Kathy Westmoreland
In the '70s we all knew her as Kathy Westmoreland,"the little girl with the beautiful high voice".
What's Kathy up to today ?
With working on a new Web site, a new book, and a new CD, I found her not only to be a very busy woman, but also a wonderful person and an instant friend.
Like Elvis, Kathy is also very active in her charity work and loves pets of all kinds. To read about Bentley, the cute little dog on Kathy's Web site, and some of her other pets check Bentley:A Star is Born
What are some of your fondest memories of Elvis?
This is a very difficult question to answer without writing another book right here...Of course, my meeting him the first night, and... though I really don't enjoy talking about it... my personal memories of our personal relationship, our unconditional love for one another, and enduring friendship/girlfriend relationship that lasted for the entire seven years. This, ... I was emotionally unable to discuss for over ten years, when I finally... out of frustration over the assassinations of his character,... realized that I must at last speak, in order for the truth to be known about him. Thus, I found it reluctantly a necessity, to discuss our "personal relationship", which would have remained forever private, had I not found it necessary to do so in order to explain the reason for my having known him so well.
My fondest memories of him are of many, many types, from his sweetness to his temperamental outbursts, which I found not at all unusual, as they reminded me exactly of my father, also an artist, prone to emotional degrees that are NOT AT ALL UNCOMMON among the thousands of artistic personalities I've known over the years. Temperament is a common trait that we as artistic personalities just are born with, and unfortunately, those who aren't blessed with these gifts simply have NO understanding of. It's part of our makeup, which helps to drive us to achievements otherwise not possible. Love, Anger, and the ability to feel any emotion common to humankind in a more extreme degree of intensity is just a part of our makeup. It's laughable to me that many of the assassinations of Elvis' character by those who were not artistic in any way, shape, or form, have left the impression in their attempts to gain attention of the media that Elvis was "outrageous",etc. Believe me, out of all of the artists I have ever worked with or known, he was the LEAST "outrageous", the most sensible artistic personality of them all. This is one of the qualities I admired in him so much.
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