A Christmas Filled With Love, Orion (Kardina)

Orion was an Elvis Presley impersonator who tried to take the impersonation to a higher level by performing in a Halloween mask so that viewers would think Elvis didn't actually die but was standing right in front of them. Actually, he looks a lot more like a fiftysomething Andy Kaufman on the album cover. The liner notes claim that "Good Morning America" took a voice print of Orion singing with Jerry Lee Lewis and said the evidence showed it was actually Elvis. Right. The 1997 album is eight sappy Christmas originals with boilerplate 1970s Nashville country arrangements, good only for playing "Live vs. Memorex" with your Elvis-loving friends. Orion recorded a subsequent holiday disc in 1998, Holiday Tribute to the King, which featured the singer, assisted by the Jordanaires, doing the Elvis thing on Christmas songs Elvis himself had previously recorded. Sadly, Orion, real name Jimmy Ellis, was killed in a robbery of the package store he owned in Orrville, Ala., in 1998. His records remain available at his memorial website.