Midnight - Little Mary Sunshine

Rumors, the main assistants to the reactionary forces, nevertheless tried to undermine the special relationship that Presley maintained with "black" America, attributing to him racist statements like "Negroes are good for buying my records and cleaning my shoes." In an effort to put an end to this campaign, which offended his best feelings, Elvis set out to restore the truth and turned to the popular Negro weekly Jet, which in the summer of 1957 published an article entitled "Pelvis told us about the racist gossip spreading about him." Countermeasures have acted, judging by the constant presence of Elvis' creativity in African American charts in the following months, but this controversy has not gone unnoticed for the ghetto, where even today some still scorn the singer’s alleged racism. “More recently, two black ladies, an African and an American,came up to me after the concert, during which I paid tribute to Elvis, and said that it was “not politically correct” to remember him before an African American audience, ”said Jean-Jacques Milto in the spring of 2004.