His full Soul is what he brought to this song. Timeless place within us. Every time I hear it it's like the very first time. It touches that place in me. Now I understand when people say it was like he was singing to each of us individually.. Truth, the place beyond time..Wow I LOVE ELVIS..
Elvis Presley's "IF I CAN DREAM" Is From his 68 Comeback Special, and It was Elvis' Heartfelt and Powerful Tribute to Dr Martin Luther King Jr, after his Assasination in Memphis Tennessee where Elvis Lived. It is Based on the message of MLK's "I Have A Dream" Speech, and was written for him with this in mind. It also honored the Memory of Robert F Kennedy, who was also Assasinated during the same time period. This was a Turbulent Time in America, 🇺🇸 with the Civil Rights Movement, Protests and Riots against Vietnam War and it seemed as if the Country was being torn apart and Elvis wanted to bring a Message of Hope and Unity to the Nation. "If I Can Dream" is at it's heart, a Civil Rights Song.
Elvis puts his heart and soul into his music. You can feel his music in your soul. As Paul Simon said after hearing Elvis sing it, how the hell can I compete with that. Unbelievable !
Just his cadence.. he knew when to be soft and then go into it. Truly.. who can compare to this man as a solo artist.. This is my Mama's era... I grew up more with Hair bands and Michael Jackson.. and Michael...also one of the best Entertainers ever.. Michael wrote his own music.. Elvis didn't.. but the passion and soul Elvis gave to every song makes him stand out to me
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He cries on quite a few of his songs. You can tell sweat from tears because they will be coming from his eyes. That's another thing I admire about him being a man. He does show his true emotions and he's not afraid to cry.
This is a big favourite of mine. Elvis knocks this out of the park! Phenomenal voice and talent! Wow... the S&G version was my favourite until I heard Elvis sing this. This man is a legend! He is still loved worldwide. 🇿🇦 Very nice reaction. 👍
Song by Simon and Garfunkle when Paul Simon saw Elvis do this verson he said Fuck how do we sing this after Elvis verson The thing about Elvis What he had that no one else has ever had is YOU THOUGHT HE WAS SINGING RIGHT TO YOU AND NO ONE HAD HIS SOUL PASSION AND STAGE COMMAND THAT HE HAD
A little info on some of Elvis' health issues. He had the genetic condition A-1 antitrypsin which causes COPD/emphysema & used at some point needed an inhaler to help him breath, yet he was able to belt out those songs so powerfully. He also had painful glaucoma & the mega bright house lights & stage lights were hard on his eyes. Thank you.
For the first time in my life, I’m sitting down and listening to Elvis’ recordings. I have to admit I am more so into his ballads than his rockabilly or early rock ‘n’ roll songs. I also think he had one of the greatest baritones of all time, and the vocal depth he could he bring to the slower, more emotional numbers sounds so good to me. Having quite a low singing voice myself, I am starting to enjoy taking shots at such classics as “Can’t Help Falling In Love” and others. And that way he was so often sweating during live shows, seems to me that he was just up there giving his all.
I just came across this yet again and I was about to comment that I love how you get everything, and then you just now posted to notice that when he hits that third verse with Sail on Silver girl, he does it differently. And what he does is he does the upper Harmony and makes that the main Melody and then fills everything in around it, and he arranged and produced these things. He knew what he wanted all the time but they all had fun getting there together but they all really worked hard as well from everything I've read and seen. But I'm so impressed that you just called that right out. And in a way I shouldn't be impressed, this is the world I live in or that stuff is normal. But in terms of watching people react to things, it is relatively rare. And also, I have finally ended up watching a handful of your original stuff including that recent cover that I thought was so well-timed and so well done. So now I'm not surprised by you get it, because of course you get it. It's just rare to see is all I'm saying. And I love it.
Thanks for your reaction love it and love the song he has the best vocals, even Simon and Garfunkel said after seeing elvis performance they said how can we top that and didn't perform that song again, at least while Elvis was alive
Hi ✿ Here's a few more beautiful songs he performed in Vegas The Wonder of You I Just Can't Help Believing Just Pretend Stranger in The Crowd Loving your e reactions! Thank you ♡
Really enjoyed your review. I feel very similar every time I hear this song. Elvis had an incredible way of taking any sone and making it his and many ways better than the original. This song really show the beauty of his voice. I suggest some of his Gospel music. You will hear the total range of his voice. Really enjoy all your reviews.
Well, I just finished the reaction and I don't know what to say. I'm surprised how well you nail everything you really really do. It's amazing. At this point I'm only guessing what you've done and not done before, but I would also say for a complete different change-of-pace, not only check out some of his super early stuff. But also checked out even the 1968 Comeback Special like, trying to get to you. They have decided to do it in the round on this small stage for the middle segment of the show. And hasn't been together with his original old-school band for a long time and they turned out not to have a whole lot of time to practice and just maybe hung out in the hotel room before hand-sewn, laugh. So it's basically just them reminiscing about the old days while the audience basically is three feet away and screaming, laugh. He is in the black leather suit and sweating his ass off, and he frequently will stop the songs and just make a joke or something but it's hilarious man but it does give you a really good glimpse into his personality
1:45 Damn, I've only barely into it and my first thought was yeah man she did one of the things I was harping on as a request and then it was a donated request but it's all good. But you paused it just now to talk about his voice and once again, I love your description of it. I don't know why it is exactly but you totally get this.
@@MrsPenPal the black-and-white thing from nineteen fifty-six early in the air before the Ed Sullivan performances, on the Milton Berle variety show. And yes man this was before I was born but still, its iconic because that is what set off the racist backlash what he did there with him dog and it's nothing. Even compared to the recent Super Bowl performance by Rhian man it's fucking nothing
I mean from more of a technical standpoint you can say that his Dynamics in this are amazing but he does all the intuitive little tricks, like pushing the beginning of a phrase even at low volume and then pulling it back even further you know? Although he had vocal coaching later in life mostly just to keep his voice in decent shape, he grew up without any of that. He just figured it out on its own and yet Luciano Pavarotti, whom I'm sure you know who that is, once said that if Elvis had any formal vocal training growing up, he may well have been the best opera singer of the 20th century.
4:50 I was thinking that I was getting distracted by your incredible leave, it was reminding me of Fruit Loops when I was a little kid and it was one of the tastiest cereals, but you just pause and made this point about you are already familiar with song from Simon & Garfunkel and you felt like maybe Elvis was doing something slightly different here in attacking this final verse. Well he is doing exactly that. What he does here in this final verse is that he goes up and takes the harmony part but he presents it as the lead and then has the backing vocals go back and Surround it and I think it's an incredible artistic decision and it fits the mood and it fits his voice and everything. You have to remember, he may not have been writing his own songs although I bet he could have, but he was in a ranger and he doesn't get enough credit for that. But if you ever watch any of the behind-the-scenes video you will find out very quickly that he always had a very specific idea about what he wanted and even when he didn't? He would work through it with his band that he was so tight with and they would work it out together.
@@MrsPenPal thank you for that and you must realize since I'm about 60 years old I can blaze away on a regular keyboard but I suck at texting so I use Google Voice typing and it constantly makes errors. But it seems like you are able to parse through those and get what I'm saying. So that's the situation with that.
@@MrsPenPal I am sorry, I didn't communicate it that well. Everything from the Ed Sullivan Show later in 1956 is wonderful of course because that's the big time. I was talking about the Milton Berle variety show that happened I think in June of that year. That version of hound dog where it's supposed to end after 2 minutes because you have to realize in that old time TV stuff they would have them on there until then let's do a super abbreviated version of it just enough to give the audience but tastes and make it important and make them lots of money, which interestingly, is why he ended up on The Ed Sullivan Show even later that year. After this Milton Berle performance. Because of this one he does hound dog and although the band had never practiced it this way, he could tell the audience is going off, and this shows you how unpredictable he always was, and how great the band members he had around them always even back in those simple days. And he slows it down to half-time and the band immediately adjusts. Even though they had never practiced it this way, and now it almost gives him more space to operate in to do his burlesque moves almost and what he's doing there with his core strength to hold himself up on his tiptoes and stuff like ballet almost, is so impressive. But it set off this racist backlash and they were throwing the n-word a time and all that kind of thing for just I don't know. Doing things that people wouldn't even look twice at nowadays. But its historic and I can tell you get it, so I bet you would dig it.
@@MrsPenPal m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WJnVQDA9rHA.html It seems it's difficult to find the uncensored version because a lot of these cut off that slow part I was talking about that set off The Firestorm. The only other option is this which is like seven minutes long but also it gives you a fantastic look back at the culture of the time which believe me is before my time. Although I was only born about 7 years after that and this stuff was still popular when I was a kid. But this gives you the idea of what it might have been like to see Elvis as a very young man. I mean the dude was only like 20 or 21 years old can you imagine that?
The airplane also gets the message, lol lol lol. There is a singer-songwriter Who I Really Love from rural South Texas Robert Earl Keen jr. And I've met him a few times and even got drunk with him once, which was a total blast. But somehow, that was in my late twenties I'd already been playing in bands since I was very young and still I was always nervous in front of audiences, I don't know why exactly but but I love doing what I was doing and what is long as I was playing everything was fantastic it's just what if they're like my partner would break a string and now I had to talk to the audience and fill some time, I'm just not natural at that. I just wasn't raised that way. Anyway, it's some point I was watching Robert perform outside in this environment and it was incredible but then a train came along on the other side of the river and it was loud as hell and it ruined the middle of his song. And did he panic? No, he did not, his ban just kept vamping and having fun doing their little thing and then when the sound started to pass he said, that is that high and Lonesome train whistle that this song actually deserves so I'm grateful for that. And boom, it's suddenly all clicked for me. If you just pay attention to your environment and decide that like a cat that is falling off a three-story building and doing all those amazing gyrations, this is the only place you want to be right now. Despite the difficulty, this is the best place you can possibly be in this moment and it's wonderful. I believe that we are experiencing a bit of this here.
@@MrsPenPal that's a great thing about it man when you actually put yourself out there and put the energy into it even if it's on a regional level and I never got famous which I wouldn't want to be, the more you put yourself out there the more lessons you can learn from people that are better than you and also maybe your inspirations.
This song was written by Paul Simon and was first released in 1970 and sung by Art Garfunkel. Simon sang back up in a portion of the song. It’s definitely worth hearing Blessing. 😊
Hey, I came back across this reaction again for some reason and one thing that I got from this made me think you would really love doing the live version of I can Tina turner, proud mary, which is a cover of Creedence Clearwater revival. And for that matter, check out the Creedence Clearwater Revival song, tombstone shadow. It has lots of references to Voodoo and stuff like that but it's really amazing
Well it’s not about you…But about a community out here sharing with a different generation. I bet you have not heard all the songs in the world but I you don’t see us dropping notes to you .
