For an oldies station and its listeners, it had to be sobering all around to process the early death of the progenitor of much of its music. Russell Cinque Jr., 68, of Glendale was listening to KRTH-FM when disc jockey Brother John announced Elvis’ death. Less than three months later, he would be dead. Not much work got done the rest of the day.” Elvis Presley performs in Providence, Rhode Island, on May 23, 1977. With the staff in cubicles rather than closed offices, “word spread very quickly. “One of my colleagues got a call from his wife with the bad news,” says Stoy, 80, of Rancho Cucamonga. I would pay money to see the perplexed look on his friend’s face. Kyle replied sadly, “Yeah, I know, I saw him when I came in last night. He went to bed and was still asleep in early afternoon when a friend rushed into his room, saying, “Elvis is dead!” Kyle moved the body to the row of trees as a temporary measure, “so as to not alarm neighbors by digging a hole in the yard at 3:30 a.m.,” explains Kyle, now 72, of Riverside. 16, 1977 to find that his and his girlfriend’s newly adopted kitten was dead in the middle of the street. Kyle was a musician with a club gig until 3 a.m. I thought, ‘what king?,’ as there were a few in the news at that time.”ĭave Kyle’s story is more along the lines of “which Elvis?” “I vividly remember preparing to turn off Highway 1 to return home from work,” Sue Poso, 68, of Alta Loma says, “and hearing ‘The King is dead’ on the radio. We were stunned and sad for the entire trip.” “The result was a three- to four-hour commute,” says Rea, 77, now of Rancho Cucamonga, “during which we listened to talk radio that was 100% devoted to the announcement of Elvis’ death and related life stories. Gary Rea and his wife, commuting home together to Fountain Valley, were stuck in traffic due to a big rig accident that had closed the 405. Like Tom Munoz of Ontario, who was 15 and on his way down Euclid Avenue to the swap meet.
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“The thing that immediately came to mind,” Russell shares, “was that when I saw him on TV for the first time, when I was no older than 4 or 5, I was so energized by his performance that I did a halfway backflip.” Russell adds: “I have no memory of this, but Mom and Dad told me about it later.”
Did this mean he had died? Yes, it did,” recalls Russell, 70, of Los Angeles. “The first thing we saw was a clip of Elvis singing. Marc Russell was visiting his parents when they turned on their TV to watch the news.
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