Wink Martindale(1933-2025)

Wink and his wife did not attend the funeral of his longtime friend Elvis Presley when the singer died on August 16, 1977. They did not want to be a part of the circus like atmosphere surrounding the event. Instead, they visited Graceland a week later and paid their respects privately.

[on getting his first job after graduation from high school]: They gave me a job at $25 per week, and for that you were expected to do everything. You read commercials, the news - play-by-play high school football and basketball, and you played records. If the floor needed sweeping, you did that too.