Dreamin About Elvis: A love lost

About this episode

The episode explores a fictional narrative about a young girl's romantic encounter with Elvis Presley during the early days of his career.

This text provides excerpts from a novel titled Dreamin’ about Elvis, detailing the narrator’s mother's secret history with Elvis Presley in the mid-1950s. The story chronicles how Velvia Gwendolyn Creamer (known as Kitty), a young country girl from Bossier City, Louisiana, meets a nineteen-year-old Elvis just as his career begins with the Louisiana Hayride. Their initial attraction quickly blossoms into a brief but passionate love affair, cemented by Elvis signing a year-long contract to pla...

People in this episode

Host: Chris Olds

Topics covered

• Elvis Presley
• love affair
• 1950s history
• country music
• Louisiana
• narrative storytelling

Keywords

• Elvis Presley
• love story
• 1950s
• Bossier City
• country music
• narrative
• fiction

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Dreamin’ about Elvis

Places: Bossier City, Louisiana

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