The art of commerce
Elvis Presley died thirty-nine years ago today but the money keeps rolling in. Presley earned vast sums of money durIng his lifetime, and...
Tommy Sands, the Elvis prototype
When Colonel Tom Parker was fired by Eddy Arnold in 1953, he immediately started working with young hillbilly singer Tommy Sands. Aged...
Elvis has left the building
During the early 1950s, Colonel Tom Parker was exclusively managing the hugely successful country singer Eddy Arnold. But Parker had...
Colonel Tom's secret club
Above all things. Colonel Tom Parker loved "playing the game". By nature he was a practical joker and would happily spend $10 to con you...
The first songbook
During the 1940s and 1950s, Songbook Folio sales were a regular part of a country musician's income. His publishers would print a...
Marty Robbins, Tom's friend
Although we now think of it as a definitive Elvis recording, for most Southern listeners in 1955, "That's All Right" was a hit song for...
Eddy Arnold's gold record
During the 1940s, Tom Parker assembled a team around Eddy Arnold that he would eventually use with Elvis Presley in the 1950s. In order...
