The Day a Teenage Boy Met Elvis and the Colonel and Began Working with Them the Rest of His Life
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, doing maintenance in mansions, you could meet anyone, talk about anything - even find your career as an agent!
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| 0:00.0 | We all have a moment that splits us wide open. On my new podcast, Wide Open with Ashland Harris, |
| 0:06.1 | I'll sit down with trailblazers from sports, music, fashion, entertainment, and politics |
| 0:11.8 | to explore their toughest moments and the incredible comebacks that followed. Listen to Wide |
| 0:17.4 | Open with Ashland Harris, an Iheartart Women's Sports production on the IHeart |
| 0:22.2 | Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:26.5 | Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of IHart Women's Sports. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's chief product officer. |
| 0:34.0 | If you're just as curious as I am about the way things are built, then tune in to my podcast, Building One. |
| 0:40.0 | I speak with some of the best product builders out there. |
| 0:42.6 | I've always been inspired by frustration. |
| 0:45.2 | It came back to my own personal pinpoint. |
| 0:47.3 | So we had to go out to farmers and convince them. |
| 0:50.5 | Following that curiosity is a superpower. |
| 0:53.2 | You have to be obsessed with the human condition. |
| 0:55.8 | Listen to Building One on the IHeart Radio app, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:10.2 | And we continue with our American stories. |
| 1:14.8 | Greg McDonald got his start in show business as a teenager after meeting Elvis Presley |
| 1:20.1 | and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, while changing their AC filters in Palm Springs, California. |
| 1:27.9 | Greg went on to manage Ricky Nelson for 17 years |
| 1:30.7 | and worked under Colonel Parker and Elvis |
| 1:33.5 | shortly after Parker began managing Elvis in the 1950s. |
| 1:38.1 | Here's Greg with the first time he met Elvis and Colonel Tom Parker. |
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