DISGRACELAND - Bonus Episode: The Murder Mystery Hinted At in the New Elvis Concert Film

Episode Date: March 5, 2026

We saw EPiC and it’s GREAT, but why didn’t Elvis perform outside the United States? Could an unsolved murder have been the reason?   For more great stories, check out our huge archive of episodes like these: Episode 32 - Johnny Cash Episode 68 - Gram ParsonsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is exactly right. Double Elvis. Hey, discos, need a little more disgrace land in your life? Just a touch to get you through? Yeah, me too. This is the podcast that comes after the podcast. Welcome to Disgraceland, the After Party. Welcome to the Disgraceland bonus episode.

A little thing we like to call the after party. This is the show after the show, the party after the party. The bridge to get you from one full episode of Disgraceland to the other, the backyard to do. dig into the dirt. Our mission to uncover the truth, to confront the myth, to reclaim the story. On this bonus episode, we're giving you our

thoughts on the new epic Elvis concert film digging into your thoughts related to this week's new episode, part two on in excess, previewing next week's story on Towns Van Zand. And in the exclusive section, we dive into the murder mystery at the center of Elvis's managers past.

Plus, we get into your emails, comments, DMs, and as always, a whole lot of Rosie. This is the podcast for the musically obsessed, the outsiders, the independent thinkers who know that the best history is the history that gets buried. Disgraceland is where I tell the stories they didn't want told. The kind you'll end up telling someone else. All right, discos, let's get into it. All right, welcome into the after party, guys. I'm feeling pretty good today, and I shouldn't be. I've got a cold. Second day of a pretty crappy thing going around here that I managed to get,

probably from my kids, and knocked me out pretty hard yesterday. And last night, woke up feeling like crap, but I don't know, I'm behind the mic and you know what it is. It's a new mic. I got a new microphone. That's what's happening. And I feel like, uh, those of you who are actually, I don't know, podcasters maybe and you listen to this show, you probably know what I, what I'm getting at here. When you have a new mic, I don't know, it kind of changes everything. It's just, uh, it's changed my body posture. I just feel good. I feel good. I always feel good talking to you guys, but I feel really good right now. And despite being sick this week, I've been feeling good ever since the weekend, at least sort of, you know, upstairs in my noggin. I saw the Elvis movie over the weekend. I saw it on

Saturday night. Epic, Elvis Presley in concert by Boz Lerman. Now, I don't know what reviews, if any, that all you guys have seen regarding this movie. But every review that came up in my feed praised the film. And I mean like some incredible reviews. I'm not just talking about like official reviews. I'm talking about like listener, fans of Elvis, fans of music history, music fans, etc. Just like literally being like people whose opinions I really treasure and value being like, I'm not even watching movies anymore. Like those types of reviews. People are freaking out over this film. And that includes the crew here at double Elvis. After Matt saw it, He basically demanded that Zeth and I go.

So we did separately. Zeth finished watching it just as I was sitting down in the theater to watch it. And we were texting each other about it. He was blown away. I was blown away. I took my family on Saturday night to an IMAX. And I knew when I was watching this movie, it was a type of movie where you know when you're watching it

that words are not going to be able to do justice to what you're seeing. Like I knew that in real time. but I'm not going to try to explain the movie and sell you on the movie. I'm just going to give you a couple thoughts on it. I get a little context and how it kind of relates to what we do here, true crime in the music history. So for those who don't know, the new Elvis movie is a concert film. It's by filmmaker Baz Luhrman. And now, Baz Luhrman unearthed a trove, apparently, of previously unseen and unheard film

and audio footage, and he used it to create this film. Now, he came upon this footage, I believe, I think this is accurate, when he was researching the biopic that he produced and directed on Elvis Presley that came out about three or four years ago, just simply titled Elvis. So that sort of previously never before seen or heard footage is what makes up this film. Now, we've all seen Elvis on stage in Vegas. It's, you know, oftentimes that portion of his career is a subject of ridicule. And certainly some of that career, some of the Vegas effort, you know, it's fair to ridicule it. It's not very good.

But you're really got to think about Elvis in Las Vegas in sort of two time periods. There's the early 70s and then there's the mid to late 70s when things go off the else. Not all of Elvis in Las Vegas, the residency I'm not talking about, was bad, was cheesy. I already knew that. But still, I kind of write off Elvis Vegas. Anyway, that's not what this is. This is something completely different. This is Elvis Presley on fire, okay, in Las Vegas. All of the megawatt star power, charisma, talent, stage presence, the passion, everything that is the best Elvis that you could imagine, take that and multiply it by 10. And that's the Elvis that is living in this film and living in this film like I've never seen him before, both on and offstage.

The offstage scenes, when the king is rehearsing the band, they're getting ready for their first residency. This is some of the most interesting footage of Elvis that I've ever seen. I've seen some of this before, but not as in-depth as this. Watching him be this goofball, you know, you feel like he's being himself in a way that, you know, he's such a huge star, always kind of guarded with a camera in front of him, but really feels like the guard gets let down here. You feel when you're watching this, like you've been led into some sort of secret club, it's truly revelatory. And the film's narrative, okay, to the extent that there is one, it's, it isn't heavy-handed. For the most part, Elvis and his excellent band, guys, James Burton, the guitar player James Burton is just

playing out of his mind, out of his mind. So good. So good. We have thought, Seth and I are going to talk more about this. Perhaps Matt will chime in as well on the rest of the band later on. But you can just tell. You can just tell as it pertains to the narrative of this film that Lurman, Buzz Lerman, went out of his way to try not to repeat himself as a storyteller. Because like I said, he just, you know, I think he just finished, he wrapped doing the Elvis biopic, kind of this is his next project. So you can understand why he doesn't want to tell the same story twice, even though it's a different style of storytelling. This is a concert film. Elvis was a biopic. That said, all of that said, Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis's manager, is subtly positioned

in this concert film as the story's villain. And for those of us who know Elvis's history, the director here, Bosn-Lerman, draws some pretty bold lines for us to read between as it pertains to Colonel Tom Parker. Now, what I'm talking about is this. At the time, Elvis was one of the biggest stars on the planet when this footage for Epic was filmed. That's the name of the movie Epic, Elvis Presley in concert. We're talking 1970 and 1972.

Elvis, one of the biggest stars on the planet and certainly one of the biggest musical attractions. Yet, Elvis never performed. outside of the United States. This point comes up in the film, Elvis makes it himself. But the question of why he never did this, of why he never performed outside the States, it's never really asked, forget about being answered, especially because it's clear that Elvis wanted to perform internationally.

Now, in the way of an answer, all we're given is a long, semi-slow motion glance at the villainous Colonel Tom Prylton. Parker sort of in the context of this question of why hasn't Elvis performed internationally. We're made to suspect that the reason Elvis didn't tour outside of the United States is because of the colonel. But why? Why wouldn't the colonel, whose commission his pay on Elvis's earnings, the colonel was getting 50% of Elvis's earnings, 50, 5-0, not 15, which is typical.

It's actually pretty high. 10 is the standard. So why wouldn't Colonel Parker want his star attraction to perform in different markets, untapped markets, and create more revenue? It doesn't make any sense. It's alluded to in this movie, but it's not directly asked. it's definitely not answered. This, again, this makes no sense.

Unless you know a little bit about who Colonel Tom Parker was and what kind of trouble he may have gotten himself into and escaped from, allegedly, in his home country of the Netherlands before immigrating to the United States. Now, I touch upon this in my book, and there have been other writers who have explored this theory more fully, But the fact that Baz Luhrman hints at this in his new concert film is super intriguing to me. It makes me think that this Colonel Tom Parker conspiracy has more legs than some may think.

Actually, it's less of a conspiracy theory and more of a murder mystery. Zeth and I are going to share with you the dark true crime story at the heart of Colonel Tom Parker's past in today's disgrace land all access. Bonus episode, this story, this mystery, this theory about the colonel, if it's true and it's explains why Elvis, the biggest musical attraction on the planet, never performed outside of the United States. Okay, go to disgracehandpod.com to sign out to become a disgracehand all access member today and unlock more exclusive content like this plus ad-free listening. Speaking of performing outside of the United States, this week's new episode, A Disgraceland, is on In Excess, part two in our in-excess story. One of the reasons I wanted to tell this continuation of the In-Excess saga is because

of the dichotomy between the image of in excess pretty pretty boy band pop super poppy you know dudes like them but of course when i was growing up more more girls liked in excess i love in excess but i'm just saying they weren't it wasn't like black sabbath you get it so there's the image and then there's the reality of where they come from which is in stark contrast to how the band portrayed themselves, how the record label portrayed them, how they were promoted. They came from just total Australian violence and mayhem. And that was really interesting to me. We didn't really get into it in part one and I wanted to get into it in part two. And you can hear all about that in in this week's disgrace and episode on in excess. Now we asked the question, given that in excess is

from Australia, you know, In excess is a hugely successful band, super influential band. When we think of rock and roll bands that have had the most influence on culture, we think of rock and roll bands from the United States and from the UK, from England mainly. And I just, it just occurred to me like, all these bands from Australia, New Zealand, other parts of the world. So we asked this question on the heels of the Inexus episode, which international band has had the most influence culturally. Okay. Is it in excess? Is it somebody else? Is it, is it an Irish band? Is it a, is it a French artist? Who is it? We're going to unpack that question. We're going to get to your answers, your voicemails and texts and the later part of this episode.

But first, before we do that, I want to tell you about the, what we got cooking here in the coming days. Right after this after party, we've got a rewind episode on Public Enemy. And then next week, new episode, new story on Towns Van Zant. When you're listening to the Towns Van Zant episode, you know, Towns Van Zandt was one of the most authentic songwriters to ever live. Okay, so be thinking about which musical artist gave up the most for their art. Towns Van Zant lived just with so much authenticity. He personified the characters in his songs.

He sang of broken men. He lived a broken life. And he died, broke and broken and busted. He wrote beautiful songs. My point is, at what cost? So when you're listening to the Towns Van Zand episode, be thinking about which musical artist gave up the most for their art. Okay, was it Towns Van Zant or was it somebody else?

Let me know, 617-906-6638 voicemail and text. Get at me. You might hear your answer on next week. after party. We'll be back right after this with your voicemails and text and emails from last week's question of the week. See in a bit. All right, guys, we are back. Thanks for hanging with us on today's after party. 617-90666-638 voicemail and text. You can hit me up about anything related to music, music history, true crime, any of the recommendations we talk about here are questions of the week. Whatever you want to talk about. Let's check out, appears to be from

a new caller. This is John in the 203. Hey, this is John from the 203. I would love to have an episode on Willie DeVille from Mink DeVille. I know very little about him except that he had a drug problem. What a voice. Thanks. John, how correct you are, my friend, Willie DeVille from Mink DeVille. I know very little about him as well, but I love him.

Cadillac Walk, baby. I kind of used that song Cadillac Walk as like a low-key theme in our Elvis Presley, Johnny Yace story that we did. I don't know a lot about Willie DeVille either, and I like it that way. I'm going to put them on the list, though, and I'm going to look into it because there's got to be something there, criminal, something there, a way into Willie DeVille's story. And as much as I love his music, I've actually used, I use Willie DeVille's music as my intro music when I brought Disgrace.

to the stage a bunch of years ago. That's how badass. I think Willie DeVille is. And yeah, I'm put them on the list. I'm going to look into it. Thanks, John. All right, let's check out this voicemail from the 303. Hi, my name is Jay Richard.

I'm from the Denver area 303. And I was listening how you were talking about soundtracks. And I had to call in and tell you about my favorite soundtrack from the 80s. It's from To Live and Die in L.A. by Wang Chung. I'm such a fan of the soundtrack in the movie that actually had to go and track down the locations,

especially there's a big scene in the San Pedro Bridge, and there were some apartments there, and kind of in a good way, the apartments were turned down and turned into a baseball field, a softball field. And so I got to go stand in

and get a big picture with that bridge in the background and also tracked down a couple locations, Sixth Street Bridge in L.A. And I did this about, I don't know, five years ago. And it was just a great time. My family was really bored and tired of looking at bridges and location sets. But that's all right.

I had a great time and just a huge fan of the movie. Hope you hear this and maybe do an episode about it. Jay from the 303, thanks for the call man. To live in die in L.A. That's Willem Defoe, right? And that's the movie that looks incredible. like in a very kind of neon 80s way. I think I saw this movie

kind of had a half on in the background but didn't really get a chance to dig into it. So I can't speak to the soundtrack. But now I am super intrigued. And for you disco listeners, your disgrace sound listeners out there, the discos who are hearing this and going, what do you mean do an episode on this?

What the heck is Jay talking about? Jay's referencing our new show. This film should be played loud. He's not referencing Disgraceland. This film should be played loud is in all-access-only exclusive video show, which you can check out by becoming a Patreon member. And Jay, maybe we will get into To Live and Die in LA. I have to re-watch it. I'm looking forward to doing so. Thank you for prompting me. 303 texts in, hey, I know you're a Stones guy, but the Beatles are going to be known like Beethoven centuries from now. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I don't know that in centuries, centuries from now we'll be looking at at music through the same lens that we now look back centuries to view people like Beethoven. I don't know. I feel like I have no idea. I just know it's going to be different. I don't know how we're going to look at things, but I know it's going to be different. We were talking about bourbon last week. 803 writes in, hey, bourbon, if you haven't already give statesmen by old forester, a, try as well as toasted by Penelope. Thank you for your excellent recommendations here. I haven't tried either of these. I've seen old Forrester around before. I always think of Robert, Robert Forrester.

Is that his name? The guy from Jackie Brown. I will check that out. Thank you. 416 where it's in, hey, I listen to the Bob Marley episode again. If you love the music and the myth, I highly recommend going to Montego Bay and booking a tour with a Rasta guide to take you to the Marley Estate and the jungled mountains of St. Anne. It's a two-hour trip and you see the real Jamaica. The estate was his mausoleum, the museum in the house in his bedroom where he wrote music. It is an epic experience. It's a ganja tour and they even make ganja tea. All the guides are Rasta. When you're back at the resort at Montego Bay, do what I did and book a private visit to Johnny Cash's private estate on Cinnamon Hill. That's right. Johnny and June lived there. The Cash Museum in Nashville is great, but the

state is truly remarkable. Nothing is off limits. His clothes, his shoes, all the art in memorabilia, and all of the rooms are open. Nothing is off limits. The whole ground smells wonderful because the scent of all spices released every time you crush one of the ubiquitous curled brown leaves from the trees that carpet the yard. And if you like music history, Jamaica is a must go. Also, they have great food. Everything is spotlessly clean and people are wonderful. Nothing like getting your first Yarmand when you think a Jamaican for their hospitality, Rockarola. And that's from the 416. 416.

Thank you. This sounds amazing. I've never been to Jamaica. And this sounds like a reason to go. It really does. I didn't know this was possible. Especially the Johnny Cash part. We covered the Johnny Cash place in Cinnamon Hill in our Johnny Cash episode and the home

invasion that happened there and how Johnny wiggled his way out of that. And of course, as you mentioned, in the Bob Marley episode, we talk about his place and what went down there. had no idea you could visit either of these spaces. This is incredible. Can you go to Keith Richards' as well? That's the question. 416. Appreciate you. Great message. 276 writes in, Hey, Eric from the 276, there's a lot of meat on the bone on the subject of Arthur Lee in love and the musical connections of Bobby Boselle. I listen to weird scenes inside the canyon, and for anyone on the conspiracy, it's a perfect mortar for the whole of disgrace land. We were

just talking about, as Eric mentions here later in his text, weird scenes from the Canyon in last week's exclusive section of the afterparty. I knew of the Manson family member Bobby Bolsillet's connection to Arthur Lee and Love. I did not know that they turned up in this book. More reason to read this book. Thank you. Appreciate the text. Now, to our question of the week on which artists outside of America and England were most influential culturally. Dave writes in from the 248 in terms of artists from outside the U.S. and the British Isles who have influenced modern music the most, there's an obvious answer. And I don't think anyone else is even close. It's got to be craft work as far as influence on the modern music world. I think possibly only the Beatles

are more of a pervasive influence. This is a really good take. I don't know. enough about craftwork to speak to this take, except the fact. Craftwork obviously started, I think, in like 1969 or something like that, 1971st electronic music. And yeah, the influence is pretty incredible, although I don't think they would be cited by many for that influence. Great, great answer to 48. Appreciate you. 5-4-0 writes, hey, got the package yesterday. Amazing. You rock. The autograph was a nice touch. Thank you so much. What is 540 talking about? 540 is talking about the T-shirt.

And a little note that I sent the 5-4-0 because the 5-4-0 was nice enough to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. I can't remember where exactly. Guys, I get asked all the time, how can we support you? How can we support the show? That's a very easy way. Just leave a review. Oftentimes, if you leave a review, you will hear your review, read back to you here in the

after party. And if you do, that is a signal to text me, 617-90666. 638. And let me know that you heard your review. Sight your handle so I can make sure you're telling me the truth. And then I will send you some merch. I don't know what it'll be. Not everybody gets t-shirts. Some people get t-shirts. It's kind of whatever I got lying around in the garage. You know what I'm talking about? Ailey Beanie 80 writes in on Apple Podcasts. Hey, I originally clicked on this podcast because of the zombie Elvis icon. I listened to one episode and I was hooked. I even listened to artists I know nothing about. Great storyteller. Allie

Thank you. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to the club. You are now a disco. If you're listening to this, 617-90666-66-6-3-8, hit me up and I will hit you with some merch. All right, guys, we'll be back right after this. Got a TV recommendation for you. Also going to dig into some of your emails and get back into the swing right after this. All right. We haven't done recommendations in a while, so we're going to do one right now. I talked about this in one of the exclusive sections of the after-party. recently. So if you've heard this already, forgive me, but I'm going to tell, I'm going to tell everybody else. For reasons that I can't quite articulate, I like much of America, am currently obsessed with, well, it's a soap opera, really. It's love story. The JFK Jr. Carolyn Beset

story produced by Ryan Murphy. I like Ryan Murphy. I'm not ashamed to admit it. I do. He just, he does things differently. He does them well. Yeah, they're sensational at times, sentimental, overly dramatic. Sure, all those things, but all those things at the highest possible level. Now, I started watching this show about a week and a half ago. And I started watching it, it had nothing to do with the fact, I swear to God, it had nothing to do with the fact that FX bought ad space to promote the series. I just started watching it. I really don't know why I started watching. I mean, the cover, the thumbnail, it just does not, it's not for me. It's clearly not built for me, but it has sucked me in. I like the show more than my wife likes this show. What's that tell you?

I talked about this in the exclusive section. I think the reason I'm so drawn into the show is the music. The score is fantastic. It's incredible. It really is great. I made a comparison to the true romance score. It doesn't sound like that, but it's utilized in the same way. It's done really well. And the time period is just incredible. It's the 1990s. It's the early to mid. And it's the whole, it's the whole of the decade pretty much from 92 to 99 in Manhattan. A period in time and history when I was in Manhattan a ton for the first time for my first time as a young man and um yikes it just nails it and the nostalgia vibes are intense score is great soundtrack is great as well lo and behold i didn't know this until about three days ago i'm actually good friends with the music supervisor

i didn't know my friend jen had done the music supervision for this series until i'd watched five episodes of it uh we talked about that i i blew all the smoke as was necessary because she did a great job. Anyhow, fan of the Kennedys, not a fan of the Kennedys, just fan of American history, fan of Manhattan in the 90s, fan of the 90s, fan of the 90s, any of these things, fan of sensational storytelling done at the highest level, fans of Ryan Murphy, haters of Ryan Murphy, check out Love Story on FX. I think you're going to dig it. And if you don't, I get it, hit me up, tell me, tell me what you think, 617-9066638, voicemail on text. as it pertains to the, you know, scoring and music supervision and soundtrack conversation that we've been having because of our new podcast, this film should be played loud.

I feel like given how this, the music in this show, is moving me. I have to recommend it. So there you go. Now, 617-906-66-638 voicemail on text. Not the only way to get in touch with me. You can DM me at Disgraceland Pod and he can send me an email. But if you want to hit me up on X, on Instagram, on TikTok, on Facebook, you know, I just, just, just, heads up. I, you know, I, I'm probably on Instagram more than I am any other social platform these days. But I kind of go through phases where, okay, I'm on Instagram this week. I'm on next week. I'm on Facebook for a week this year, whatever it is. I should do it more balanced. I can't. I just cannot. It's too much. I have one set of eyes. So if I don't get back to you, Don't hate me. I will eventually. I try to anyways. On Instagram, Buck Blakeney writes in,

Hey, hate Maplethorpe. Buck is referring, referencing a photo I posted in my stories, Just Kids. I read Just Kids yesterday, the Patty Smith book about her time coming up in Manhattan in the late 60s, early 70s, and her friendship and her romance as well with Robert Mabelthorpe, who went on, or Mapplethorpe, I'm hearing it pronounce like that now. Mapplethorpe, that sounds a little weird to me. I've always pronounced it as Mapelthorpe and heard it that way. Anyhow, about her time in New York, Patty Smith, because we're doing a Patti Smith episode. Of course, when she's involved in friends and starts her friendship with Mabel Thorpe, this is before she's famous and it's way before he's famous as well. She actually gets famous before him. It's a fantastic book. And I would say to Buck or anyone else,

if you're not a fan of Mabel Thorpe. And I have a lot of problems with Mabelthorpe. I really do. But as an artist as an actual artist the guy did something that nobody had ever done before with photography and uh despite what you think of the subject matter which can be challenging was even challenging for patty smith who i'm sure is thought of by many to be uh one of the most open-minded free-thinking artists in the history of art she still had a lot of problems with maple thorpe's output and for good reason it's very challenging stuff um regardless if you're a fan or not i'm not even a big i'm not a big maple third fan this book is incredible it's great i read it i read it in one day i sat down yesterday i got up early i wasn't feeling well i woke up and i just cracked the book and i just i was done by like

i don't know three o'clock four o'clock something like that maybe earlier i haven't done that in a while i love when that happens we can just tear through something uh anyhow am i recommending just kids i guess i am that's nothing novel it was like a national book award winner it's a very popular book And it will serve as one of the sources for the Patty Smith story. It's going to be a very true, crimey story that's going to be coming up in a couple weeks. I can't wait for you to hear that. William Strobel on email writes to us, Hey, I immediately went to Germany when you posed the question about influential bands outside the USA and Great Britain.

I went to craft work. Another craft work. I love this. It's mind-blowing to think that 70s experimental German electronica is important for the foundation of early rap and hip-hop. Africa Bambaata, Soul Sonic Force, and others had the genius to tap into such an unlikely musical vein. They were the complete game changers and became part of the DNA of a new culture. Keep up the great work rockerola from the 215. 215, William, thank you so much, man.

This is awesome. I love this answer. It was unexpected, and that's why I love it. Also, Africa Bambata is an episode there. Some dark shit there, I believe. Hold on. I'm going to write that down. Joshua Blevins sends me a link here,

Smiley Face Killer's music link in this interview, starting sometime after the 25 minute mark. He mentions the Smiley Face Killer is an acid house symbol and ties to the 70s music industry. Have you heard this? And please look into it. I have not heard of this. And I have no idea what you're talking about,

but I am super intrigued. Smiley face killers. Right in this one down too. If anyone knows anything about this, smiley face killer killers. Crime wants to give me a little more contacts. Hit me up, Disgraceland at Disgraceland Pod 617-90666-6638. Email to Scraiseandpod at gmail.com.

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All right, we are back. Thank you for hanging out with me in this afterparty. We mentioned Bob Marley, of course. We had the rewind last week. We also talked about Johnny Cash, Keith Richards, Elvis. I mentioned James Burton because of Elvis Presley, but James Burton also played with Graham Parsons. We have a great Grand Parsons episode.

Got episodes on all these artists. We mentioned Matt's going to have the information on how you can find them in the archive in the show notes. of this here bonus episode. All right, let's recap, shall we? This week, our new episode, part two of the In excess story. Our rewind episode, coming up right after this,

is on Public Enemy. Next week, we are exploring the lifetimes and music of Towns Van Zant. As always, Zeth Lundy's giving you those Hollywood and true crime vibes in Hollywoodland. So make sure you're subscribed to the Hollywoodland podcast

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Number seven, don't forget discos. This isn't just content. It's a community, a community of the obsessed. And no one cares about music, books, records in the crime and grime that ties them all together like you do. And well, that's a. disgrace. On January 21st, 1997, the colonel, Tom Parker passed away and here's what America was listening to on that day. Number one, Unbreak My Heart, Tony Braxton. Last week, one, peak position, one, weeks on chart, 13. Number two, don't let go, love and vote. Last week, three, peak Position, two, weeks on chart, 11. Number three, I believe I can fly from Space Jam, R. Kelly.

Last week, two, peak position, two. Weeks on chart, six. Number four, nobody. Keith Sweat, featuring Athena Cage, last week, four. Peak position, three, weeks on chart, six weeks. Number five. Talking and start mixing. Thank you.