Elvis is Coming! Elvis is Coming!

Paladin1950

Paladin1950

Still love 50's & 60's music!
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On June 3rd in the nursing home where I work, there will be an Elvis impersonator performing. He's been there before. He is actually entertaining. Years ago, I saw an Elvis impersonator at the state fair. He stunk. He only sang along to Elvis Presley songs. The elderly ladies get quite excited when he comes. I think some of them have forgotten that the real Elvis died years ago.

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Paladin1950 said:
On June 3rd in the nursing home where I work, there will be an Elvis impersonator performing. He's been there before. He is actually entertaining. Years ago, I saw an Elvis impersonator at the state fair. He stunk. He only sang along to Elvis Presley songs. The elderly ladies get quite excited when he comes. I think some of them have forgotten that the real Elvis died years ago.

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A recent survey found that "World Wide " there are at least 250,000 to 400,000 Elvis impersonators. They have an international group called " Elvis Tribute Artists " which regulates, and rates the members of the organization. Here in the Toronto and southern Ontario region I know of at least 5 individuals who perform full time doing 2 hour long stage shows, with live musicians, lighting, costumes, and they are busy most week ends, year round. Typically they are playing in a theatre that can seat 750 to a thousand people at a time. Entrance fees are generally $30 a person.

JIM.
 

jimintoronto said:
A recent survey found that "World Wide " there are at least 250,000 to 400,000 Elvis impersonators. They have an international group called " Elvis Tribute Artists " which regulates, and rates the members of the organization. Here in the Toronto and southern Ontario region I know of at least 5 individuals who perform full time doing 2 hour long stage shows, with live musicians, lighting, costumes, and they are busy most week ends, year round. Typically they are playing in a theatre that can seat 750 to a thousand people at a time. Entrance fees are generally $30 a person.

JIM.
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There used to be a Mexican (I think) Elvis impersonator, who sang in Spanish. He called himself, Elvez. :ROFLMAO:
 
Several years ago my husband and I saw an Elvis impersonator. His name was Thane Dunn from New Brunswick, Canada. His shows were a tribute to Elvis and he was very good, sounded like Elvis and put on a very good show with his band called the Cadillac Kings.
 
Last I heard is that Elvis is selling gas in Ethelbert, Manitoba, Canada. If not you can see him at some Elvis Festival in Australia. Will the madness never stop????? Guess that grave at Graceland in Memphis is empty? Sucks!
 
Back when Elvis was still breathing I used to take a close look at the tabloids in the grocery store check out line as I walked past them and say. “Hey it says here that Elvis was caught stealing chickens down in Arkansas!”
Some people would laugh and others would look at me like they thought I was crazy, still some looked like they might want to read about that.
I was probably entertaining myself more than anything.
 
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When Elvis died I was in Austria, having breakfast in the pension we (my dad and me) were staying in. I remember on the radio: "Der Koenig ist tot" (the King is dead).
I was far more affected by David Bowie dying.
 
As much as I adored Elvis from his early 50’s to the end …. I never cared for any of the impersonators at all.

For me, they didn’t serve any purpose …. and I tended to resent them making money from my dead Idol's memory. Still do.
 
At a coffee shop I frequented, many long years ago, there was a knick-knack shop across the street. The manager was an Elvis impersonator who would go to Vegas to perform with other impersonators. He was an older, paunchier guy, with jet-black dyed hair. He might not be around anymore.
 

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