June Juanico had met Elvis for the first time after one of his early concerts in Biloxi in 1955, when he was on the verge of the superstardom. She is said to have been the only girl Elvis' mother ever approved of. However, Elvis didn't let this romance get too intimate. In a 1997 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, June said she 'blames his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, for encouraging Presley to go out with beautiful women for the publicity'. According to Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick, Juanico didn't doubt that Elvis loved her.
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He asked her to marry him but asked if she could wait a couple of years. His life was too crazy. His fame was exploding. She was not a shy person, and was not the type to say, “I’ll wait as long as it takes.” She said “No, I will not wait. What do you think I am?”
During their relationship, they discussed their shared love of a certain song. They both felt the song described perfectly the feeling they had when they were together. It’s called “Is It So Strange”. In January, 1957, a month or so after they broke up, Elvis recorded it. A powerful choice. There’s really no way to look at it as anything other than a personal choice, him working out his feelings about the relationship ending.
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A particularly interesting article about one of Elvis’ girlfriends appeared in the Miami Daily News on August 4, 1956. The headline read, “Hey, Gals! Elvis Has 2 Steadies.” It seems Elvis had invited then girlfriend, 18-year-old June Juanico, to accompany him on his tour of seven Florida cities. A Daily News reporter had noticed a “shapely brunette” being passed through police lines into Presley’s Olympia arena dressing room, where she reportedly “stroked his brow between stage shows.” Smelling a story, the reporter, Damon Runyon, Jr., waylaid Miss Juanico in a tunnel beneath the Olympia stage on her way to watch Elvis’ second show.
With no member of Elvis’ entourage around to coach her responses, June gave a revealing interview that much have made Elvis cringe when he read it in the paper the next day. It started with the innocent basics. She had met Elvis in her hometown of Biloxi about a year before. “I went backstage to see him and saw a big crowd,” she explained, “so I went to the ladies room. When I came out—there he was. Within five minutes he asked me to show him the town. I accepted, naturally. We went to see two or three floor shows in night clubs. I knew then that this was the real thing. Well, you know how love is. Eight months went by and I never heard from him. No letters or anything. Then I went to Memphis and it started all over—again.”
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