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http://www.thedigression.com/2011/08/elvis-week-life-and-times-of-scatter.html
the story of Scatter the Chimp as told by Memphis Mafia members Marty Lacker, Billy Smith and Lamar Fike:
In the early sixties, the entourage took on its most problematic and entertaining member, a forty-pound chimpanzee named Scatter. His trainer Bill Killebrew, who featured both Scatter, and his brother, Chatter, on a Memphis children's show, wanted to pare down the act and approached Elvis about buying the chimp as a companion. "I guess he figured Graceland was the kind of untamed place where a monkey would feel at home," remembered Alan Fortas.
Elvis, was an easy mark. But no one in the group foresaw the inevitable trouble that comes with mixing eight guys, 150 girls, and a chimpanze eager to make his reputation as rock'n'roll's ultimate party animal.
the story of Scatter the Chimp as told by Memphis Mafia members Marty Lacker, Billy Smith and Lamar Fike:
In the early sixties, the entourage took on its most problematic and entertaining member, a forty-pound chimpanzee named Scatter. His trainer Bill Killebrew, who featured both Scatter, and his brother, Chatter, on a Memphis children's show, wanted to pare down the act and approached Elvis about buying the chimp as a companion. "I guess he figured Graceland was the kind of untamed place where a monkey would feel at home," remembered Alan Fortas.
Elvis, was an easy mark. But no one in the group foresaw the inevitable trouble that comes with mixing eight guys, 150 girls, and a chimpanze eager to make his reputation as rock'n'roll's ultimate party animal.