Elvis

THARPE: ♪ <i>It's the new foundation</i> ♪ 929 00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,775 PATRONS: ♪ <i>The new foundation</i> ♪ 930 00:47:55,859 --> 00:47:58,194 THARPE: ♪ <i>I'm goin' to heaven</i> ♪ 931 00:47:58,278 --> 00:48:00,488 -PATRONS: Yeah! -ELVIS: ♪ <i>Goin' to heaven</i> ♪ 932 00:48:01,573 --> 00:48:03,949 THARPE: ♪ <i>To get my reward</i> ♪ 933 00:48:04,033 --> 00:48:07,787 PATRONS: ♪ <i>Get my reward</i> ♪ 934 00:48:07,871 --> 00:48:09,121 ELVIS: Whoo! 935 00:48:09,205 --> 00:48:10,456 [APPLAUSE] 936 00:48:10,540 --> 00:48:12,541 KING: Ha-ha! That's all right. 937 00:48:13,542 --> 00:48:16,252 That's a nice ride you rode up in tonight. 938 00:48:16,336 --> 00:48:18,589 It ain't like your ol' big B.B. King bus. 939 00:48:19,047 --> 00:48:20,465 [CHUCKLES] 940 00:48:20,549 --> 00:48:22,842 Big Red. 941 00:48:22,926 --> 00:48:26,304 Yeah, well, I can go where I want, play what I want, 942 00:48:26,388 --> 00:48:28,888 and if they don't like it, I can go someplace else. 943 00:48:29,683 --> 00:48:31,643 You've got to be in control, man. 944 00:48:31,727 --> 00:48:33,686 You should have your own label, like me. 945 00:48:33,770 --> 00:48:36,314 You don't do the business, the business will do you. 946 00:48:36,398 --> 00:48:38,650 Man, I just leave all that to the Colonel. 947 00:48:40,777 --> 00:48:42,070 So it's, um... 948 00:48:43,071 --> 00:48:45,157 It's his idea, this new Elvis? 949 00:48:46,241 --> 00:48:47,867 Listen, I don't get it, man. 950 00:48:47,951 --> 00:48:50,453 Cats buy your records because they like what you do, 951 00:48:50,537 --> 00:48:53,916 not because you're dressed up like some... like some butler. 952 00:48:54,374 --> 00:48:56,751 You really think those kids want to see Elvis the butler 953 00:48:56,835 --> 00:48:58,128 at the Russwood Park gig tomorrow? 954 00:48:58,212 --> 00:48:59,754 Man, I ain't wearing no tails. 955 00:48:59,838 --> 00:49:03,675 I just... gotta lay off the moves, is all. 956 00:49:03,759 --> 00:49:06,261 Colonel says if I don't, they're gonna put me in jail. 957 00:49:06,345 --> 00:49:09,598 [LAUGHS DEEPLY] 958 00:49:10,182 --> 00:49:11,642 Come on, man. 959 00:49:12,184 --> 00:49:13,351 They're not gonna put you in jail. 960 00:49:13,435 --> 00:49:15,437 They might put me in jail for walking across the street, 961 00:49:15,521 --> 00:49:17,063 but you're a famous white boy. 962 00:49:17,147 --> 00:49:19,399 Too many people are making too much money off of you 963 00:49:19,483 --> 00:49:20,734 to put you in jail. 964 00:49:21,151 --> 00:49:21,901 You think so? 965 00:49:21,985 --> 00:49:23,612 I know so. 966 00:49:24,363 --> 00:49:28,116 Colonel's a smart man. There's gotta be another reason. 967 00:49:29,576 --> 00:49:32,126 [THARPE PLAYING "STRANGE THINGS HAPPENING EVERYDAY"] 968 00:49:32,412 --> 00:49:35,372 ♪ <i>Everyday, yes</i> ♪ 969 00:49:35,456 --> 00:49:39,418 ♪ <i>There are strange things Happening everyday</i> ♪ 970 00:49:39,502 --> 00:49:42,213 Hey, Elvis, B.B.! Give us a smile. 971 00:49:45,049 --> 00:49:47,134 ♪ <i>Everyday</i> ♪ 972 00:49:47,218 --> 00:49:49,636 EASTLAND: <i>You promised us a new Elvis, Colonel.</i> 973 00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:53,391 Yet, here he is with this B.B. King at Club Handy, 974 00:49:53,766 --> 00:49:56,852 jiggling and wiggling with Billy Ward, and here, 975 00:49:56,936 --> 00:50:00,189 on Colored Night at the Memphis Fairgrounds. 976 00:50:00,273 --> 00:50:01,899 We've been poking into your background, 977 00:50:01,983 --> 00:50:03,567 and we've found your records. 978 00:50:03,651 --> 00:50:05,861 "Unfit for military duty." 979 00:50:05,945 --> 00:50:08,447 "Acute psychopathic state." 980 00:50:08,531 --> 00:50:13,285 Well... I was pretending to be crazy. I wanted out. 981 00:50:13,369 --> 00:50:15,829 I was just a boy from Huntington, West Virginia. 982 00:50:15,913 --> 00:50:19,166 Well, before the army, we found no record of you at all. 983 00:50:19,250 --> 00:50:21,877 THARPE: ♪ <i>Everyday, yeah</i> ♪ 984 00:50:22,628 --> 00:50:27,717 ♪ <i>There are strange things Happening everyday</i> ♪ 985 00:50:29,260 --> 00:50:32,387 ♪ <i>Everyday are so strange</i> ♪ 986 00:50:32,471 --> 00:50:35,265 ♪ <i>Everyday People are stealing the planes</i> ♪ 987 00:50:35,349 --> 00:50:38,685 ♪ <i>Oh! There are strange things happening</i> ♪ 988 00:50:38,769 --> 00:50:43,148 ♪ <i>Everyday Oh, ain't that strange, everyday</i> ♪ 989 00:50:43,232 --> 00:50:44,942 [UP-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY] 990 00:50:45,026 --> 00:50:48,070 THARPE: ♪ <i>Everyday, yes</i> ♪ 991 00:50:48,154 --> 00:50:52,700 ♪ <i>There are strange things Happening everyday</i> ♪ 992 00:50:54,618 --> 00:50:57,537 PARKER: <i>While 10,000 screaming fans were cramming in</i> 993 00:50:57,621 --> 00:51:00,039 <i>to see our show, Senator Eastland was hol...