Welcome to the Don Lane Show.
Coming to you live tonight from Graceland, the Memphis home of Elvis Presley and the
Channel 9 studios here in Melbourne featuring Brian Lyall and the orchestra.
And now, here's Thuram.
Okay.
Thank you, Beth.
That's terrific.
Thank you.
That's really good.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Hi.
We got a little delay here.
Wait a minute.
Since we're in the deep south at the moment, I'll try that again, okay?
Just listen to this one and answer me.
Hi, y'all.
Hi.
That's terrific.
You sound like 300 Goma piles.
Anyway, welcome to the Don Lane Show.
It's coming to you tonight from out of town.
I think, boy, I'll tell you what, are we out of town.
I'm here in Melbourne's outermost suburb, Memphis, Tennessee.
It's summertime here.
It's 6.30 a.m. in the morning.
And by the time we're about an hour into the program, the sun here will be fully up.
We'll have a great look at this place.
And by the time we're finished, the temperature here in Memphis will have climbed to somewhere
near 32 degrees Celsius, if you can believe that.
So we should be saying good night to you just about the time we start melting out here.
It'll be a lovely experience.
Anyway, we're live here at Graceland, and this is the beautiful home and grounds of
the King of Rock, Elvis Presley.
And we're going to give you a worldwide exclusive tour of the place.
Now, the tour that we're going to give you now is a week before it's officially open
for the rest of the world to come and see.
And the truth of the matter is, you all there are going to...you all, listen to me, I sound
like them all here all.
You're going to see a lot of things that a lot of other people are not going to see,
because when they finally open this place for the rest of the world to come through
and to look at as tourists, a lot of the rooms are going to be closed off by perspex.
So people are going to be able to look into the rooms, but they're not actually going
to be in the rooms the way that we are.
Now, this is a beautiful place, and you know, Elvis named this place Graceland after his
mother Grace.
I was going to name my house after my mother, but who'd want to go to Dollyland?
A little bit later in the program, Kevin Arnett is going to be showing us around and filling
us in on some of his findings about the place.
And Kevin's been here for a week already, so he knows more than all of us know about
Graceland.
Now, and you're also going to meet some of the Elvis people, some of the Elvis family
who lived here at Graceland, and some of those who were closest to him.
The people here in Memphis and in Graceland have been really nice to us, but I'll tell
you the truth, the Southern accents are a little bit hard to understand.
Yesterday, one of the kids over here ran up to me and he said, excuse me, Mr. Lane.
He said, how do you spell rat?
And I said, rat, R-A-T. He said, no, no, I mean like rat now.
Anyway, look, we've got a lot to show you, and we've got a lot to talk about tonight.
Bert will be holding the fort on your side of the Pacific.
It's nice to know that he's there, boy.
I'll tell you, of course, this is a long distance to be, and all the music tonight will have
an Elvis flavor, and it's going to be presented by some of our best.
You're going to get the big voice of John Rawls, who is going to present the famous
Elvis musical piece, American Trilogy.
Jade Hurley is going to keep it rocking for you a little bit later, boy, as he's going
to turn one on tonight with Graceland in the background, I'll tell you.
And to open the show, here's three of the best, along with the Tony Bartuccio dancers,
Graham Lyle and his orchestra, and an Elvis medley.
Here's Culleen Hewitt, Normie Rowe, Robin Jolly.
You all put your hands together here.
Graham, take it away.
We're going to get rolling.
Do it for Germaine.
We love, we love, we love, we love, we love, we love.
Well, since my baby left me, well,
I found a new place to dwell.
It's got the end of lonely street.
I'll be so lonely.
I'll be so lonely, baby.
I'll be so lonely, I could die.
Well, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy Miss Claudia,
girl, you sure look good to me.
Oh, please don't excite me, baby.
I know it can't be me.
Oh, Lordy!
If you're looking for trouble, come to the right place.
If you're looking for trouble, look right in my face.
I was born standing up and talking back.
My daddy was a green eyed man.
And I'm evil.
My middle name is Miss Irene.
Said I'm evil.
So don't you mess around with me.
Return December, address unknown.
No such number, no such song.
Oh, there's not so much wrong with me.
I'm acting like a man up a party tree.
A friend say I'm acting wild as a bug.
I'm in love.
I'm all shook up, oh.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
I'm all shook up.
Titty, titty, titty, titty.
Put a chain around my neck.
Lead me everywhere.
Titty, titty, titty, titty.
Come on.
Come on for the money.
Two for the show.
Two, a girl, a red and a girl.
Don't you tell them I'm rich with you.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what I think.
We're all rich with you.
All right.
Saturday night, now just got paid.
I'm out the money.
Don't try to say.
Let's go, go have a time.
Well, it's Saturday night.
Maybe I'll be about to rock it up.
Shake it up.
I'm all in love.
I'm gonna repeat it.
At the ball tonight.
I'm talking about the Louvre, the La Pembroke,
and Judy Froude, oh, who?
Judy Froude, oh, who?
I'm talking about the Louvre, the La Pembroke.
I'm gonna tell them Mary, about John.
She's got them everybody's head in her corner, baby.
Hey, oh, baby.
Woo, baby.
Now it's the summer night.
Oh, yeah.
Walked through a party at the county jail.
Miss Bob was there and they began to wave.
John started jumbling and the band began to swing.
Soon you heard the knock, God, tell Bob,
say, head's rock, head's rock.
Hey, come on, get the horse, head's rock.
We're going to do the jailhouse rock.
Come on, head's up for tonight.
Oh, yeah, hey, you're right.
Head's up for tonight.
Come on, head's up for tonight.
Hey, I tell you what, you don't get any better than that.
Especially 12,000 miles away.
That's Collie Yu and Normie Roe Robin Jolly.
We're gonna be back to Chatford Bird
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Don't you go away, we got a whole ton of show for you.
You sound terrific over there.
Hope you enjoy it.
We'll be back.
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Thank you very much.
Thank you very, very much. I hope you people over there enjoyed that opening number as much as we did here.
We had the whole crew and everybody standing around seeing it.
Bert, are you there?
I beg your pardon?
Who am I talking to, please?
This is Bert Newton.
Ah, sex symbol of Australia.
Yes, indeed.
I've been sitting here for the last moment or so, Don. Let me tell you that so far...
Can you see me, by the way?
No, I can't at the moment. I have a monitor over here, so I really can't see you. I'm only hearing you, Bert.
Oh, well, I'm wearing basic black...
...with a lovely spotted tie.
And do you want any football scores?
No, no, don't tell me anything. I'm going to watch the tape and I'm going to...
You don't know what I'm going through here. They've got basketball scores here as well.
And I keep telling people, don't tell me the scores. I don't want to know. They think I'm as crazy here as over there.
You know, there's a one-second delay here. You say something and maybe the audience laughs...
...and it takes a while to get back to me.
Pardon, pardon?
Now you've got an echo, echo, echo.
Don, let me ask you about the setting up of the telecast this evening.
It must have been an horrendous couple of days for you and the crew over there.
Well, I'll tell you, it was absolutely unbelievable. And a little bit later, I think we're going to be able to show you...
...some of the facilities that we've had to bring in here to Graceland.
And a little bit later, I hope maybe towards the end of the program we'll get to...
...I can wander around amongst the crew of WR, EG, TV and Memphis, Channel 3 here.
And they've done a great job and everybody's really gotten into the spirit of this thing.
There's a couple of people here we're not too thrilled with. They're overweight.
I don't know what that means. I just thought I'd throw it in.
Anyway, just a one-second delay. Would you like me to tell you about Graceland, Bert?
Don, we would. As a matter of fact, the opening shot looked magnificent.
In fairness, you know, it could have been a Turok or a Hunter's Hill mansion from the outside.
But I'm sure inside it has much more to offer and much more that we would like to see.
Well, we're going to get to see a lot of it, Bert. And also we're going to be able to see some of the grounds as well.
And I'll tell you what, you hit it right on the head. It'd be Point Piper, Turok, all of those sort of areas...
...but with a much larger piece of land here. Just let me tell you about Graceland and what it represents.
Many things, I think, to many people.
There it is. There it is. It's the...there's an aerial shot of it. You can see that bridge.
That's the Mississippi River, the famous Mississippi River. And that bridge, of course, was in an M4M.
Now, there's an aerial shot of Graceland. This is built in 1910.
And Elvis bought it, of course, in 1957 for $102,500, which was an enormous amount of money then.
It's an enormous amount of money now, but you can imagine what it's worth by this time.
It's a 23-room mansion on 14 acres of parkland. And it's hidden from the road by tall oak trees.
There's a main highway runs out in the front, which I was quite surprised to see.
Now, look at that. Isn't that a typical old Southern mansion? I mean, that's exactly what you'd expect to see, isn't it?
Now, up there, where the camera's about to zoom into, that's Elvis' bedroom.
That's the famous bedroom up there. Now, we're going to zoom through, and then when we turn it...
when we come back, there we are. Now, that's the back of the house.
And this is out in the back where all the horse paddocks are and everything else.
That's Elvis' huge office plus his dressing room, bathroom.
There's the pool. That's off on one side of the house. And Elvis never used that pool.
This is his favorite palomino. That's Uncle Earl, who's walking him. His name is Rising Sun.
And he's 24 years old. There's some of the other horses out there.
And there's a... that's a... who is that on the left? There's somebody we know.
Oh, there he is. There, he's stoned.
That's Kevin. That's a $250,000 bar, TV area, sauna, spa, bath, and private health club that Elvis built out in the back.
Inside it, it's unreal to see what he's built in there.
Now, in order for us to do this program, we had to put a tower up.
And up. And up. And up. And up. And up. And up. And up. And up. And up. And up.
And there's one of your relatives, Bird, heard you sing. He's about to jump off.
Now, over here, this is a car. It's incredible. It's worth over $100,000.
It's a Blackhawk Stutz, is what it's called. He bought it in 1973.
And it's an absolutely incredible vehicle. It's still here out in the back.
There's a Tennessee license plate, if people have never seen one before.
You can see all of the fittings that they've got on this car. It's an absolutely remarkable car.
There's another one, actually, just like it, that's gathering dust in a nearby garage.
Have a look at the gearshift there. It's solid gold, that gearshift.
And it's just an amazing vehicle. It's a shame that it's just sitting there.
There's a little plaque that's on it, you know, to make sure that everybody knows that it's Elvis' own automobile.
And now this one here is very special. This is the first car that Elvis bought for his mom.
It's a pink Cadillac with a white top. And by the way, the funny part about it is he bought that car for his mother.
I think it's a 1955 Cadillac. He bought it for his mother, and his mother couldn't drive.
And Elvis just said that there was no way that he was ever going to part with this car.
He just adored it, and he also adored the car because it gave him great memories of his mom.
We're going to take a look inside here. You'll see something on the floor.
I think they have an all-leather, what do you call it, floor mat on the floor.
And it's actually got Elvis' initials and things engraved on it.
And there's Elvis' private chauffeur sitting there. You can see him.
There it is, the EP with the music symbols down on the bottom.
It's just mind-boggling to see everything that's here, Bert. You just can't believe what the place is like.
It's so overwhelming, you know? Now this is what's called the Memorial Garden.
And there is buried Elvis, his mother, his father, his grandmother.
And also buried there is his twin brother. Well, I don't think the twin brother is buried there,
but there's a plaque commemorating his twin brother.
People can come into the place and walk in there and go through those gardens,
and they can look at those headstones that have been put down there,
and they're allowed to wander around that area. See that TCB? That's the Elvis symbol.
That's taking care of business. That's what that meant.
Now these are people on Elvis Presley Boulevard right out in front.
It doesn't matter what time of the day or night you come here, there are people gathered out front.
We drove in this morning, 3.30 in the morning, and there were three people there,
waving things at us like asking for an autograph.
They didn't have any idea who I was, but if you're going to be going onto the ground, that's it.
And they snap pictures and take photographs all day long.
Anyway, there's a great look at some film about what it's all about.
So you've had a great look at some of the film that we've got.
We've got a lot more for you and a lot more to show you.
I'm going to go inside because in just a couple of minutes I'm going to be able to introduce you to Elvis' cook of 15 years,
the lady that prepared all his meals, and you're also going to be able to meet his cousin, Billy Smith.
And Billy Smith is quite a character around here, a lovely little guy.
So you all hang in there, and we'll be back with more from Elvis' mansion, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Bert, it was terrific talking to you, mate.
Hang in there because you never know when I'm going to have to yell for help here. You know what I mean?
We'll be back with more from Elvis. We'll see you all in a minute.
Right. Okay. We'll see you in a minute.
We'll be right back.
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And you beat it. And beat it.
And if you stand here for two and a half days beating, you'll end up with butter.
You can add some salt if you want, but nothing else.
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Welcome back everybody.
I've just come in through what is the front hallway and the lounge room of the house.
And I'm going to be talking about the
kitchen area.
And this kitchen area here is a fabulous kitchen that Elvis kept open 24 hours a day.
And this beautiful lady here, how are you?
How are you?
This is Mary Jenkins.
And Mary was Elvis' cook for 15 years.
And she prepared most of the meals for Elvis.
Elvis would eat any time of the day or night, wouldn't he?
Depending on when he woke up.
Yes. I was that he, you know, kept.
Well, he would eat some mornings, he would call down for his breakfast early.
Then again, it might be 12 o'clock at night when he'd call down.
So you were on call most of the time for any of that?
That's right. I would stay here until he called for his breakfast.
If it was 7 o'clock in the morning, I was here.
If it was 11 o'clock in the day, I was here.
If it was 11 o'clock at night, I was here.
So I just stayed until he would decide he wanted breakfast.
Until he wasn't hungry anymore.
That's right.
So did you bring it up to him as well?
Oh, yes.
Well, what would you usually prepare for him?
Let's say what was the breakfast like?
In the breakfast line, well, I would prepare bacon and eggs, ham and eggs,
omelet, ham and egg, omelet.
And sometimes he'd have sauce and eggs and homemade biscuits.
What about the other meals that Elvis used to want to eat?
I mean, like at night sometimes they told me he ate a lot of things with gravy on them
and he loved sauerkraut and wieners and things like that.
Well, yes, he did. He liked his hot dogs with a kraut on top of them.
Yeah?
Yeah, you'd fix the hot dog for him then and put kraut, spread kraut, kraut across the top.
And he loved his hamburgers.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Did he love your cooking because you'd do special things for him as well?
Well, he would always request that I would try to be here whenever he got enough to fix his food.
I want to thank you for coming in and talking to us.
Well, thank you.
It's really nice to have a look at the kitchen as well.
Say thank you to Mary Janker, do you?
I love you. See? Remember your star.
You can stay there.
Oh, no, no, no.
Okay.
All right. I'm coming over here now because I want you to meet somebody else.
This gentleman is coming over here now to talk with me.
This gigantic fella here.
We always give a... Billy doesn't mind.
This is Elvis' cousin.
And Billy, of course, was here all the time.
Say hello to Billy Smith. Would you please?
Hello.
Well, welcome aboard.
Hello.
I'm so glad you're back.
Okay. That's nice of you to do that, Billy. That's really lovely.
Billy, you, of course, grew up with Elvis.
Yes.
I mean, you were his confidante and you were his man always with him 24 hours a day here at Graceland.
Yes, just about.
I lived on Graceland property here while Elvis was alive and everything.
It was a lot easier for me to come out here.
Being on the ground, he could simply call up and say, I need you out here.
Okay. Listen, Billy, we're going to be talking to you a little bit later with him.
We've got a couple other people in.
So you're going to take me around and show me downstairs where they spent a lot of time as well, didn't they?
Yes, I'll take you down there.
Okay. Come on.
You take us around through here and we'll walk around now.
Okay. Now, this... Go ahead, Billy.
Just go through and we'll open up the door. We'll be right.
Now, what are we going to see down here? What's down here?
This is where we kept most everybody that came up and had parties and stuff like that.
Yeah. Gee, this is quite a staircase. Have a look at this here.
This is all mirrored here. I can see 753 me's.
This is where you made your final inspection before you met everybody downstairs to make sure you looked good.
Well, I tell you what, you've got enough angles here.
Hello there. Hi. Okay, come on. We'll continue down, Billy.
Anyway, Elvis really liked to have parties, didn't he?
Yes. In the earlier days, he loved it. Of course, later years, he kind of...
Yeah. Go ahead, finish. Later years, he kind of...
Later years, he kind of just slacked off. He didn't have as many people up.
He used to let a lot of the fans in and stuff.
This was the early party room and we've done some things here just for atmosphere.
The radio is on, playing some music. That's the station he used to listen to all the time, is that right?
Right, uh-huh.
Was it a country station?
Well, it was a country. Then it was Rock and Roll, but it's more of a country station now.
Of course, we call this the TV room and the reason for that is because of the three TVs you see.
They had three stations here. Yeah.
And a lot of times, football games would come on all three stations.
Don't tell me to score. Oh, no, it's all right. Go ahead.
And Elvis would watch all three football games at the same time.
He never wanted to miss anything, did he? No.
So the three TVs are set so we could have everything tuned in at the same time.
I noticed there's a... I'm sorry, fellas, there's a projector over there, a film projector.
And where did he show that? Oh, on this screen over here.
On the screen, yes. It's a 16-millimeter projector.
And, Phil, you just about make that now. Just barely, yeah.
If I'd have been any shorter, I never would have made it.
It's a screen, you know.
And so how many people would they have in this room at one time?
I've seen as many as 40 people at one time.
And, of course, this room then, after a while, no longer became the entertainment room.
They built the other one upstairs, which we're going to see a little bit later.
Right. They built the den on upstairs and that's where we held most of our parties.
So he just about had everything in here.
Three TVs, a screen for motion pictures, a huge lounge here for everybody to sit around in.
We've got a bar over here as well.
Nice. Very nice set up room, isn't it?
Yes, it's very nice. It was very comfortable.
And, of course, we still used it quite a lot.
And this room here... Oh, this looks special, this place, doesn't it?
This is the poo room. We had a lot of fun here.
We'd play pool and do different things.
Oh, right. Let's get around here.
I just want to get over here so I can take a look.
You know what's interesting in here? Billy, I think I'll get down here with you
because this light's a bit too high for me and I don't want to miss being on camera.
The interesting thing about this room to me is that the ceiling has this sort of tent-like effect,
but the material is all the same. It's on the walls like curtains.
And also, the lounges are all done in the same material.
Did Elvis have a lot to say about the decorating in these places?
Yeah, he usually picked out the color schemes for it and different things.
Of course, they wanted this room to match like this, the material and all.
This was actually done in 75. This was redone.
Redone in 75. I see.
How was it done before that?
Before it was more of a brown color, brown and yellow.
Did they shoot a lot of pool? Did they spend a lot of time in here?
Oh, yes. We used to shoot pool for hours.
And of course, the architecture is fairly good for a pool player.
Of course, if he wasn't, he always had the best on his side.
So, you know, he never lost.
Yeah.
Okay. Well, in just a couple of minutes, we're going to be going back up.
Billy, we'll go up here and we'll take him out to the other den, right?
Right.
And then I'm going to give you a chance before I say goodbye to you for this segment,
I'll give you a chance to hear one of our good Australian singers sing, okay?
All right. So we're going to take a commercial break,
and we will be back to take you into the other den
where they spent most of the time entertaining,
and that's really something to see as well.
I mean, it may not be everybody's taste, but it certainly is different.
So we'll be up there in just a minute.
Say thank you to him. Oh, you don't have to say thank you to him.
We'll be back in a minute. Don't anybody go away.
There's a lot more to see here.
I'll tell you.
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Alright, so this takes us out of that area and now we come around up into this area.
That's the, um...
This is the new den.
Okay, well we'll be able to take a look around this, Billy.
That's Kevin Arnett sitting in Elvis' favourite chair over there, isn't it?
Right. Hey, Kevin, how you doing?
Kevin, Billy Smith.
We'll be talking to Kevin in a couple of minutes. You stay there.
And don't you go away, alright?
Hey, Billy, this is quite a room and it looks like they spent an awful lot of time in this area of the house, didn't they?
Yeah, because of the big advent and everything.
He likes to spend more time and it's bigger and it gives people a little more of where they're in.
Okay, well, and this is the new party place, short of, isn't it?
Right.
This was added on.
Okay.
Alright, well, Billy, I want you to be able to have a look.
Because we've got this satellite going two ways now, you see,
you're going to be able to have a look at some Australian talent like you did that opening number, which you told me you really liked.
Yeah, I like, yeah.
Okay. Anyway, we've got only one of Australia's best singers.
Billy, wait a minute. Come here.
I thought you wanted me to leave.
No, I don't want you to leave me. Why would I want you to do that?
I got no friends here except you.
Anyway, here's a chance for you to listen to one of our best again.
Here's Colleen Hewitt and one of the really famous Elvis songs, Love Me Tender.
Alright, how about a hand? Colleen Hewitt.
We'll be back. Thank you so much.
Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.
You have made my life complete and I love you so.
Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfilled.
For my darling, I love you and I always will.
Love me tender, love me long, take me to your heart.
For it's there that I belong and we'll never part.
Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfilled.
For my darling, I love you and I always will.
Love me tender, love me sweet, and never let me go.
You have made my life complete and I love you so.
Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfilled.
For my darling, I love you and I always will.
Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfilled.
For it's there that I belong and I always will.
Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfilled.
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Popular Memphis DJ George Klein, this fellow right here, was a very, very close friend of Elvis.
In fact, they went to high school together.
George was on radio as a DJ and he was one of the first to play and to plug Elvis' records.
Now, George spent a lot of time here at Graceland.
He spent a lot of time with Elvis.
And he was one of the select few who was invited to the Elvis and Priscilla wedding.
And in fact, here's another one, Elvis was the best man at George's wedding.
So, with no further ado, there you go, there you got a picture of it.
That's the wedding, isn't it?
That's exactly it.
Anyway, would you say hello to, call him G.K. here, his real name is George Klein, and he's a beaut bloke.
Say hello to George, will you?
George, you were here, of course, with Elvis, you were with Elvis during those early days, you know,
when everything seemed to have happened to him in about a year and a half, you know.
How did he handle the success then?
He loved it, Don. It was like a dream come true.
Elvis had always wanted to be in show business.
He had wanted to be a movie star.
He had wanted to be a singer.
And when it would start happening, it was just like a fantastic situation,
a dream that you'd always dreamed about here, it's coming actually true.
Would he say that? Would he?
Oh yeah, he couldn't believe at times we would drive up the gates of Graceland, or the other home,
and he would turn to me and he'd say, hey G.K., I can't believe this is really happening.
And I said, Elvis, I can't either, but it's great, man.
And it's sort of effective, we've got a little piece of film we want you to see, this is Elvis' movie,
it's High Gardner doing an interview, you probably remember this.
It's a funny interview, yeah.
And it was a split screen, but it's very early in the piece, but it just makes some success.
Have a look here, look at this.
Two years ago, you were earning $14 a week as a movie usher,
and then $35 a week for driving a truck in Memphis.
Today, you're the most controversial name in show business.
Has this sudden notoriety affected your sleep, your appetite, or the size of your head?
Not the size of my head. It's affected my sleep.
How much sleep do you get?
I get about four or five hours a night, I guess.
Is that enough?
It's really not, but I'm used to it, and I can't sleep any longer.
What do you keep in mind mostly?
I mean, some of the songs you're going to do, or some of your plans, or what?
What goes through your mind?
Well, everything has happened to me so fast in the last year and a half,
I'm all mixed up, you know, I can't keep up with everything that's happening.
George, he was talking about having trouble sleeping there. Was that true?
Did he have a lot of trouble? Even later he had trouble, didn't he?
Yeah, well, in the early years he had trouble sleeping, and he had a tendency to walk in his sleep.
This actually happened before he went into the Army.
He didn't have the problem once he came out of the Army.
But before going to the Army, everything was so exciting, and there was so much tension,
and so many things happening like he'd just sit there so fast and so quick,
that he really had trouble getting a sleep tonight,
because he didn't know what was going to happen the next day where he would be at Sullivan or Steve Allen
or a Paramount Motion Picture.
Things were just snowballing, and the excitement was so great that it was hard really to get to sleep.
Did you ever see him sleepwalking?
Yeah, well, one time I spent the night with him over in his other house on Audubon Drive
before he moved here to Graceland, and we were getting ready to go to Hollywood
to do the Motion Pictures Yale House Rock.
And I was sleeping actually in the same bed with Elvis, because that house didn't have as many bedrooms.
His grandmother and his aunt was there, and right in the middle of the night,
he woke up and he started talking, and he got up and he started walking.
Well, I had been kind of pre-warned that if that ever happened,
just to talk very calmly to him, just talking back down.
So you talk to him, and he talked, and I can't remember what he said, but I was a little scared myself.
That's got to be the all-time weird experience, right?
This fellow gets up and starts walking around.
A lot of parties in this very room.
Now, this room was added onto the house because he wanted a different sort of party room.
In some of the books that they write about, they say, oh, G.K. George Klein, he procured girls for Elvis.
I think the word procuring is a bit strong.
Why did they throw that, you know, sort of give you that label?
Well, actually what happened, Don, was I had a TV show here in Memphis for 12 years,
sort of an American bandstand type show.
Oh, like bandstand, yeah, kids dancing.
And I had a lot of beauty queens on my show, and I ran into a lot of attractive young ladies,
and a lot of them would express the fact that they would like to meet Elvis, you know.
So I'd say, okay, the next time he has a party at Graceland, I'll call you and I'll invite you.
And so Elvis would call and he'd say, hey, we're going to have a party at Graceland tonight and invite over some people.
He was very difficult, I suppose, for him being the celebrity that he was,
especially in this town, to be able to go out and meet girls.
I mean, he couldn't go anywhere.
No, he couldn't go to nightclubs, and he couldn't go to ballparks, and he couldn't go to social functions.
No, it was almost impossible.
So he had his own group of friends and his own parties within his own confine here at Graceland.
And so consequently, I would invite a bunch of ladies up and we'd have a party in this very room right here,
and we'd be downstairs where you and Billy were earlier in the pool room or in the TV room.
And I would introduce Elvis to the ladies.
I'd say, Elvis, this is so-and-so, and this is so-and-so.
And if he took a fancy to one, then he would spend a little time with her and perhaps maybe start dating her.
And that's basically what it was.
Well, you introduced him to two, I mean, that were pretty long-lasting ladies for them.
After he got divorced from Priscilla, of course, you introduced him to Linda Thompson, who was his girlfriend.
How long?
Linda was with Elvis for a couple of years.
Right.
And then, of course, Ginger.
Well, that's a funny story about Ginger, Don.
Actually, what happened was Ginger's sister really wanted to meet Elvis,
and she had just won the Miss Tennessee title in the Miss America pageant.
She was a very attractive lady.
So we were going to have a party here at Graceland, in fact, in this very room.
And so I called Terry, and I said, Terry, would you like to come up to the party tonight?
She said, sure. She said, but do you mind if I bring my sister?
I said, no, the more the merrier.
You know, she was attractive.
I figured her sister would be kind of cute.
So I'll never forget the doorbell rang, and I went to the door and opened the door.
And here is Miss Tennessee, who is gorgeous, but standing next to her is an unbelievable looking lady,
which is her sister, Ginger Alden.
And he liked her better than her?
So making a long story short, we come in.
I tell Elvis, you're not going to believe how pretty her sister is.
So what happened was Elvis fell in love with her sister, which happened to be Ginger Alden.
Unbelievable.
Where were you when Elvis died? He died in his house.
I was at that time, Don, for a short period of time, I left radio and television,
and I became a public relations director for a theme park here in Memphis.
And I got a call at the park from a couple of TV stations.
They said, hey, George, we have a wild rumor, unconfirmed sources,
that Elvis has passed away at the Baptist Hospital, and that's all it couldn't be.
We'd heard those rumors many times before.
So I picked up the phone, and I called Graceland, and when I called here,
Elvis's daddy's girlfriend, Sandy, answered the phone.
And there was a quiver to her voice, and it kind of upset me at that moment.
And I said, Sandy, this is George, and she says, yes, it's true.
And you could have, just like somebody stabbed me with a hot knife or something, I couldn't believe it.
I just felt cold chills all over.
Did you come here?
So I immediately got in my car, and I broke every speed law in Memphis, I didn't care,
and I zipped out here at about 100 miles an hour.
And when I came in, I came in, well, I came in, everybody used to always come in that door over there.
And I came in, and as I came in, everybody was over in that area, in that tan chair right over there,
was sitting Mr. Presley, and he was crying his heart out.
And when I saw that, I just fell apart myself, and Mr. Presley came up and grabbed me,
and I grabbed him, and he said, George, my son has died.
And I just couldn't believe it, Donnie.
A sad day for you and this whole town, too.
George, thanks very much. If you want to hang around just for a minute,
you're going to see somebody who can really rock away.
Being a DJ, you know, I really appreciate it.
This guy's had a whole research into his career.
His name is Jade Hurley, and he'll be coming up after this commercial break.
Thank George Klein, in case we don't get the chance to do it later.
GK, who's planning on expressing.
We'll be right back with Jade Hurley.
Don't let anybody leave us.
It's going to be a good time coming.
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Thank you very much.
And welcome back.
They like us.
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Um, we're back with George Klein.
George, in the later years of course there weren't a lot of press conferences as well.
We didn't see them.
But a lot of people think that he avoided the press.
But he handled the press very well, didn't he?
He had a very good rapport with the press.
He was in motion pictures for ten years.
So consequently he did new press conferences.
And once he started touring again in 1969, 1970, the Colonel went in various cities, selected cities, the large ones.
He would allow us to do a press conference.
And one of the toughest ones I think that he faced, but he handled so well, and I think that you'll be able to see this, was the New York press corners.
You know they are probably the toughest in the United States because they can pop questions at you.
But Elvis had a knack for taking their questions and turning them around and making them funny.
He had a great wit about him and he could win the press over just like that.
In fact if you've got some film of that New York press conference you'll see what I mean.
Yeah, we'll take a look at it now.
Mr. Presley, what is your opinion of war protesters?
And would you today refuse to be drafted?
Honey, I just, I just seem to keep my own personal views about that to myself.
I'm just an entertainer and I, I really not saying.
You think other entertainers should also keep their views to themselves?
No.
Are you satisfied with the image you've established?
Well the image is one thing and a human being is another, you know.
How close is the image to the man?
It's, it's, it's very hard to live up to an image, how good is that word?
What about your image as a shy, humble country boy?
Oh, I don't know what makes him think that, you know, this gold belt and that.
Thanks a lot, George.
I really appreciate you coming and everything.
It's been terrific and I want to, this will be a little treat for you.
This guy, Jade Hurley, he's been just packing him in at every place he ever works, you know.
He sits down behind this piano and he just tears him to shreds.
Being a DJ and a fan of rock music you're really going to appreciate this.
Here you go with a medley of Elvis songs.
He's the rocker himself, Jade Hurley.
Put him together, we got him.
Come on.
Come on, clap your hands.
Come on.
Great Elvis present song.
Let's see how we go.
We need a bit of help out of not only you at home but also you folk out there in the audience.
Let's see how we go with this.
How about a bit of hope?
Oh my God.
We'll try it again.
Hey, I think they got a dog.
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Sometimes I think she's almost as mean.
She got ruby lips, she got shabby hips, yeah.
Boy, she makes old Jade every day.
I got a woman, me and she can be.
Sometimes I think she's almost as mean.
She got ruby lips, she got shabby hips, yeah.
Boy, she makes old Jade every day.
I got a woman, me and she can be.
Sometimes I think she's almost as mean.
Easy.
She got ruby lips, she got shabby hips, yeah.
I got a woman, me and she can be.
Sometimes I think she's almost as mean.
She got ruby lips, she got shabby hips, yeah.
I got a woman, me and she can be.
Sometimes I think she's almost as mean.
Yeah.
Another star you've seen on this very special edition of the Don Lane Show, a special two-hour edition.
We're not going back to Don at Graceland right now.
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Don is repositioning himself in Graceland.
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And then, after this commercial break, we're back with you live from Graceland.
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Well, Bond, where we are now is the room that's just been set up, actually.
It's just been set up in the last couple of days.
I keep thinking about that delay again.
Yeah, that's all right.
Where we are now, we're in the trophy room.
You've got all sorts of things.
I'm a letter from Richard Nixon from the White House.
Invitation to the inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson.
A letter from J. Edgar Hoover and so on.
And just over there, by the way, is something from Australia I thought you might be interested in.
That's from RCA Australia.
You've got the big gold map in the middle, of course.
You know what that is.
And each of those albums in Australia has sold over a million copies.
So RCA presented that to all of us.
And that, of course, was amongst his prized possessions in here.
This, as I say, has just been set up a couple of days ago.
Things were in another area.
This isn't even finished yet, is it?
No, no, no.
Eventually this will be a place that people will have to walk through to see all of these things.
Yeah, when they come to visit Graceland, they'll be walking through.
Look at this plaques.
And plaques here for every one of these references.
These are the Golden Boot Award from RCA Records for different songs, different albums and so on.
For the legendary performers, they called him.
You've got stuff from all over Australia, from all over the world and so on.
And what I want to show you now is just a little bit of film that we made just a couple of days ago.
And this is where all this stuff was originally.
This was across from the Racquetball Court while they were waiting to store it.
This has been the storeroom for Elvis's incredible collection of memorabilia, awards, trophies.
I mean, it's just never-ending, Don.
And in a moment you'll see me down there with a TV set which was presented by RCA for him selling 50 million records, which is quite a while ago.
In boxes there were 145 golden platinum records.
There were five Grammy Awards, I found.
There's a huge painting of Elvis which dates back to about 1976.
There's awards from record companies for sell-out concerts, for his karate activity.
This, by the way, is inside that...
The Racquetball Court.
Yeah, this is full of stuff.
I wandered around there for a day.
You can't get out of that place.
There's so much stuff.
His own personal photographic albums.
We collected photographs, polaroid photographs that he'd taken himself.
What are those trophies?
Awards. They're for everything.
As I say, from sporting organizations, for karate, for selling a million records of this, for his best films.
There's a Bing Crosby Award down there.
The Bing Crosby Award of 1971.
This is where all this stuff we're setting up in here comes from.
That's the Racquetball Court.
There are a couple of awards there.
There's just so much stuff it's mind-boggling.
Of course, they've set up this thing in here this way with all of these...
There's paintings in this place and there's also all of these...
That's a painting from 1967.
It's a rather good painting, actually.
That's excellent.
These mannequins here, like there's the leather suit that he wore in the Hawaii Specials Army uniform.
Here's the other thing.
It's really interesting.
What's this stuff here, Kevin?
Look, this is a whole lot of petitions, thousands of petitions, asking Elvis not to go into the Army
because these fans didn't want him to go into the Army.
Look, that's something I want to show you here.
This is from Australia.
Hold on.
Okay.
This is Elvis' 35th birthday and it was sent by his Australian fans.
It's called The Sound of Elvis Fan Club.
You open it up and there's a poem there called Our Loyalty is for Eternity.
And look at these old Australians who sent this book in 1967.
These people are going to be seeing themselves from 1967.
That's something.
Get a shot of...
Here, there's a leopard-skin suit.
She probably borrowed it from Elvis, I think.
It's a...
Jill Stark, Vice President of the Club.
She's from America, this one.
Here's one from Los Angeles, Tasmania.
This is Maureen Tyler.
Maureen, where are you?
I wonder how many of these people would recognize themselves in this book
or how many of these people would be interested to meet some of them in Australia, wouldn't it?
Oh, it would be fantastic, wouldn't it?
Isn't that unbelievable?
They went through such a lot of trouble with that book and that was one of his prized possessions.
That's one that I found down there in the racquetball court before he brought it to me.
What are these wires here, Clint?
Oh, look, there's some telegrams when Elvis died.
Look at this one, for example.
My deepest sympathy, I feel for you.
Take care.
Elaine Green, Tasmania.
They've saved all of these wires.
Look at this.
All the telegrams.
What's this one?
This is another one from Sydney.
The Carlton Family Sydney, our deepest regrets.
Look at the way they've saved that as well.
We're only showing you the ones from Sydney, but there are others.
Here's one from Isaac Hayes and a whole bunch of others.
They've saved all of these wires, which will be on display.
By the way, this is something that he would never travel anywhere without.
This is a couple of silver hands joined together, presented to Elvis for one of the ten outstanding young men of the nation in 1970, presented by the United States JCs.
And he was so fond of this, he carried it everywhere he went and just wouldn't go anywhere without it.
Okay.
So there we are, Don.
Just look at a few of the incredible trophies.
And soon the public will be able to walk through here and be able to see all of these things that they have.
They're setting it up like a museum.
Commercialism, a tribute to a man, who knows which is right or which is wrong.
But there certainly is a lot of stuff and it shows off what a career it was.
When we come back, we're going to talk with Billy Smith again, Elvis' cousin.
You're going to meet Janelle McComb, who's a very good friend of the family, and Uncle Vesta Presley.
Don't you go away.
How about a hand for Kevin Arnett?
He's done it again.
Thank you very much.
And we'll be back.
Don't go away.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, everybody.
And welcome back.
Billy Smith is back with us again, Elvis' cousin.
Billy, why don't you introduce me to these two people?
It's very funny, by the way.
Ms. McComb just said, we'll introduce you to them.
Ms. McComb just said there hasn't been this much light in this room as far as she can remember.
It was always sort of subdued in here, wasn't it?
Right, it was kind of dark.
Billy, tell me.
This is Ms. Janelle McComb, and she met Elvis when he was a little boy in Tupelo.
And she has remained very close friends with the family ever since.
Well, say hello.
This is Janelle McComb, everybody.
And on your left, of course.
And this is Vester Presley.
This is Vernon Presley's brother.
And, of course, Elvis' uncle.
And he's been here ever since Graceland.
You've been on the gate most times.
You're at the gate, and you take care of all the fitness as well.
Yeah, I've been...
Hang on just a second.
They're recording for you.
I've been on the gate since 1957.
I bet you met more Elvis Presley fans than anybody else in the world, I suppose.
What are you talking about?
Yeah.
I guess I have.
I used to walk them all up, you know.
Started touring in 1958, October of 58.
They ever give you a hard time trying to sneak in or any of that kind of business?
Oh, yes.
They sneak in all during the night.
So I worked about 15 years at night.
Really?
I had a problem, you know.
Yeah, well, that's okay.
So you're a close part of a family, and you stayed here.
I think it's terrific.
You've done the job of it.
I just stuck with them.
What I mean is, as far as the fans, they give us a problem there for a while.
The fans did?
Yes.
All I see was that.
You had to call for help?
No, we had to put it.
You didn't have to holler for a sheriff, eh?
No, no.
No.
Miss McCall, tell me now about the, when was the first time you ever saw Elvis?
The first time I saw Elvis, he was approximately two years old,
and his mother and I were getting a permanent at the old people of beauty school.
And someone came in and said, there's a man sitting on the steps with a little baby and a little boy,
and he's crying his eyes out.
And Miss Preston said, I think that's Elvis.
So we followed her down the street, and Elvis was crying.
And that was my first really time to really remember Elvis Presley and who he was.
And you've been a friend of Elvis and the family ever since, eh?
Yes, I have.
Can I just show people this?
Because I find this interesting.
Here's the TCB symbol.
TLC is what the women wore, and the men wore TCB.
Well, taking care of business, what's TLC?
Tender Loving Care.
Can you ever look at that?
And that's a diamond in there, too.
Elvis gave you that.
Tender Loving Care.
That means treat your women with tender loving care.
And the men took care of business.
I always try to do that, you know.
What about coming to Graceland?
You came to Graceland quite often?
Well, when Billy was always here?
Right, and because we never infringed our rights.
We came, we would always show the courtesy of calling, letting them know.
And we visited not only with Elvis, but with Billy and Vester and the entire family.
Billy's always polite to everybody when they come here.
One of my fondest memories, one day I came in the back door and they'd hired a new boy.
And I think his name was Steve Smith.
And Billy was sitting here and immediately he jumped.
And Billy said, don't bother her.
That's Miss McCombs.
She's our friend.
So I went upstairs and I said, Elvis, I'm so impressed with Billy's manners.
And he said, you should be.
I raised him.
Yeah.
So.
He did that, Billy?
He raised you?
Yes, in a sense he did because I was here at the age of 14.
And I was with him from 14 on, you know.
So really I was with him when I was my family.
So you must have learned the entire business.
I mean, you went on the road with him.
You worked on tour with him.
You watched after him in the house here.
About 20 years and I never learned anything.
Don't feel like the Lorraine.
None of us do, you know.
I learned a little bit over the years how to respect his fans and everything.
Because I realized that they just wanted to see him or something like that.
Uncle Vester, because you were here and on the gate all the time,
did you get to go and see Elvis in concert as well?
Oh, yeah.
On the early days I did, but I got to where I was too busy, you know.
Too busy on the gate?
Didn't really care to in the way because I was tired all the time.
Too busy taking care of business.
Yeah, take care of business.
You got it.
You know, those girls.
Uncle Vester, you know, I'm going to call Billy.
Thank you so much for talking with us.
Thank you.
You know, it's really nice to get part of the family in here.
I love that part.
I didn't expect that we were going to.
And it's really nice of you to come in.
Thank you so much.
And if we get any calls and they want to make you a television star in Australia, you are available.
I am really too old to be a star.
Yeah.
Right.
You have to leave this to the jet set, Billy.
Okay.
When we come back, stay here with me.
We're going to take a commercial break.
And when we come back, I want to show you something, all right?
Are we not?
Why is everybody waving to me?
We are taking a commercial break.
And we will be back.
They didn't tell you, you see.
They told me.
You want to show them the card?
Give me the card.
So sweet.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, Billy.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you, Billy.
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We're off to Tucker Bay.
But the next one's me on the beach.
That's a little trick there.
We're looking at a monitor and I raise my hand like this but it comes up later. It's too hard to explain.
We have a young man in Australia.
We have a young man in Australia. His name is John Rawls.
John came from New Zealand and he's very, very popular in Hawaii now.
And he has one of those big voices, very reminiscent of the big numbers that Elvis used to do, you know.
But John has a style of his own, of course.
But one of the most moving, I think, numbers that Elvis ever did, of course, was American Trilogy.
And John's going to perform that for us now.
And I thought it might be a good idea if the three of you sat here.
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Okay?
And nice to have you here too and really lovely to talk to you.
Here's a fabulous John Rawls, one of Elvis' biggest and I suppose most moving pieces, American Trilogy.
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His truth is my worship.
That kind of stuff is wonderful.
Ron Rolls, absolutely fantastic, mate.
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Okay, and it's time for the wheel.
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Hello Bertram.
I want to know one thing.
I beg your pardon?
What's that?
I'd like to know who's paying for this call?
Kerry Packer.
And through the nose.
Don you might like...
Oh, I...
I took...
No, I ain't...
Whatever you think Bert.
Can you see me?
Unfortunately, yes.
I can see you.
So when each of us wants to say something,
what say we put our hand up?
Wait a minute, who's talking?
Now you talk to me.
How is it in the studio Bert?
Are you enjoying it?
That's why I wanted to have a crack at having a chat Don.
The show is coming over superbly.
It looks magnificent.
It really is a piece of television history.
You get back to Australia, if you get back to Australia,
when you see the show, you'll be absolutely knocked out.
And the DJ, what was his name?
George Klein?
George Klein, GK.
GK, excellent.
Just wonderful.
Wonderful.
Why don't we arrange to put him on the phone with you some morning?
You'd have a wonderful conversation with him on 3UZ.
Yeah, sure.
I'll come down to your level.
You know I've never been taller than you before.
Do you realize that if we make the screen any wider,
you will cover Elvis' entire backyard with your body?
Oh, thank you.
Mr. Charm.
Don.
Can we meet?
I'd like to meet the first contestant, if you don't mind Bertram.
I'm now running the show Don.
We'll have a contestant when I feel...
Matter of fact, I feel like the first contestant now.
Yes.
Don, I'd like you to meet from Chelsea here in Victoria.
Don, I'd like you to meet from Chelsea.
Harry Dixon from...
Oh, I went out with her a couple of times.
Not Chelsea Brown, you fool.
Chelsea, Victoria.
I'm sorry.
Harry Dixon from Granada Road in Chelsea.
Hello, Harry.
Come in here.
In the center.
There you go.
Can you hear Don?
He just said, How are you, Harry?
How are you, Don?
Harry said, How are you, Don?
How are you doing, Harry?
Very good.
He can hear me.
What are you doing?
Interpreting?
I'm going to start translating.
I beg your pardon?
What?
Yeah.
Do you want to speak to Harry?
I'm having trouble hearing him.
Do you want to speak to Harry or not?
No, I don't like...
George, you just got Harry on the program
because you wanted somebody on there
shorter than you for a change.
Oh, sorry.
Harry, what number would you like?
Uh, to start on five.
Number five?
Okay, number...
We're starting on...
Decisions, decisions...
We're starting on five, Don.
Up there, Harry.
Why don't you start on five?
Down that way, and good luck!
Good luck!
It's number 24, Don,
although with the delay, of course,
that could be number 23 to you.
Number 24.
Let's have a look.
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Amen.
Questions from you, mate.
Oh, I beg your pardon.
You want the question?
There you go.
Yes, please.
You want the question?
Yes, please.
There you go, Don.
Take the question.
A little further out, mate, if you don't mind.
A little further out.
Thank you.
Hang on.
This page is blank, Bert.
Take this back and you ask him the question.
It doesn't matter to me.
Sure.
You know if you want...
Yes.
Right?
Clever stuff, eh?
This is 1982.
Don, at the moment, for some reason, outside...
Didn't I do this with Graham Kennedy one year?
I don't know.
I can hardly see what you're doing.
But this is the question.
The 19th century American showman, Barnum and Bailey, produced what form of entertainment?
Now, I can't give you any clues.
No clues?
I don't know.
I'm sorry.
Can I have another question?
No, no.
This is for Harry, you fool.
Oh, I'm sorry.
The 19th century American circus showman, Barnum and Bailey, produced what form of entertainment?
That's the 19th century American circus showman, Barnum and Bailey.
What sort of entertainment?
Circus.
Circus!
You're right, Harry.
All right.
Get on your, Harry.
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Don?
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I've got to tell you something.
I've got an entire crew of people out here that are looking at this segment.
It's been okay up until now.
There's a whole bunch of people out here looking at us like we are the total wax of the world.
It's amazing.
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Conversational Italian.
Eh?
Conversational Italian?
Yes, that means rather than saying, uh, come a start, eh?
It's sort of, come a start, eh?
Don of A.
Can I have the phone, please?
Yes, sir.
Hang on a sec.
Where's the phone?
This is our second contestant, Don.
Thank you.
Can I have it?
Sure.
Thanks.
Thanks very much.
Thank you.
Hello?
I haven't introduced the person yet, Don.
One on a sec.
Oh, who is it?
Hang on.
Be half a moment.
Wait for your second.
Uh, Don, you've met Harry Dixon, haven't you?
This is Anne.
This is Anne Aker of Potts Point, New South Wales.
And the message is just through.
We are losing satellite time, so we'll have to move it along.
Oh, we'll do it very quickly.
Anne, how are you?
What number would you like to start on, Anne?
That's it.
Anne, say hello.
Anne's had it.
Has she?
Congratulations to Anne.
What number would you like?
What a funny voice she has.
Well, I tell you, what we'll choose, the number we'll choose is, this is the Nine Network,
we'll choose number nine, eh?
Number nine?
Anne, ask me the question.
Yes.
Okay, here we go.
This is Potts Point, New South Wales.
Point, it's in the New South Wales.
It's the same number, isn't it?
Yeah.
Okay, we start on number nine again, and a slower one this time.
What a funny voice she has.
That music is frightening the horses here.
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No, better still, you ask me, I'll give you the question, you ask me the question.
Okay, which is the mythical character that's half woman and half fish?
Hang on a sec.
Thank you.
Could I have a question to get to it?
No.
Mermaid?
I'll get out of here and answer the question.
Mermaid?
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Don?
Can we move it along?
I have to catch a plane.
Sure.
Okay.
Don, I must mention that that magnificent performance of John Rolls, he was back superbly
and actually by the Graham Lyall Orchestra and also the Melbourne Singers.
It was a most moving moment here in the studio, and I'm sure it translated through to you.
Can I just say one thing?
I am so proud of Graham Lyall and the orchestra.
I think they did the greatest job ever.
They're giving me wind-up signs.
We've got to get the letters through.
Thank you so much for what you did over there.
No worries.
Here we go.
I have got Mrs. Jenny Beemans of Young Street in Breakwater in Geelong and also Mrs. Bea
Belbin of Parnellar Road in Dodgers Ferry in Tasmania.
There are contestants for next week.
Thank you, Bertram, very much.
See you soon.
Thank you, Bertram, very much, and we'll be back to say goodnight.
God bless.
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Okay.
Thank you so much. I really don't know what else to tell you.
I was talking to Kevin on it earlier and he said to me,
gee, I started again.
I'm going to be a great actor.
And he said to me, gee, I started to get emotional on the opening.
And the truth of the matter is, so did I.
For a minute there, I just filled up.
I don't know why I did.
I think there are some thank yous in order.
First of all, I'd just like you to see something.
This is amazing.
We had to get an Earth Station disc moved up all the way from Florida
to come up here and do this program.
You're looking at it now.
And the other facilities and the things that we had to bring in here
was just a monumental task.
And I'm sure Bert would agree with me.
Peter Feynman, once again, who handles every big event like nobody I ever knew,
who is the mentor for both Bert and I, has done it.
The people that came from Los Angeles, from our Channel 9 department,
have done a fantastic job.
These people here from WREG TV here in Memphis, Tennessee,
have worked so hard and so long.
There's cameramen and there's technicians.
There's bands out in the back.
I can't tell you what it's all been like.
More important than that, to have you people there looking at us here
and especially to our studio audience,
I know the people at home enjoyed themselves.
I hope they did to our studio audience for participating so much
and for giving us so much here.
I mean, to hear that applause from you really made me feel like
we were still back there and still at home.
This has been some event for us.
I can't tell you how happy we feel.
I really miss home.
I'm going to run back now.
As soon as I finish here, I have to go and get on an airplane and fly back,
so I'm there in time for Thursday's show.
I'm going to say goodbye to you now.
I hope I haven't missed anybody in thanking you,
but I have one person I'd like to thank.
You don't know what a feeling of security it is for me, Bert,
to know that you were there on the other side,
because if anything had happened with this,
if we had missed the link or for some reason the sound went out or something else,
just Peter and I both felt so secure in the fact that you were there.
You're the best, mate, and I thank you for doing all that.
Thank you.
I miss home.
I'm going to go get on a plane.
I'm going to go wander through these gardens here.
It's now 8.30 in the morning in Memphis, Tennessee.
It's a little bit overcast, so it wasn't as hot as we thought it would be.
Thank goodness I didn't sweat myself to death.
I'm going to take a long walk down here through this fabulous front yard of Graceland.
I'm going to go down by the gate for a couple of reasons.
One, to give you a look at this, and two,
in the hopes that maybe somebody out there might ask me for my autograph.
Anyway, I thank you for joining us.
I'll see you when I get back home, Australia.
Thank you so much.
This has been one of the highlights of my whole life.
I just love doing this program, and like I said, I hope you enjoyed yourselves.
We'll see you, okay?
I love your faces.
Thank you, Nathan.
Thank you.