HAD ELVIS CHANGED MANAGEMENT IN THE LATER PART OF HIS CAREER, THERE IS THE SLIM POSSIBILITY THAT HE COULD STILL BE HERE TODAY! ALSO HAD ELVIS FIRED THE COLONEL IN 1973 AND HIRED TOM HULLETT AS HIS NEW MANAGER ... WOULD HE STILL BE HERE?? 1. WHERE THE COLONEL REALLY DESERVES BLAME IS IN TWO VERY BASIC AREAS! One is that many of his later Elvis deals (50 percent split, his own Box Car enterprises, Tour extras etc) put his own monetary earnings above his clients. This is the one unforgivable sin for any manager. Secondly he appeared to have little faith in or understanding of Elvis true talent. This was proved over and over again in his career. It shows in the way he handled Elvis sixties film career. It showed in the 68 TV show where he really wanted it to be a Perry Como style Christmas show. There is a thought that The Colonel signed the 1969 Las Vegas contract on the coffee table because Parker thought the amazing performance that Elvis produced on the International stage that very first night was a fluke. In 1973 when RCA bought out Elvis royalties on his back catalogue, The Colonel ended up making more money from the deal than Elvis. The Colonel is known to have pocketed $6 Million from the deal, $1.5 million MORE than Elvis his client! This should never happen in a manager/client relationship. As Red West points out in his video below, Elvis was asked to star in A Star is Born and the Colonel later told him that he would not be staring in this movie. This was another of the Colonels mistakes (as A Star is Born was a big hit)! While the pop-music and entertainment field drastically changed and matured in the mid-sixties, Colonel Parker appears to have been left behind as he still worked his old Snowmans Deals with people like film producer Hal Wallis and seemingly proud of his old-fashioned scams. 2. ELVIS FIRES THE COLONEL The long-standing tension between Elvis and The Colonel came to a head at the end of Elvis summer Vegas season in 1973. This was the point where Elvis should have broken free from the old carny huckster. Elvis even named Concert Wests manager Tom Hullett to his friends as a possible replacement that he was considering. The million dollar question is If Elvis had replaced the Colonel with Tom Hullett would he still be here today?. Who knows? In any event, Elvis will forever be known as the worlds greatest singer and entertainer!!! (NEWS SOURCE: ElvisInfoNet) youtu.be/9XjsCX6RceU
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:34:55 +0000
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