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Recently I learned that Billy Smith (Elvis' cousin) had a band when he was a teenager. Those pictures above are from that period. In the video 'Love at First Sight' from Billy and his wife, Jo,'s Youtube channel (EFM: Elvis Fans Matter), Billy said Jackie Cooper played the drums and Bobby Stewart played guitar, formerly. Concerning Elvis enjoying his music, Billy said to have recorded a demo with his band mates - which never got out officially but the songs were "Streets of Sand" and "Love Key" - and Elvis listened to it. According to Billy, Elvis' reaction was "If you're looking for my help with this, you're not gonna get it. If you make it, just like me, you'll make it on your own." Jo Smith said they still have that demo record but she doesn't remember where it is now exactly but it's in their home. Billy sounded a little against showing it to their audience on Youtube, a little shy about it maybe, but Jo said the band was good and she enjoys the songs they recorded so, maybe one of these days we'll get to listen Billy's music too, hopefully.
Source: EFM: Elvis Fans Matter Youtube Channel. Video: 'Love at First Sight' (Nov 2024)
#i wonder if billy did ever jam with his cousin or not#oh i should mention Billy told this story laughing so... no resentments#elvis presley#elvis' family#billy smith#jo smith#elvis fans#elvis#elvis the king
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#elvis 2022#elvis the king#elvis#elvis movie#elvis photos#elvis presley#elvis smile#elvisaaronpresley#elvis imagine#elvis 70s#70s icons#70s elvis#billy smith
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Pro-Am Jam Robby Robinson and Billy Smith
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I rewatched the memphis mafia documentary and it reminded me of an edit I made for them a while ago
Red West is narrating and I think he just says everything perfectly…I can’t imagine how special it must have been to have shared a lifetime with Elvis Presley. I sincerely hope, if there is a way, that they are all together again <3
#getting emotional over a bunch of men I never even met 🥲#friendship like this is so rare and special#elvis just had a way of making such deep connections it’s crazy#I wish things had turned out differently#ugh I’m a mess#elvis presley#elvisaaronpresley#elvis#elvis and the memphis mafia#Memphis mafia#alan fortas#lamar fike#marty lacker#sonny west#red west#billy smith#elvis edit#edit#elvis footage
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Happy 80th to Billy Smith! 🎉
#elvis#elvis presley#elvis history#elvis presley history#elvis photos#elvis presley photos#music history#movie history#billy smith#elvis aaron presley#1950s#1960s
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AIR (2023) Grade: B-
Solid movie. Tight script w no fatty scenes. Probably y it goes by quickly & it's a movie about selling a sneaker. Cast was good, solid performances. Funny when it neeed to be.
#Air#2023#B#Based on a True Story#Nike#Basketball#Sport Films#Ben Affleck#Drama Films#Michael Jordan#Matt Damon#Jason Bateman#Chris Messina#Julius Tennon#Viola Davis#Damian Delano Young#Chris Tucker#Gustaf Skarsgård#Matthew Maher#Barbara Sukowa#Jay Mohr#Joel Gretsch#Asanté Deshon#Al Madrigal#Billy Smith#Melodrama Films#Company#Business#Marketing#Youtube
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He only wants to play her pink ps2
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going out of your way to search up [insert character] ANGST and all you get is smut
#like please i passed on the backshots leave me alone‼️😭🙏#jujutsu kaisen x reader#choso x reader#nanami x reader#benedict bridgerton x reader#spencer reid x reader#steve harrington x reader#eddie munson x reader#billy hargrove x reader#genshin impact x reader#arthur morgan x reader#tokyo revengers x reader#ran haitani x reader#shinichiro x reader#ellie willams x reader#abby anderson x reader#sanji x reader#five x reader#levi ackerman x reader#aot x reader#erwin smith x reader#haikyuu x reader#daryl dixon x reader#rick grimes x reader#tangerine x reader#sirius black x reader#remus lupin x reader#viktor x reader#sevika x reader#Star yaps :D
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Ghosts of Beirut
Ghosts of Beirut (Mini-Serie 2023) #NavidNegahban #AmirKhoury #NedBellamy #BillySmith #HibaBennani #SalimBenmoussa Mehr auf:
Mini-SerieJahr: 2023 Genre: Krimi / Drama / Thriller Hauptrollen: Navid Negahban, Amir Khoury, Ned Bellamy, Billy Smith, Hiba Bennani, Salim Benmoussa, Youness Beyej, Omar Lotfi, Lydia Mark, Mohammed Larbi Sahraoui, Iddo Goldberg, Yuval Scharf, Zineb Triki, Hisham Suliman … Serienbeschreibung: Imad Mughniyeh (Hisham Suliman) war als der wohl gefährlichste Terrorist aller Zeiten. Sein Einfluss…
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Is he a scary man covered in blood? Or is he my baby girl? Spot the difference
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shoutout to all my fellow smut enjoyers
#resident evil smut#attack on titan smut#resident evil#william birkin#william birkin x reader#carlos oliveria smut#chris redfield smut#jack krauser smut#albert wesker smut#billy coen smut#hunk resident evil#eren yeager smut#armin smut#armin arlert#reiner smut#zeke smut#reiner braun#connie smut#connie springer smut#mike smut#erwin smut#erwin smith smut#levi ackerman smut#fanfiction#smut#smut meme#slasher smut#boyfriend to death#kengan ashura smut#kengan ashura x reader
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there's such a massive history with doctor who and it hit me lately that the sensation of seeing that the companions and doctors you watched in real-time have become the past is a sensation every fan has felt for 60 years. at some point people missed jon pertwee and could remember watching him recently, even though tom baker was on tv as the doctor now and they liked him too. and nowadays we miss rose tyler and martha jones and amy pond and clara oswald and donna noble and tennant and smith and capaldi like those people missed baker when davison took the stage. like people missed ace and wondered if the show would ever come back, and then got excited and still felt it wasn't quite the same when eccleston was announced. like. it feels so recent, like just yesterday rose saw the tardis for the first time, but that was twenty years ago. feels like the doctor just made the speech in 'the rings of akhaten' and that was a decade ago. clara is gone, amy is gone. peter capaldi went from gray to white. and the show is going on and children will think of ncuti gatwa and millie gibson and huge white tardis corridors when they think of doctor who in the future. to them, david tennant is already what tom baker is to us. this story has a huge legacy. when you're watching doctor who, it ironically begins to feel like you're making history just by watching it.
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#elvis 2022#elvis the king#elvis#elvis movie#elvis photos#elvis presley#elvis smile#elvisaaronpresley#elvis imagine#60s elvis#60s icons#billy smith#colonel tom parker#tom parker
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Mile-High Views
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Do you consider the memphis mafia trustworthy sources on Elvis? Idk if I always believe some of the stuff they’ve said about elvis
thank you so much for this ask!! I have way too much to say about this topic, therefore I apologize in advance for how long this is 🤧
firstly I think it’s important to clarify who the Memphis Mafia actually consisted of: based on what they themselves have said, it was Red West, Sonny West, Alan Fortas, Marty Lacker, Lamar Fike, and Billy Smith
I was confused why people like Jerry Schilling, Charlie Hodge, Joe Esposito, Larry Geller, George Klein, etc. etc. weren’t technically considered Memphis Mafia until I learned that Elvis’ entourage were categorized into two groups, the Memphis Mafia, and the others
I also really recommend for every fan to read Alanna Nash’s “Elvis and the Memphis Mafia” which is just an oral history from Billy Smith, Marty Lacker, and Lamar Fike
and then to watch the documentary, it is 5 hours but it’s so worth it, I’ve literally rewatched it at least 8 times at this point because it’s my favorite Elvis documentary 😩!!
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I also want to say if you are going to read from one of them, you should try to read from all of them because they all have their own unique experience with Elvis and therefore all have their own viewpoints/opinions and biases *which is why it’s important to cross reference between them
For example in the Alanna Nash book there are several instances where Lamar Fike, Marty Lacker and Billy Smith all have a different opinion on something and you basically have to decide for yourself which one you agree with
I’m just going to be breaking down each Memphis Mafia member, as I’ve been fortunate enough to read each of their books, and say if I think they are trustworthy sources:
Lamar Fike: Personally, I think he is one of Memphis Mafia members that you really have to be cautious about. If y’all didn’t know he was Albert Goldman’s main source for that horrible book, “Elvis”. In Alanna Nash’s book, Lamar Fike spends a good majority of the time disagreeing with everything Goldman wrote, and said that Goldman would twist his words and retell things to fit his own agenda. He said “even though I was one of his main sources, and shared in the royalties, I couldn’t control Albert”. He admitted he did the book for money which is why I lost respect for Lamar because he knew that Albert was saying things that weren’t true and that the book’s main purpose was to make Elvis look bad. I would also be cautious of Lamar because he tends to twist reality just a little bit and over exaggerate things. For example whenever he tells the story of Elvis and Priscilla meeting, he always says that it was he who introduced them “Elvis this is Priscilla, Priscilla this Elvis”. But no one else who was in the room has told it that way, Lamar just inserted himself into the scene (he also once said she was 13 when we obviously know she was 14). So yeah I would really recommend to cross reference everything Lamar says before believing it. He just tells things in a really blunt (and lowkey funny💀) way, which makes it interesting insight, but from what I have also seen he is more than willing to exaggerate things just to be able to tell a “better” story
Marty Lacker: I really really enjoy reading his viewpoint and his book is one of my favorites out of the bunch however I think he too often lets his own biases affect his story telling. This man really really really hated Priscilla 😭 So much so that every time he talked about her it was in a negative light. I’m not saying Priscilla is perfect, she has done many things I don’t agree with, however, none of these men knew what it was like to be in her shoes so I’m just wary of them placing so much blame on her when she was so young, and I find that Marty can be a little unsympathetic in that regard (but again I’m not saying that Priscilla hasn’t done things that deserve criticism). Also Marty Lacker wasn’t around in the late late 70s so I would just be cautious of anything he says about that time because he simply wasn’t there to know. But in general, beside his obvious biases, I would say he is a trustworthy source
Alan Fortas: He was the first Memphis Mafia member to pass away in 1992, we sadly didn’t get to hear too much from him, but I’m very grateful to have his book. Since he wasn’t around much in the late 60s and not at all in the 70s, his best stories come from the 50s and early-mid 60s. He provides a really unique insight especially when it comes to Priscilla and Elvis because he was more or less her chauffeur when she first came to the United States. He also knew Frances Forbes, Gloria Mowell, Heidi Heissen and Arlene Cogan and spends a decent chunk of his book talking about them. I can’t say it is in a way that looks good for Elvis because Alan really disagreed with those relationships, even though he said he knew nothing s*xual was going on, he genuinely couldn’t fathom why Elvis, who could have any woman he wanted, wanted to spend time with teenage girls, including Priscilla. But nothing in his book I found to be untrue and everything he says corresponds with what other has said, plus he has some really great stories about the movie-making times and his beloved chimpanzee, Scatter (I know it was Elvis’ technically but Alan was his real mom lmao) but I overall trust him as well
Red and Sonny West: I’m about to get controversial; I think these are two men, that as Elvis fans, we have been a little too critical of. It’s not fair to completely write off their experiences with Elvis just because of the book they did, which in retrospect, doesn’t say anything different from what the other Memphis Mafia men have said, it was just horribly timed. But I do want to clarify that I don’t support their decision on writing “Elvis: What happened” in 1977 and at the end of the day I will always support Elvis over anybody else. As for their credibility, Red West has one of the most important perspectives imo because he was literally the first Memphis Mafia member. He was with Elvis in highschool, in Germany, during the movies, during the comeback special, during Vegas, during the American tours, he only wasn’t there for the very last year of Elvis’ life. Unlike some of the other men here, he never stopped being with Elvis, except for of course the end. I have read the book he did in 1977 and I have watched tons of his interviews and I’ve personally never come across a story that wasn’t told/referenced by another Memphis Mafia member. I do think he is trustworthy in that sense but I think he has gotten very defensive in the past and is willing to throw Elvis under the bus in order to protect his image. I feel like it is the same thing with Sonny West. These men felt betrayed by Elvis, they got fired, and they both definitely harbored vengeful feelings for a while so you have to take that into account when listening to their stories. For example when they talked about how Elvis hired h00kers in the 1977 book they didn’t mention that they were also cheating on their wives and actually slept with the hired girls while Elvis only wanted to watch the girls simulate lesbian s*x. In that book especially, they often conveniently left out that they indulged in the same kind of behavior Elvis did. But with age, I think they both mellowed out and ultimately realized that they betrayed Elvis also, and they have both said they have regretted the book. The documentary I linked above really helped me understand their perspective more, and while things ended badly between Elvis and them, I do think both parties still cared about each other. So while both of their perspectives are very important (and I think Red was one of Elvis’ truest friends), I wouldn’t fully trust anything they have said until I checked another source to confirm
Billy Smith: He is sadly the only Memphis mafia member still with us and he still makes videos answering questions on the YouTube channels Elvis fans matter and Memphis Mafia kid. I really do enjoy reading Billy’s perspective and he is one of the few people who were with Elvis from the very beginning (childhood) to the very end. But Billy rarely actually went on tour with Elvis and he also wasn’t around for most of the movie time, so his best stories are about his times with Elvis at Graceland imo. They had such a special relationship and I think Billy was the closest thing Elvis had to a brother (y’all have to read about the oath he and Elvis took, it almost made me cry😭). However this man, like anyone, is not without his biases. When reading the Alanna Nash book you can see that Billy’s main purpose is to protect Elvis and the Smith family so much so that I think he denies some things solely because he believes it will make his family look bad. For example when in the book they talked about how Gladys may have had some Jewish blood in her, Billy Smith who is Gladys’ nephew, just shot that down right away. I didn’t think much of it until Billy Smith later on admitted in the book he was slightly prejudiced against black people and jewish people because of how he was raised. But that book was also in the 90s and I haven’t seen him speak in the way since so hopefully he has changed. This man really hated Priscilla, and especially hated Ginger, so take into account these biases as well. For example, in the Nash book, he was dead set on saying that Ginger called the national enquirer after Elvis passed away. Many fans believe this also but there is just no proof to support it. If you are someone who hates Ginger because you believe she called the enquirer (I did too at one point), I really recommend reading this https://elvisdecoded.com/2021/03/13/the-ginger-hit-job/
Another reason to be slightly cautious of Billy Smith is that his opinions have changed so much since the Alanna Nash book 😭 Like how I said he hated Priscilla and Ginger, that seems to be no longer the case, at least on his YouTube channel. I was so surprised when he praised them both in the YouTube video “Elvis’ relationship secret”. He even said Ginger was good for Elvis and that she loved him- I was shook because he hated her in the 90s!!! But anyways-I would say he is trustworthy and he was no doubt one of the dearest people to Elvis’ heart but it’s always good to take into account biases, and cross reference everything
To wrap this up- They have all told the good, the bad and the ugly, and as fans of Elvis it can be hard to accept the “bad and ugly”(like was he sometimes completely unreasonable, demanding, and temperamental? yes! but do we still love him? yes!) These guys just have such a unique perspective and we are truly lucky that they have opened up their lives with Elvis to us, even if it is stories that we necessarily don’t want to accept. But there is not a single doubt in my mind that all these men loved Elvis, despite what some of them have done, and that Elvis loved all these men. The documentary I linked above has made me cry every time I have watched it because they all cried in it and something about grown men crying just hits me different okay 😭
also if anybody read all this kudos to you, I’m sorry for typing so much lmao 😩💗
#thank you for the ask<3!!#I need to learn how to get my point across with less words😭#but I hope this helped!!#I would love to know what y’all think about them also#elvis presley#elvisaaronpresley#elvis#memphis mafia#Lamar fike#marty Lacker#Alan Fortas#red west#Sonny west#Billy smith#Elvis history#Elvis asks
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July 04, 1956 ~ Elvis Presley sits with his cousin, Billy Smith, and Vernon Presley, on the patio of the recently purchased Presley family home, Memphis, Tennessee.
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