ELVIS AND HIS JOKES. ON THE TRAIN FROM NEW YORK TO MEMPHIS. JULY 4, 1956
On the local Southern Railroad train, New York to Memphis, on July 4, 1956, Elvis, always in the mood for fun, jokingly dons Colonel Parker’s hat to imitate him.
But the Colonel (in the foreground) doesn’t pay attention to him, he doesn’t even look at him.
Elvis in this image, as photographer Alfred Wertheimer tells us, was entertaining his fellow travelers with a playful impersonation of Colonel Parker.
He took the colonel’s hat, tilted it to one side, and began to order everyone in an exaggerated southern accent, imitating him in his gestures and in his crude way of speaking.
The Colonel, oblivious to everything, kept talking, paying no attention to him.
Elvis just shrugged, laughed at his own joke, and put the hat back on the rack.
His sense of humor accompanies him throughout his life.
Wertheimer’s photos are an extraordinary record of how the lives of these two artists came together. Of a twenty-one-year-old singer on the verge of fame, and the fortune to cross paths with a twenty-six-year-old boy, a photographer, about to document a legend.
No photographer ever again had the access to Elvis that Wertheimer enjoyed.
Wertheimer has described his photographs as: “The first and last look at the daily life of Elvis Presley.”
Photo: Alfred Wertheimer
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