Shut The F Up Donny Productions

06/27/2025

05/16/2025

Before he was breakin' the law.

04/28/2025

If you're looking for good seats, I know a guy. 🤘

02/20/2025

The cover photo shoot for “Coconut Telegraph” took place in Point Clear, Alabama, in 1980.
Jimmy had named the album, arranged for the back cover and record sleeve art, and asked me
to locate a pay phone near open water. Water was easy along Mobile Bay; but a pay
phone—not so much. Then I learned that Tommy Milham, in nearby Fairhope, made custom
wooden booths. When I gave him a call to explain what I needed, he told me that he had quit
making them, and had only one that he “might” rent to me for a day. Might? Did it have
sentimental value?
A major fan, Mr. Milham had been first in line to buy tickets for Elvis Presley’s last concert in
Mobile, in 1977. The local newspaper ran a story on him and, at the concert two weeks later,
Milham, in his front-row seat, held up the article’s headline. Impressed, Elvis offered him a
scarf. But Tommy pointed at the huge gold and diamond ring that Elvis had worn during over a
hundred concerts. To everyone’s surprise, Elvis gave him the ring. That got Mr. Milham a story
in the New York Times!
To thank Elvis for his generosity, Tommy crafted one last custom phone booth and ordered its
glass etched with the ring’s Russian czar’s crest design. Sadly, Elvis died before Mr. Milham
could deliver the gift. Two years later Jimmy Buffett got to use the Elvis Booth long enough to
stand for an excellent album’s cover photo.
Photo and Story by Tom Corcoran

01/30/2025

Angus Young performing at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Illinois, 1978.

12/12/2024

Bachman-Turner Overdrive circa 1974