Conversation with Rockin Robin
The squirt gun fight came about when I went to the local Railey's Supermarket in Lake Tahoe while everyone was at the dinner show at the Sahara Tahoe and I bought 6 small squirt guns for us fans and one large green one for Elvis. As we sat there waiting for Elvis to come out, we filled the squirt guns with water and waited to ambush him. The large green machine gun sized squirt gun was passed to Elvis and he pranced about the stage with it and aimed it at The Stamps and carried it around with him and we waited until he gave it to Charlie and than we opened up on Elvis ! The guy handling the mic cords said after the show that all you could see was these 6 streams of water coming over the foot lights on the stage and he was trying to make sure that Elvis did not trip over the cord. Elvis had a ball with this and the next night said to the audience, "Ladies and gentleman, you should have been here last night as it was like the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, I practically was electrocuted !".
We've all heard about his wonderful since of humor. After seeing him 72 times you must have lots of stories. Tell us more.
My special favorite stage memories of Elvis were his sense of humor and way he could get the audience wrapped around his fingers. I remember one night when the stage lights were dimmed and I was sitting down front and could hear something being wheeled out onto the stage. When the lights came back up, there was Elvis on this double bed, singing to a pillow "Mary In The Morning," as if the pillow was a women. It was so funny, and than when he finished the song, he rolled over and fell off the bed onto the stage !
OK fess up Robin, how many scarves do you have and describe for us the feelings at that moment.
Over the 6 1/2 years that I was fortunate enough to see Elvis in concert, I received 13 scarves in various colors, both with and without his name silk screened on them. There was nothing like looking into his eyes and having him
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