J.D. Sumner • Interview (Elvis Presley/Stamps Quartet) • 1989 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]

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  • @julesbarkel1365
    @julesbarkel1365 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This is the best interview I've heard about Elvis.This man didn't just love Elvis as a person he had respect for Elvis straight from the heart JD Summer spoke from.Shame his hangers on didn't behave or have the same respect for Elvis instead of spouting lies ..

  • @sherrygorbet6141
    @sherrygorbet6141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Finally an interview with someone who was actually Elvis' friend and knows what really went on, not just someone who wants their 15 minutes of fame just because they rode his coattails all those years. Thank you and RIP JD, so we're 1 of a kind🙏❤

    • @sherrygorbet6141
      @sherrygorbet6141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You were, sorry

    • @sherrygorbet6141
      @sherrygorbet6141 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Susan Eliz i CAN BLAME THEM for trying to grab for any attention they could, most by writing books and telling lies about a man who was so good to them. So you're saying after he died, they couldn't get a job and that made it OK to make money lying about a God given, beautiful man who was no longer here to defend himself against their treachery?? That's just bs, I'm 😞. Have a blessed life. 👑🎤🎶🎵🎸⚡✌🙏✝️❣

  • @r.duroucher225
    @r.duroucher225 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Yes, Elvis was one of a kind. But from what I can see, JD Summer was one of a kind as well.

  • @dr.detroit1514
    @dr.detroit1514 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Excellent. I've learned more about who Elvis really was in 8 minutes than all the other stuff I've seen and read in the years since he died.

  • @depper
    @depper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    This cant have a thousand views? This is one of the ALL TIME GREAT INTERVIEWS about Elvis. It should have 1 BILLION views. And WHAT A VOICE on JD. Best bass singer that EVER LIVED.

    • @tcb1017
      @tcb1017 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I'm so with you. If the older generation would watch you tube this interview would have that billion views as you say but the young people they don't really care about Elvis as the then that generation did who came from the 60sh. Yes, Elvis is remembered but not like it used to be. TCB.

    • @schen5425
      @schen5425 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @depper more like 13000 views 🤓 update: 2months later when I first commented, it's now 20,000 FYI

    • @barbaramarkland7441
      @barbaramarkland7441 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      IM JUST GOING TO GIVE THIS 1.5 BILLION
      THUMBS UP.BLESS THE TRUE FRIENDS
      HE HAD AND STILL LOVES HIM. THANK YOU PRISCILLA FOR STANDING BY HIS NAME AND MUSIC.
      💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

    • @elisabethvalade9866
      @elisabethvalade9866 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Elvis once said he wished God had made him a bass singer, as he loved Sumner's deep voice SO MUCH!! But if he HAD been a bass, we would have been DEPRIVED of Elvis's GREATNESS, his EVERYTHING!!! ❤️

  • @karlhungus5554
    @karlhungus5554 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    J.D. was a true friend to Elvis.

  • @christophersantana5895
    @christophersantana5895 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    JD SUMNER IS THE BEST BASS SINGER THAT EVER LIVED.

    • @larrydewein
      @larrydewein 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      J.D. Sumner was listed in the Guiness World Book of Records as the LOWEST BASS IN THE WORLD!! The PROOF that he was the BEST BASS SINGER THAT EVER LIVED!!!

    • @MR.M2095
      @MR.M2095 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@larrydewein check again he is third

  • @BrendaBooher-hw4mf
    @BrendaBooher-hw4mf ปีที่แล้ว +11

    JD was faithful to Elvis. Elvis always said he was the best bass singer ever. I say Elvis was the best entertainer of all time and I listen to his music everyday.

  • @vincentsablan732
    @vincentsablan732 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    That man could sing the BOTTOM out of a note!!!

  • @ilikejelly7890
    @ilikejelly7890 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Ah bless JD , he teared up . He misses Elvis every day.

  • @KS_26
    @KS_26 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    In 1998 JD finally went home and with Elvis once again. They had a wonderful friendship and I truly respect JD and his words I wish more people who were close to Elvis would have said nicer words unfortunately a lot of the “Memphis Mafia” wrote tell all books profiting of Elvis once more nothing sells better then drama and scandals. Elvis wasn’t perfect but by God he sure did give so much of himself to everyone around him.

  • @catfish24
    @catfish24 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    JD is a legend his self. He tells some interesting Elvis stories.

  • @vivienmarieamrhein5297
    @vivienmarieamrhein5297 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Elvis was the best !!!

  • @tarashelton493
    @tarashelton493 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I loved Jd and my daddy did too! We both loved Elvis as well! I’m crying listening to this interview. I’m glad he said what he said. Elvis took pills to pep him up and then to help him sleep. I don’t think for one second Elvis was a junkie trying to get high, he just wanted to do his job well because a lot of people was on his payroll, Elvis was human. If he had been a drug addict he could have afforded cocaine and the hard stuff but he didn’t want it. God called him home and I can’t wait to be introduced to Elvis Presley in heaven. First is my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I believe that was Elvis’s first too🙏🙏🙏

  • @gussygatlin3093
    @gussygatlin3093 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Elvis just loved JD's deep voice..... ❤😊

  • @scotthansford3657
    @scotthansford3657 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    this guys voice is incredible

    • @DianeNorman-fh6gq
      @DianeNorman-fh6gq 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Indeed, rarely heard such a great voice.

    • @elijahhill6602
      @elijahhill6602 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Listen…I’ve heard of Bob Ross…Ken Nordine…Barry White…..but oh goodness me! JD for the win!

  • @garystandsbury9591
    @garystandsbury9591 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I rode the elevator with him in the Las Vegas Hilton in 1974. JD and two of the Sweet Inspirations.

  • @diankreczmer6595
    @diankreczmer6595 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Love that bass!

  • @reneekenney3122
    @reneekenney3122 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    A true gentleman and a loyal loving friend to the end

    • @conietan
      @conietan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @reneekenney3122
      Yes, he really loved Elvis. One of the Stamps quartet said that when Elvis pretended to be shot in Vegas to test who among his Memphis Mafia really cared for him, it was JD who shielded Elvis from being shot.

  • @barthogeling
    @barthogeling ปีที่แล้ว +12

    My god...this is the 1st time ive seen this intervieuw...i could listen to JD talking all day!! You see and hear the love still, he has for elvis...May you rest in peace and sing youre heart out in heaven ,together with youre friend Elvis

  • @kellydevile
    @kellydevile 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    This man is a real friend! More than the memphis mafia.

    • @94studios76
      @94studios76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think they were real friends to Elvis. They did try to get him to stop abusing his medication bud if someone doesn't want your help or input then they won't listen they instead will argue. I should know. I have family that have problems with addiction. I don't think Elvis really knew how dangerous his habits were. He figured that just because it was perscribed to him meant it could do no harm.

    • @sfmc98
      @sfmc98 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Men like Red and Sonny were as close as brothers to him. They stayed loyal after he died. They wrote a book about him which they said was to try to shake him loose of his addiction, but he died just after it was published. He may have still died anyway since it's never been concluded that the pills killed him.

    • @lynnshrader1218
      @lynnshrader1218 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sfmc98friends don’t write a book like that? I would never do that to my friend! They knew Elvis? They knew nothing was going to make him STOP? They did it out of spite and revenge because they were fired! No I excuse for it! At least Red had remorse for it later if Elvis died but Sonny never did! And Sonny continued to make money off of Elvis At speaking engagements throughout his life riding in Elvis’ coattails making money! 😡

  • @patriciasears9195
    @patriciasears9195 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love this , nice to know Elvis had a good friend and glad someone set the record straight on behalf of Elvis 🩵

  • @user-km4tj1oc2m
    @user-km4tj1oc2m 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I do believe Elvis is in heaven with my hubby I can't wait to get to heaven

  • @sharpvidtube
    @sharpvidtube 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Now I know how he can sing those low notes

  • @trishplanck9776
    @trishplanck9776 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    My brother was in the Stamps Quartet at the latter end of Elvis’ career. Sadly I was never able to see him because I was raising my family but he had a lot of memories from that time. I remember when he called me about his audition, he was so excited.

    • @KitKat-hs6qe
      @KitKat-hs6qe ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It would be great to hear those memories!

    • @bluedevil0704
      @bluedevil0704 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Who was your Brother?

  • @user-wg5cg9yu2k
    @user-wg5cg9yu2k หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    jd Sumner was a great man and friend of Elvis,I think Elvis looked at him as a father figure and he is also the one that has never said a bad thing about Elvis that is a true friend rip jd sumner

  • @user-pn9lb8sr2p
    @user-pn9lb8sr2p 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You can tell that J D truly loved Elvis and the same would have been case with Elvis,,a true friend god bless JD and Elvis,,RIP 💖

  • @Lglad_4
    @Lglad_4 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    JD was a true friend to Elvis. Never used him for money. I wish Elvis had had more friends JD ❤

  • @vickieviresrichie7622
    @vickieviresrichie7622 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Elvis & JD are singing to Jesus in Heaven, 💞🙏❤️‍🔥✝️🌿🕊️💫🌻 Precious 💖💐

  • @georgeyoung1810
    @georgeyoung1810 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Excellent, respectful interview. Thank you

  • @warrendawson8598
    @warrendawson8598 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is way short of a billion views, if anyone knows Elvis, JD knows Elvis, end of discussion. . . . . . .

  • @Lighttanguitar
    @Lighttanguitar 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a great interview!! Good questions and great answers that revealed Elvis’s true character by a man of true character. What a concept!

  • @user-zm5ih1gg3p
    @user-zm5ih1gg3p ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you for this.

  • @sdhscrosscountry
    @sdhscrosscountry ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love it

  • @darlenedeluca7850
    @darlenedeluca7850 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Elvis best friend J D! w/ so loyal, & honest, 2 Our Elvis! I really, admire him 2 ! May u RIP w/ ur best friend Elvis! J D !😥❣🌹🌹🌹🙏✍!

  • @jamescunningham1973
    @jamescunningham1973 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Legends all

  • @user-qt8rf2gn6r
    @user-qt8rf2gn6r 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When i became an elvis fan and i listen to his hits with mr jd summer included at first i thought it was an instrument but as my collections grew with live concerts i came to realise that it was jd summer singing base wow

  • @terrygarcia897
    @terrygarcia897 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Rip my friend. TX

  • @Della624
    @Della624 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I absolutely loved this interview. It was stuffed full with authenticity.
    I'm researching and corroborating all the things Marty Lacker, Lamar Fike, Sonny West & Billy Smith have had to say over the decades since Elvis Presley had passed away, so, even though the entire interview was very interesting, the most important part for me was JD Sumner's very last comment about how angry he gets at those who are speaking for Elvis but didn't know Elvis because they hadn't been around since 1969 - I feel the exact same way as him.
    In that last comment JD Sumner is talking about Marty Lacker (RIP), Lamar Fike RIP), Billy Smith and Sonny West (RIP) and when you look at all the interviews around the time of Elvis Presley passing away and for so many decades after, they were the loudest noises (Lamar Fike being the most disgusting towards Elvis Presley) creating animosity and hurt wth their half truths and downright lies, drowning out all the other other voices, like Joe Esposito, Charlie Hodge and JD Sumner, who *would have known* because they *had* stayed and had been close to Elvis.
    RIP JD Sumner , Joe Esposito and Charlie Hodge. 🙏🖖✌🤘

  • @toddwilliams1380
    @toddwilliams1380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thank u so much!! Loved this!!

  • @elvis1988ful
    @elvis1988ful 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Please posting more rare vidios With jd sumner and jd .make way down

  • @user-km4tj1oc2m
    @user-km4tj1oc2m 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    amen JD is a awesome Christian love his music

  • @vangillis
    @vangillis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    CLASS ACT

    • @ramya9189
      @ramya9189 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What do you mean?

    • @vangillis
      @vangillis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ramya9189 one of elvis best friends nothing but good things to say about elvis

    • @ramya9189
      @ramya9189 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vangillis oh, I thought you meant that he is faking his grief. Now it makes sense and I have nothing to comment on this.

  • @concepciongallo229
    @concepciongallo229 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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  • @pauloricardomachadodasilve6669
    @pauloricardomachadodasilve6669 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    J.D.; sensational!!!!!!!!?

  • @vitormrmr
    @vitormrmr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Hitting F#1

    • @ramya9189
      @ramya9189 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Even lower

  • @elvis1988ful
    @elvis1988ful 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Have you more RARE jd sumner interwiews. And he makes Double low c "way down

  • @quierodesign3958
    @quierodesign3958 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "He's my friend'. "I know so". Is JD trying to tell us something?

  • @vitormrmr
    @vitormrmr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    3:54 E1.

  • @glennagladman9904
    @glennagladman9904 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Do you know (or remember?) if JD sang with a group years ago called The Sunshine Boys? It had to be in the early 50's. Don't know what the show was called, but they did about a 15 minute spot. Not sure if it was a daily airing. Thanks!

  • @grizzman1991
    @grizzman1991 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Poor Elvis never had a minutes peace!!

  • @juanabarrientos2358
    @juanabarrientos2358 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dios tu sabias que Elvis Presley no había muerto y te lo llevaste a la tumba.... Bien por ti pero seguimos investigando

  • @donnabutcher
    @donnabutcher ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When did this interview actually take place? JD passed November 1998

  • @ConcreteBombDeep
    @ConcreteBombDeep หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is there any footage of these deep voice dude during childhood and puberty? I want hear what he sounded like than. Curious if sounded like a grown man at the age of 10 or something.

  • @ScreamingEagleFTW
    @ScreamingEagleFTW 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    who is interviewing him?

  • @crymsonyt5686
    @crymsonyt5686 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mr beast is just as popular as Elvis was now

  • @kellycarder6833
    @kellycarder6833 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you want to know the true story of Elvis, read Destined to die young. The only true story of his health and medication.

  • @morethanfaithfulone
    @morethanfaithfulone ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Elvis had 10x the normal amout of Codeine in his blood the time of his death The sad thing about it Elvis was allergic to Codeine I can't help to wounder if he was poisoned. His stepbrother claims that Elvis had told him on the previous night that Elvis had told him that the next time you see me I'll be on a different plane and another level His brother didn't get it and told Elvis that the next plain you'll be on is the one on tour day after tomorrow August 16. His stepbrother also stated that based on what Elvis had told him , he believes Elvis committed suicide

    • @sandybarr684
      @sandybarr684 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Elvis would never commit suicide. He read and believed in the bible and knew that you can't get to heaven if you take your own life. Let alone, he would not do that to his little daughter. Why can't people believe, when you live the lifestyle that Elvis did, your body is going to give out. People just want to make drama.

    • @walcoman
      @walcoman ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How about this. Elvis was just one of only a few, truly gifted humans that we rarely get to witness in a lifetime. But with all the flaws that we all have to deal with,like addiction, one of the worst examples in life's battles. His body just reached its limit.

    • @Elvisgirl1977
      @Elvisgirl1977 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Is this even necessary,?

  • @walcoman
    @walcoman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Easy, old fella, Elvis may have had Jesus in his heart, but don't compare him like he was Jesus in human form, 😒

    • @MikeyJMJ
      @MikeyJMJ ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He was only referring to people known by one name, it wasn't a comparison. And JD was a staunch Christian

    • @joannemcclure3546
      @joannemcclure3546 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Many people who knew Elvis, felt that God was working through him. Listen to Myra Smith of the Sweet Inspirations and what Elvis did with them when he found out one of them was very sick.

  • @antoninarivituso7210
    @antoninarivituso7210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    what does he mean by backward? i didnt like that

    • @alfching2499
      @alfching2499 ปีที่แล้ว

      Uneducated

    • @EdMcF1
      @EdMcF1 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Shy.

    • @joannemcclure3546
      @joannemcclure3546 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Elvis grew up in abject poverty which leads to an inferior status that I read affected Elvis all his life. Let's face it, he wasn't sophisticated which is why his manager was able to manipulate, con, and control him all his life.

    • @AntoninaRivituso
      @AntoninaRivituso ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@joannemcclure3546 true but he was always in control of his situations he never took anything from his mafia men and did what he wanted, in the end while his movies were limited and he didnt travel, he made very successful movies meaning they were timeless and iconic, he seemed to enjoy it even though at times he may of not he acted with class

    • @joannemcclure3546
      @joannemcclure3546 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AntoninaRivituso Elvis always did his best with the movies but he was not sophisticated enough to know that he could have had more control in approving the scripts and the songs he had to sing in them. I heard him say in an interview that he became physically and mentally sick over that. And he couldn’t get out of the contracts. All his manager’s fault who didn’t care about Elvis as an artist, only as a cash cow.

  • @palerider964
    @palerider964 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Mr. Sumner was obviously a very, very loyal friend to Elvis, but I have to beg his pardon on the issue of Elvis' drug usage.
    Let me say first, I'm a HUGE Elvis fan. Always have been. Always will be.
    But in Elvis' last live concert, you can clearly see he was in a drug induced stupor. The listless movements, the obvious lackluster performance, etc. and clearly, the forgetting of simple lyrics to songs was an embarrassment to an entertainer who impacted the latter half of the 20th century.😢😢😢

  • @amandareprogal2938
    @amandareprogal2938 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Elvis had to smoke Marijuana the way he was on stage

  • @maryanlightsey5921
    @maryanlightsey5921 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you had really cared you would have talked him into getting help with those drugs

    • @ronfowlermusic
      @ronfowlermusic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What drugs? Aspirin and Tylenol?

    • @1adadada
      @1adadada 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You can't talk an addict into gettin help, if they refuse to acknowledge that they are an addict.