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Colonel Tom Parker. Thomas Andrew Parker (born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk; June 26, 1909 – January 21, 1997), [1] commonly known as Colonel Tom Parker, was a Dutch-American musical entrepreneur. He was best known as the talent manager of Elvis Presley.
Jun 30, 2022 · In 1963, Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s audacious manager who had gotten his start selling candy apples in carnivals, read in the paper that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidential yacht,...
Apr 16, 2018 · Colonel Tom Parker managed Elvis Presley ’s career from 1955 to 1977, overseeing almost every aspect of the star’s life. A “colonel” in honorary terms only, he was a shrewd, showman-like...
Feb 24, 2012 · Colonel Tom Parker—the title was awarded to him by Louisiana Governor Jimmie Davis in 1948 for political services rendered—claimed until 1982 to have been born in West Virginia. In fact...
Jun 24, 2022 · Viewers who are more familiar with Elvis Presley’s music than his life story might be surprised by the prominence Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks) in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic.
Jul 15, 2020 · To fans across the country, Elvis Presley seemed to shoot to megastardom after his 1956 national TV appearance on Stage Show, but the young singer’s career was carefully orchestrated by his...
Jan 22, 1997 · Col. Tom Parker, the strict, unorthodox and controversial manager who orchestrated Elvis Presley's career from 1955 until the singer's death in 1977, died yesterday at Valley Hospital...
Feb 21, 2023 · Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker first met on February 6, 1955, but the story of their eventual business team started well before that (via Graceland). In 1954, a man called Oscar Davis saw Presley live and met the singer and his then-manager, Bob Neal.
Jun 23, 2022 · Bestselling author Alanna Nash offers the definitive account of Colonel Tom Parker as a mysterious man living a powerful life as Elvis Presley's manager.
Jun 25, 2022 · When Parker crony Gabe Tucker threw a magazine piece on the Colonel’s desk that insinuated that Elvis was gay, Parker didn’t say a word until his friend stopped sputtering.
