"Elvis, Rocky and Me": The Carol Connors Pop Star Memoirs hits #4 on Amazon.

Elvis, Rocky and Me: The Carol Connors Pop Star Memoirs hits #4 on Amazon.

By Karen Ostlund    

(WestHollywoodToday.blogspot, CA - July 16 2024)
                                                                          

 The Carol Connors Story, co-written by Steven Bergsman, was just released. Carol had a book signing at BOOK SOUP on  July 15, 2024, located at 8818 Sunset Blvd.in West Hollywood. The Book is published by Bear Manor Media.(GettyImages)

Carol Connors co-wrote the ROCKY theme-song “Gonna Fly Now” and was considered one of the most important movie songs of all time. She has been nominated for 2 Academy Awards, 2 Golden Globes, 5 Emmy’s and a Grammy nomination.A documentary under the same name has been completed and is in post-production, to be released later this year.
For the first time ever, Connors talks openly about her time with Elvis, and other famous men in Hollywood she loved and had relationships with.This tell-all-book chronicles her many true adventures as a celebrity, lover, singer, scuba diver aka Mermaid and songwriter. The stories that have never been told until now!
                                                                                

(top L) Steve Bergsman, Kate Linder, Chip Rosenbloom, Rebecca Holden, Maria Conchita Alonso, Carol Wells, Alex Rotaru, Suzan Hughes, Dahlia Heyman, Diane Warren at Carol Connors booksigning for book "Elvis, Rocky And Me" at Book Soup in West Hollywood (GettyImages)

Connors tells details in the book about her relationship with Elvis Presley which lasted for almost a year, and months into that relationship Elvis became her first lover and the first man she would fall in love with. Connors said, “To find out the details about my romance with Elvis, you’re going to have to buy the book on amazon and everywhere books are sold.”
 
At the book-signing, Connors also played and sang the song she wrote about Elvis, called “YOU LOVED MY NIGHT AWAY” which was written on the night Elvis died. Connors said she sat at her piano for 12 hours straight to compose this special song for him. Elvis met Carol when “To Know Him is To Love Him“ was the most popular song in the world.
The book is filled with great showbiz stories about her life and career, including singing on her first hit record “TO KNOW HIM IS TO LOVE HIM” by Phil Spector, who wrote the song for Carol’s voice. Connors was and will always be the voice of The Teddy Bears. The enormous success of that song was the start of a career that is still going strong. Carol has written music for Dionne Warwick and Billy Preston and has seen her songs covered by Mariah Carey and John Legend. 

                                                                              

Pop music star Pat Boone at Book Soup (GettyImages)

The book also explains, Connors feels Phil Spector tried to block her music-career from taking off - after the song hit #1 on the billboard charts.
Other music highlight in Conners career was the hit song  “Little Cobra” which hit #2 on the billboard charts and was the reason the Cobra Muscle car became a big seller.
      
Carol's personal life is as fascinating as her show business career. She never chose to marry, but she dated famous names as Elvis Presley, Robert Culp and David Janssen.