Sometimes a piece rattles around in your head for years and you finally get an opportunity to just go ahead and write it. For my monthly column at Liberties magazine I wrote about Marion Keisker, and how I think she’s the one who saw and recorded Elvis first. a year before Sam Phillips did. in the world of Elvis-ania, this is a slightly controversial opinion – Peter Guralnick, who interviewed them both, agonized about it in print – in his Elvis book, in his Sam Phillips book … but … it just makes more sense to me that Marion was the one who first recorded him. I made my case.
Marion Keisker Loved Elvis First
And thanks Baz Luhrmann for … agreeing with me!
Of all the deep cuts in the Elvis movie, the treatment of Marion Keisker was most gratifying.
