Jungle room podcast and youtube channel team member greg webb gives us part 1 to his visit to cape girardeau and shows us a former hotel elvis may have stayed in july 1955.
The jungle room.
A majority of the jungle room material was released as from elvis presley boulevard memphis tennessee in the spring of 1976 featuring the top 10 hit hurt a year later in july 1977 more of these sessions were paired with overdubbed live material and released as moody blue.
Although elvis longtime producer felton jarvis was there to supervise the home setup.
The jungle room was loaded with exotic plants animal prints and floor to ceiling shag carpet in what can only be described as an african motif.
The jungle room presley cut sessions in february and october of 1976 that would prove to be his last.
Elvis bought the furniture on a whim in 1974 supposedly to rile his father vernon had said it was the ugliest furniture he d ever laid eyes on.
The jungle room also became the king s final recording studio where he recorded much of his last two albums.