Harry Jenkins

Parker could only send Diskin and RCA vice-president Harry Jenkins to the sessions to make sure everyone on the gravy train was having his interests considered.

Those present included Zsa Zsa Gabor, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart (who have written songs for Elvis), Stu Gilliam, Juliet Prowse, Lana Turner, Rouvan, Wayne Cochran, Paul Anka, Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong of the Supremes, Peggy Lipton, The Yellow Payges, Dean Martin and his new girl, Gail Renshaw, Paul Peterson, George Chakiris, Kirk Kerkorian, head of the International, James Aubrey, president of MGM, Harry Jenkins, president of the record division of RCA, and many friends, relatives, fans...

Parker could only send Diskin and RCA vice-president Harry Jenkins to the sessions to make sure everyone on the gravy train was having his interests considered.

Parker could only send Diskin and RCA vice-president Harry Jenkins to the sessions to make sure everyone on the gravy train was having his interests considered.
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Tom Diskin from Parker's office was there to keep watch, so was Freddy Bienstock, representing H & R, and RCA's Harry Jenkins.

Parker could only send Diskin and RCA vice-president Harry Jenkins to the sessions to make sure everyone on the gravy train was having his interests considered.
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Tom Diskin from Parker's office was there to keep watch, so was Freddy Bienstock, representing H & R, and RCA's Harry Jenkins.

Harry Jenkins, RCA's Vice-President, was in Britain in the summer and on hearing about the convention, and the fact that it was for charity, elected on his return to the USA to go and see Col Parker to see what help he could be in getting some good filmed material to screen.

A fellow named Harry Jenkins, who worked with Elvis down in Nashville and some other people that worked with him, Steve Sholes and these are names that are not going to be familiar to you, but are familiar and are very important names in the recording industry and I had been doing shows around the country and I had some artists that I was representing.

[ Elvis ] was not especially interested when Harry Jenkins, the man they called RCA's vice president in charge of Elvis', began talking seriously about a new Christmas album.What was wrong with once again repacking the original one from 1957, he asked.Elvis eventually agreed, though, and plans were made for the release of a new Christmas album in September 1971.A marathon session was set in Nashville starting on May 15, and in six days some thirty songs were recorded in sessions that usually started at seven in the evening and ran on until two or three in the morning.The plan was to complete enough material for the new Christmas set, as well as a third gospel album and several singles... 1.

To get in the Christmas spirit on a hot May night in Nashville, the group began to jam around the old R & B warhorse Merry Christmas Baby'.

While Tom and Harry Jenkins - the RCA V.P. - started discussing merchandising schemes, I started making a few thumbnail sketches for a cover.

Harry Jenkins, VP of RCA lived up to his promise that if I wrote a hit he'd send me to meet "The King".