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	Fifties Website - Elvis Presley - Colonel Tom Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Parker immigrated to the U.S. illegally somewhere around 1929.
		But Parker was being paid a hefty sum to protect Elvis' interests, a fiduciary he violated again and again.
		The upshot was that Parker had to surrender all rights to Elvis Presley.
	www.fiftiesweb.com /elvis-parker.htm (384 words)

	Colonel Tom Parker biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The truth (which came out when Parker tried to avert a lawsuit in 1982 by asserting that he was a Dutch citizen) was that Parker fled his native land at about the age of 18, joined the United States Army, and become part of the circus world sometime after leaving the Army.
		Parker eventually agreed in 1983 to sell his masters of some of Presley's major recordings to RCA for $2 million and to drop any claims he had to Presley's estate.
		Parker moved to Las Vegas in 1980 and worked as an "entertainment adviser" for Hilton Hotels, although he continued to capitalize on Presley's name, attending ceremonies marking the tenth anniversary of the singer's death and appearing at the 1993 issuing of the United States Postal Service stamp honoring Presley.
	colonel-tom-parker.biography.ms (428 words)

	The Author's Account of lunch with Colonel Tom Parker
		The Colonel was naturally right-handed, but an accident at the RCA building in Hollywood some years back—he had fallen while entering the elevator, and the door had repeatedly pummeled him in what some would call Elvis’s poetic justice--had virtually frozen his right shoulder.
		Loanne sat behind the wheel, and Parker, dressed for the 106-degree heat in blue trousers under a light-blue smock of a shirt with "Colonel" embroidered in white script on a dark-blue epaulette, sat motionless beside her in the front seat.
		Colonel, who once stood six feet or more, was so bent over that he appeared to be a head shorter than his nurse of a wife.
	www.colonelparker.com /lunch_with_andre.htm (3732 words)

	Parker, Tom "Colonel" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Colonel Tom Parker was the flamboyant promoter who managed Elvis Presley's career from 1955 until Elvis's death in 1977.
		Although Parker always claimed to be an orphan from West Virginia, it is believed that he was born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk on June 26 1909, in Breda, the Netherlands.
		Parker served in the U.S. army during the 1930s before working in carnival shows, notably with a dancing chicken act.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/P/Parker/1.html (369 words)

	Las Vegas SUN:
		At age 87, Col. Tom Parker was still working as a consultant for an upcoming Elvis Presley movie and advising the Hilton hotel chain on entertainment when he suddenly suffered a stroke.
		Parker, who gave up smoking his trademark big Cuban cigars in 1990, had a meteoric rise from a dogcatcher in the 1940s to top show business manager.
		Parker was part of the ceremonies in Las Vegas in 1993 when the Elvis postage stamp was issued.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/special/1997/jan/22/505511010.html (684 words)

	Powell's Books - The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley by Alanna Nash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But the profile of Parker attending the funeral in a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap was even stranger, and led her to investigate the man behind the myth.
		Every move Parker made in his handling of Elvis Presley —; from the bad movies, to the drug use, to Presley's own army career — was designed to protect the Colonel's terrible secrets.
		Parker was a certified psychopath, and Elvis Presley was only one of his unwitting victims.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0743213017-0 (812 words)

	Parker's shadowy past news to Memphis Mafia - Elvis Presley
		Parker, who sometimes seemed as flamboyant as Presley, was a tireless promoter of the rock star he sometimes referred to as "my act." He was also his own act, a Dutchman named Andreas Cornelis van Kujik who reinvented himself as Thomas Andrew Parker, the P. Barnum of rock and roll.
		Parker hid his past from the rest of the world, and cut ties to his family except for occasional, odd notes in which he sometimes referred to himself in the third person.
		Parker exacted 50 percent or more of the proceeds from Presley's career, which has led to the harshest criticism of his role as the entertainer's manager.
	www.elvis.com.au /presley/parkers_shadowy_past_news_to_memphis_mafia.shtml (1256 words)

	Charles Stone with Elvis and Colonel Parker
		The Colonel was a numbers man and I had to have the figures available for him at all times–as I was the one who knew how much each venue grossed and how much the expenses were.
		Colonel said if there was a bomb in the building he was leaving and canceling the show.
		Parker, Colonel’s widow, and for the first time she allowed conversation about Elvis and the Colonel with someone she didn’t know well.
	www.ladyluckmusic.com /radio/hunter/charlesstone (1965 words)

	The Colonel : The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nash had unique access to the Colonel and many of those closely connected to him in assembling the facts that underlie her narrative, and the book reads like a mystery as it probes the origins of Parker’s power.
		The sad conclusion is that Parker given his personality always saw himself as the person in charge and Elvis his instrument and that Elvis's success and earnings were down to the Colonel's skills and negotiations not Elvis's talents.
		Parker in turn given his personality was unable to help as Elvis's deline under drugs gathered pace and the inevitable happened.
	www.enotalone.com /books/0743213017.html (2136 words)

	Fun_People Archive - 22 Jan - 1/21/97 Elvis' Manager 'Colonel' Tom Parker, dies at 87 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Parker died at the Valley Hospital in Las Vegas, where he had been admitted on Monday, said Bruce Banke, a close friend of Parker.
		Parker, a carnival worker in his early years, managed Presley's career from 1955 until his death in 1977, guiding the singer from obscurity to worldwide fame as a rock 'n' roll idol and movie star.
		Parker told Variety in 1994 that he had had lots of offers to write books about Presley but had turned them all down.
	www.langston.com /Fun_People/1997/1997ACU.html (378 words)

	The Colonel : The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Parker's hucksterism is pretty well known: how he took advantage of the fiscally ignorant Presley, keeping him in dumb movies rather than letting him explore more serious projects, and turning a blind eye to his excessive drug use.
		Parker himself never bothered to address his critics, nor did he try to carve out much middle ground in the debate of whether he was the devil or angel in Elvis's own private hell.
		Parker was a man of not just one, but many secrets, and the keeper of several fantastic tales he fought to preserve, with Elvis almost always paying too much of the price.
	www.equuscommercialfinance.com /books-reviewed/0743213017.html (5054 words)

	"Colonel" Tom (Parker's Death Dark Shadow) - Elvis Presley
		I could give a fuck whether Parker was an "illegal immigrant" or not; America shouldn't have immigration laws in the first place.
		Compared to Parker, Mike Appel, who merely took advantage of an untutored young man with unfair contracts, was the truly honest man Diogenes sought.
		Parker might have seemed a cunning genius who had kept Elvis in the public spotlight far longer than was "normal." But the minute that the probate courts got hold of the Presley estate, that illusion vanished.
	www.elvis.com.au /presley/articles_deathshadow.shtml (661 words)

	RAB Hall of Fame: Colonel Ton Parker
		PARKER, who gave up smoking his trademark big Cuban cigars in 1990, had a meteoric rise from being a hobo in the late 1920s to a top show business manager.
		Colonel (as he was now called, having been given an honorary title of "colonel" by several southern governors) began booking Elvis Presley as an opening act on the Hank Snow appearances.
		Parker was cremated and interred at Palm Cemetery on Eastern Avenue in Las Vegas.
	www.rockabillyhall.com /ColTom.html (1114 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: Colonel Tom Parker: The Curious Life of Elvis Presley's Eccentric Manager
		Parker managed Presley's career, handling publicity, cutting deals and receiving commissions of 25 and later 50 percent.
		Parker believed the singer's charisma and ambition would take him far, so he slowly worked to usurp the duties of Elvis' manager Bob Neal by ingratiating himself to Presley and his parents.
		Yet the Colonel's shady deals and hard-nosed tactics were evident to many from the very beginning.
	www.bookpage.com /0105bp/nonfiction/colonel_tom_parker.html (385 words)

	Spectator, The: COLONEL: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF COLONEL TOM PARKER AND ELVIS PRESLEY, THE
		He was also able to fool people that he was a colonel, when in fact he had ended his military service as a private, branded a psychopath by an army psychiatrist.
		Thanks to Parker's slobbishness, Presley would degenerate into a pill-popping butterball and meet an untimely death, apparently choking on the shag pile of his bathroom carpet.
		By the time of Parker's death in 1997 - he died a relatively poor man - it could be said that Elvis had had the last laugh.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200311/ai_n9324910 (1072 words)

	Suite101.com
		Lastfogel thought Parker was crazy, bringing [Parker associate] Gabe Tucker in for some light banter to distract the studio lawyers, and insisting he wouldn't do the deal unless MGM threw in the ashtray that lay on the conference room table.
		Parker fought Joe Hazen on virtually every clause of the new contract, and while Wallis defended him ("I think the Colonel has kept his word with you and has shown fine spirit characteristic of him," he wrote to his partner), Hazen at one point called Parker's changes in the agreement "the height of duplicity.
		But others insist that can't be true-the Colonel was informed about everything that went on-and though their meetings were infrequent, there was no way he couldn't have recognized the erratic behavior and abnormal perspiration of an addict, even one whose dependence was on prescription drugs, not street narcotics.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/elvis_presley/86125/939740 (6468 words)

	BookkooB: Colonel Tom Parker - James L. Dickerson
		Colonel (an honorary title from his friend, the governor of Louisiana) Tom Parker was way ahead of Elvis and his other acts, and earned a marvelous living in the process.
		Parker is shown to be single-minded in his search for wealth, in his addiction to gambling, and how far he would go to support both desires.
		Parker struck gold when he dumped his other commitments and stuck like a leech to the country-bumpkins that Elvis and his family were (future wife Priscilla excluded).
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0815410883.htm (1234 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Hustling Elvis
		Indeed, Parker effectively kept Elvis out of the film world; although Presley starred in thirty-one movies (or, more accurately, made one movie thirty-one times), they have always existed in a self-contained, unchanging sphere all their own, unrelated to developments in film during the same years.
		Parker (never his legal name) kept his identity a secret until his final years, when he thought a few details from the truth would give him a tactical advantage in a court proceeding.
		Both Presley and Parker were never what they seemed, we now know: in his youth, when Elvis terrified parents as he snarled and gyrated like something from hell, he was actually a shy, religious fellow who lived with his mother and father.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/16598 (2485 words)

	Waiting for Colonel Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Colonel Tom Parker is considered to be a crook, a haggler and by some the man who was responsible for the fact that Elvis died at the early age of 42.
		In the eyes of many people, Parker even became one of the largest and insolent crooks in American history, by continuing to act as Elvis's manager even after his death.
		Colonel Tom Parker, the manager of the outstanding icon of American rock 'n roll - Elvis Presley - amazed his friends and enemies by revealing that he actually wasn't an American citizen, but Dutch and that his real name was Andries van Kuijk.
	www.pvhfilm.nl /documentaires/colonelparker-synopsis-UK.html (336 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Colonel Tom Parker: The Curious Life of Elvis Presley's Eccentric Manager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And after the Dutch-born Parker designated a colonel by a Kentucky governor takes over Elvis's career in the mid-1950s, Dickerson exhibits little of the sympathy biographers usually feel for their subjects.
		It is a fascinating and enlightening insight into Colonel Parker and thus into Elvis and his career also.
		He has done remarkable research into (i) what influenced and shaped The Colonel and enabled him to emerge as a revolutionary and unique manager and (ii) into the underlying cultural and political forces of the time that greatly influenced the course of this particular piece of history.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0815410883 (1235 words)

	Chapter II:
		During the year 1882 Davis negotiated with Colonel Francis W. Parker, an educator of national renown from Quincy, Massachusetts, to come to Clarion the following summer as an advisor in establishing a normal school.
		In the Quincy schools Parker incorporated the ideas of Frobel, Herbart, and Pestalozzi making the city a mecca for educators.
		Parker also gained fame as supervisor of the Boston schools and as principal of the Cook County Normal School in Illinois.
	www.clarion.edu /history/chapter.htm (2789 words)

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		Parker reportedly told his young assistant: "You know, Byron, we’re never going to be able to take Elvis abroad to do personal appearances." Raphael thought this was an odd statement because Elvis was so popular internationally.
		Parker had a problem with his immigration status from years earlier, but had never bothered to get it fixed.
		Colonel Parker’s behavior at Elvis’s funeral was quite odd, and inappropriate, to say the least.
	www.jfkmontreal.com /john_lennon/Chapter05.htm (8142 words)

	Colonel Parker left fond memories in Hawai'i - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Jacobs, writer of this article, says a recent book was unfair to Parker, failing to show the Colonel's generosity and, as Elvis' manager, his interest in the star's career.
		But the author of "The Colonel" did not attempt to contact Tom Moffatt or myself, although we were involved with Parker in Honolulu, Los Angeles, Memphis and Las Vegas from 1957 until his death.
		Parker's aloha for Hawai'i began in the early 1920s during his two years stationed at Fort DeRussy.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/Jul/20/op/op11a.html (707 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: Weintraub to make Colonel Parker film
		Jerry Weintraub, a film producer who got his start in showbusiness when Elvis Presley’s manager the late Colonel Tom Parker hired him to promote Presley’s concerts, is to make a film about his relationship with Parker.
		Jerry Weintraub, who has hired Barry Levinson to direct The Colonel And Me, says that Parker became a father figure to him and he has long felt that their tale had the makings of a good feature film.
		Parker was an ex-carnival pitchman from the American South who reinvented himself as Presley’s manager.
	www.breakingnews.ie /2003/05/23/story100082.html (236 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Colonel was not a real colonel, shows Nash: he bought the title from a man in Louisiana, and was himself an army deserter, eventually discharged after being diagnosed a psychopath.
		Colonel Tom Parker was the man who took Elvis to the heights - and then stood by as the King destroyed himself by the age of 42.
		But it's the relevations about Parker's dark past in Holland, his gambling addiction and the deals which allowed him to take up to 50 per cent of Presley's earnings which take the breath away.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1845130251 (1077 words)

	Craiger C. Parker, Colonel, United States Army
		Colonel Parker enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private in 1963 and attended Officer Candidate School in 1966.
		One of the Army's most decorated soldiers, Colonel Parker was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge, two Silver Stars, four Legion of Merit medals, four Bronze Stars, three Purple Hearts, four Meritorious Service medals, three Air medals, two Army Commendation medals, the Army Good Conduct medal and numerous service awards.
		In addition to his mother, surviving are his wife, Sheila Parker; a son, Stephen K. of Rockville Centre, N.Y.; two daughters, Mary F. Andres of Crofton, Md., and Theresa M. Webb of Dallas, Texas; two brothers, Frank and Mark; his stepfather, Leland Ohrt; and five grandchildren.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /ccparker.htm (325 words)

	curlio.com: Colonel Parker held Elvis back
		According to Mike Stoller who wrote music for Elvis Presley, the King wanted to be a more serious actor, but his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, held him back.
		Presley longed to be a serious actor but Parker, who adopted the title "Colonel," did nothing to help him, Stoller said.
		Parker apparently took 50% of Elvis' income, rather than the standard 10-20%.
	www.curlio.com /new_showarticle.php?id=4963 (172 words)

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