Elvis' original band of Scotty, Bill and DJ influenced everybody, so it's no surprise that The Beach Boys would take inspiration from Scotty Moore's playing. Bill Black was so influential as a bass player that McCartney OWNS Bill's original stand-up bass and played it on the Real Love Beatles reunion session in the 90s. DJ was a huge influence on Ringo Starr (among many others) and as a drummer myself, I quickly learned that I HAD TO know the Jailhouse Rock drum shots - it's part of the basic drum vocabulary. As Levon Helm once said, Elvis was the star (and rightly so), but people also came to see the Elvis Presley Band.
@@johnsilva9139 I have to correct myself. I tried to pull that video up. It doesn't exist. Paul plays his Hoefner bass on That's Alright Mama with Elvis' band. He does Heartbreak Hotel with the Bill Black's bass at another time. I forget. I need to double check myself BEFORE I post.
Elvis just brings a smile to your face when you see him perform. The media hated his hip movements and declared it to be sexually offensive and refused to allow TV cameras to record him below the waist. He was the definition of bad boy back then. Remember, back in the 1950s, men wore suits and hats. Women had their matching dresses, purses and shoes. Every man was clean cut and they did not like anyone that veered from their norm. My dad had a very difficult time transitioning into the 1960s & 70s. At first he hated Elvis, but my Japanese mother loved him and my dad warmed up to him . They ended up buying many of his LPs and had him on reel to reel. I got to enjoy his music as a kid and still love him to this day. Elvis died when I was in the 7th grade. I'll never forget that day.
Boy I give you kudos for stretching your reactions considering your generation, etc. Curious actually what you think. Once again you are an extra-ordinary reaction channel so, here goes! To me this was Elvis's best rock & roll song. Fun.
The western movie you referred to was his first, Love Me Tender. This video from Jailhouse Rock is of a TV show his character was in, and not part of the plot. Later in the movie he performs "You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care)" which really shows his magnetism. That video is worth a watch.
Those eyes are “bedroom eyes.” Although my parents became a part of a very fundamentalist church where it was preached that going to the movie theater was a sin, my mother still loved Elvis so I saw all of the Elvis movies. If you haven’t checked out “In the Ghetto” you need to!
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425Every black artist stole from the white man who invented guitars, pianos, trumpets, accordions etc.Elvis created his own sound, a blend of several types of music.Every musician is influenced by someone else, including black artists playing instruments created by whites.Grow up.We all use what benefits us, regardless of who created it.Blacks do not have a monopoly on soul and rhythm.We all share and benefit from everyone else. 😢😢
Lee, the book Last Train to Memphis (The Rise of Elvis Presley) by Peter Guralnick is a MUST read. As Bob Dylan states, the reader steps right inside the book and witnesses the birth of Rock n Roll.
Excellent reaction video again as per usual!! You know the beauty of this channel is watching you listen and actually enjoy and appreciate all the different types of music we're all trying to to expose you to. I don't know if I'd have as open a mind as you do so you deserve kudos for that and hats off to you bro as this channel is Leaps and Bounds Above the Rest❤
Actually, Elvis' acting isn't at all that bad. In fact, the great actor Walter Matthau praised his acting ability. The problem was more with the movies he starred in which weren't very good. "He was an instinctive actor... He was quite bright...he was very intelligent... He was not a punk. He was very elegant, sedate, and refined, and sophisticated." --Walter Matthau
Few actors can do comedy and drama.Elvis could.He had impeccable comedic timing.I love all of his movies.I can stare at Elvis' phenomenal beauty and sex appeal. If his movies were so bad, then why was he the highest paid actor of his time? If they were so bad, how were the profits from his movies used to bankroll Elizabeth Taylor's big movie Cleopatra? How was it then possible that the profits from his movies saved a major movie studio from bankruptcy? Answer: there are legions of Elvis fans who enjoy their light entertainment and can be watched with childrem.They do not drag you down.Plus Elvis' singing is always uplifting to the spirit.His movies made him rich, rich, rich.
Thanks for your great reaction. For an example of how Elvis could excite an audience play his performance of Hound Dog from his second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show from Sept-Oct 56. They didn't hide his hips for that one. You should also try his stand up performance of the 3-song medley from the 68 Comeback Special which features Elvis rocking out in black leather.
Many many years ago I noticed that the "critics" were like an opposite barometer. They were negative on movies I really enjoyed and often did well at the box office. Early Eastwood is a good example.
Lee, Elvis's co-star in the movie, Judy Tyler was killed in a car wreck on her way home to New York with her husband just a few days after they finished filming the movie. It was only her 2nd movie she had made. She was 24 years old. Elvis was so distraught he refused to watch the movie when it was released. However, despite that, it's said that he did go ahead and decide to watch it a few days later ( I think I read it was in a private screening with his parents) but never watched it again after that. He said at the time, "Nothing has hurt me as bad in my life".. Then his mother died a year later.
This is one of my favorites. As I understand it, the director didn't choreograph Elvis' dance moves, letting him move however he chose. I really like a lot of Elvis' music; his movies, not so much.
The first three or four movies were really good. They pretty much played on his Rock Star persona and had his hit songs in them. Then they all turned to a formula, "handsome man, chases pretty girl". In the sixties, after a movie had its theater run, it would be shown on network TV. Then they would go into syndication and be shown again and again. So everyone saw his movies at one time or another. Some of them were pretty popular. Elvis sang in all of them except, I think, two. But the good song was very rare. I Can't Help Falling in Love, Viva Las Vegas, Return to Sender....
Elvis acting in several movies, most revolved around his music, but he did I think one that was pretty serious, I think it was King Creole", and he was pretty good in that.
This is a full video that was hardly common. Elvis was 22 years old born in 1935. The movie Jailhouse Rock parallels his life in many ways. He was talented, troubled, etc. He had light hair and dyed it dark to highlight his eyes. He was beautiful and the media always tried to wreck him. Sad.
DJ Fontana was Elvis’ first drummer and they recorded this at Radio Recorders in Hollywood for the upcoming movie. DJ’s background was actually more jazz influenced - but he was playing with the country bands on the Louisiana Hayride radio shows when Elvis and his band met him in 1955. The original band was only a singing guitarist, lead guitar and bassist. They decided they needed DJ to join the band. DJ Fontana influenced a generation of drummers. He is the original - who changed rockabilly into rock music. He was a big influence on me. React to Elvis “You’re So Square” from this movie or “Reconsider Baby” 1960 and check out the drums. Actually Elvis grew up wanting to be an actor more than a singer.
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Elvis did over 30 films. They weren't supposed to be big works of art they were mostly fun movies. The clip you should see if you like drumming watch the Bosa Nova baby clip from his movie Fun in Alcapolco. He acts dances songs plays the keyboard and I think The bongo drums all at the same time.✌️❤️
Don't listen to the critics, even from Elvis's first movie. In those days, most critic did not like Elvis so they savaged every thing he did. His first 4 movies before he went into the army were great, especially King Creole. After the war, GI Blues and Blue Hawaii made so much money that the powers that be-Hal Wallis and Tom Parker, stuck with the "formula" movies. Flaming Star, Wild in the Country were great, without music, and serious roles. That's what Elvis wanted to do. But, he got pigeonholed. I think many of the '60s musicals were great, too, with some good songs. Imagine making three movies back to back in one year. That doesn't happen now, at least not in more mainstream movies. Elvis was right when he said Hollywood had the wrong impression of him and he couldn't get out of those 60s contracts that did not give him script approval. That's one of the reasons why he never went back to movies once his contracts were done. It's sad, really, he was an incredibly gifted singer, performer and actor but, somehow, never fulfilled his potential. Imagine the role of Tony in West Side Story performed by Elvis. His manager turned it down. In my opinion, that was criminal!
His biggest song at the time was Hound Dog and when he performed it on TV on Ed Sullivan in Sept. 1956, Sullivan told his camera folk to only show Elvis from the waste up. (fearing girls would be aroused) IIn June 1956 he performed Hound Dog on the Milton Berle show and they had him sing the song to a Basset Hound to diffuse the sexual nature of his performing. Oh for those early days.
Elvis was a lot of fun but the movies weren’t so good. But I was a kid when most of them came out and I did liked them ok. He was everywhere back then. Saturated the media. Of course when the Beatles came out he was fighting to stay on top. . There were lots of good songs by him in the later years., like Suspicious Minds, and In the Ghetto. He was definitely a superstar.
Elvis would rather have done music, the colonel signed him up for a lot of bad movies. He didn't like the choreography for this, so he redid it himself.
I could be totally wrong, but I believe this was his debut performance on the Ed Sullivan show. Hence, the black and white. His movies were in color. There was such an uproar from the powers that be that they were only able to show him from the waist up after that.
I'm a huge Elvis fan and as a kid I saw every one of his movies but in retrospect most of his movies sucked. LOL but one was really good. Check out the movie called King Creole.
Interesting fact...Elvis actually chipped a tooth while coming down the pole..a tiny piece of it was aspirated into his lungs and he had to have surgery to remove it- 😢
if you really want a rocking time do the opening of The 68 comeback Special. "Trouble/Guitar Man". Any of the 68 comeback is awesome. Thanks for this reaction. Be Blessed
Thank you for reacting to Elvis. Please would you check out One Night With You & Trying To Get To You, both from the '68 Comeback Special. I have linked both performances for you so you react to the correct one. Thank you so much in advance. South African Elvis fan. One Night With You ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xiwhiVNK5dY.htmlsi=jMdzs4rffgjAK8VK Trying To Get To You ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KZ64T6gEdC4.htmlsi=R0u3cCVwrC65lJvZ
L33Reacts: Check out Elvis in "LOVING YOU" (1957) and "VIVA LAS VEGAS" (1964) where in both films (each shot in gorgeous TECHNICOLOR & with still decent music compared to the musical abominations that made up the songs heard on the film soundtrack of his post military service Hollywood flicks he churned out as that decade of "the SIXTIES" unfolded - anyone for his "DO THE CLAM"? Really... ?!?) he is a decent natural actor, and as seen in the latter, quite adept at on-screen light comedy (along with having dynamite on-screen chemistry, and apparently OFF-SCREEN as well, with his co-star Ann-Margret.
Some songs have a need to be put into the proper context. Looking back at a song that is pertinent in their particular era. Displays this as being a song which in the 1950s, was so outside of the norm that it was almost a shock when the movie came out. When you see this type of performance in the year 1957 and what? Was the norm of the day you really can see why Elvis was considered the king at his time and had the power to begin the new evolution and music which ultimately became rock.
After this movie and Love Me Tender, his Hollywood career was all downhill thanks to his handlers and studio execs. He came back with a string of fine song hits in the late 60's like If I Can Dream, which might surprise you.
'King Creole' made in 1958 was one of Elvis' better movies and featured some great songs such as "Trouble", "Hard-headed Woman", and "King Creole"...one scene features Elvis singing "Trouble" and he nails it...
It’s dizzying to think how once Heartbreak Hotel was recorded by RCA in 1956, he became a worldwide superstar and was offered a recording contract right away. All those early recordings were hits. As far as his movies, it wouldn’t make any difference if he acted like Marlon Brando (Jackie Gleason called him a guitar playing Marlon Brando), the critics and media would have 💩 on him because that is literally all the media and establishment did. I’ve read newspaper clippings about his concerts and tv performances and brutal doesn’t quite describe it. I honestly don’t know how a young guy like that could take it…they literally loathed him it seems. Could you please do a reaction to a live tv performance on The Dorsey Brothers Show from 1956? I’ll find the link and list below. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2hEqVTfP3h0.htmlsi=Avpd_5HNdN4s8z6h
Make no mistake, I am a ginormous Elvis fan. But since you happen to play the drums I would be very interested in your opinion of Karen Carpenter’s drumming. Please check out her “Dancing in the Streets” from 1968 as well as the Carpenters Bacharach-David medley outside live in the front lawn of Walter Reed Hospital in DC in the fall for the Viet Nam patients.
Critics are failed artists1 Elvis didn't like the Elvis movies, wanted serious roles,but was contracted to do these! Do" Heartbreak Hotel!" written by Hoyt Axton's, Mom!
