Elvis bought the furniture on a whim in 1974 supposedly to rile his father vernon had said it was the ugliest furniture he d ever laid eyes on.
The jungle room.
The jungle room was loaded with exotic plants animal prints and floor to ceiling shag carpet in what can only be described as an african motif.
Greg shares a story he heard from someone who claims to have been there and overheard the bartender and his exchange with elvis presley.
Jungle room podcast and youtube channel team member greg webb gives us part 1 to his visit to cape girardeau and shows us a former hotel elvis may have stayed in july 1955.
Graceland could be considered the mecca of american mid century kitsch but the.
The jungle room presley cut sessions in february and october of 1976 that would prove to be his last.
A majority of the jungle room material was released as from elvis presley boulevard memphis tennessee in the spring of 1976 featuring the top 10 hit hurt a year later in july 1977 more of these sessions were paired with overdubbed live material and released as moody blue.