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Craig McDonald got his start in show business as a teenager after meeting Elvis Presley and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, while changing their air conditioning filters in Parker's Palm Springs, California home. Greg went on to manage Ricky Nelson for 17 years and worked under Colonel Parker and Elvis shortly after Parker began managing Elvis in the 1950s. Here's Greg with the Colonel and Elvis Christmas story. Colonel Parker loved Christmas. He had always had a Santa suit, and he loved entertaining kids and families, even at the Las Vegas Hilton.
He would sit out there in the in the Santa suit and entertain all of the Hilton employs children. Several thousand of them. And the bad news was passed that Santa suit down to me and he had me do Santa Claus routine every year, which is very, and if you've ever played Santa Claus, you know it's very hard, it's not easy, it's a tough day. But he did that he always had a little present for the kids. You know, we'd give him an Elvis teddy bear, all kinds of different trinkets that the Colonel Colonel loved to make up little uh Merchandising Gadgets Um In nineteen seventy one, RCA had set up and the colonel had set up a session in Nashville.
At RCA Studio B, And they wanted a Christmas album.
Well, Elvis wanted to record. But he wanted to do Other songs. He wanted to go in and do some Bob Dylan covers and some Peter, Paul, and Mary stuff, which was hotter at that time. And of course, his Christmas album in 1958 was the biggest Christmas album ever. And a lot of people don't realize that Elvis recorded uh His version of White Christmas And they sent the dub up to New York.
And they played that dub for Irving Berlin, who wrote that song, White Christmas. And at that time, it was the biggest Christmas song ever and had been sung. by uh Bing Crosby. And it was huge. Fine.
Dreaming of a white Christmas. Super. Just like the one like Take a No. Irving Berlin hates it. He tells them, Don't put it out, it's my song, you can't put it out.
Well, of course they could, and they did.
So Irving Berlin hires a room full of people to call radio stations. and tell them not to play the record. It's sacrilegious.
So, well obviously the album comes out You know, blue Christmas is on it, white Christmas is on it. Huge record. At the end of Irving Berlin's career, Disjockey asked him, mister Berlin, What was the biggest royalty check and on what song was it during your life? What was your most profitable hit? And he said, Elvis Presley's version of White Christmas.
Good stuff.
So, you know, it was that particular album is the biggest selling Christmas album. including Mariah Carey, And all of those it's the biggest selling still. You can't get in an elevator, Chris was not here. Blue Christmas. The colonel It was his idea 100%.
Elvis didn't want to do it. He was doing uh blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the How many times must embed? And you for We did some great songs, but they weren't what was planned for the session. and the Colonel was and almost never went to recording sessions.
So we were in Nashville and that Chet Atkins' office actually at RCA. And We could hear what Elvis there was a speaker in the conference room. and we could hear what they were recording in the studio.
Well Chet Atkins was calling New York. and giving us up. And he'd say, You know Elvis is in there singing, but he ain't doing Christmas. And they'd call the colonel and go, You gotta have him record. We got it scheduled for a release at Christmas.
Colonel would send his right-hand man, Tom Diskin, into the studio to get help because Colonel would never walk in there. That was they had separate turfs.
so he'd bring Elvis out into the parking lot where I was recently. And You could see them friendly. Talking, and the colonel saying, You got to sing Christmas, Elvis. And Elvis saying, Yeah, but I want it. He wanted to do.
Gospel songs.
So This was going on for a week. He called it the Marathon. And He cut some of the greatest songs albums ever cut.
So. He'd sing three Christmas songs. And then he went back in the studio because he knew we were listening, and he recorded a song called He Touched Me. which was one of his biggest records. And became one of his gospel that he got the only Grammy for.
And uh, How great thou art Anyway. During the those the Nashville sessions, Elvis was having so much fun. He and Red West had a karate demonstration, and they ended up breaking a classic guitar. And Red had. Put a Christmas tree.
In the studio.
Now this is summertime. And he put a Christmas tree just to get him into the Christmas mood to get him to record. Anyway. The colonel didn't mind the gospel stuff, but He wasn't ready for the Bob Dylan songs. He wanted the Christmas songs.
So the battle between the two superegos Was going on, and that was a real, it was friendly. That was in the real friendly days, those two. But they were nose to nose over what he was going to record, and they ended up recording 30, 40 songs. And I think they all became chart records. And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Greg Hengler.
and a special thanks to Greg MacDonald He's the author of Elvis and the Colonel, an insider's look at the most legendary partnership in show business. And his co-author on that book was Marshall Terrell. And what a story he told. Elvis didn't want to do this Christmas record in 1971. And yet here was Colonel Parker's instincts.
Keeping Elvis relevant with this hugely popular record, the story of how it got made. Here on Our American Stories. Lee Habib here, and I'm inviting you to help OurAmerican Stories celebrate this country's 250th birthday, only a short time away. If you want to help inspire countless others to love America like we do, and want to help us bring the inspiring and important stories told here to millions for years to come, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Our American Stories. Go to OwlAmericanStories.com and click the donate button.
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