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2 Mar
Suspicious Minds Want to Know about Elvis's Nose

Date: Wed,  2 Mar 94 02:09:56 PST
To: Fun_People
Subject: Suspicious Minds Want to Know about Elvis's Nose

From: "Peter K. Siegel" <73054.1620@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject:      Elvis's Nose

On 3-1-94 Eileen Condon wrote:

>Elvis was so bored with his repertoire, my friend Bruce K. explained,
>that he would (and, as we listened did in fact) draw 4- to 12-bar total
>blanks on lyrics, forget band-members' names when intro's were in order
>but the CROWNING GLORY BY FAR was "Suspicious Minds."   After one of the
>many repetitions of the line "caught in a trap" Elvis inserts, quite
>plainly, the phrase "Shove It Up Your Nose."  Really.  We listened at
>least five times to be absolutely, collectively sure.

>Anyone else heard this one?  Any bluegrass analogs? (Nosalogs?)

>(WHAT'S THE DISC LABEL AND NUMBER, BRUCE??  SHOW THEM I DIDN'T IMAGINE IT
>ALL.)

This is not from Bruce, but the album is RCA AQL1-4776, "Elvis as Recorded
at Madison Square Garden" [on June 10, 1972], and yes, Eileen, he certainly
does seem to say "shove it up your nose."

But I'm not sure it was all about boredom.  Mebbe the King had done shoved
a little TOO much up his nose by then.

© 1994 Peter Langston