Jeanie Greene Lee: Former Elvis Backup Singer Interview Part 2 of 3

Over the years Jeanie has told me some amazing stories about her career as a backup singer during the 1960's and 70's. I have been wanting to put together a project like this for many years, but it just never seemed to come together until now.

I met Jeanie five or six years ago through a cousin of mine who has been a dear and close friend of hers since the 60's. We began talking about family, and since her maiden name was Johnson, and since my family descended from a long line of Johnson's in Alabama - some of which moved into Mississippi where Jeanie now lives, we feel pretty certain that there may actually be a family connection between us, but we can't be certain since we haven't actually researched it.

Jeanie and I hit off right from the start, and have been the closest of friends since, which is one of the reasons I have come to affectionately call her "Aunt Jeanie".

Jeanie has spent the last four Christmases with our family. We filmed this the day before New Years Eve last year. We talked all day, and I could of talked all through the night I think, but she was getting tired towards the end, but there were so many good stories, it was hard for me to find a stopping point.

This is my tribute to her as a person with a beautiful Christian soul, and as an often overlooked, and unsung musical talent. Some may say, "Who is Jeanie Greene?". What many don't realize, is that they have heard her, but not actually realized it.

This is part two of three parts. All together they total a little over an hour. I tried to condense it down to as much as possible, but there was just so much good footage that was captured that it would have been a cardinal sin to leave it out.

The musical snippets used throughout the interview are from various points in her career -- mainly from her solo album she created back in 1971 entitled "Mary Called Jeanie Greene" which is available on CD from Amazon.com.

This has certainly been a labor of love and I hope you enjoy it.

P.S.

I have received many emails asking about Jeanie. Unfortunately she does not have access to the internet and is unable to receive emails. However if you wish to contact her, you can contact me and I will give you her mailing address and contact details. Please do not send emails addressed to Jeanie, because I have no way of forwarding them to her.

Thank you for watching. Please take care and God Bless

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[finaprcs]

I'm glad you didn't edit this down more tightly... and there's still lots of remarkable stories left to tell.

[dartanyon77]

@finaprcs I was very careful about what I eliminated. I spent about two weeks "trimming" up. I would let it sit for a day maybe, and then come back and look at it with fresh eyes, and see if everything still flowed. Basically what you are seeing is about I'd say 95% of what was actually filmed. I'm thinking about posting some of the off-screen antics, but I'm afraid she would kill me if she found out lol.