By Davan 
ON THIS DAY 47 YEARS AGO – During a July 20, 1975 concert, between songs Elvis was joking around and giving out scarves when he noticed a little girl standing on the far left of the stage. He walked over and knelt down on one knee in front of her. Realizing she was blind, Elvis held her hands and spoke to her for a few minutes. The audience could not hear as he kept the microphone away from his mouth. He then kissed his scarf and touched both her eyes with it. When he was finished he took the scarf and held it to the child’s face. The little girl stood there with complete confidence in what Elvis was doing. The girl had been blind since birth.
Elvis talked to the girl’s mother after the concert and paid for the surgery to restore her sight. Today she is a computer graphic artist.
About recording the album:
From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee
(In the Jungle Room)
He worked very hard. I think being able to watch Elvis record made all of us understand how important his music was to him..
We realized how hard he worked and this made us all appreciate and respect him even more. So many times Elvis would have a partition put around him because he didn’t want anyone to watch him on certain songs.
I, along with a few of the other guys have been lucky enough to see him on these rare occasions.
Elvis had a way of fitting himself into the song. He would pour his heart out. He always felt anything worth doing was worth doing well. I have seen him become so emotionally involved in a song that he hardly knew we were there and sometimes as he sang tears would fill his eyes.
Elvis just had that special something that I guess in a hundred years we will still not be able to pinpoint exactly what made him so special.
He was ELVIS! and as he sang he made it possible for every one of us to feel involved in the songs just as his fans did at his concerts. Just as quickly as he could cry, he could laugh.
By Billy & Jo Smith (Elvis’ cousin)