“We agreed to have everyone on the record here,” Denny challenged Elvis.
“Yes, sir,” Elvis said. “It’s just us three that played on the record. The three boys got on stage to show Denny.
Once Elvis finished singing his high-energy version of ‘Blue Moon of Kentucky’ he came off stage and walked over to Denny. “Sir. How did you think I did?”
Denny replied, “You ain’t goin’ nowhere, son. You ought to go back driving a truck.”
Scotty Moore said, “Elvis got so mad that, in the dressing room, he tore off his shirt, ripped it in two pieces and threw it in the trash. If I knew how famous Elvis would become, I would have kept it.”
Elvis did perform there that night and the audience applauded politely. Elvis vowed to never return. A few years later, Elvis met Jim Denny at an event. Denny shook Elvis’ hand and said, “I always knew you’d make it.”
Away from Denny, Elvis said, “That ‘som-bitch’ doesn’t remember when he broke my heart.”
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Reminds me of my master's advisor who gave me little guidance but a lot of courses to take, some of them remedial, and some of them too theoretical and useless in practical engineering for my understanding. But he did allow me to take a test in his office one time when it was open book and the test hall had postage stamp sized desks. When I failed in that coursework, he did allow me to write a thesis while working full-time as a quality assurance engineer with my hand split, walking around just fine and generally passing for normal.
Seven years later, while attending an alumni summer conference, I walked up to him on campus and he remarked, "Ron, it's good to see you without your wheelchair." I didn't get into a wheelchair until 25 years later. It was kind of like A J Foyt, when he met Paul Newman at a racing venue, calling him, "Bud," like he called everybody he didn't know their names or who they were. I'm sure you have some Paul Newman stories of your own.
Ron