Folks Of Interest Can it really be 31 years?

I sat right between him and Hoffa on the UFO...

 

Evidently the owner of this was a fan !

 

What does the have to do with hot rods?

 

Tom Davison.... you are so right.
The Sun Sessions is perhaps the finest album ever recorded. It paved the way for all that followed, including Johnny Cash!
Forget the jump suits, Vegas, bad movies, corny songs..... listen to The Sun Sessions and you'll not only hear the best rockabilly and rock n roll ever recorded, you'll hear where every single artist since has come from.
When Tom Parker sold his contract to RCA, that was the beginning of the end. When Uncle Sam beckoned, that was the end.

 

Imo, Elvis transcended the divide b/w black and white America of the 50's. Taking a predeminantly black sound and making it acceptable to the m***es - hell a lot of his early cuts at Sun Records were old blues numbers. Im with Rockabillynb***man.....those Sun Sessions ( I have em) are just some of the rawest Billy recorded....the movies, Vegas etc are NOT what the King was really all about. He was an ARTIST, he loved to perform to live crowds and loved to bring joy to people thru his music.

Sam Philips was the architect who saw in Elvis the possibility to bridge that divide thru music, but not even he could have imagined the phenomenon that The King would be become.

When I think of Elvis, I think of him in his prime, knockin' em dead in the 50's and particularly the 68 comeback special performance.

It is sad that he was manipulated by The Colonel but unlike today's "artists" the man could SING....geez could he sing !!

Long live the KING !

Rat

 

My thoughts exactly... He at least turned over in his grave...

 

maby there was some divine intervention from above that caused jacksons career to go in the toilet,as well as his reputation. I can hear elvis somewhere saying well thank you.....thank you very much.....

 

Elvis had a chimp first."****ter."
MJ was just a wannabe.

It was cool how he shot the tv's everytime Robert Goulet appeared on screen.
"He sang without feeling!"
(Elvis said that-I agree!)

 

his music is great for stroke patients that has speech problems...i have a book wrote by someone in south carolina that was racing a 50 ford i think and wrecked fliped the car and busted his skull ..after that he had to do rehab for walkin ,speech and other deflicts ..the book says back then in 57 or 59 there wasnt any physical the****** to help with stroke..so his mother and best friend helped him..the friend walked him around his yard everyday to build his strenth back and his mother was in love with elvis so she played his records all day while cleaning her house ..and then she got the idea of tryin to make her son try to sing like elvis with the deep voice and made him do it everyday for months ..he says he got to where he could sound like elvis...but elvis got him talking right again..its a pretty cool book to read...but the book was called ..ELVIS WAS MY SPEECH THE******..he had a smart mama to make him sing those songs of E.P

 

It's more a cadillac thang

 

you sure,is that a joke,please no way

 

I heard that people sat out in the desert near area 51 waiting for him to land this year, doesn't suprise me.

 

there were a lot of icons from that same era. cash, jerry lee, carl perkins, and a number more. but id like to think that theres a little bit of THE KING in all of us.

 

Not EVERY adult. My grandmother went to see him in Allentown in the '50's.

 

Otis Blackwell is the real Elvis Presley.

He first became famous by winning a local talent contest ("Amateur Night") at the Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York in 1952,[2] led to a recording contract with RCA and then with Jay-Dee. His first release was his own composition "Daddy Rolling Stone" which became a favorite in Jamaica where it was recorded by Derek Martin. The song later became part of The Who's "Mod" repertoire. Enjoying some early recording and performing success, he found his first love was songwriting and by 1955 had settled into the groove that he would ride for decades.[3] His first successes came in 1956 when Little Willie John's R&B hit with the sultry "Fever" was an even bigger pop success for Peggy Lee. Then, "All Shook Up" (first recorded by David Hill on Aladdin) began a highly profitable ***ociation with Elvis Presley, who was credited as co-writer. There was a distinct similarity between Blackwell's vocal style and Presley's, which has led to speculation that Elvis adopted some of his songwriter's mannerisms.[4] From 1956 through the early 1960s, they fed off each other's talent, sharing a close musical affinity and, more incredibly, a vocal style so similar as to be eerie. "If you compare the demos with the records, you'll see that Presley's voice were practically an exact copy

check out some of these samples
http://www.midomi.com/index.php?action=main.artist&name=OtisBlackwell&from=artist_bio