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  • Happy Birthday Johnny Tillotson

    From treg@iwvisp.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 20 09:58:39 2018
    Happy 79th Birthday to my friend Johnny Tillotson. In addition to his 1960 million seller "Poetry in Motion," Johnny had a dozen Top 40 hits in the 1960's plus the Theme from TV's Gidgit. Johnny still plays about 100 shows a year and still sings in the
    same key. Great performer and a great guy.

    In 1969 Johnny received an unexpected phone call from Elvis Presley. Elvis was recording an album of Country flavored songs, "From Elvis in Memphis," and he wanted to record a song Johnny had written.
    Elvis asked, "But I'd like to change one word in the lyrics if that's okay with you Johnny?"

    Johnny replied, "Hell Elvis, you can change the title if you want to!”

    Ray Arthur

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  • From Ken Whiton@21:1/5 to treg@iwvisp.com on Sat Apr 21 03:50:11 2018
    *-* On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, at 09:58:39 -0700 (PDT),
    *-* In Article <f6222b6d-50db-492f-b512-d9c0b5723479@googlegroups.com>,
    *-* treg@iwvisp.com wrote
    *-* About Happy Birthday Johnny Tillotson

    Happy 79th Birthday to my friend Johnny Tillotson. In addition to
    his 1960 million seller "Poetry in Motion," Johnny had a dozen Top
    40 hits in the 1960's plus the Theme from TV's Gidgit. Johnny still
    plays about 100 shows a year and still sings in the same key. Great
    performer and a great guy.

    In 1969 Johnny received an unexpected phone call from Elvis Presley.
    Elvis was recording an album of Country flavored songs, "From Elvis
    in Memphis,"

    <http://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/lsp4155>

    and he wanted to record a song Johnny had written.
    Elvis asked, "But I'd like to change one word in the lyrics if
    that's okay with you Johnny?"

    Johnny replied, "Hell Elvis, you can change the title if you want
    to!"

    :-)

    Ken Whiton
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