First Time Hearing Elvis Presley Don't be Cruel (Reactions!!) 

Notice he never looks at the camera....he's making eye contact with people in the audience! He makes it more personal that way. He's playing the audience!

Or one might say from vanilla white to to chocolate black. The living color was already there, a profound influence for him. Next recommendation: Heartbreak Hotel, the very first 45 RPM I ever bought, with my saved-up, but never put-in-the-church-plate allowance. That was before they had those little printed envelopes to keep tabs on choir kids' donations. I was 12.

He was very humble, giving (sharing from his successes), full of religion and all of the other things you see on stage, including the dancing. What a performer!

RIGHT!!!!

@@susansapp6136. Aaaah-he was SMOKIN HOT!!!!!!

That was quite a bit of insecurity. He did not handle criticism well and he was criticized a lot. He was the original evil rock and roll. He was controlled by his managers. Drugs that were constantly fed him from a young age make you paranoid and delusional. He was petrified of The Beatles. And The Rolling Stones. That they were going to make him absolutely. Nothing could ever make Elvis obsolete. But he did not know that. He never did.

I believe it!! Everyone has said....you could just feel him come into a room! He commanded attention ...no matter where he was or what he was doing!

I’ve also heard that even when men saw him, or met him for the first time, some were at a loss for words , and could hardly say hello to him!!! Now I’m telling ya, THAT was an UNBELIEVABLE PHENOMENON!!!! (And I’m sure THAT would never happen with ANYONE ELSE EVER AGAIN!!)

There's a good reason for all of that "lighting up". Everything he did contained energy of its own.

SO BEUTIFUL TO HEAR HER YEARS OF GROWING AND HER LOVE SHE HAS. MAY YOUR MOM ALWAYS BE A LIGH T ALSO FOR YOU.❤

Definitely a character. He’s got his blue velour shirt on coupled with the gold lame vest that June Juanico gave him for a Christmas present and let’s not forget his eyeliner and makeup. I love his word plays. This is one of my favorite live performances where he does the thing with his eyes at the audience and especially the ending where he does that whole thing with his hands. He knew exactly what he’s doing and is in total command of the stage and his audience. Love this guy. No one is/was his equal. He truly is the GOAT.

Loved his sense of humor 🤣

@@janetgiddings5538 That sense of humor was never crude or cruel. It was accepted and enjoyed by everyone, from my grandmother right on down to me.

And Elvis was just full of it!!! I think he TRULY loved to joke and laugh, and have a good time!!!

@@memphisflashfan1AMEN!! AMEN!! AMEN!!

he had to break through a lot of mental walls making a way for future artists.

This is the one where he was censored and filmed from the waist up.

He said if he couldn't move he couldn't sing.

Lol Elvis introduced females to the concept of ovary combustion😅

And he didn’t even know he was being cropped until he saw it on TV

Me too my first crush 😍

Me too! I'm 79. So glad you are covering him.

I wonder whether he ever knew that his smile and "lip lift" had the nuclear effect that it did.

Elvis actually mentions....the lip lift....in a clip of behind the scenes of his 1968 comeback special! He knew! 😂😂😂.

I believe he is emotionally vulnerable. He is 100% authentic and the vulnerability is a big part of that.

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American trilogy is also great

Well said Sheila!

Yes, he came back, looking better and sounding better than ever...intimate group around him, he was brilliant. Knocked me out and I was already a longtime fan.

Jealous af! 😀

Sheila, suggest whether you want him to review the 1972 live performance or the 1977 CBS broadcast following his passing. I love the 72 version but in the 77 although he really looks ill, that version of How Great Thou Art makes the hair on the back of my neck totally stand up. Just curious which one you want him to review. Thanks much.

@@memphisflashfan1 I agree. At first I just didn't want to watch some of that stuff from that last tour, weeks before he died. But every time I do, I'm blown away that his mastery just kept on increasing right up until he died. He was so affected by health issues at that point and they had him on so many drugs just to keep him going. But whenever he started to sing or started playing the piano to sing along with it, that voice and that mind were just immediately right there. Both performances of How Great Thou Art are good, but I think the 1977 one is unarguably the best one for me. The vocal performance on that just blows me away and the long sustains that the choir is doing near the end gives me goosebumps every time. I think I timed it out once at 35 seconds. But obviously there's got to be some shared rotating breathing in there but even so, they're obviously all there for that last final blast and it's just all out power and sustain until he cuts them off finally.

@memphisflashfan1 I saw him in 77 a few months before he died. It's hard to pick which one, but I think the 77 version. I also saw him on New Years Eve of 76. Brought in the 76 New year with him. The difference in his health was astounding in less than 2 years. But his passion with this song never waned...he was amazing.

@memphisflashfan1 The floor of the stadium rumbled when JD Sumner hit the low bass notes and then Cathy Westmoreland hit those high soprano notes like an angel. Mind blowing and beautiful!