It was Fike, too, who had introduced Presley to a girl called Anita Wood, whom the singer dated for five years until 1958 and who Elvis's mother hoped would be her daughter-in-law. There are reports of them trying to interdict Elvis's drug supply, and Sonny West describes such an incident in an interview in "This Is Elvis". The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional. Lamar Fike was one of Elvis Presley's career-long entourage who became the singer's friends, foils, scapegoats, bodyguards, road managers, lighting technicians, punchbags, babysitters (for the . Everyone who writes about popular music, he said, knows that before Sam Phillips, the proprietor of Sun Records, recorded Elvis Presley in 1954, he used to go around saying, If I could find a white boy who sang like a nigger'. He worked with blacks day in and day out, and in the fifties, in Memphis, he was ostracized for it: Hey Sam, he heard, you smell okay todaymust not have been with those niggers! Sam Phillips ran the only permanent recording facility in Memphis, and he had opened it solely to record black musicians. I agree with what Tony and dgirl were trying to say here. The crowd responded to them. This browser does not support getting your location. Fike was born in Cleveland, Miss., on Nov. 11, 1935. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. And from then on a constant stream of undermining & twisted facts were published & paraded by this man. One Goldman phone call, to the man who has headed the Presleys Tupelo, Mississippi, church since 1944, confirms that services there were invariably reserved and genteel. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. It is Goldmans purpose to entirely discredit Elvis Presley, the culture that produced him, and the culture he helped createto altogether dismiss and condemn, in other words, not just Elvis Presley, but the white working-class South from which he came, and the pop world which emerged in his wake. Perhaps the most famous statement in the history of rock n roll is that attributed to Sam Phillips by Marion Keisker, his co-manager at Sun during the early and mid-fifties, and in fact the person who truly discovered Elvisnoting his name, vocal style, and a phone number at which he could be reached after the eighteen-year-old showed up at the Sun studio to make a hear-your-own-voice record so that he could hear his own voice. Because his book will be the most widely read and widely consulted biography of Elvis Presley, his perversion of Sam Phillipss statement will replace the statement itself: it will be quoted in reviews, articles, among fans, and in other books, and it will defame the reputation of Sam Phillips. To make a rejection of Elviss music credible, though, Goldman must discredit both the response that greeted it (easily done: broad, coarse effects appropriate to all the broad, coarse sensibilities in his audience [rock] was little more than a gag reflex regurgitating the high school enthusiasms of the Swing Age) and the possibility that it had authentic roots. On Elviss background: The Presleys were not an ordinary family: they were hillbillies A more deracinated and restless race could not be imagined Just as the hillbillies had no real awareness of the present, they had no grasp on the past [Vernon and Gladys Presley were] the original Beverly Hillbillies [Gladys Presley was] not merely ignorant, but a hillbilly Cassandra [Vernon Presley was] a hard, mean, nasty redneck a dullard and donkey [with a] deadened dick Like most Southern men, Vernon had aknack for slippin away I jes cant see mahself over theah in a fereign country [Goldman pretending to quote Gladys Presley]. On the South: rickets, a disease produced by not having enough money or enough brains to eat right a [gospel] sing is one of those parochial institutions endemic to the South [Pentecostal Christianity] is a set of superstitions the corny old saws of hillbilly faith healers a classic white trash bluegrass song No matter how much of the black style these white boys take, it always comes out sounding as Caucasian as the Klan Of all the dumb activities in this dumb working-class school about the dumbest was shop: Elvis Presleys major. On Presley: Little cracker boy sang like a nigger He loved above all else to impersonate the jive-ass nigger pimp [he looked like] a homosexual in drag a latent or active homosexual his fat tongue his mush-mouthed accent his country-bumpkin cousins smug, stupid, embarrassingly self-conscious screen rooster [his] dumb jocko-shlocko Memphis-in-Bel-Air milieu pig junkie the face of a young George Wallace. On there being nothing lower than a male hillbilly like Presley except any kind of woman: His middle-aged womans passion for knickknacks, curios and chatzkahs throwing things like a hysterical woman he would always go inside a stall, like a woman like an obese go-go girl propped up like a big fat woman recovering from some operation on her reproductive organs. And on, and on, and on. Gone and forgotten. Badly written and badly researched, Goldmans trash epic are utterly forgotten thanks to the 'Elvis: Truth, Myth & Beyond' looks at the King Read More. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. Even the books errors, its disregard for the most easily confirmed facts, its degraded style, and its refusal of documentation or, most of the time, even attribution, is part of this: it emphasizes that a figure such as Elvis Presley does not deserve a serious biography. That's why you will read negative things about the majority of the entourage, and based on what has been written about Elvis by these people, that criticism is entirely justified. It scared us all to death. Yes he played too many but what about Bruce & McCartney? Included we see a live performance of the elusive Long Tall Sally seen here for the first time ever. Let's accord Elvis Presley the respect he deserves as a substantial, intelligent adult - and stop blaming good people for little more than being unwittingly caught up in the chaos and panic that erupted when it became clear that Elvis's drug dependency was a runaway train and that a catatrophe was unavoidable for all of them. Having established hillbillies as a deracinated race, Goldman sets out to prove that Elviss line was the most degraded of allresurrecting the long-discredited theories of Henry H. Goddard, who in 1912 published a study of the Kallikak families (from kallos, the Greek word for beauty, and kakos, for bad). However, I believe that the stuff which is being trotted out on this site grossly underestimates the amount of hard work Elvis did. Thankfully that failed to happen, largely because of Marcuss magnificent demolition of Goldmans hateful hack job. Drag images here or select from your computer for Lamar Reilly Buddha, Birdy Fike memorial. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Apart from alan fortas, They all lived too be a good age. His humor and bluntness always made for interesting story telling. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. [3] Sam Phillips recorded Burses Shorty the Barber in 1950Burse was only the second artist to record for Phillipsbut did not release it. Even back at the 50's Lamar was heavy. I guess I learned from them. Why would Elvis lie? You must realise surely that Elvis lived through an era when legal drugs were considered the answer to everything, it was a full ten years after Elvis' death that the full dangers of a chemical/synthetic existence became apparent. Such information is missing in Goldmans book not because it is dubious, but because it conflicts with Goldmans portrait of Elvis as an unregenerate Southern redneck who stopped just short of the Klan.. It is now known fact the Elvis died as a result of drug addiction by self medicating on . A lot of the guys in the Memphis Mafia abused drugs. Lamar will be missed. Include gps location with grave photos where possible. . Lamar was also very close to Elvis mother. Did it contribute? Many commentators now accept that Elvis was worked himself to death in those last seven years - concerts, tours, even recording sessions and that he had other health problems (some of which precipitated the prescription drug use). SO WHAT Gurlanicks Elvis biographies have completely supplanted Goldmans travesty, thanks in part to the ground-clearing performed by this essay. "When it comes to safety please listen to your parents. But certain Americansand of course people from all over the worldhave recognized themselves, and selves they would not have otherwise known, in Elvis Presley: Americans whose culture had taken shape long before Elvis Presley appeared, and those whose culture would have had no shape, would have been in no way theirs, had Elvis Presley been willing to keep to the place allotted to him. On the contrary, he was one of the most honest of his entourage and almost the only one who confronted Elvis on his drug addiction. He stuck with a bunch of tried and trusted friends, most of whom he looked after in huge examples of generosity - by your standards THEY were not naive, they could have left him and his money IF they wanted. But it broke a taboo: Elvis had big personnal problems " Something was rotten in the kingdom of Denmark". For MONEY! It was essentially, you know, like I think God loves a buzzard as much as an eagle. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Janice L. (Fadal) Fike (born 1954) - Texas REST IN PEACE, LAMAR. The cause of death has not been determined, but Seminole County authorities said it was not suspicious. I think that the problem was that little amount of rest between the tours. If not racism, then eugenics. After Elvis died, there were a number of doctors that said that they had experienced much more drugs in different bodies, where people had survived. Lamar passed away very peacefully, Friday, January 21. Elvis Gold Piano Elvis Piano at Graceland. Try again later. He got that shaking, that wiggle, from Charlie Burse, Ukulele Ike we called him, right there at the Gray Mule on Beale. Lamar stayed a close friend of Elvis throughout the years, often providing . He continued in this capacity until 1972.He brought Presley such songs as "Kentucky Rain," "Indescribably Blue" and "It Hurts Me. Lamar Hunt, whose father's Texas oil fortune gave him the springboard to become a prime founder of the American Football League and who gave the Super Bowl its name, died . Goldman has no need to explain, as he refrains from quoting Elvis on the point. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Being around a drug addict for years is Hell. I feel EPE should send a belated check of 50-thousand dollars to the other who have vanished last year.that's "loyalty" and appreciation in my book. At the time of his death, he was reportedly writing his memoir, Fike: An Uncommon Journey.Mr. Had the responsible adult Elvis Presley been angry that Hollywood didn't work out for him, he could have reviewed his arrangements with Tom Parker and made a career decision to concentrate primarily on singing and not on movies. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? There is a problem with your email/password. Never. As I've said on an earlier post, it is very sad when someone from the Elvis story passes away but that does not change the fact that they have made careers out of highlighting and exaggerating Elvis's faults, while playing down their own. EIN has been officially notified that one of Elvis' very best friends Lamar passed away very peacefully last night, Friday, January 21. Lamar had been hospitalized since last October 14th and then transferred to the physical therapy . According to Lacker, a memorial service will be held in Mart, Texas at a date to be announced later.By: Robert K. Oermann Source: MusicRow.com " A Memorial Service for "Lamar Reilly Fike" will be conducted at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday morning, 26 Feb 2011, at the Littlepage Funeral Home in Mart, Texas. Add Janice's family friends, and her friends from childhood through adulthood. Postby Colin B Fri Nov 23, 2018 11:39 am, Postby Colin B Fri Nov 23, 2018 2:51 pm, Postby Colin B Fri Nov 23, 2018 3:55 pm, Postby Colin B Fri Nov 23, 2018 4:26 pm, Postby Suspicious Minds Fri Nov 23, 2018 4:57 pm, Postby elvis-fan Fri Nov 23, 2018 5:39 pm, Postby Jukebox Sat Nov 24, 2018 3:56 am, Postby elvislady Sat Nov 24, 2018 7:59 am, Postby Colin B Sat Nov 24, 2018 8:33 am, Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 6 guests. Regarding the issue of people not being given access to Elvis at times, it is possible that Elvis knew of this and was part of the game. By far the worst of these concerns Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records, and the man who first recorded Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Charlie Rich, and Johnny Cash, and who made the first important records with Howlin Wolf and many other blues singers. Elvis: The Vegas Years - Nevada Magazine (LogOut/ If he could have done two big tours a year, that would just have been perfect. One could detail the homophobic, ethnic, and racist slurs, the exaggerations, and the undocumentable assertions and conversations that mar even these sections of the book. You people that are bad mouthing all these guys that were close to Elvis really need to be ashamed of yourselves. Marty Lacker says about Lamar: "I have the unfortunate task of officially sadly announcing the passing of Lamar Fike as authorized by his cousin Tommy McDonald who was very close to Lamar and was with him daily in his hospital room in Arlington,Texas. She saw it coming. He could make it hard on you. What's with all these silly health comparisons? Goodbye Lamar Fike | ElvisBlog Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. I have the unfortunate task of officially sadly announcing the passing of Lamar Fike as authorized by his cousin Tommy McDonald who was very close to Lamar and was with him daily in his hospital room in Arlington,Texas. Failed to report flower. Change). McCullough (Author), Harold F. Eggers (Author) 143 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $9.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback NIGGER He also appeared in the documentaries The Elvis Mob (2004) and All the King's Men (1997). The term stuck and was generally used, including by Elvis and themselves, with considerable irony. I'm thankful that we have so much video of Lamar thanks to the Memphis Mafia videos from 1997. RIP and thanks for the memories. He was born in Cleveland,Mississippi on November 11,1935. As for Lamar, maybe you're right, I wouldn't know, but certainly, I wouldn't compare him to Red West. 1.9k. He is survived by two daughters Angie and Sheri Lacker of Memphis and one son Marc Lacker (Brenda Stoyka Lacker),. THE MYTH BEHIND THE TRUTH BEHIND THE LEGEND It may be a combination of the three and there may other factors. There were just too many tours. The Stanley boys? . Fike's physical bulk led to his description as "larger-than-life" in various of the countless books on Presley. Add friend Advertisement It is hard to know where to begin: the torrents of hate that drive this book are unrelieved. Maybe there was a revenge feeling from the book "Elvis What Happened". Lamar Fike larger than life member of Elvis Memphis Mafia There was an error deleting this problem. Elvis nickname for Lamar Fike was Buddha and first met Elvis by just hanging out in front of Elvis Audubon Drive home until finally invited by Elvis mother Gladys. True, Elvis was not naive, but he was one of the first real multimedia superstars and therefore had little in the way of precedent (no Betty Ford clinics, modern agents, lifecoaches etc) to guide him. Surely they meet the criteria. + Plus Bonus DVD Audio. Second (as Goldman himself will claim when he needs to find roots for Elviss later interest in spiritualism), the Presleys attended tent meetings and traveling revivals, where the preaching was often far wilder than in a settled church. Goldman wastes little space on the problem: all one has to do to test that idea is to imagine how Gladys would react to such a pastime. Elvis Australia was founded in 1996 www.elvis.com.au was literally born from the concept of wanting to represent 'Elvis in Australia', so www.elvis.com.au Read more. It's a business, enterprise for goodness sakes. This is what she said: UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES! Finding strong reason to believe that Bob Lee Smith, Elviss maternal grandfather, may have married a first cousin, Goldman gravely informs his readers that genetics may explain why the children of Bob Lees brothers and sisters turned out well, whereas Bob and [his wife] Doll produced children who exhibited an abnormally high incidence of addiction to drugs and alcohol, emotional disorders and premature death. Goldman turns his tricks well. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. If ya'll are such big Elvis fans than you should know that Elvis would not appreciate you sitting behind your computers like cowards, bad mouthing his friends that have passed away especially. Again, you may be right. Elvis had noone around him he didn't want around so he obviously wanted Lamar around along with the rest of them.you are the people that take Lisa and Priscilla's word on everything, you have all forgotten that he divorced her and that Lisa was only nine when her father died, all she really knows about his business is what she has been told. Marty. As for the comment "Elvis had no one around him he didn't want around", well towards the end of his life it is clear that Elvis was getting rid of most of the crew and it appears he was realising who his friends actually were. Until Now! He first got to know him through Elvis's mother, Gladys, and it was she who told her son to trust their fellow Mississippian before she died in 1958, just as Elvis was conquering the world. Mother of girl who died while hiking, warns of exploring alone He will then say that he is sorry that he cannot spend more time with them! If Red West was the Judas of the Mafia (being much closer to Elvis before he betrayed him) what shall we then call Fike? In the immortal words of Alice from the old Honeymooners TV show, Blimp Takes Off. So when he had a show down there at the Palace, everybody got ready for something good. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in.
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