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I love his treatment of some of the older gospel songs," says Strickland. Larry Strickland releases 'Legacy': Elvis band, gospel group veteran makes 'a record of my own'. Because singing is what he loved to do. According to the schedule you can get your fill of Elvis impersonators. That has to be hard on your personal life being on the road all the time? Donnie Sumner, Ed Hill and Larry Strickland will perform at the Gospel Homecoming on August 17. One night in vegas, this probably after I had been with him a year, he turned to me in the show. I didn't have my normal, natural little-girl needs met'. It stunned me for a minute, bam there he is! Fontana (drums) and Millie Kirkham (soprano). Yes that was really big of him. Strickland would go on to perform 204 concerts with Elvis. He was singing now or never. I did it was not until a year later, it was at the end of 1974. But he loved that sound, and so he always had a quartet — whether it was The Jordanaires, or The Imperials, or The Stamps — backing him up though the years.”. It was top of the heap for me, JD was a fun guy. So I was a preachers kid. … I don't recommend it. You know there was only a couple of times where I saw him onstage and he didn't look well. "That sound and feeling, it was in his soul. I just love being a part of a group.”. Elvis puts out his hand and shakes it and then he takes Ed and pulls him about three steps away from me but not far enough that I can't hear them. It wasn't until I joined JD Sumner and the stamps that I went professional or full time. A revered bass vocalist, whose distinctive voice complimented Elvis Presley on stage and in the studio, Larry Strickland “continues to carry the torch for the music that he and Elvis, and so many others loved,” (The Commercial Appeal) with his first solo project, Legacy, available everywhere today. “I’m a big Randy Travis fan, and I listened to the gospel records that he’s put out. Can you tell me about the first time you met Elvis? When we weren't touring with elvis we were out doing our own shows. “As I got older and started thinking about the things I had done, I wanted to leave something behind as part of my legacy and so I decided to make a record of my own,” he says, of his new EP, fittingly titled “Legacy.” Set for release on Friday, the disc's six tracks represent a survey of the music that has defined Strickland’s life and career. Larry strickland: Where I was born and raised, I have very little memory of that. He never said sorry and he didn't to me. That's all I have to say about him. There were times he would leave the stage in the middle of the show to go to the bathroom so we new that he had that problem. A TCB lightning bolt patch as at the left shoulder. Another year we were working on thanksgiving and he came by and gave us an extra ten dollars. He also bought us a tour bus. But for some reason after I came along they stopped doing that I don't think he was feeling all that well. Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD Video with Sound. He didn't hand those things out as much as he did in the early days. They slammed open in a sense and in walked two body guards in front, then Elvis and then two body guards in the back like they were taking over the world. Mar 28, 2014 - Performance during intermission at the screening of Elvis' Aloha Concert in Memphis at the Orpheum Theatre August 16, 2013 More information Former Members of J D Sumner's STAMPS: Bill Baize, Donnie Sumner, Ed Hill, Larry Strickland. I know I seen him at his best while he was recording and performing. So that was my moment in the sun. Until Now! The whole group was standing there in a private terminal. I hope I’ll be the last one standing," he says. He says 'Ed where in the world did you get the f###ing farmer?'. So he is hugging Ed and all that stuff. Strickland’s first performance was with Elvis in Las Vegas, and he would remain employed and part of the TCB inner circle for national tours and studio sessions until The King’s death in 1977. He ended the song and he actually stopped the show, he turned to me and the band and said. That little gesture helped settle me. Larry Strickland's voice rarely has been front and center. I want you to sing. There does not seem like a lot of room. No part of any article on this site may be re-printed for public display without permission. So one night he had all of us come out and see the plane. Infact it was his first trip that he had made in his big plane the Lisa Marie. 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