Colonel Tom Parker: The Creep Who Created & Destroyed The King
What a Creep
Margo Donohue
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Season 16, Episode 9
Colonel Tom Parker
There is no way to talk about Elvis Presley without talking about his manager/agent/public relations officer and overall CEO, CMO, and COO of all things for Elvis Inc--Colonel Tom Parker. I recently caught the Baz Luhrmann version of Elvis and was shocked at Tom Hanks’ version of Parker--a Stay Puff Marshmellow Man who seemed more annoying than a malevolent Creep who was part of the reason his only client died an early death and could have been far more secure in financial manners. Today we will discuss the LIES this man told his entire life about his past, what he told Elvis, and the wreckage it caused.
Sources for this episode
Tom Parker Wiki
Vanity Fair
Smithsonian
Den of Geek
Bustle
The New York Times
Grunge.com
The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley by Alanna Nash (2003)
Sun Records (Season One)
Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley (1985)
Elvis and The Colonel TV Movie(1993)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What A Creep, the show with Margot Donnie and Sonia Mansfield talking about |
| 0:06.2 | creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:08.9 | This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes and losers, the best of the |
| 0:13.6 | worst. |
| 0:14.6 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy. |
| 0:27.8 | Welcome back to What A Creep. |
| 0:29.2 | This is Margot Donnie and my cohort in creepitude, as always, is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. |
| 0:34.6 | Hey Sonia. |
| 0:35.6 | Hello my friend. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello to you my friend. |
| 0:38.6 | Hey friend. |
| 0:39.6 | I don't know why my voice got so high. |
| 0:43.8 | Well, it's adjacent to our our creep today, it's Elvis, maybe he's making you all a flutter |
| 0:50.9 | maybe. |
| 0:51.9 | That must be it. |
| 0:52.9 | Oh, it's sweatin' in here. |
| 0:55.7 | It's giving you the vapus. |
| 0:59.4 | Not really. |
| 1:00.6 | We are the podcast I talk about, talks about, excuse me, creeps from the past to the present. |
| 1:04.8 | We're talking about a good old, tiny creep, a good old, tiny Hollywood show business creep. |
| 1:12.0 | Not a rapist that we can tell. |
| 1:14.5 | Oh, this week we should call the show What A Treat. |
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