Elvis’s Personal Statistics
Born:
Male Caucasian
Height: 6’
1”
Weight: 180 lbs. (He weighed 5 pounds at birth and more than
255 pounds at the time of his death.)
Hair: Light blondish, brown (He dyed his hair black having
gone prematurely gray)
Eyes: Blue (scar under the left eye)
Chest: 39-40”
Waist: 32”
(in the fifties; over 44” in the seventies)
Hips: 41”
Shirt: 15 ½ - 17 neck, 35” arm
Shoe size: 11D, combat-boot size 12
Blood type: O
Social security number: 409-52-2002
Selective service number: 40-86-35-16
Army serial number: 53310761 (draft number)
Registration / Convair 880 Jet: N880EP
Registration
/ Jet Commander Airplane: N777EP
National bank of Commerce checking account number:
011-143875
(He signed all checks “E. A. Presley”)
Alias names: Jon Burrows, Dr. John Carpenter
Guitars: Martin D-28 and
Gibson J-200
Favorite piano: 1928 gold-leaf Kimball Grand
Favorite flower: Jasmine
Favorite dinner plates: Noritake’s Buckingham pattern
Favorite bacon: King Cotton
Favorite bread: Wonder Bread enriched
Favorite
board games: Scrabble and Monopoly
Favorite sports: Karate, racquet ball, football
Favorite magazine: Mad
Favorite restaurants: The Gridiron in
Tiny
Naylor’s and Hamburger Heaven in
Favorite meal: Pork chops with brown gravy and apple pie for
dessert, served with Pepsi-Cola
Favorite movie: “The Party” starring Peter Sellers
Favorite boots: Vedi or San Remos (patent leather)
Favorite book (beside the Bible): Kahlil Gibrand’s The Prophet
Favorite comic-book
series: Captain Marvel
Favorite bed: The King-sized bed (of course) at
Favorite actors: James
Dean, Marlon Brando, Dean Martin,
Rudolph Valentino
Favorite
animal: Tiger
Favorite make of car: Cadillac
Favorite gemstone: Diamond
Favorite home:
Favorite
comedians: Monty Python and Peter Sellers
Favorite Biblical Quotes
I Cornthians 13:1 “Though I speak with
the tongues of men
and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling
cymbal.”
Matthew
a needle, than
for a rich man to enter the
This is one of Gladys’s and Elvis’s most quoted passages,
and its words haunted Elvis at the end of his life.
Psalms 101:1 “I will sing a song of mercy and judgment: unto
thee, O Lord, will I sing.”
Martial Arts
Although
many people have claimed that Elvis earned an eighth-degree black
belt, he was not a black-belt master. He “earned” (gratis)
his first degree in 1960
and second degree in 1963, from Kang Rhee. He skipped his third and fourth
degrees, which is not possible
in a legitimate karate master’s program.
Kang Rhee however, conferred his fifth, sixth and seventh degrees, and Ed Parker,
who
became his bodyguard, presented Elvis with an eighth-degree black belt
(which signifies Master of the Art, which Elvis also did not
earn). The so-called
“karate” he used in his movies (G.I. Blues, Wild in the Country, follow That Dream,
Blue
an imitation of martial arts fighting techniques. No master of tae kwon
do would
ever spar in dojos wearing leather boots, jewelry, sunglasses, or long capes.
Elvis’s karate name in tae kwon do was Tiger. Elvis picked that name because
he felt that tigers were the most proficient animals
on earth. They were swift,
powerful, extremely agile and beautiful. They could come and go without being
detected. To be tiger-like was to be king-like. Elvis identified with their mystery
and splendor. He had many various ceramic, painted
and bronze images of tigers
in