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>>> OUR
>>> OUR SHARP EYED 4@207 VIDEOGRAPHER DEVON CRAWFORD NOTICED THE OTHER DAY IT 4@WAS
YEARS AGO THIS WEEK, WHEN 4@ELV
PRESLEY PURCHASED A HOUSE IN
MUFFINS, CALLED GRACELAND.
>> IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE ELVIS
NEEDING A MORTGAGE. 4@
HE HAD ONE 4@FOR $37,000 TH4@E
TOTAL COST OF THE HOUSE WAS
$102,000.
HE LIVED THERE UNTIL THE DAY HE
DIED IN 1977.
43 YEARS LATER, ICELAND REMAINS
AN ENORMOUSLY POPULAR TOURIST
ATTRACTION.
IN FACT, THE SECOND MOST
VISITED PRIVATE HOME IN
AMERICA.
SURPASSED ONLY BY THE WHITE
HOUSE.
>> A FEW WEEKS AFTER ELVIS
PURCHASED GRACELAND, HE BEGAN
TO WORK WITH TWO YOUNG
SONGWRITERS JURY LABOR AND MIKE
STOLER.
THEY HAD ALREADY WRITTEN IF YOU
SONGS THAT HAD SOLD LINES OF
COPIES AND HAD BECOME PART OF
THE SOUNDTRACK 4@OF AMERICA THE
WENT ON TO WRITE MANY MORE.
>> WITH 4@4@MIKE STOLER VISITED
PLAYHOUSE A FEW YEARS AGO, WE
TALKED ABOUT ELVIS AND HIS
REMARKABLE CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP
WITH JURY LABOR.
>> YOU WERE 16 OR 17 WHEN YOU
STARTED HANGING OUT TOGETHER AT
THE BEGINNING, YOU JUST WROTE,
I READ IN AN INTERVIEW, YOU
WERE TO AMUSE YOURSELVES.
>> YES, 4@WE DID, BUT WE HOPED
GET PEOPLE TO PERFORM THEM.
>> JERRY LIEBER GOT A BREAK
WHEN A SINGER NAMED WILLIE
LITTLEFIELD RECORDED "KANSAS 4@
CITY.
">> ♪ KANSAS CITY, HERE I
COME.
♪
COME. ♪
COME. ♪ >> 4@SALES WERE MINIMAL, BUT TH
KEPT WRITING.
ONE YEAR LATER, 1953, BIG MAMA
RELEASED ANOTHER SONG CALLED
"HOUND 4@DOG. "4@
>> ♪ YOU AIN'T NOTHING BUT A
HOUND DOG.
♪
>> YOU WENT TO NUMBER ONE 4@ON
THE RHYTHM AND BLUES CHART.
STOLER WAS 19 AND WAS ON HIS 4@
WAY.
>> AND STOLLER AND 4@LIEBER IS
ONE OF THE GREATEST 4@
SONGWRITING DUOS OF ALL TIME
HOW DID IT FLOW?>> IT CHANGED
THROUGH THE YEARS.
AT THE BEGINNING, I WOULD START
JAMMING AT 4@THE 4@PIANO.
AND 4@JERRY LIEBER WOULD SHUT O
PHRASES OR ANYTHING THAT CAME
INTO HIS HEAD.
TWO OR THREE WORDS.
IF SOMETHING 4@SOUNDED GOOD, WI
WHAT I WAS DOING, WE WOULD STOP
AND DEVELOP IT 4@FROM THERE.>>
HAVING RECEIVED A CHECK 4@FOR
$5000 FOR 4@SONGWRITING ROYALTY
MORE MONEY THAN HE THOUGHT HE
WOULD SEE IN HIS LIFE, HE WENT
TO EUROPE FOR FOR 4@YOUR MONTHS
IS ABOUT TO THE U. S. IN 1956
ON AN OCEAN LINER CALLED, THE
ANDREA DORIA>> THE ANDREA DORIA
WAS BELIEVED TO BE UNSINKABLE.
A TRAGEDY ALL THE MORE 4@4@PITI
>> AFTER COLLIDING WITH ANOTHER
SHIP, THE ANDREA DORIA SANK OFF
MASSACHUSETTS.
THE WORST MARITIME DISASTER IN
U. S. WATERS IN DECADES.
>> FORTUNATELY, EVENTUALLY I 4@
GOT OFF IN A BROKEN LIFEBOAT
AND WAS PICKED UP BY A 4@FRAZER
FROM THE FRAZER SHIP I SENT A
WIRE TO JERRY 4@LIEBER.
WHEN I CAME DOWN THE GANGPLANK,
JERRY LIEBER RAN UP AND SAID
MIKE , WE HAVE 4@A SMASH HIT.
[ 4@LAUGHTER ]IT WAS THE FIRST
THING HE SAID TO ME.
>> YOU ALMOST LOST HER LIFE AND
MORE THAN 40 PEOPLE HAD DIED.
AND HE 4@IS EXCITED,
UNDERSTANDABLY, BECAUSE YOU
HAVE A SMASH HIT.
>> I SAID, YOU ARE KIDDING.
>> NO, "HOUND DOG. 4@
" 4@SOME WHITE KID NAMED ELVIS @
PELOSI.
>> ♪ THEY SAID YOU ARE HIGH-
CLASS.
THAT WAS JUST A LIE.
♪
>> 4@IT SOLD 10 MILLION 4@RECOR
>> ♪ YOU AIN'T NEVER 4@CAUGHT A
RABBIT AND YOU AIN'T NO FRIEND
OF MINE.
♪>> ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE
RANKED IT 19 OF THE 500
GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME.
>> YOU WROTE FOR ELVIS FOR A
FEW YEARS.
NOT THAT LONG BECAUSE YOU GOT
INTO PROBLEMS WITH HIS MANAGER,
THE NOTORIOUS COLONEL PARKER.
WHAT WAS THAT RELATIONSHIP
LIKE?
HOW DID YOU GET ALONG 4@WITH
ELVIS?>> IT WAS EASY AS COULD
BE.
HE KNEW 4@MORE ABOUT BLUES THAN
WE THOUGHT HE WOULD KNOW.
WE THOUGHT WE WERE THE ONLY
WHITE DUDES THAT KNEW ABOUT 4@
R&B.
AND REAL BLUES.
WE HIT IT 4@OFF.
IT WAS VERY EASY.
>> AFTER 4@OUR PIECE WITH PETE
KILPATRICK AND DID A FEW
MINUTES AGO.
WE 4@WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW NIC
HE WAS.
TH4@E SAME THING ABOUT MIKE
STOLER.
WHEN WE