35 Years Ago Today

[Truth Teller]

[GanjaFreebird]

Best singer of all time! Long live the King!

[Truth Teller]

Elvis,Scotty,Bill and D.J, and some of their best:









Dave Marsh on "Litle Sister :"If The Who did rockablly,this is what they would sound like".

Great guitar by Hank Garland




A anti-KKK gospel song :


Tom Parker didn't want Elvis to do this song calling it "hippie ,protest ,crap",Elvis responed "To me it's a gospel song":



His last hit when he was alive,and ironically (for me),the first record he did in about two or three years that I liked:

[GanjaFreebird]

I played a show at a Dr. King birthday celebration back when I was in college, and one of the main songs was "If I Can Dream", what a great song!

[GanjaFreebird]

So before this thread gets destroyed by somebody of the same ethnicity as Elvis' mother, here's a great tribute by James Brown:

[Charles]

I vividly remember this. I was 16, working on a assembly line at Teradyne in Chatsworth, CA for a summer job making $3.30 and hour soldering connectors, wire wrapping, etc for computer boards. The regulars were middle aged women (1977 version of MILFs I suppose....). I remember one lady whispering to another and then another and it was "Elvis died..." and at least one of them started crying.

[Truth Teller]

I vividly remember this. I was 16, working on a assembly line at Teradyne in Chatsworth, CA for a summer job making $3.30 and hour soldering connectors, wire wrapping, etc for computer boards. The regulars were middle aged women (1977 version of MILFs I suppose....). I remember one lady whispering to another and then another and it was "Elvis died..." and at least one of them started crying.

I was 21,Elvis was my first idol back when I was 5 or 6(The Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan a few days before I turned 8),the shock of Elvis' death(and he hadn't done much music I liked for couple of years,some of those records that I didn't like then , I like now that I'm older ,as Bono says,they have some of the most emotional singing Elvis or anyone else has done) caused to look back for the first time in my life.

The Dom Mc Lean song "American Pie " finally resonated with me,whereas it hadn't done so before:

[Truth Teller]

John:





Paul:



George:




Ringo:

[Truth Teller]

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[Freedom&Liberty]

Tortelvis is funny.

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...Scotty...

Teller, did you know Scotty Moore left the band because ELVIS WAS TOO CHEAP TO GIVE HIM A $50/week RAISE? Hey, who cares about an awesome guitar player, let's celebrate a fat, overrated, pompous clown!

[Truth Teller]

Teller, did you know Scotty Moore left the band because ELVIS WAS TOO CHEAP TO GIVE HIM A $50/week RAISE?

He and Bill Black came back when they got better money.

Hey, who cares about an awesome guitar player

I've always given him ,Bill, and D.J, full credit.

let's celebrate a fat, overrated, pompous clown!

How does this negate Elvis' artistry?

I never said Elvis was perfect,I said Elvis was a great artist.

Ten years or so ago you even said of Elvis : "It seems he influenced everybody who was worth a damn" ,that is true(the only true thing you've ever said ) and some of the tunes I've linked show that.

[Truth Teller]

At about 15:07 of this video(recorded only a few hours after Elvis died),Dave Marsh said that in the 60s it took four Beatles,five Rolling Stones and one Bob Dylan to have to same impact Elvis had in the 50s.

I mentioned that to a friend of mine who was 10 years old when Elvis' "Hound Dog"(the first record this person ever bought) came out and my friend (also a fan of the Beatles,Stones and Dylan) said that Dave Marsh was correct about that.

[GanjaFreebird]

Teller, did you know Scotty Moore left the band because ELVIS WAS TOO CHEAP TO GIVE HIM A $50/week RAISE? Hey, who cares about an awesome guitar player, let's celebrate a fat, overrated, pompous clown!

Relax, we love Scotty Moore, and nobody is celebrating Rush Limbaugh here!

[GanjaFreebird]

He and Bill Black came back when they got better money.



I've always given him ,Bill, and D.J, full credit.



How does this negate Elvis' artistry?

I never said Elvis was perfect,I said Elvis was a great artist.

Ten years or so ago you even said of Elvis : "It seems he influenced everybody who was worth a damn" ,that is true(the only true thing you've ever said ) and some of the tunes I've linked show that.

! Elvis was the best singer/performer in Rock music by far, and probably the best one in popular music in general as well.

The only person I could think of who had the potential to challenge Elvis was Eddie Cochran, as he sang/performed almost as good in many ways, he had the looks, vocals and the whole all-around talent, as unlike Elvis he was also a great songwriter and one of the best instrumentalists ever. Too bad he died so young, who knows what would've happened if he lived longer.

[GanjaFreebird]

Also, people shouldn't let the public image of Elvis "not really playing instruments" fool them, he could REALLY play actually, and he played on almost all of his recordings until the late 1960s (since then, he still played acoustic and piano on some songs but not nearly as much as before), he did most of the guitars (just about everything besides Scotty's solos), all of the acoustic/electric rhythm, rhythm-lead/riffs, and even some lead guitar ("King Creole", "One Night", "Baby What You want Me To Do"), as well as half of the piano/keyboards on his recordings (he was an AMAZING, very underrated, piano player, actually), and some bass (on "Baby I Don't Care").

His rhythm guitar on songs such as "That's Alright Mama" and other classics was essential for the style and VERY influential on everybody who picked up the guitar, even Johnny Cash said that he loved Elvis' rhythm guitar skills at least as much as his vocal skills, and could listen to him play acoustic all day. In fact, his early recordings are really based around his rhythm guitar, he is the one who is really holding the band together and creates the vibe of the music, so those contributions shouldn't be forgotten either.

However, when you can hire people like Scotty Moore or especially James Burton, it's easier to just focus on the singing, so I don't really blame him either!

[Jim Colyer]

I was sitting on the edge of the bed in a motel in Springfield, Virginia, when it came on the TV that Elvis had died. I was shocked. He seemed immortal.

[Freedom&Liberty]

Best singer of all time! Long live the King!

There you go again. Kissing a dead mans ass never got anybody anywhere.

[GanjaFreebird]

I'm not kissing anybody's ass, I'm just telling the truth as always and give people credit when they deserve it!