"The King!" Elvis Presley (Official Thread)

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The Chairman Of The Board And The King

^I'll race your Nixon with a Sinatra.

 

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The King and The Greatest...

Two icons...

 

[Lynch]

^^ Epic

 

[Phil B.]

That picture is awesome. Thanks for posting it!

I am surprised I haven't posted in this thread yet. Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis were all played in my house when I was growing up. Elvis was a performer that I had to seek out on my own. I like all of his tunes "pre-enlistment" and most of his later music. The "middle" era of his work is quite fluffy. I can't agree with a fan crazed evaluation that "every thing he did is a masterpiece", which you hear quite often down here.
I will say this, if anybody could make a bad tune sound decent, it was Elvis.

 

[Lynch]

The "middle" era of his work is quite fluffy. I can't agree with a fan crazed evaluation that "every thing he did is a masterpiece", which you hear quite often down here.

Even from my absolute favorite artists, I could/would never say anything like that. If I ever had a weak moment and did say something like that, I think it would just be an over-generalization.

Cool pic of these two legends

 

[Hurdy Gurdy Man]

A lot of the middle period "fluff" was due to writers having to come up with tunes for his many many films obviously much faster than they were able to come up with consistently strong material.Whenever Presley and his team were truly devoted to delivering the goods,they were usually damn good at it.In the midst of all the mediocre soundtrack scores,Presley scored big artistically with 1967's "How Great thou Art" which I believe is regarded as on the best recordings of the genre ever.Early period works,particularly the Sun sessions,really kicked off rock and roll to an exasperatingly thunderous start.Particularly when you keep in mind that around that time,the Billboard charts were full of Pat Boone,Doris Day,Four Lads Four Freshman,a lot of nice but rather pedestrian bill of fare.Presley's early life influences of local black gospel church singers shine exorbitantly through the richly soulful wailings of the times.

 

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Muhammad Ali: 'Elvis was my close personal friend. He came to my Deer Lake training camp about two years before he died. He told us he didn't want nobody to bother us.

He wanted peace and quiet and I gave him a cabin in my camp and nobody even knew it. When the cameras started watching me train, he was up on the hill sleeping in the cabin. Elvis had a robe made for me. I don't admire nobody, but Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know'.

 

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Number 32 and The King...

Jim Brown and Elvis Presley...

 

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A Pair of Kings...

Presley with B.B. King [sans Lucille]

 

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It's Not Unusual...

The King and the Welsh Elvis Tom Jones?



I read Presley loved Jones' "Green Green Grass Of Home" upon first hearing it that he played it non-stop on a road trip. They became fast friends because of it.