When Gene Austin arrived in Tampa in January of 1939 with his new, self-financed movie, Songs and Saddles, he was at loose ends. Austin had been a genuine pop superstar in the ‘20s (his 1927 hit, “My ...
Elvis’ mysterious manager Colonel Tom Parker was not everything he appeared to be. He claimed, for example, to have been born in West Virginia in 1909 and to have fallen in with carnival folk at an ...