#memphis

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Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.


Elvis Presley


#came #got #had #know #lyrics

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.


Elvis Presley


#driving #got #high #high school #i

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.


Justin Timberlake


#capital #church #growing #growing up #i

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.


John Lee Hooker


#again #anything #come #found #got

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.


Mac Davis


#elvis #fun #gang #having #having fun

Memphis is a great town, man. There's a great musical community here. I'm trying to fit in.


Charles Moore


#fit #great #here #i #man

When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.


William Bell


#bar #came #club #had #i

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.


Alex Chilton


#blues #country #early #every #few