Re: BILL BURK DIES

Bill was a self-styled Elvis biographer/investigator. He used to post in
the 
other Elvis ng. He was notorious for conducting investigations through 
interviews, and pouring over do***ents to disprove what some have written
in 
books about Elvis' timeline. He was the one that uncovered the fact that
the 
day Elvis went into the Memphis Recording Studio to make his record, that 
Sam was not even there. He also asserted early on that when Elvis'
contract 
was sold to RCA that the original SUN tapes were not given to RCA, and
that 
he had evidence that what RCA called the SUN Masters were actually 78 
transfers. Naturally, RCA denied it. Little did we know that much later on

that ultra-clean recordings of the Sun Sessions would surface in the
BOPCAT 
101 bootlegs. In 1978, Shelby Singleton Inc., DBA Sun Records, would
release 
a album of partial Sun Studio recordings of Elvis sessions that RCA had 
never heard before. It was obvious that RCA never had the master tapes. 
Bill had it right.

A lot of "correct" Elvis history died with that man. Luckily, he gave us 
some.