Could Elvis Do Better without the colonel

[curtis simpkins]

Could He?


Soon Elvis got to the 70s his concert have been sold out big time,
his records hasn't doing all the great like it had in the 50's and 60's.

but if he drop the colonel he would have done much better in his career.
he might even do some movies in the 70s. and tour over sea's

I think that Elvis out grown the colonel and Elvis knows the business,and some of his people wroking with him also knows the business so why did he keep the colonel

What do you think about this could he do much better or not.

[ComeBackChick]

Could He?


Soon Elvis got to the 70s his concert have been sold out big time,
his records hasn't doing all the great like it had in the 50's and 60's.

but if he drop the colonel he would have done much better in his career.
he might even do some movies in the 70s. and tour over sea's

I think that Elvis out grown the colonel and Elvis knows the business,and some of his people wroking with him also knows the business so why did he keep the colonel

What do you think about this could he do much better or not.

He should have done so in the seventies, its in a few books, that he wanted to, but just didnt go through with it....

[ForeverTheKing]

The Colonel has been very important for his career, especially at the beginning.
We can't deny he had a very big ability as a business man and if Elvis became popular so quickly it was, of course for his big talent, but also for the knowledges and the advices of the colonel.
Anyway, to me Elvis had to start to put in discussion some of the decisions of the colonel even in the sixties. He wasted a lot of years doing supid movies, wasting his talent as a performer and a actor. I'm angry with Elvis because he hadn't the courage to make choices for his career on his own...he just trusted the colonel, although his doubts about what he was doing.:angry:

This dissatisfaction became bigger in the seventies and we know from many books he thought to fire the colonel and to take the control of his life/career...but unfortunately he didn't make it. A real pity....yes, I think that in the seventies he had to free himself from the colonel and maybe his career would have been different..I've read in a book he had many projects he didn't realize (cinema, tours etc..)

Can we really believe that he had never planned a tour abroad?When I talk with my friends (and they didn't know anything about him) they can't believe that the most popular singer of the world had always been in the States althought his big sales around the world.:blink:

But we can't give all the faults to the colonel...I think Elvis started to be "apathetic" for his own reasons also towards music, that had always been so important in his life; he got frequently bored in what he was doing, he had many personal problems that have nothing to do with the colonel...but maybe something in those years could be different for him if only....

[0349054]

I guess we will never know. Elvis had the power to remove him, only he chose not to. Parker put a lot in Elvis' head about him knowing more about the business than Elvis, he in a way manipulated Elvis, because he knew how Elvis was and he took advantage of it.

Elvis should have made changes, but because of different aspects in the relationship he basically didn't have it in him to do it.

It's easier said than done in the case of Elvis and Colonel.

He was good for Elvis at the start, but from the mid 60's he was terrible for him.

If the good ol' Colonel had his way the 68' Comeback would have been a Xmas Concert.

[MauriceColgan]

Why some whizz kid executive management guys witnessing the waste of Elvis's talent in the 60s did not act is a mystery.

Surely some saw Elvis's potential??????????????????????????

Oh well at least when Elvis took the world stage in 1956 The world knew!

See http://www.americanheritage.com/entertainment/articles/web/20060222-elvis-presley-heartbreak-hotel-rca-records-rocknroll.shtml

[Vincent]

EP respected the Col. up to a point, and it is at that cut-off i.e. movie-time etc. that we all seemed to wake up too! but to conclude I personally think Elvis would still be with us without the Col. being in his life latterly, in particular.

[Menwithbrokenhearts]

I think the Colonel was a marketing genius, but he got his boy on top and was still using the same old " carny" tricks and mentality he used in the 50's to get him famous in the first place. By the 70's I think Elvis had a good instinct at what would work and what wouldn't.( ie... think about all that Elvis had wanted to do that was shot down, "A Star is Born", European tour, etc....) He knew himself and his audience well at this point and should have been taken from "carny", good ole boy, world of the Colonel and put into more mature and modern hands. I think it would have rejuvinated Elvis. Think about what changing the Singer Christmas Special and subsequent tour did for him. But he gave in to the Colonel and, it all became routine again. It would have been great to have seen Elvis given open reigns and sit back to see what developed!

[orwell1976]

Well said, Menwithbrokenhearts!