>> Without a question, the most
beautiful singer, the most
sexual, sensual man and a great
sense of humor and dancing.
There will just never be anybody
like that.
>> She said she left Elvis when
his prescription drug use became
extreme.
Soon after he began dating Linda
Thompson for four years, the two
were inseparable.
>> Even to the hospital when he
was hospitalhospitalized.
I had a bed up against him and
it had to be in tandem with his.
That's how much of a connection
he needed and wanted in his
woman.
>> Barbra streisand hoped to be
Elvis' lover on the big screen.
She considered him to star
opposite her in the 1976 version
of "A star is born".
>> He was also a good octoberer
-- actor and that's why we
first approached him because
actually he was kind of truth
and the reality at the time.
His star was waning a bit, and
mine was sort of ascending, and
he wanted to do it.
>> But what happened?
>> His manager didn't want him
to do it, and I think there was
a business reason.
>> That manager was the
notorious colonel Tom parker.
His firm grip also derailed
Elvis' wanting to record dolly
parton's "I will always love
you".
>> Colonel Tom calls me just
before the session and says, you
do know that we don't regard any
songs with Elvis unless we get
to publish them.
And I just was heartbroken.
Sure enough, they didn't.
It had nothing to do with Elvis.
He loved it.
But colonel Tom was a great
manager.
Can't fault him for that.
But anyway, a year later when
Whitney did it, I was so glad
that I had the full publishing
on the song and that I hadn't
given any of it away.
>> Even Whitney Houston has an
Elvis connection.
Her mother, cissy Houston sang
back up for him.
You wonder if a young Whitney
ever met Elvis.
This was the only time she was
asked that question.
>> You don't really meet Elvis.
You actually just look at Elvis.
Usually a back stage kind of
thing and he walks in the room
with his mink on and his glasses
on, and he just walks in, and he
says something, and everybody
just -- you don't say anything.
You just look.
It was just one of those moments
I won't forget as a kid.
It wasn't like, hi, Mr. Elvis,
nice to meet you.
I didn't do that.
You just sat back and just
looked at him.
He was amazing to look at.
>> Yeah.
>> Just amazing, and just to be
in his presence was awesome.
