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Thomas Andrew Parker (born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk; June 26, 1909 – January 21, 1997), commonly known as Colonel Parker, was a Dutch-American musical entrepreneur. He was best known as the talent manager of Elvis Presley.. Parker was born in the Netherlands and entered the United States illegally when he was 20 years old. He adopted a new name and claimed to have been born in the United ...
Apr 16, 2018 · (1909-1997) Who Was Colonel Tom Parker? 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 ...
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 ...
Feb 24, 2012 · The Colonel always was a mystery. But that was very much the way he liked it. It was, of course, a tough trick to pull off, because the Colonel’s name was Tom Parker, and Tom Parker managed ...
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.But big Elvis ...
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 in Las Vegas ...
Jun 23, 2022 · By Ken Sharp “The King” is back in the forefront of popular culture with the new Baz Luhrmann bio pic Elvis starring Austin Butler as the hip-swiveling Memphis fireball of a singing sensation and Tom Hanks as notorious manager Colonel Tom Parker.. On the heels of the film’s release comes a new re-pressing of the must-have book The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker ...
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.
Jul 15, 2020 · The King of Rock ‘N’ Rock wouldn’t have reigned if it weren’t for his Colonel. To fans across the country, Elvis Presley seemed to shoot to megastardom after his 1956 national TV ...
Jan 22, 1997 · Don’t expect history to be kind to Col. Tom Parker, who died of complications of a stroke Tuesday in Las Vegas at age 87. The cagey ex-carnival pitchman who helped turn a raw Elvis Presley into ...
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