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	Tom Parker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parker's involvement in the music industry began as a music promoter in the late 1940s, working with musicians such as Minnie Pearl and Eddy Arnold and the film star Tom Mix.
		Parker's subsequent influence over Presley was criticized as Svengali-like, though without Parker, Presley might have never become the superstar that he became.
		Parker fled his native land at about the age of 18, joined the United States Army, then changed his name into Tom Parker and become part of the circus world sometime after leaving the Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Parker (704 words)

	Colonel Tom Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Parker's involvement in the music industry began as a music promoter in the late 1940s, working with musicians such as Minnie Pearl (additional info and facts about Minnie Pearl) and Eddy Arnold (additional info and facts about Eddy Arnold) and the film star Tom Mix (additional info and facts about Tom Mix).
		Parker's subsequent influence over Presley was criticized as Svengali (The musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically) -like, though without Parker, Presley might have never become the superstar that he became.
		Parker fled his native land at about the age of 18, joined the United States Army (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare), then changed his name into Tom Parker and become part of the circus world sometime after leaving the Army.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/colonel_tom_parker.htm (725 words)

	Parker, Tom "Colonel" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	CMT.com : : NASHVILLE SKYLINE: The Carny and the King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Parker’s show business life was waning as World War II loomed and he got a job as dogcatcher in Tampa.
		Parker took 25 percent of Arnold’s income and Arnold was expected to cover all expenses.
		Parker’s early years with Elvis -- 1955-58 or so -- were a rollercoaster to the top, and there’s little doubt that Parker was pivotal in that leap to superstardom.
	www.cmt.com /artists/news/1474161/07172003/parker_tom.jhtml (1083 words)

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		Colonel Tom Parker, for all intents and purposes, is a fictional character.
		Nash is in familiar territory with a biography of Colonel Tom Parker (this is her second book involving the artist manager, her previous being Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia, 1995) — though she has managed a balanced and refreshingly even examination of the Colonel’s life and career.
		Most groundbreaking and intriguing, however, were her interviews with the Colonel’s family in Holland, providing many pieces of the puzzle that indicate the man’s nature, while posing a number of new questions in the process (how exactly he emigrated and the bizarre murder of a greengrocer’s wife).
	www.mtsu.edu /~djw2q/Article6.doc (1648 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)

	Amazon.co.uk: Customer Reviews Books: Colonel Tom Parker: The Curious Life of Elvis Presley's Eccentric Manager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0815410883/customer-reviews (1271 words)

	Colonel Tom Parker - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Template:Redirect "Colonel" Tom Parker (June 26, 1909 – January 21, 1997), the pseudonym of Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk, was best known as the manager for Elvis Presley.
		Parker fled his native land at about the age of 18, joined the United States Army, then changed his name to Tom Parker and become part of the circus world sometime after leaving the Army.
		Parker died on January 21, 1997, in Las Vegas, Nevada at the age of 87.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Colonel_Parker (757 words)

	Fifties Website - Elvis Presley - Colonel Tom Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Parker immigrated to the U.S. illegally somewhere around 1929.
		But Parker kept him churning out all those formula pictures which were very profitable but which undermined Elvis' dreams.
		But Parker was being paid a hefty sum to protect Elvis' interests, a fiduciary he violated again and again.
	www.fiftiesweb.com /elvis-parker.htm (384 words)

	E! Online News - Colonel Tom Parker Is Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Colonel Tom Parker, the man who ruthlessly steered Elvis Presley's career from Memphis truck driver to King of Rock 'n' Roll, died today of complications from a stroke.
		Parker took his title from his old carnival act--the Great Parker Pony Circus and Colonel Tom Parker and His Dancing Chickens, in which he placed live chickens on a hot plate covered with sawdust where they "danced" to music.
		Parker first met Elvis in 1955 while the young singer was still being managed by Memphis DJ Bob Neal and was just beginning to make a name in the south for some recordings on the Sun label.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/Pf/0,1527,576,00.html (383 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 (705 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 (6474 words)

	Encyclopedia: Colonel Tom Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since the Colonel never wrote the book he was promising to for so many years, this is as close as we'll get to his side of the legend.
		Colonel Tom Parker: The Curious Life Of Elvis Presley's Eccentric Manager by James L. Dickerson
		If the sources are correct, The Colonel took a 50 percent cut of everything Elvis made, told him who to work with, and what projects to work on based solely on what HE could get out of it.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Colonel-Tom-Parker (382 words)

	THE COLONEL: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF COLONEL TOM PARKER AND ELVIS PRESLEY - book review
		However, one of the Colonel's favorite ploys to prevent one of his clients from leaving was to say something to the effect of "that's fine, but we need to settle up first", suddenly giving the artist piles of bills that were 'owed' him.
		Parker's Dutch niece, Maria Dons-Maas, along with her friends Angelo Somers and Hanneke Neutkens, gave me a copy of the article, which appeared a month before I visited Holland.
		I am sorry that the Colonel closed himself off to his Dutch family, because she is a treasure.
	www.members.tripod.com /earcandy_mag/thecolonelinterview.htm (2327 words)

	RAB Hall of Fame: Colonel Ton Parker
		Tom Parker was born on June 26, 1909 in Breda, The Netherlands to Adam and Maria VanKuijk who named their fifth child Andreas Cornelius VanKuijk.
		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)

	Simonsays.com > SimonSays > The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley (Hardcover) > ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		I first met Colonel Parker in December 1992, and I wondered then how the secret of his origins -- revealed to the world at large in 1981 -- impacted the all-dominating decisions he made in shaping nearly every event in the life and career of Elvis Presley.
		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.simonsays.com /excerpt.cfm?isbn=0743213017 (1379 words)

	Parker, Colonel Tom -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A colonel was traditionally the commanding officer of a regiment or brigade.
		In air forces that use the same titles of rank as the army, such as the U.S. Air Force, a colonel's command is usually a group; the comparable grade in the...
		Francis Parker was born on Oct. 9, 1837, in Bedford, N.H. At 21 he became the principal of a school in Carrollton, Ill. After serving in the American Civil War, he returned to teaching and developed a program of progressive education.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9114838 (699 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)

	NOW: Junior twang, Sep 10 - 17, 2003
		Colonel Tom Parker of the Backstabbers country string band knows all about the shortcomings of the genre, since his day job is teaching music in kindergarten-to-grade-6 classes at Roden Public School.
		In fact, the lead track on Colonel Tom and the Loose Cannons' Songs For The Young'uns (Run Mountain) disc is Pretty Little Girl (With The Red Dress On), which Parker has been singing in a goofy falsetto with the Backstabbers set as long as I can remember.
		It's Parker's decision to choose songs that don't talk down to his audience, whatever age they happen to be, which makes Songs For The Young'uns much less annoying than your average kids' disc.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2003-09-10/music_feature2.php (655 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Hustling Elvis
		In doing so, Tom Parker was one of the inventors of the contemporary entertainment industry, in which the movie is the promotional device, and the baseball cap with the title logo is the main product.
		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 (2499 words)

	Fun_People Archive - 22 Jan - 1/21/97 Elvis' Manager 'Colonel' Tom Parker, dies at 87 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	"Colonel" Tom (Parker's Death Dark Shadow) - Elvis Presley
		Elvis Presley never did, which is reason enough to despise "Colonel" Tom Parker, whose rank was as phony and deceitful as everything else about him.
		I could give a fuck whether Parker was an "illegal immigrant" or not; America shouldn't have immigration laws in the first place.
		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 (627 words)

	phoenixnewtimes.com \| Music \| Cooked the Colonel's Way \| 1997-01-30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Elvis was already a piping-hot property by the time the Colonel got his slimy, fat fingers on the Hillbilly Cat in 1955: All the Colonel did was hold out for the biggest cash advance.
		Too Much: The Colonel marked Presley fans as suckers early in the game when he rereleased the first Elvis RCA album in its entirety on six singles and two EPs, all of which sold like hot cakes.
		Viva Las Vegas: The Colonel was a rabid gambler, and it's long been rumored the main reason Elvis played so many Vegas shows at the end of his career was that the Colonel had to borrow a million dollars from various casinos against future Elvis earnings.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1997-01-30/music/music2.html (1276 words)

	The Sunday Telegraph: The Arts: The Colonel and the King He was a con man who created a rock 'n' roll legend. Adam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Sunday Telegraph: The Arts: The Colonel and the King He was a con man who created a rock 'n' roll legend.
		The Arts: The Colonel and the King He was a con man who created a rock 'n' roll legend.
		THE day after Elvis Presley died in August 1977, his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, felt no obligation to join in the worldwide outpouring of hysterical grief.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:23042319&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (270 words)

	Colonel Tom Parker: The Curious Life of Elvis Presley's Eccentric Manager by James L. Dickerson \| PopMatters Book Review
		Dickerson talked with dozens of people who were acquainted with Parker and dug up a great many documents pertaining in one way or another to him, but whereas most people who wish to hide their secrets bury the evidence, Parker simply worked it so that evidence never existed in the first place.
		Conspicuously absent is any word from people who actually knew Parker, resulting in a two-dimensional portrait of a cigar-chomping Disney villain with the ethics of a hyena and the powers of Rasputin.
		To Dickerson's credit, this is always Parker's biography, the well-trod ground of Elvis's life given just enough ink to clarify Dickerson's points about Parker, but the fact remains that if Parker is a cartoonish villain, then Elvis is someone who was taken in by a cartoonish villain -- he becomes Johnny Bravo.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/c/colonel-tom-parker.shtml (1827 words)

	The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley by Nash, Alanna - ShopCBN
		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.
		Though her evidence is not conclusive, she suggests that Parker (born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk) feared deportation his entire life, but, more importantly, he may have fled his native Holland in 1929 after committing murder.
		The narrative is at times sensational in its attempts to dramatize the malign aspects of Parker’s character, and those coming for a definitive answer as to the cause of Elvis's self-destruction will find new light, but no final answers.
	www.parable.com /cbn/item.asp?sku=0743213017 (332 words)

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