50's candid, Info needed please

Does anyone have any info regarding this please and if anyone has it in better quality, that would be great. Thanks in advance and apologies if it's been posted before.

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Thanks Andy ,thats a new one for me

Very welcome Ken, hope you're keeping well bud

On April 15, 1957 Elvis visited the Holiday Towers apartment of composer Charles Underwood. Elvis brought along his date, Martha Lou Pendergrass.

Mississippi

Can't ask for more than that can you, thanks very much Mississippi

Very welcome Ken, hope you're keeping well bud

Doing very well mate thanks
hope you are too

Yep all good at this end, cheers Ken

Its been around before but not here in a while that I remember. There are others also from that time with Dewey and Charles Underwood. I'll see if I can dig them up and append them. Elvis is holding Underwood's guitar that has a tooled cover he made modeled after, or inspiring, the leather cover he made for Elvis' Gibson J200. He wrongly gets the credit though for the cover on Elvis' D28 that was made in 55 in the basement of OK Houcks by Marcus Van Story.

The girl, one of them, is said to be Bonnie Underwood, but I don't know if its Charle's sister or wife.

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Great stuff....thanks very much for the extra info and photos there James, appreciate it

Does anyone have any info regarding this please and if anyone has it in better quality, that would be great. Thanks in advance and apologies if it's been posted before.

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The photo was posted here in 2008 by The fool, and first published in the Graceland Express in 1989:
http://www.elvis-collectors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=35149#p460075

On April 15, 1957 Elvis visited the Holiday Towers apartment of composer Charles Underwood. Elvis brought along his date, Martha Lou Pendergrass.

Good information, right on the money. Dewey Phillips may have been the person who brought Elvis and his date over, after they caught up with Phillips during his radio show.

Its been around before but not here in a while that I remember. There are others also from that time with Dewey and Charles Underwood. I'll see if I can dig them up and append them. Elvis is holding Underwood's guitar that has a tooled cover he made modeled after, or inspiring, the leather cover he made for Elvis' Gibson J200. He wrongly gets the credit though for the cover on Elvis' D28 that was made in 55 in the basement of OK Houcks by Marcus Van Story.

The girl, one of them, is said to be Bonnie Underwood, but I don't know if its Charle's sister or wife.

It's his wife. She would be seen as one of the ladies waving good-bye to Elvis, less than one year later.

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Group Of Women Watching Elvis Depart
3/24/1958 - Memphis, TN: Friends, sweethearts and relatives display their emotions as 23-year-old rock and roll singer Elvis Presley leaves Memphis for Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, to begin a two-year hitch in the Army.

On hand to see him off are (L to R): Mrs. Bonnie Underwood; Judy Spreckles [sic]; Anita Wood; Patsy Presley, a cousin; Mrs. Vesta Presley, an aunt; and Janet Hall. Miss Spreckles [sic] expressed her loyalty as a Presley fan, despite his recent attraction to Miss Wood, who says she's his best friend not his best girl.

http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/BE046300/group-of-women-watching-elvis-depart

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Its been around before but not here in a while that I remember. There are others also from that time with Dewey and Charles Underwood. I'll see if I can dig them up and append them. Elvis is holding Underwood's guitar that has a tooled cover he made modeled after, or inspiring, the leather cover he made for Elvis' Gibson J200. He wrongly gets the credit though for the cover on Elvis' D28 that was made in 55 in the basement of OK Houcks by Marcus Van Story.

The girl, one of them, is said to be Bonnie Underwood, but I don't know if its Charle's sister or wife.

It's his wife. She would be seen as one of the ladies waving good-bye to Elvis, less than one year later.

Cool, I suspected as much after seeing Charles wearing a wedding ring but didn't hazard a guess. Nice profile in the Corbis pic, kind of reminds me of Tuesday Weld.

Cool, I suspected as much after seeing Charles wearing a wedding ring but didn't hazard a guess. Nice profile in the Corbis pic, kind of reminds me of Tuesday Weld.

Think Elvis noticed?

Again, some good information there...can't thank you enough DJC

Again, some good information there...can't thank you enough DJC

My pleasure!

Here's another I had

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Cool shot, thanks again James