Blue Suede Shoes

[papayahed]

http://werichanel.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/elvis-presley-brv01.jpg

[Blanket Heist]

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/675/tumblrkvxouxc1l11qzuce7.jpg

[Scheherazade]

I got about 7-8 Elvis songs on my Ipod. My favorite is probably "Heartbreak Hotel".

What are yours?

[papayahed]

I love me some All Shook Up but I always thought I had the words wrong because "shakin like a man on a fuzzy tree" just doesn't make much sense.

[OrphanPip]

I'd go with "Suspicious Minds"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmAPYkPeYU

[Scheherazade]

I like "All Shook Up" too; fun song and "Suspicious Minds" is excellent when you are in love and all but I reeaaallly love the way he sings "Heartbreak Hotel":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Qo1eaWF8c

Oh, and "Love Me Tender":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZBUb0ElnNY&feature=related


Yep, it is all about the vocals! :D

[Virgil]

Heartbreak Hotel and Jailhouse Rock are my favorites. Oh he would have been 75 today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rpn_7OMV0c&feature=related

[Roger100]

'In the ghetto' has been nominated the best of his songs ever. I find it difficult to give one I like most. 'Promised land', 'Wooden heart', 'Amazing grace' (gospel) ...

[Maryd.]

Hey, did everyone know that Elvis and I, share the same birthday... 8th January.:D

[Helga]

I love Are you lonesome tonight and Kentucky rain... and a few more

[Dinkleberry2010]

My favorite Elvis song is (Marie's the name) His Latest Flame

[The Comedian]

Eeech. . . I could never take Elvis seriously. I tried to once. But, nope. Whenever he comes up, I press the "skip" button.

[Scheherazade]

Hey, did everyone know that Elvis and I, share the same birthday... 8th January.:DI'm sure the similarities don't end there...

:p


Eeech. . . I could never take Elvis seriously. I tried to once. But, nope. Whenever he comes up, I press the "skip" button.Sacrilege!

I will pray for you, The Comedian... I will pray for your redemption.

[Maryd.]

I'm sure the similarities don't end there...

Meaning... :brow::brow:

[toni]

Funny whenever I listen to Love Me Tender, I get the impression that my Dad is the one singing.

[Maryd.]

Funny whenever I listen to Love Me Tender, I get the impression that my Dad is the one singing.

Toni, that is so precious.

[Dinkleberry2010]

I find it amazing that over fifty years since he "burst" onto the scene and over thirty years since his death, Elvis still evokes strong feelings and emotions and opinions. I love some of his songs; some I almost dislike. But overall when I hear the name Elvis or hear a song by him a smile comes over my face, and it makes me feel good.

[Maryd.]

I find it amazing that over fifty years since he "burst" onto the scene and over thirty years since his death, Elvis still evokes strong feelings and emotions and opinions. I love some of his songs; some I almost dislike. But overall when I hear the name Elvis or hear a song by him a smile comes over my face, and it makes me feel good.



This is true Jer.

I am not a very big fan... :blush: Actually I am not really fixated on Elvis at all, but I do sing along when I hear a song of his and ironically enough, I seem to know all the words to - all of his songs. :D(So much for not being fixated)

[DanielBenoit]

Omg this is crazy. Not only was the 8th Elvis's birthday, but also; Stephen Hawking, David Bowie, Francois Mitterand and Galileo Galilei. :O

[The Comedian]

I wonder if this Elvis thread would like a few metaphorical sleeping pills. . . (evil grin)

[Helga]

I wouldn't say I'm a really big fan, I have one cd with 26 tracks and know them all by heart and a few more... I love the movies I have seen haven't seen'em all though.

but it's true that he has so many young fans and is loved dearly by people who weren't born 'till years after he died... including me...

[papayahed]

I wonder if this Elvis thread would like a few metaphorical sleeping pills. . . (evil grin)

I'm thinking a peanut butter and 'naner sandwich.

[DWolfman]

Can't believe

"Can't Help Falling in Love "

isn't already on the thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V430M59Yn8

[Emil Miller]

Eeech. . . I could never take Elvis seriously. I tried to once. But, nope. Whenever he comes up, I press the "skip" button.

Got to agree with this. Neely posted a video of Heartbreak Hotel on another thread recently and I couldn't stop laughing.
How about ' Won't you let me be your Teddy boy?' as the guys I used to knock around with used to sing. It does bring back some happy memories though of the club for youngsters we used to attend after work and which was held in a girls school. One of the girls had a picture of Elvis pasted on her desk and as the saying goes, a man's gotta do what he's gotta do; so I drew a moustache on it.

[Helga]

ok I'm a bigger fan than I said before. I have a poster of him in my kitchen..

and I love 'treat me like a fool'

[Emil Miller]

ok I'm a bigger fan than I said before. I have a poster of him in my kitchen..
I would love to draw a moustache on it but Iceland is too far away and I hate cold weather.

[Scheherazade]

I would love to draw a moustache on it but Iceland is too far away and I hate cold weather.You mean like this?

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8348/brianv.jpg

:p

[Maryd.]

You mean like this?

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8348/brianv.jpg

:p

Go scher... :lol:

[Heathcliff]

I like Elvis's movies. Or, the songs in the movies - rather.
I can't really remember what they are called, although I enjoy them.
Ilike the song and clip to the one that I think might be titled Bossanova. It is in a movie I can't quite remember the name of and I know the carpet in the scene is purple. just goes to show how much I notice.
My favourite movie clip was one where he is, I think, in Germany, and he joins the puppet show and sings to the doll. That is one of the adorable things, even though he doesn't really know how to speak German, he scraped through.
Last year, I had to recite a song/poem in English class. I think I've mentioned this before. I chose the song In the Ghetto and made up this long, soppy, meaningful speech about the lyrics.
Mostly, I'm amazed about how the context of his songs and movies differ so much. He can go from Love Me Tender to Girls! Girls! Girls!
Although I suppose that always seems to be a writer's decision.

[Emil Miller]

You mean like this?

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8348/brianv.jpg

:p

Amazing! You have just turned Graham Greene into Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

[papayahed]

I think the Kaiser Wilhelm II pic has more panache, no?

[qimissung]

You mean like this?

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8348/brianv.jpg

:p

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

My sides are hurting! Thank you, Schere!

[Emil Miller]

I think the Kaiser Wilhelm II pic has more panache, no?

Well that may be true, but once the Kaiser had grown it he thought he was the cat's whiskers and sacked Bismark, the German chancellor who stood in the way of his imperial ambitions, and challenged the might of the British Empire. This led on to WW1 at the end of which millions were dead and the balance of power had shifted from Europe to the USA.
Now if instead of wearing that moustache he had worn a pair of blue suede brothel creepers and gone around strumming a guitar and warbling like Elvis he would have been comitted to a lunatic asylum and none of that would have happened.

[papayahed]

Well that may be true, but once the Kaiser had grown it he thought he was the cat's whiskers and sacked Bismark, the German chancellor who stood in the way of his imperial ambitions, and challenged the might of the British Empire. This led on to WW1 at the end of which millions were dead and the balance of power had shifted from Europe to the USA.
Now if instead of wearing that moustache he had worn a pair of blue suede brothel creepers and gone around strumming a guitar and warbling like Elvis he would have been comitted to a lunatic asylum and none of that would have happened.


Either way I'd still have cocktails with him.

[Emil Miller]

Either way I'd still have cocktails with him.

I can just imagine the scene.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvt4b_qwC_Q

[papayahed]

I can just imagine the scene.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvt4b_qwC_Q

Holy Crap, that was last friday night!! Are you following me??

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I can just imagine the scene.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvt4b_qwC_Q

Another Spike Jones fan! It truly is a small world.
I had posted a couple of his pieces here and there on the Forums. I was subjected to this as a young lad growing up along with many other forms of unusual "music".



Holy Crap, that was last friday night!! Are you following me??

He was at the beginning, but was then diverted to Hawaii to see the King… http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f8/BlueHawaiiElvis.jpg/200px-BlueHawaiiElvis.jpg

While listening to…

Spike Jones – “Hawaiian War Chant” (Don't miss the brass coming in at about 2:00)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQOXrMA4K0E

Gilliatt

[Emil Miller]

Holy Crap, that was last friday night!! Are you following me??

OK I admit it. It's that hat that does it and the other women at the bar were pretty good too. Why don't women look like that any more? These days they are more likely to look like the three at the end.:lol:
Not to be sexist, that also goes for men then as compared to now.:nod:

[papayahed]

OK I admit it. It's that hat that does it and the other women at the bar were pretty good too. Why don't women look like that any more?

I think it has to do with loosening mores and the decline of civility. :santasmil



(So the first chick in the hat right? The second one is nice also but I think I can pull off the first better)

[Emil Miller]

I think it has to do with loosening mores and the decline of civility. :santasmil



(So the first chick in the hat right? The second one is nice also but I think I can pull off the first better)

No I was referring to the one talking to the man who is singing to her.