{"id":136711,"date":"2018-04-11T08:50:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T12:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=136711"},"modified":"2018-04-11T08:55:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T12:55:43","slug":"elvis-and-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=136711","title":{"rendered":"Elvis and June"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nElvis and June Juanico, his girlfriend in the maniac summer of 1956, the summer his fame exploded nationally. <\/p>\n

June was a Biloxi girl. After tooling around together in Biloxi, with jaunts down to Shreveport, New Orleans, back up to Memphis (Elvis’ mother adored June, a huge factor in Elvis’ considerations), Elvis asked June to accompany him on his upcoming tour in Florida. He spoke to June’s mother about it, assuring June’s mother June would be safe, and they would have separate rooms. Her mother loved Elvis, and so let her daughter go off on this wacko tour. Incredible, if you think about it.<\/p>\n

In Florida, riots broke out at his shows, the police were called to monitor the obscenity of his show, and Elvis could no longer go outside without being mobbed. When June attended the shows, walking next to Elvis, throngs of girls screamed “WHORE” at her. It was a madhouse. <\/p>\n

He and June holed up in his hotel room (because of course they did not get separate rooms, what are you, cracked? According to her, there was no sex, although a lot of other hot and heavy torment went on OF COURSE). Elvis sat in the room reading some op-ed column calling him Satanic, a bad influence, vulgar. He threw the paper down, picked up a pair of his underwear, put it over his head and said, \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m vulgar, baby, do you?\u201d They made fun of it! <\/p>\n

He asked her to marry him but asked if she could wait a couple of years. His life was too crazy. His fame was exploding. She was not a shy person, and was not the type to say, “I’ll wait as long as it takes.” She said “No, I will not wait. What do you think I am?” <\/p>\n

During their relationship, they discussed their shared love of a certain song. They both felt the song described perfectly the feeling they had when they were together. It\u2019s called \u201cIs It So Strange\u201d. In January, 1957, a month or so after they broke up, Elvis recorded it. A powerful choice. There’s really no way to look at it as anything other than a personal choice, him working out his feelings about the relationship ending. <\/p>\n

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