Interview with Vernon Presley by Nancy Anderson : Good Housekeeping, January 1978. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
On July 7, 1955 Elvis purchased his second Pink Cadillac, a new 1955 Cadillac Fleetwood Series 60 in blue with black roof, to replace the Cadillac that was burned. He had the car repainted by a neighbor who designed a pink color for Elvis and named the color 'Elvis Rose'. This is the one that he gave to his mother, probably the most famous car in the world. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Elvis' Father Vernon Elvis Presley was born on April 10, 1916 in Fulton, Mississippi to Jesse (1896-1973) and Minnie Mae Hood, 'Grandma Dodger' Presley (1890-1980). Elvis' Mother Gladys Love Smith was born on April 25, 1912, Pontotoc County, Mississippi to Bob (1873-1931) and Doll Smith (1876-1935). | Elvis Presley| biography.elvis.com.au
Elvis Presley had a life-long love affair with motor cars. Begining in the '50s with Cadillacs, including the Pink Cadillac that he eventually gave to his mother - probably the most famous car in the world - to a VW and two BMW 507s in Germany. In the '60s there where more Cadillacs and a Rolls Royce. In the '70s, again more Cadillacs, a Mercedes-Benz 600, even a lone Ford T-Bird and no less than five Stutz Blackhawks, among many others. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
'Daddy-O' Dewey Phillips was born on May 13, 1926 - Dewey was one of rock 'n' roll's pioneering disk jockeys, along the lines of Cleveland's Alan Freed, before Alan Freed. Starting his radio career in 1949 on WHBQ-AM in Memphis, he was the city's leading radio personality for nine years and was the first to simulcast his 'Red, Hot & Blue' show on radio and television. In July 1954, he was the first DJ to broadcast the young Elvis Presley's debut record, That's All Right / Blue Moon Of Kentuck...| www.elvis.com.au