Venom - Mayhem With Mercy

However, Elvis had the taste to compensate for this display of luxury with genuine generosity and continued devotion to the dreams of youth. He was a regular customer of Harry Levich and the Lansky brothers in memory of the paternal patronage that these merchants from the common districts of Memphis showed him recently. Elvis could not forget that Levich partially paid for the studies of his school friend Red West, and Guy and Bernard Lansky allowed him to try on catchy flowers in those days when he was penniless. As for Dewey Phillips, the host of Red, Hot and Blue, who promoted his first San record, Elvis expressed his appreciation very specifically by paying for the treatment from his dentist, a luxury in a country new to social insurance.