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I enjoyed your reaction! It's always exciting to watch someone discover Elvis. Now that you've heard a couple of his most serious songs, how about reacting to a couple fun ones: Elvis Presley - Polk Salad Annie (FULL version) (5:35) and Elvis Presley - Fever (Aloha From Hawaii) (2:42).
It was 1969 and segregation was going on earlier in the 60s, so your poorest parts of town were predominantly Black (because of things like red lining). Black families were often driven out of white neighborhoods where the houses were worth more money and things like that. Elvis was from the poor Black part of town. The ghetto would've been a step up for him. The guy who wrote the song, Mac Davis, was a white guy who grew up poor in the 50s and had a Black friend who lived in the ghetto.
