Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Joe Ely, and the Cotton Club

by Johnny Hughes
(Lubbock, Texas)

My author bio is at www.JohnnyHughes.com with many free stories such as this research and memory piece.

Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Joe Ely, and the Cotton Club
by Johnny Hughes,
January 2009

Elvis Presley was leaning against his pink, 1954 Cadillac in front of Lubbock's historic Cotton Club. The small crowd were mesmerized by his great looks, cockiness, and charisma. He put on quite a show, doing nearly all the talking.

Elvis bragged about his sexual conquests, using language you didn't hear around women. He said he'd been a truck driver six months earlier.

Now he could have a new woman in each town. He told a story about being caught having sex in his back seat. An angry husband grabbed his wife by the ankles and pulled her out from under Elvis. I doubted that.


Earlier, at the Fair Park Coliseum, Elvis had signed girl's breasts, arms, foreheads, bras, and panties. No one had ever seen anything like it. We had met Elvis' first manager, Bob Neal, bass player, Bill Black, and guitarist Scotty Moore.

They wanted us to bring some beer out to the Cotton Club. So we did. My meeting with Bob Neal in 1955 was to have great meaning in my future. I was 15. MORE ...www.virtualubbock.com or www.JohnnyHughes.com


Johnny Hughes, is the author of Texas Poker Wisdom, a novel.
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