The One and Only ELVIS Please..

I was never an Elvis fan, but my wife dragged me to his concert at the Coliseum in Cleveland. It was a great show and Elvis really played to the audience. I think the stage hands were kept busy cleaning the flowers off of the stage for most of the night. I left the concert still not a fan, but it was fun and I enjoyed the music. The man definitely had a voice.
 
oldman said:
I was never an Elvis fan, but my wife dragged me to his concert at the Coliseum in Cleveland. It was a great show and Elvis really played to the audience. I think the stage hands were kept busy cleaning the flowers off of the stage for most of the night. I left the concert still not a fan, but it was fun and I enjoyed the music. The man definitely had a voice.
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My old man wasn't much of an Elvis fan either. When I first heard about Elvis, when I was about 8 years old, he told me that Elvis Pressly had been a wild man that had been found living out in the woods and that he didn't even know how to talk until he was taught how to sing. Oddly enough, it was quite a few years later that Ray Stevens came out with the song Gitarzan. When he did, it reminded me of that story my old man had told me about Elvis.

To tell the truth, I was never much of a fan either. But I went to see the movie Follow that Dream because it had been filmed just a couple of hours north of Largo, Florida, where I was living at the time.
 
Sassycakes, OMG...like I'm always in an Elvis mood. We've got the "Graceland Vault" station on Sirius in the car and home. On Sunday mornings, its Elvis Gospel
Hour till 9 am. Often we lie in bed listening to him before we get up.

So many great people still talk about experiences with him and how generous he was!

Only once in many lifetimes does a talent such as this come into our world.
 
Liberty said:
Sassycakes, OMG...like I'm always in an Elvis mood. We've got the "Graceland Vault" station on Sirius in the car and home. On Sunday mornings, its Elvis Gospel
Hour till 9 am. Often we lie in bed listening to him before we get up.

So many great people still talk about experiences with him and how generous he was!

Only once in many lifetimes does a talent such as this come into our world.
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I really could listen to him everyday all day.He was one of a kind ! My cousin saw him in person,I can't imagine how I would have handled seeing him in person !
 
Just heard on Sirius that his career only spanned 23 years! Imagine that...name any other singer that has had
this much impact in that length of time. Hubby says "we grew up with the best of the best". What a great gift of talent.
 
For some reason, this came to mind a few days ago and I’ve been listening to him ever since ! I just love the rawness of his voice in the early days

 
Ruthanne...my husband and I have a fav Elvis song, as I'm sure everyone does. This one is very special as it has
that fabusouls infectious laugh of his over two things that happened during the song...guess this is a test to ask if you know what they were?! It was 1970, I think and he'd just starting playing Vegas - this song is often referred to as the "Laughing Song":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoqVFEE1UBY
 
Liberty said:
Ruthanne...my husband and I have a fav Elvis song, as I'm sure everyone does. This one is very special as it has
that fabusouls infectious laugh of his over two things that happened during the song...guess this is a test to ask if you know what they were?! It was 1970, I think and he'd just starting playing Vegas - this song is often referred to as the "Laughing Song":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoqVFEE1UBY
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Oh I loved that ! He couldn't stop laughing. He was truly one of a kind !
 
Ruthanne...if you don't have Sirius get it. The Elvis channel is 6019 (on DISH) on TV, channel 19 on the car. They have so much aired that you've never heard before and the tales people tell that knew him...reminds me of when we went driving by Graceland when Elvis was still alive...we saw the Dunkin' Donut shop/limo that went to get him donuts.

We were so stuck with how close Graceland was to the road and the commercial area. They say there was never a time, night or day, when fans were around the big wrought iron fence.


He slept during the day and was up all night. So much new "stuff" you nevr knew is on Sirius - its called "The Vault".
 


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