February 1st in Elvis History

It's February first, and on this day in 1968, Lisa Marie Presley was born to Elvis and Priscilla at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. The baby arrived at 5:01 p.m., weighing six pounds, fifteen ounces, and measuring 20 inches long. Elvis, nervously pacing the halls with family and friends, waited in a special lounge arranged just for them. So anxious was he that his grandmother had to remind him *he* wasn't the one having the baby. Memphis police, paid by Elvis, stood guard at the hospital for the next four days. Lisa Marie’s middle name honored Colonel Parker’s wife, Marie, and Elvis affectionately called his daughter “Buttonhead” and “Yisa.” It was the beginning of a bond that would become one of the most cherished in Elvis’s life.