REBA loves her some Elvis, you know. When I die I don't want any preaching or eulogy. Just play IF I CAN DREAM over and over until people "get it". Then skip the dinner and go out and do something good. The first album I ever got was the MOODY BLUE album. Does anyone remember that? The vinyl was actually blue. I loved it! I later learned that 2 of the songs off that album were recorded in Ann Arbor and a third, IF YOU LOVE ME (LET ME GO) was recorded at the April 1977 concert at the Saginaw Civic Center. Did you know that? My Parents were at that concert. They took me to the May 3, 1977 concert at the Civic Center. I was 7 years old all "elvised up" in a peach jumpsuit with lip gloss and open toe wedge shoes. 3 months later he was dead. How crazy is that? It was a pretty sad day at our house. Just today we were looking at pictures of me, Mom, and Aunt D on Elvis Presley Blvd, the masses of funeral flowers and the white hearst. We stood in the street for hours and waited for the funeral procession to come through. These are amazing memories for me, and you're only getting the tip of the iceberg cus I'm trying not to stray too far off topic! Someone asked me today what the big deal is. Why are we people still so crazy about him. I can't speak for everyone else but besides the concerts and the Tennessee vacations, Elvis songs were in the background of nearly every day of my life. And it all has such good warm feelings attached. I am only 38 and most of the people who formed me are gone now... and even though life isn't as carefree as it was then, when I hear those songs I FEEL good again. And when I watch the footage, especially IF I CAN DREAM from that 1968 concert... I can see my Mom again, dancing around the room singing and dancing with me. Roll that all up and that's why Elvis is still a big deal to me. Now here's the tidbit.... Did you know that when Elvis bought Graceland in 1957 he paid $100,000!!! CRAZY!