{"id":591,"date":"2005-06-18T17:55:44","date_gmt":"2005-06-18T22:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=591"},"modified":"2005-06-18T17:55:44","modified_gmt":"2005-06-18T22:55:44","slug":"sincerest-form-of-flattery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/sincerest-form-of-flattery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sincerest form of flattery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithillusions.com\/\">Keith Henderson<\/a> has been doing his &#8220;Illusions of the King&#8221; Elvis show for 26 years. I saw him first as the young Elvis not long after he started. Keith has a great voice and g<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithillusions.com\/history.asp\">reat family support over the long haul; his grandmother makes his elaborate costumes and his mother adds the stud work, his daughter sings a great soprano<\/a>.<br \/>\nHe also has a great band. Any band with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaco.com\/Catalog\/Christian\/Will-McFarlane\/list.php\">Will McFarlane as lead guitar<\/a> is going to be good.<br \/>\nAs I listened to Keith hold a verrrrrry long note on &#8220;Rags to Riches,&#8221; I was reminded that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunrecords.com\/history.php\">Sam Phillips of Sun Records<\/a> had latched onto Elvis when he was looking for a young white boy who could sing and sound like the great black artists that were hitting on the R&#038;B charts. Now, according to Henderson, the number of Elvis-sounding acts and Elvis tributes has grown at such a rate that if the grown continues apace <strong>1 out of every 4 persons in the world will be doing Elvis tributes by 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Henderson has been doing his &#8220;Illusions of the King&#8221; Elvis show for 26 years. I saw him first as the young Elvis not long after he started. Keith has a great voice and great family support over the long haul; his grandmother makes his elaborate costumes and his mother adds the stud work, his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}