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Elvis’s Stepbrother? & The Murder of Singer “Orion”

• Date: 1980
• Place: Nashville Tennessee
• Artist: Orion AKA Jimmy Ellis
• Artist: Wayne Jackson

While visiting Nashville in 1980

I came cross this bizarre story about Orion and the possibility of him being Elvis’s stepbrother in 1980, when I had the pleasure of meeting a remarkable man, John Singleton, the brother of Shelby Singleton—a renowned record producer and entrepreneur. Shelby was best known for acquiring the rights to Sun Records from Sam Phillips, though this excluded Elvis P ...