I was stationed in the Army in 1959-60 with Elvis in Germany….he was a regular soldier and neither asked or received any special consideration despite his fame
Wow, that is really amazing! Thanks for sharing,... My mom was a huge fan and when he died, she told us all about him and we played his music a lot. Oh and she made me watch all of his movies too :) LJ
@@marybrant9586 Billboard ranked Brooks as the greatest male solo artist on the Billboard 200 chart of all time. As of 2023, according to the RIAA, he is the best-selling solo albums artist in the United States with 162 million domestic units sold, ahead of Elvis Presley, and is second only to the Beatles in total album sales overall. Try again.
God sprinkled some special stardust on this man. He was gorgeous, charming, well mannered, deeply spiritual. He had stage performances that were groundbreaking. His voice was amazing, especially in his gospel songs. He was a rebel. He has sold over a billion records!
I was a young married woman when Elvis passed away. I was at work when someone brought the news in. We all just sat there, looking at each other. The word "shocked" didn't even come close. He was at his very best in this 1968 concert. It's how I like to remember him.
I was also at work when I learned Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash. I stood up and just walked out of my job and quit right there without saying a word.
I have heard others say Elvis did the stanky leg. He started so many things, bling, Cadillacs, entourage, sideburns, pink and black outfits, jumpsuits, and on and on. He changed the whole culture and influenced so many musicians including MJ. Watch the video of E and MJ dancing to "I Gotta Feelin' in My Body". It is a good one.❤❤❤
He was 33 years old in 1968. I'm so happy you're finally reacting to Elvis. I love Elvis so much and I can't get enough of Elvis. Most beautiful and talented man ever. He's one of a kind...I love Elvis forever ❤❤❤❤
Elvis is in 5 music halls of fames, has the best selling christmas album, had many pop number 1 hits, got 3 Grammys for his Gospel, sang semi opera, was named the 14th best country singer of all time and was the king of rock'n roll. He sang everything amazing and always addes his own style to it.
I cried like a baby. I was a nurse in a Neonatal Unit. I came in on night shift and could hardly function because it was like burying my childhood when he died. The young nurses were like "snap out of it". They just didn't get it.
I fell for Elvis when I was 3. 60 years later still loving him! He could sing anything & his rabbit hole is deep & worth a deep dive. Got his Grammy for Gospel. He was one of those rare singers that sounded as good live as recordings. Recommend Trying to Get to You from the same concert, You Lost That Loving Feeling,& Bridge Over Trouble Water, etc❤❤❤❤❤
He won THREE Gospel Grammy Awards, and one for Lifetime Achievement. The Grammys weren't around during Elvis' groundbreaking years, so, The King of Rock and Roll never won one for Rock and Roll!
@@punkydoodle4774 Thanks for adding this info. I couldn't remember the # & didn't want to give misinformation. Anyhow, I always thought Elvis was not given enough recognition by the Grammys.. possibly out of jealousy..at least that's my theory.
Best to describe Elvis. He had great stage presence. He is one of those performers who could read a phone book or a tech manual. You would be enamored with him.
There`s many reasons why Elvis was called "The KING OF ROCK N ROLL"! I remember exactly where I was when they came over the Radio and said Elvis had passed. The World stood still that Day! BP, you have to checkout "Kentucky Rain".
Here is a question for you. Elvis sang about 800 songs, right? So in order to be crowned king of rnr how many of those songs were rnr? Name 10% of the 800 which is 80.
I loved the fictional account in the movie “Forrest Gump” where Elvis got his signature “pelvic thrust” from watching little Forrest dance with his leg braces on. It just reinforces Elvis’ impact on American culture.
THANKS!!!!!! You NEED to watch this video from the movie "Jailhouse Rock" - he choreographed the whole thing!! Elvis at his best !!!!! Michael LOVED Elvis & his moves!!!! Oh and Elvis was one of the most handsome & sexiest man out there!!!! His smile melted hearts & made panties drop everywhere!!!!
This entire concert was incredible. Elvis at his absolute best. You should watch the whole thing. This particular song reminds me of my dad singing about “Spider Murphy” when I was itsy bitsy. 🥰
From the same special, please watch Elvis perform Trying To Get To You. It's just him, with his guitar, sitting on a tiny stage with some other guys and the audience surrounding them. He talks a little and you get a glimpse of his personality and definately of his charisma!
My favourite singer ever! Simply the best! Most people today don’t know how talented he was. They only know a few of his hits. Some of his less known songs are just as good, if not better than the hits, just because of his amazing vocal ability. His 1970 live version of “Bridge over Troubled Water” is fabulous! He could sing a ballad like no one! He could sing any genre…rock, pop, country, R&B and gospel. (Gospel was his favourite).
“What Now My Love” - Aloha from Hawaii Concert 1973 really shows Elvis vocal range, every song in this concert is very good. Elvis was 33 when he did the 1968 Comeback
Would LOVE for you to react to 1970 live in Vegas Suspicious Minds, Just Pretend and/or Bridge Over Trouble Water. 1973 live in Hawaii... American Trilogy, You Gave Me A Mountain, What Now My Love.
Elvis played a significant role in making the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor a reality in the 60s. He performed a benefit concert for the memorial fund.
The man was just incredible! His charisma was unmatched and the man could sing. This special was huge. I watched this many years after because I was born in 1969. But his popularity in the 70's was still so massive that you simply couldn't escape him. I watched this show as someone who in all reality should find Elvis before his time, but it just speaks to the fact that good music will transcend generations and that true talent cannot be denied. And...nobody had better sideburns.
It's hard to believe watching him perform on this special that he thought after he had been in Hollywood making movies for years, people wouldn't want to see him perform live anymore. He was fit and looked great although he said he almost suffocated in that leather outfit. You have to give him the credit due him for paving the way for others. There's a multitude of famous music people who name him as an influence including the Beatles.
My dad loved Elvis. My parents saw Jailhouse Rock at the theater on their first date. 15 to 20 years later, my dad called a radio station to answer an Elvis trivia question while home sick from work one day. Because he got the answer right, they wanted him to come down to the radio station with 2 other finalists for a live Elvis trivia quiz show. My dad won and he and my mom won a trip to Memphis and got to tour Graceland. We live in Kansas and had no money for travel, so this was the first and only time my dad got to go. My dad passes away on my birthday a couple years ago from covid. We fot a puppy about a year later and decided to name him Elvis in honor of my dad. My son and i realized later that Elvis has a little white lightening bolt on his forehead. I had to explain TCB to my son, but it just seemed to be meant to be. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
@@michellemorris2888 I adored reading this story! Thank you for sharing and I’m sure your Dad loves the way you chose honor his legacy and pay homage to their Elvis Presley experience.
Elvis was censured for years on live TV . They learned to only film him above the waist lol. But even in 1968 although things had loosened up quite a bit he still had to hold back on the swiveling hips on TV lol
Elvis' '68 Comeback Special, to be broadcast on NBC, was the first time Elvis was in front of a live audience in seven years. Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis's manager, had told the NBC team that he would handle ticket distribution. He assured them that he would recruit ("bus in") fans from across the country to fill the studio. However, by the day of the show, Parker had not distributed the tickets, and only a few people were in line to see the taping. So, producer-director Steve Binder and his team asked people from a nearby Bob's Big Boy restaurant to attend, and also advertised on local radio. For the informal jam session, Elvis, clad in black leather and surrounded by a few hundred, non-paying fans, played with a small group of musicians including guitarist Scotty Moore and percussionist DJ Fontana, who had been members of his 1950s backing band "The Blue Moon Boys."
I have read about Tom Parker not giving the tickets out. I don’t know if it was an act of sabotage because he didn’t agree with something or he couldn’t be bothered. Luckily, Steve Binder made sure there was an audience for filming.
I love Elvis! The the singer of Volbeat did some Elvis impersonating just as a fun piece of trivia. You can hear it come through a little in their songs. It's very rock, so it's an interesting contrast.
I am 57. When I was 5 years old I fainted when I saw him on TV. Never been what some would say is a super fan. I like some of his stuff. I hate to say it but I thought then and still do to this day, think this man was the most beautiful, sexy, stunning example of male beauty in his prime. To this day I have never seen anyone as handsome. Close for sure but nobody touches this king!
The greatest!! I was fortunate enough to see him in concert not long before he died. My mom took me to see him in the Summit in Houston when I was around 11 years old. But I remember that sh:t! 😂
I was 10 years old when he passed away and I can remember the day as vividly now. My mom cried so hard as she adored him. I now have her record collection of his that she treasured.
I it was 4 days before my 9th birthday when when Elvis died. The shock that extended to my family was still talking about it eating pizza and then cake on my birthday. My Dad was a country fan but liked Elvis( both were from Mississippi) but I was surprised how many people were emotional about it. The only other person that I can think of that was similar was when Robin Williams died.
He’s just mesmerizing! As was MJ. Maybe that’s why there are so few of these iconic, legendary ones. I believe their souls are literally, in sync with the music. They seemed to vibrate with it! It was electrifying to watch and we all are like magnets watching em.
Elvis was the first performer to wear all leather in a performance & I guarantee the women loved it ! As far as the sweat I've seen ,in the Hawaii concert, women wipe his sweat off his face with their hands. With nothing but love in their faces.
You can watch a longer performance of him singing and dancing to Jailhouse Rock in 1957 when he was 22 yrs old. Check out The Jailhouse Rock scene from his movie titled Jailhouse Rock. Many consider it the first music video and he does a quite a lot of dance moves. Many later stars copied some of his moves and style.
LIVE is the best way to hear and watch his songs! Try these two: *LIVE from HAWAII 1973 'An American Trilogy' *LIVE from LAS VEGAS 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' (these concerts are on Utube) Can't go wrong!!
Elvis has been a part of my entire life. I was 16 in 1977 when he passed, meeting up with friends at the park after registering for classes. My Mom saw Elvis when he was with the Louisiana Hayride, got his autograph. There was just a presence about him. This concert was on TV & he had so much fun with it. Back in those days there were several TV specials he did. This was the best of them.
When I was 17 he was on tour and I wanted to go to the concert, but my parents wouldn't allow it. Then he died. Ugh, I was so upset! I was thisclose to seeing him before he passed. I remember him being a generous man. He'd just give a Caddilac away to random people. The King.
After his world-conquering fame in the 1950s and early 1960s, it's fair to say that Elvis's star was on the wane. His manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker, kept Elvis away from live performance for 7 years, and rather than going into the studio to record great albums, Elvis was churning out bad movie soundtracks for even more bad movies. So, it's fair to say that Elvis wasn't all too happy with where he was. He wanted a change, and in 1968, he got it. The clip you watched comes from the legendary 1968 Elvis Comeback TV Special. Btw, unbelievably, "Colonel" Tom Parker originally wanted Elvis to perform without any dialogue, wearing a cardigan sweater like that worn by Perry Como, in front of a fireplace and a Christmas tree, and sing 20 Christmas songs. Thank God this idea was squashed....
Elvis originally got big in the 50’s. He went in the army and the ‘68 comeback special was his return to his career. It was a TV special in a studio and it was a mixture of new material and his hits from his early career. He grew up in the south and although he definitely knew country music he was fond of the blues and boogie-woogie music that were popular in black nightclubs, and he was friends with a lot of people in that scene. So he was kind of regarded as a very black white guy, which made him popular with the younger folks in the 50’s and not so popular with some of their parents. And yes, he was a sex symbol. Those moves were pretty risqué in the 50’s, girls were getting overheated and passing out watching him work those hips. But Elvis also loved Gospel music and in the later part of his career, he and his band always warmed up by singing gospel songs. Elvis was a good dude who lived a kind of tragic life in a way. And your Michael Jackson comparison isn’t really out of bounds. The King of Rock and the King of Pop? The comparison is an old one. Did you know Michael Jackson married Elvis’s daughter in 1994?
He was the hand picked "white savior" of RnR to sell to middle America white families with teen kids, because people were fearful that their white kids liked the black music too much. So they needed a white savior to put on Ed Sullivan etc. Even though Chuck Berry was already 10 times better by 1956.
ELVIS & HIS NERVES: Steve Binder, the producer-director of the special related a little story which took place in the dressing room right before Elvis was due to go on: Elvis was extremely nervous and he told Binder that he didn't know any of the songs, he forgot all the words, & wasn't going out there, & Binder said "I don't care if you walk out, just say hello & then walk off, but you ARE going out." And out he came. You're referring to the song "If I Can Dream" which closed the '68 special & was due to the assassinations of both King & Robert Kennedy -- Kennedy was assassinated as the special was being worked on & close to wrapping up when Binder & Elvis saw the TV news when it happened.
He was very nervous doing that portion of the show. I love the JAM SESSION part of that live performance. He had finished the commitment for the films or almost maybe 1 left or something like that. I also love the version in the movie that he choreographed himself.
@@ladysky2883 Elvis was just nervous, period. Even in '70 you could feel his nerves & see it on his face when he walked out on that Vegas stage. He himself said he was always nervous because "each time it's a different crowd." Regards choreography for the film -- Alex Romero was the choreographer but Elvis wanted to do certain things his way. Any film that's going to have dancing will always have a choreographer on set, unless of course it's someone like the great Gene Kelly. The problem is that Romero was never given credit due to some internal strife & most people aren't even aware of him. Later on an article was written up in Variety mag., an apology of sorts, but too little, too late. Romero went on to work w-Elvis on “Double Trouble” & “Clambake” in 1967 & “Speedway” in 1968.
Your opening theme song is by Thin Lizzy fronted by Phil Lynott. He was a big Elvis fan and recorded a great tribute called 'King's Call' when Elvis died. Nothing beats Elvis, and this whole 1968 TV show is awesome ❤
@78 been to oodles of concerts of all generes. Saw Elvis twice as a young man and older after weight gain. NO ONE has or had his charisma. It was palpable.
