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1 hour ago, lordstanley said:

Presley died 48 years old this week. The night he died, my parents, my three siblings and I got washed out of a KOA campground in Lake Placid, NY. We packed up the tent in a torrential downpour at 2am and piled into our car and hoofed it out of there towards Vermont. The first half hour on the radio was one Elvis song after another, commercial-free. I remember thinking, hmm, I didn’t know Elvis was so huge in NY state. Then the DJ came on and explained to listeners like me that the King was dead. 

I think I've told this before but I met my wife the day Elvis passed. It was her first day at the radio station I worked. She was a news person, I was kind of a utility infielder, doing some announcing, public service stuff, and basically a lot of full time fill in work. 
The station's news director had a bad case of laryngitis that day. The wire machines went crazy with the "world is ending five bells" Memphis, Tennessee.....

Her first news cast in Roanoke, Va was the news Elvis had died. He was scheduled to be in town about a week later for a concert.  Later that evening a bunch of us went for pizza and beer, I invited her.

The rest is history....

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3 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

I think I've told this before but I met my wife the day Elvis passed. It was her first day at the radio station I worked. She was a news person, I was kind of a utility infielder, doing some announcing, public service stuff, and basically a lot of full time fill in work. 
The station's news director had a bad case of laryngitis that day. The wire machines went crazy with the "world is ending five bells" Memphis, Tennessee.....

Her first news cast in Roanoke, Va was the news Elvis had died. He was scheduled to be in town about a week later for a concert.  Later that evening a bunch of us went for pizza and beer, I invited her.

The rest is history....

You didn't go into politics, didn't become the Uberboss of North America...we are not but a mirror of your Will. 

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