Options
Elvis Presley
TheTruth1983
Posts: 13,462 Forum Member
✭✭
The king of rock n roll would have turned 80 this month.
Let's remember him and the many styles he incorporated into his music.
Jailhouse Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj0Rz-uP4Mk
Blue Suede Shoes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm5HKlQ6nGM
That's Alright Mama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWgprZu4Hk4
And music was never his strongest subject at school.
Let's remember him and the many styles he incorporated into his music.
Jailhouse Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj0Rz-uP4Mk
Blue Suede Shoes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm5HKlQ6nGM
That's Alright Mama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWgprZu4Hk4
And music was never his strongest subject at school.
0
Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YhLIq3q19Q
Not that keen on his sixties and seventies tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqKQ5OxYofE
Man would of being cool to have lived through his era
The keyboard message board to which I contribute is having an "Elvis Day."
Various people have been sharing some of their renditions of his songs.
This was my contribution. I never tire of his version. You might soon get sick of mine.
https://app.box.com/s/bw4tsosvw5qjrqxevoqh
i like suspicious minds though..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfUhip9jvH8
As one reviewer commented, when you hear the pain in that vocal it becomes less remarkable that he died a year later and more so that he even lived that long. Words to that effect anyway.
The outtake version (NSFW) is well worth a listen too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2SsWfZK1uA
The first one of Elvis that we had to admit wasn't bad was Return To Sender......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU5xxh5UX4U
I've always liked the Hot Banana song.......hot banana, hot banana.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n4kcvGS_Lk
Heartbreak Hotel, Latest Flame and Suspicious Minds (not rock and roll) still sound good today though.
Ha! Nobody told Elvis how to perform, that was ALL HIM! Whatever gave you that idea? He was moving like that long before he ever met Col. Parker!
You got a lot of learnin' to do, son.
My wife's brother-in-law has a brother who was in the forces in Germany doing his national service.
I've see the photograph of himself and his best army buddy, with Elvis standing between them.
Elvis would pose for any soldier for a photo when he was out there.
True, even Michael Jackson looked good (halfway through his endless cosmetic surgeries).
That's how we like to remember them.
God bless The King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWqax9iHfRU
Thank you so much for that video!
Elvis sang just ONE song at the Colonel's urging: Are You Lonesome Tonight, which was a favorite of Parker's wife. But anyone teaching Elvis how to move? Hilarious thought. Check out Eddy Arnold, who Parker managed until 1953, when Eddy Arnold dismissed him in a dispute.
Here is Eddy Arnold singing Make the World Go Away.
And here is Elvis singing the same song. Both great talents, just completely different.
As anyone who has followed the making of the '68 Special knows, Col. Parker's vision was that Elvis would wear a tuxedo and sing Christmas songs like Perry Como and so many others had done. (it was aired at Christmas time). Instead, we got Elvis in black leather, in a red suit, in a white suit, in denim jeans and jacket, in gold lame and black velvet, singing everything from gospel to blues to country to rock to If I Can Dream, which Elvis recorded lying down on the floor, with the lights off.
This video flips through the book '68 at 40 Retrospective by Steve Binder, producer of the '68 Special. It shows the list of Christmas songs Col. Parker wanted Elvis to sing. (Elvis sang NONE of them.)
So much for the notion Elvis was Col. Parker's puppet.
Plus he could sing anything. Two of my favourites prove this. Young & Beautiful and One Night.
Long live The King.