'On the way back from Hollywood, we got about forty-five miles out of Memphis, and we started picking up WHBQ which was George Kleins station.
George was on the air that night, and he played 'green, green grass of home,' which TomJones just brought out. Elvis liked it, but it put him in a real sad mood.
He was driving the big greyhound, and he stopped at a pay phone and had me call George and have him play it again.
Pretty soon, he was stopping at every pay phone. George played that song three or four times in a row. Which he wasn't supposed to do. But Elvis wanted to hear it because he was just wallowing in how blue it made him feel.
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