ABSTRACT
In a 1985 Goldmine interview, Jimmy Hughes Ellis identified Eddy Arnold, Marty Robbins, Ray Price, and Elvis Presley as role models. As the flurry of lawyers' letters, affidavits, and briefs deluged the Cobb County courthouse, Ellis was transformed into the mythical Orion and began a short-lived place in the sun. The Associated Press correspondent, Richard Lowe, quoted the music entrepreneur, Orion does no Elvis songs and he's not an Elvis impersonator. Ellis's association with Sun Records actually started in the late 1960s when he re-recorded Elvis's first effort on the label, "That's Alright Mama" and "Blue Moon Of Kentucky." Gene Arthur, Golden Eagle, and Rose Printing were prohibited from "further printing, publication, sale and distribution of the book, Orion, shall continue in full force." Orion tells everyone that his real name is Eckley Darnell and he comes from Florida, but some who were close to Elvis in his lifetime believe it is the legendary rocker himself.
