Elvis Presley — He is the most successful Caucasian to cover the black musical art form, microwave it and then present it to white audiences in a digestible form. Well, it’s been long rumored that he told one of his audiences that blacks cannot do anything for him “but shine my shoes.” The Rock-N-Roll King’s camp has always rebuffed this unsubstantiated rumor and he also had the backing of Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown.
