"It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record."

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"It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record."

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"I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times."

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"Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways."

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