Jd sumner in a elvis week 1996

[Applause] another name to this customo is that jd sumner is among the memphis gustavo also it's good to be here uh i could tell some stories like like uh not as good as sylvia but uh i spent many hours with elvis and those kind of ones but i can't tell serious stuff if i do i cry like a teddy baby yeah that's okay so i had to tell something happened oh they said uh mr ed hill here uh after al was born left for the head was the man that said ladies and gentlemen elvis left the building mr hill stand up here and the young man sitting next to the head is our keyboard a technician and napoleon and jerry kelso [Music] and then next in line is uh our tenor singer [Applause] [Music] but he's a heck of a tennis singer [Applause] [Music] and somebody spoke about alina it couldn't be here [Music] he had both this morning and he had morning sickness [Laughter] he got pregnant last night [Laughter] when gordon said uh elvis i mean ever said something about uh beating the crap out of somebody or something like that but he he was just replacing that word with something else and uh uh ray said uh i wonder if uh uh you have a place in your group for me after jordan says that we'll put you on tenor rage i only know one story that i haven't told and uh i don't think there's any kids here uh that be young enough not to hear a word or two of uh some of the things that happened with me with elvis uh when elvis learned about the tragedy in headline of losing priscilla uh elvis told me that uh that was the only thing he ever wanted in life that he couldn't have was priscilla that's after it happened but one night when he learned that well uh i don't know whether you people are married or not but if you if you used to learn that about your wife or your husband well it's not a it's not a real happy thing and uh hell was sort of uh got upset and uh he was gonna he wanted to have a contract put out on the other man's life and uh oh you really didn't i mean no mike stone or stone michael whatever his name was nobody would do that uh forever so uh about four o'clock in the morning joe esposito will call me and said jd get up here uh and see if you can do anything with with elvis and i put all my pants i was almost over but i wasn't quite but i put over the pants and uh run upstairs without a shirt or shoes on and uh joe was standing on me outside the room he said uh go in and see if you can talk to him so i went in and uh i said uh what's wrong pal and he told me and he said i'm going to kill the sob i said well uh give me your gun and uh call your pilot and tell me where he lives and in the morning he'll be dead and uh he looked at me whether it was real dark eyes and i said seriously give me a gun and call milo and uh tell me where he lives in the morning he'll be dead and uh of course i was lying i wouldn't kill a fly but uh i don't even know why i said that but then he said no jd i don't want you getting in trouble i said no seriously i'll take eddie [Laughter] [Music] get now and tell me where he lives and honestly in the morning he'll be dead even uh i i want you to drop out of whatever's uh there's only one that can help us in a time like this that's god and trust me i'm i'm not a prayer warrior young man i said that was good it could be our prayer and he almost said no with those dark eyes i don't know you ever seen him look at you when he was mad with those eyes ahead but yet to me not and he said well okay i said would you do me one more favor and uh i said you let me bring the boys in and uh he looked at me again he almost said no again he said well okay bring him in and let me repeat again i'm not i don't know how to pray but all these fancy prayers that some people pray i just don't know how to do that and everybody come in and elvis was on one side to bed i was on the other and we all knelt down and uh i reached over got hell with his hand i said everybody hold hands around the bed which they all did and uh joe went jolly red and sun again well everybody was there and i prayed and it was a very poor prayer didn't know how to pray only asking god to help us and when i got through praying elvis got up and said uh fellas i believe i can go to sleep and kiss you told us all good night and uh went to sleep the next morning joe called me upstairs again and he said jd come on back up here uh said elvis wants to send mike stone as tcp [Laughter] you are before then he wanted to kill him and uh then the next morning he wanted to make him a member of our family so i i went back up and i said elvis uh [Music] it's okay to forgive you but for god's sakes don't make him a member that's the way that elvis was i mean uh elvis was the sweetest best man in the world until he got mad and i can rest assured that he was the meanest man in the world and uh but when he had time to think it over and uh like most of us were uh he changed his mind and uh and that's a true story and i want to tell the rest of it and ask those that might be offended to forgive me but i knew the real elvis and after elvis ray was raised like me he was raised in a pentecostal church where they have divine healing it's a very prominent thing independent cultural church i was raised in the same church that elvis was and we've seen people uh lay hands on people and pray for them and it's a reality i've seen people healed just like sylvia was however jerry schilling they got back to uh uh hollywood where elvis had a home and uh jerry shilling had a bad back and uh he remembered the prayer that we had in las vegas it was right after then so he told jerry shelley to lay on the lay down on the bed and uh on his stomach and uh elvis was gonna pray for it and so he he called everybody in like i did and he had everybody to kneel down and hold hands around the bed and they was proceeded to pray for jared shilling and uh and i'm not in any way making fun of what sylvia told you but uh back back when i was a kid and you prayed for people in those pentecostal churches and i believe in it uh they would say in the name of jesus uh i cast out the devil or in the name of jesus that's the way you pray and help us remember that so he had his hand on jared shilling's back and uh he prayed and i don't imagine his prayer was too good either but he prayed and when he got to that when he got in jerusalem had a bad fact and when he got to that party he said uh [Music] in the name of jesus i say come out of there yourself a i never knew about a man a more compassionate man i think he was the greatest humanitarian that i've ever known and i believe it's ever been that was uh tried to supply every need that he knew about uh he learned somebody needed something tried to give it to him he tried to give me an airplane uh he was gonna pay for 150 thousand dollars for an airplane he said you've been riding in them buses until uh your face looked like a lawn mower got hung up [Laughter] and i said elvis i couldn't even afford uh to park it much less uh have a pile and a copilot and uh an alligator which i would have had them had and uh he tried to give me many things he tried to buy me a home here in memphis and he didn't give him anything he gave me rings give me 11 rings and a watch and a limousine and uh give me a lot of fame but the greatest thing he gave me was his friendship [Applause]

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Published: Wed Mar 31 2021