Harvey's Music Legends

05/08/2026

Yesterday's concert at Ballinger Health Care, Ballinger, TX, was Elvis tribute #3,300, representing 75% of our career performances. Very, very blessed. And on top of that, they scheduled us to be there quarterly!

05/06/2026

Career milestone day! Today's concert at Bronte HC & Rehab. Center was our 3,400th Retirement Center concert since 2001; representing 77% of our 4,400+ performances. Very, very blessed.

01/01/2026

I just emailed our Jan. 2026 newsletter and included the tally for 2025.
118 performances in 2025 (had 111 in 2024)
96 retirement center shows. (81% for 2025; 77% for career)
This included four first timers!
68 Elvis tributes (58% for 2025; 75% for career)
50 other (Country Classics, Rock & Roll Review, Gospel)

Very, very blessed.

12/31/2025

THE CHRISTMAS TAPESTRY
The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to reopen a church in suburban Brooklyn , arrived in early October excited about their opportunities. When they saw their church, it was very run down and needed much work. They set a goal to have everything done in time to have their first service on Christmas Eve.
They worked hard, repairing pews, plastering walls, painting, etc, and on December 18 were ahead of schedule and just about finished.
On December 19 a terrible tempest - a driving rainstorm - hit the area and lasted for two days.
On the 21st, the pastor went over to the church.
His heart sank when he saw that the roof had leaked, causing a large area of plaster about 20 feet by 8 feet to fall off the front wall of the sanctuary just behind the pulpit, beginning about head high.
The pastor cleaned up the mess on the floor, and not knowing what else to do but postpone the Christmas Eve service, headed home.
On the way he noticed that a local business was having a flea market type sale for charity, so he stopped in. One of the items was a beautiful, handmade, ivory colored, crocheted tablecloth with exquisite work, fine colors and a Cross embroidered right in the center. It was just the right size to cover the hole in the front wall. He bought it and headed back to the church.
By this time it had started to snow. An older woman running from the opposite direction was trying to catch the bus. She missed it. The pastor invited her to wait in the warm church for the next bus 45 minutes later.
She sat in a pew and paid no attention to the pastor while he got a ladder, hangers, etc., to put up the tablecloth as a wall tapestry. The pastor could hardly believe how beautiful it looked and it covered up the entire problem area.
Then he noticed the woman walking down the center aisle. Her face was like a sheet. "Pastor," she asked, "where did you get that tablecloth?"
The pastor explained. The woman asked him to check the lower right corner to see if the initials 'EBG' were crocheted into it there. They were. These were the initials of the woman, and she had made this tablecloth 35 years before, in Austria .
The woman could hardly believe it as the pastor told how he had just gotten "The Tablecloth". The woman explained that before the war she and her husband were well-to-do people in Austria .
When the N***s came, she was forced to leave. Her husband was going to follow her the next week.
He was captured, sent to prison and she never saw her husband or her home again.
The pastor wanted to give her the tablecloth; but she made the pastor keep it for the church.
The pastor insisted on driving her home. That was the least he could do. She lived on the other
side of Staten Island and was only in Brooklyn for the day for a housecleaning job.
What a wonderful service they had on Christmas Eve. The church was almost full. The music and the spirit were great. At the end of the service, the pastor and his wife greeted everyone at the door and many said that they would return.
One older man, whom the pastor recognized from the neighborhood, continued to sit in one of the pews and stare, and the pastor wondered why he wasn't leaving.
The man asked him where he got the tablecloth on the front wall because it was identical to one that his wife had made years ago when they lived in Austria before the war and how could there be two tablecloths so much alike?
He told the pastor how the N***s came, how he forced his wife to flee for her safety and he was supposed to follow her, but he was arrested and put in a prison. He never saw his wife or his home again in all the 35 years between.
The pastor asked him if he would allow him to take him for a little ride. They drove to Staten Island and to the same house where the pastor had taken the woman three days earlier.
He helped the man climb the three flights of stairs to the woman's apartment, knocked on the door and he saw the greatest Christmas reunion he could ever imagine.
True story - submitted by Pastor Rob Reid, who says God does work in mysterious ways.

10/31/2025

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09/21/2025

09/02/2025

This month! I will be on the HEB stage on Wednesday (Senior Day!), Sept. 10th, Noon to 1 PM, AND....8 to 9:30 PM. Our 13th year!

06/08/2025

Yesterday, June 7th was my 24th anniversary as a professional ETA. My first paid performance was for the Lions Club at Coldspring, TX, on June 7th, 2001. It has been exactly 4,300 performances since then. I went full time on July 1st, 2006. We are very, very blessed to have made many, many friends over the years as we have traveled for shows in 9 different states, two other countries, (Singapore and Vietnam), once on a cruise ship, and of course, all over Texas. We have been to Graceland 7 times and to Tupelo once. I have set in Elvis' 1956 Lincoln (in Houston). I have met a boxer who trained Elvis for his role in Kid Galahad, Bob Hope's Road manager, the drummer who played in the Elvis movie, Easy Come, Easy Go, Charlie Hodge, one of Elvis' righthand men....and so many others directly connected to Elvis and/or in the entertainment business. I have an autographed drumstick from D.J. Fontana and an autographed photo of John Wilkerson (Elvis' guitarist) (Though I didn't personally meet either one. These were gifts from other ETAs.) I have performed with numerous fellow ETAs and tribute artists for other singers. 76% of our shows have been in retirements centers and we have made so many close friends as a result. What a blessing. I have performed on the same stages where Elvis once performed and have set at the white grand piano that he bought and played at a hotel he stayed at in Odessa, TX, in 1974. If I had time to write a book about all these things and more, I am sure I could sell at least a dozen copies. LOL Oh, that reminds me, I have been part of two books that people have written, several magazine articles, numerous TV news shows, and countless newspaper articles. Yes, one chapter of any book I would write would have to be titled, "Super Blessed." Anyway, I know I am getting close to retirement (many have asked over the years)....and I am definitely going to slow down a lot next year. Mentally, that's going to be hard, but I know God will clearly show me when it's time to hang up the suits but here is one thing for sure....I will always sing at least gospel music as long as there is breath in me. I could not have done any of these things without the loving support of my wonderful wife, Sharon Elaine Mcfadden. For those of you who know us well, especially, and have kept us in your prayers for our health, safe travels, etc., thank you so very much. May God bless all our friends and loved ones.

05/20/2025

Career milestone day! Today's performance at Heritage House, Rotan, TX, will be retirement center performance #3,300! (76% of my career performances since 2001.) Very, very blessed.

05/15/2025

Blessed again! Just scheduled another first-timer retirement center performance....at Mineral Wells Nursing and Rehab., for Aug. 15th, 2025! We can hardly wait!