P.J. PROBY SINGS ELVIS and LAMENTS THE PASSING OF LAMAR FIKE

Our friend P.J. PROBY sent us an e-mail recently as he started out on his 2011 tour in Manchester, England. We're linking to the site about that tour which will feature ELVIS PRESLEY songs! P.J. is going to sing his damn best you can bet on that!

P.J. said he felt sad at learning that LAMAR FIKE, who worked with Elvis as a member of his Entourage for very many years - maybe more years than anyone else - has passed away, on January 21, 2011 in Texas. Lamar figured large in Elvis' life for many years and had a book in him too. He and Elvis fought like brothers at times but he was also part of the fun.

As you get older you loose more friends to the inevitable and it's hard sometimes to have so many memories of people from days gone by. Still, one of the great things about blogging is that it's allowed me to reconnect to several long lost friends and I've learned that, even in later life, we are always making new friends!

(108) CLIFF GLEAVES, ELVIS, and THE EARLY ENTOURAGE

JAMES V. ROY's PHOTOS... linked above!

Photographer James V. Roy captured some of Elvis' early entourage including Cliff Gleaves, in these black and white photos taken around the filming of Elvis' film "Jail House Rock." The names you see listed here under photographs are important to the Elvis story. Some of them you've read about in Wes Bryan - My Life In Music, and others we haven't mentioned yet.

UPDATE: AUGUST 2008 We note that this particular photo gallery is not offered on James V. Roy's web site. However photos from an Elvis 2002 celebration are... still worth seeing!

UPDATE: MARCH 2011 And they are still linked!