Elvis' dad wrote and sang the song (with Elvis on backing vocals).
Excellent advert mind - and I'm old enough to remember it when it came out!
(, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 11:26, Reply)
this is before the interwebs and a "Did you Know?...."
Ross Macmanus was a singer with the Joe Loss band.
seem to remember reading the tale of R Whites in NME as an aside in a feature on the Elv before NME got too Burchill and Parsoned and i gave up buying it.
(puts anorak back on hook)
(, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 13:34, Reply)