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Day 24 - random Love Month - Elvis
NO love month would be complete without my first true love - the gorgeous and beautiful Elvis! I loved to hear him sing and to gaze upon his glory.
My mother said the first time she saw him on tv, she called for my father, "Come look at this fool!" I think his dancing was an acquired taste and a LOT of people acquired it. He came from poverty and made it to the big times - the biggest, actually. We all wonder, thought, what he might have been had Tom Parker never taken control of him and taken him off the road and away from the real music to make all those b movies.
About those movies, in the days before VHS and cable tv, you had little choice in tv shows... and movies were only available at the theater or when they showed them on TV. I remember begging my mother to let me stay up until 11 to watch and elvis movie once in awhile.
Here he is, doing a tearjerker from WAY back, Old Shep:
An iconic Elvis song:
And finally, the 1955 Sun Records edition of Mystery Train, my mother's favorite.
May he Rest in Peace.
My mother said the first time she saw him on tv, she called for my father, "Come look at this fool!" I think his dancing was an acquired taste and a LOT of people acquired it. He came from poverty and made it to the big times - the biggest, actually. We all wonder, thought, what he might have been had Tom Parker never taken control of him and taken him off the road and away from the real music to make all those b movies.
About those movies, in the days before VHS and cable tv, you had little choice in tv shows... and movies were only available at the theater or when they showed them on TV. I remember begging my mother to let me stay up until 11 to watch and elvis movie once in awhile.
Here he is, doing a tearjerker from WAY back, Old Shep:
An iconic Elvis song:
And finally, the 1955 Sun Records edition of Mystery Train, my mother's favorite.
May he Rest in Peace.