I never thought that, you know, where would I go to get a million dollars. The fact of the matter was that a million dollars in those days to me belonged to the Rockefellers and the Fords and those kind of people. He said, ‘Okay, you be in Vegas tomorrow at 11:00 o’clock with a million dollars and we’ll talk a deal’. Finally, one morning he said to me, ‘You still want to take my boy on tour’. Second of all, if he were working I have a lot of promoters that I owe dates too. ‘First of all’, he said, ‘Elvis is not working thats to begin with.
Why do you keep calling here? You’re wasting your money’. And every morning he said to me, ‘What are you, you’re crazy. I used to call him every morning, ‘Good morning, Colonel, this is Jerry Weintraub. He was always up at 6:00 oclock in the morning. And I talked to him all the time.Īnyway, I started to call Tom Parker who was Elvis’ manager every morning at 8:30 in the morning. I do believe in God, very strongly believe in God.
God sent me a sign that I was gonna do this’. You know, how do you expect to do this?’ I said, ‘I’m telling you. She said, ‘What?’ I said, ‘I saw a sign in front of Madison Square Garden that said ‘Jerry Weintraub presents Elvis’.
I got up and I said to my wife, ‘I just had this crazy dream’. And I went to sleep one night and I got up in the middle of the night, three o’clock in the morning. I was living in New York on 54th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue. A fellow named Harry Jenkins, who worked with Elvis down in Nashville and some other people that worked with him, Steve Sholes and these are names that are not going to be familiar to you, but are familiar and are very important names in the recording industry and I had been doing shows around the country and I had some artists that I was representing. I was in business at RCA records with some people that are no longer with. Tell us how you first began working with Elvis and Colonel Parker.Ī : Well, I don’t want to sound too spiritual about all this, but I’ll tell you the story and its the true story. Q : Thank you for allowing us to interview you. With the founding of Concerts West, he was to handle such clients as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, and the Beach Boys. He formed Management III in 1965, and from a quite modest beginning (two partners, three clients, a small backing), became a leading concert promoter. He was to represent such clients as Jack Paar and singer Jane Morgan who became his second wife. One of the first independent producers to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Jerry Weintraub, the son of a gem salesman, began his career as a talent agent for MCA in the 1950s.
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