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Elvis Presley Biography fan`s survey results:

Les Heggen
From: Australia

1. How and when did you first hear about Elvis Presley?
: On the radio and my dad was working at RCA in sydney and he bought home Tutti Fruitti, so I guess that was the first Elvis song to be played in our household

2. What was it that got you hooked on Elvis?
: His music, voice and his energy he showed when working ie: Stage

3. If Elvis were alive, what would you like to say to him or ask him?
"My Message to Elvis": What or why did you do what you did to yourself, you wasted yourself (Life)

4. WHICH is your favourite Elvis Presley song or movie? And why is it your favourite?
: It is hard to have a favourite song, there are too many but I do like songs where he uses that great voice as I am sick and tire of people who said he could not sing ie Unchained Melody, Hurt to name a couple

5. Which is your favourite SUIT that Elvis wore on stage?
: Black Leather in 1968

6. Who do you think Elvis loved most in his life, his greatest love?
: His mother, family and sadly his food

7. Where were you and what were you doing when you heard that Elvis had died?
: i was going around to the local shop and heard it on the radio

8. Why do you think Elvis still attracts new fans every year, even long after his death?
: His voice, his way of putting a song over with feeling, when he sang a song you knew it had been sang, he did it his way as only he could

Have you been to Graceland?...If so, would you like to share your experence or feelings on this site?
: No

Elvis was a trend leader and constantly "transformed" himself in his career, like Madonna & music stars are famous for doing nowdays. Which are your favourite "Elvis eras" in his career?
: King of rock & roll recording star

Do you have a personal Letter to Elvis or Poem about or for Elvis that you would like to share on this site? This may be included in our next book "Messages to Elvis". Add it here
:: Sorry I don't have such a thing, I loved Elvis but I am also a male

Would you like to tell us a little bit more about yourself to share on your own Elvis Presley Fan page?
: I am a devout Elvis Fan, I love his music but I am not a fan of most of his movies as I don't think he was given a role to see if he could act, he was not given a chance to proove his acting ability.

Do you collect Elvis music or memorabilia?
: Music

How would you rate our Elvis Presley Biography site?
: Very Good

Do you have any suggestions on how we can improve this site for Elvis's fans?:

G`Day Les

Thank you for comments on our survey. Elvis certainly gave his fans value when he got on that stage, he was quite the showman. I agree it`s so hard to have a favorite song, for he sang from his heart and when he sang he felt the emotion, which was his only way to express his own feelings. Being an Aussie and a devoted fan like yourself, I have high hopes of getting to Graceland, I`m sure it`s an overwhelming experience and memories to treasure forever. Les it was great hearing from you. I have also put the lyrics to the two songs you mentioned in your survey below, Enjoy!

Lyrics for Unchained Melody

performed by Elvis Presley

(Zaret — North)

Oh, my love, my darling
I've hungered for your touch, a long lonely time
And time goes by, so slowly and time can do so much
Are you, still mine?
I need your love, I need your love
God speed your love to me

Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea
To the waiting arms of the sea
Lonely rivers cry, wait for me, wait for me
To the open arms, wait for me

My love, my darling, I've hungered for your kiss
Are you still mine?
I need your love, I need your love
God, speed your love, to me

Lyrics for It Hurts Me

performed by Elvis Presley

(Byers — Daniels)

It hurts me to see him treat you the way he does
It hurts me to see sit and cry
When I know I could be so true
If I had someone like you
It hurts me to see those tears in your eyes

The whole town is talking, they're callin' you a fool
For listening to his same old lies
And when I know I could be so true
If I had someone like you
It hurts me to see the way he makes you cry

You love him too much, you're too blind to see
He's only playing a game
But he's never loved you
He never will
And darling, don't you know he will never change

Oh, I know he never will set you free
Because he's just that kind of guy
But if you ever tell him you're through
I'll be waiting for you
Waiting to hold you so tight
Waiting to kiss you goodnight
Yes, darling, if I had someone like you







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Elvis Genealogy

Presley was born poor in Tupelo, Mississippi, the son of Vernon Elvis Presley and Gladys Love Smith Presley. He was raised both in Tupelo and later in Memphis, Tennessee, where his family moved when he was 13. He had a twin brother (Jesse Garon Presley) who died at birth.

The young Elvis took up guitar at 11 and, after high school, worked at Precision Tool Company and then drove a truck for the Crown Electric Company.

Scottish author Allan Morrison claims that Elvis was of Scottish descent. In an as-yet-unpublished book, Morrison claims to have found that his ancestors lived in Lonmay, Aberdeenshire in the 1700s. According to Morrison, records show that Andrew Presley married Elspeth Leg in Lonmay in 1713. Their son, also called Andrew, went to the English colonies in 1745.

Through his father's mother Minnie Mae, Elvis descended from King Henry II of England. His maternal grandmother was Jewish.

Each of us stands on the shoulders of our ancestors. So too Elvis; his genealogy provides a fascinating view of the influences that help form him. Our story begins with Elvis's maternal heritage through his mother, Gladys.

Elvis's great-great-great-grandmother, Morning White Dove (1800-1835), was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian. She married William Mansell, a settler in western Tennessee, in 1818. William's father, Richard Mansell, had been a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mansell is a French name--its literal translation is the man from Le Mans. The Mansells migrated from Norman France to Scotland, and then later to Ireland. In the 18th century the family came to the American Colonies.

The appellation "white" in Morning Dove's name refers to her status as a friendly Indian. Early American settlers called peaceable Indians "white," while "red" was the designation for warring Indians or those who sided with the British in the Revolutionary War. It was common for male settlers in the West to marry "white" Indians as there was a scarcity of females on the American frontier. Like many young men in the American Southwest, William Mansell fought with Andrew Jackson in the Indian Wars of the early nineteenth century. He fought with Old Hickory in Alabama, at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and later in Florida too.

Returning to Tennessee from the Indian Wars, William Mansell married Morning White Dove. Elaine Dundy says of the marriage, he (William Mansell) gained "age-old Indian knowledge of the American terrain; of forests and parries; of crops and game; of protection against the climate; of medicine lore, healing plants as well as something in which the Indians were expert--the setting of broken bones."

Moreover, added to Elvis's lineage were Morning White Dove's ruddy Indian complexion and fine line of cheek.

Like many other settlers, the newlyweds migrated to Alabama from Tennessee to claim lands garnered in the Indian Wars. The Mansells settled in Marion County in northeast Alabama near the Mississippi border. The Scots-Irish, like William Mansell, were the predominant settlers of Alabama. One-tenth of the population in colonial America was Scots-Irish at the time of the American Revolution. And a very interesting group they were. The Anglican Reverend Woodmason had this to say about the Scots-Irish women of William Mansell's day.

"They wore nothing but thin shifts and a thin petticoat underneath. They are sensual and promiscuous. They draw their shift as tight as possible to the body, and pin it close, to show the roundness of their breasts, and slender waists (for they are generally fined shaped) and draw their petticoat close to their hips to show the fineness of their limbs--so that they might as well be in puri naturalibus."

The Scots-Irish in America were a passionate community living close to the earth. They disdained the niceties of their British neighbors. Of this Reverend Woodmason had to say," they delight in their present low, lazy, sluttish, heathenish, hellish life, and seem not desirous of changing it. These people despise knowledge, and instead of honoring a learned person...they despise and ill-treat them..."

There were other views on the passionate lifestyle of the Scots-Irish, however. James Hall of Philadelphia described a young, Scots-Irish frontiersman in this way. "He strode among us with the step of Achilles...I thought I could see in that man, one of the progenitors of an unconquerable race; his face presented the traces of a spirit quick to resent--he had the will to dare, and the power to execute, there was something in his look which bespoke a disdain of control, and an absence of constraint in all his movements indicating an habitual independence of thought and action."

Think of Elvis in these words: the will to dare and the power to execute, a disdain of control in all his movements indicating a habitual independence of thought and action. This is the Scots-Irish heritage from which Elvis Presley issued. In his genes he carried an independence of blood, the will to dare and the power to execute. Many influences formed Elvis Presley besides the genealogical, yet this description has a haunting accuracy.

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