moot by choosing the first song himself: "Miracle Of The Rosary." Writer Lee Denson was an old Lauderdale Courts compatriot, and he'd brought the song directly to Elvis, who put it at the top of his agenda. As soon as they'd worked out an introduction on the organ the first take flowed beautifully, and Elvis led the musicians confidently through the four takes it took to complete the song. First released on Elvis Now 1972.
This was a request from Debbe who's Mom died a year and a half ago from Cancer. She was given 3-6 months to live and baffeled the Doctors by living almost 4 years. Her Mom was 71 when she died and very devoted to the catholic church and liked the song Elvis did titled "Miracle of the Rosary." Debbe says. "She would love to hear me sing in the church choir." She was born and raised in Calif.
Debbe's Dad was Rip Russell who died in 1976.
He was a former baseball player and he died on the golf course doing what he liked best. If you put his name into a search engine it will come up and you can see his baseball stats as well as his picture.
Mary Lou Russell
Dec. 23, 1929 to Jan 23, 2001
Rip Russell
Jan. 26, 1915 to Sept 26, 1976
Lee Denson
"The South's Gonna Rise Again"
His eyes looked like two Lee Denson & Elvis On November 6th 1948 the Presley family left Tupelo and relocated to Memphis were they settled on 370 Washington Street before moving to 572 Poplar Avenue, which was not too far from the Denson home. Jesse Lee's father, the Reverend Jesse James Denson, ran the Poplar Street Mission which was of the Pentecostal denomination. This was the church that Gladys, Vernon and Elvis Presley attended. The two families became close friends, especially the two mothers who got along very well. Gladys Presley received a lot of welcome advice and care from Mrs. Denson, who was a significant factor in helping the Presleys' obtain a home in the housing project at Lauderdale Courts. They moved into their new apartment, #328, in September 1949 and lived there to early 1953 before the Presleys' relocated. Lee remembers: When Jim and me got out of the backdoor to go to Humes High School one day, we saw Gladys and this young skinny guy who was taller than her, It was Elvis. We had not met him before but knew Gladys as she was around the mission and the house quite often. But the strange thing to see was that Elvis had his head on his mothers shoulder while walking hand in hand to the school. A couple of days later my mother said to me in the kitchen, "Jesse Lee, Gladys has begged me if you would show Elvis how to play the guitar". I said, "Mama, I'm not teaching that little chicken nothing, he's so fragile and so afraid of everything: If I would start to teach him how to sing and play, the other kids would tease me. It's hard enough already, but after that I would be in a fight every day". My Mother did not accept that and looked right into my eyes and told me: "Whatsoever you do, Jesse Lee, to these the least of my brothers that you will do on to me, and that's exactly what Jesus said". That really got me and I replied "Okay mama send him over". That afternoon I started teaching Elvis. He was 13 years old and he was slow, but he was better than most people thought. That's how it begun. We then got to his place, or in the basement to practice becouse there was a nice echo there. We lived there for about four years with the Presleys'. This building still stands, but the neighbourhood has deteriorated. I got into music when I was really small. My father played guitar in his mission but couldn't tune the guitar which I could do already at the age of 6. That's when it started for me. I thought it's better to sing and play than to get into more trouble as some of my friends out on the streets did. In my early days, I was country. I liked to sing smooth like Eddy Arnold.
After I finished this little girl stand up and said "It's the most gorgeous song I ever heard in my life" and it was Priscilla.
This was the last time Lee saw Elvis in person. He later received a telephone call from one of the Presley sidekicks who inquired about the publishing for the song. The guy was told that the rights had been assigned to Dorsey Burnette's publishing company. Dorsey later sold his catalogue to Acuff-Rose and where it still resides. Seemingly, nothing was happening with Elvis on the song and so Denson recorded a version for the Enterprise label in the sixties. Unfortunately from a commercial viewpoint, this release was stillborn.
 Lee finally tired of the west coast scene and returned to Memphis in 1971 whereupon he signed with Stax Records, It was one evening that year when Lee got a call from his old school mate Red West who was then based in Nashville. Lee remembers the telephone conversation vividly:
I have not heard from Red in quite a while. He told me to sit down which I did and he started telling me that Elvis has recorded my song "Miracle Of The Rosary" that day. I was glad he told me sit down. I couldn't believe it after all those years. The version by Elvis has been on several of his albums and I still get royalties from airplay and records. I have been very fortunate and this money helped me doing what I wanted to do.
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Elvis and Lee Denson: 'His eyes looked like two pissholes in the snow! I saw Lucifer in there." + "Miracle of the Rosary"- for R.J.
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