My 1st Time Watching: Elvis Presley & The Black Community (That Echo Will Never Die)!  

Thank you for watching n taking time to watch the Echo for Elvis,it was hard on Elvis,at young age at 20 but he stay strong long live the legend,still love n miss him all this years😭😭😭😭

ELVIS PRESLEY ❤ Bless his soul. He work with Dr. Martin L. King he was a good man a heart of gold 💛.. he love people.

Actions speak louder than words. Elvis showed that he loved everyone.

This is what people don't know . Elvis was liked by the black signers and public but the establishment hated him . He was dangerous

45 years after his death he is still a major star, being discovered by a new generation that are blown away by his talent as a performer 👍🏻

I don't think people know that Elvis grew up dirt poor in a black community in Tupelo Mississippi ..he grew up in Black churches.When the family moved to Memphis when he was a young teenager he'd go to Beale Street alone and listened to all the black musicians..he was drawn to it. He also lived in the projects in Memphis. God bless him he integrated and changed the trajectory of music..✌️

You should watch Part II of this documentary.

The Elvis movie is INCREDIBLEEEE!!

It's not about colour because the simple truth is he was an a amazing talent that we haven't seen even to this day, he had the voice, charisma, looks and rythm, like BB King said he had everything

The black preacher was Dr. W. Herbert Brewster who was Elvis's pastor in Memphis at East Trigg Baptist Church, which was all black. He was also the first Civil Rights activist years before the Civil Rights movement began and later marched with Dr. King. He also composed over a hundred spiritual songs that even Aretha Franklin covered. A very important figure in history who sadly gets ignored in Elvis's story. But not any longer. He's casted in the new Baz Lurhmann's ELVIS movie.👍

THERE'S A PART 2, TO THIS DOCUMENTARY! PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO WATCH IT. THANKS!

James Brown was a broken man at Elvis' funeral

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50 Cent wasn't right when he said Elvis is bigger now than he was when he was alive; During his lifetime, Elvis was the first big superstar that almost the whole world recognized🙂

Here's a story that everyone should know - but few do. I think this is a great historical look-back that also tells of Elvis Presley's true character. It's also a DOUBLE TRAGEDY: Jackie Wilson was singing "Lonely Teardrops" in 1975 and collapsed when he sang "My Heart Is Cryin" ....when he fell on stage floor the crowd roared .....they thought it was part of the act. But Dick Clark was there and knew it wasn't and immediately called for aid.....CPR was given by a CPR trained member of the next singing group waiting to go onstage. Terrible tragedy. Jackie was in coma from the stroke for a few weeks. Jackie finally woke up. The nurses & PT got him up. He stood with PTs help and walked beside bed for 5 to 6 steps and had another stroke right then and there. That one did all the severe damage. It was Elvis Presley that went to see him and went into action for the Wilsons. Elvis paid ALL his medical bills. After Elvis died, Graceland continued Elvis' instruction to pay for Jackie's bills until paid in full. Utterly Heartbreaking. When someone tries to say Elvis didnt give back, or wasnt nice to black people, there is NO BETTER proof that those rumors were false than this. No cameras, no press. ZERO RECOGNITION. NO ONE KNEW outside the Presley and Wilson families that Elvis did this until after THEY BOTH PASSED. RIP Forever Brothers in Paradise...... you really did stand by each other...

That baby in the picture is Elvis bro

People who say Elvis was racist either do not know the facts or are racists themselves and that is the name of that tune

Ignorance has been with us since the beginning of time..

A lot of rumors anf jealosy. A lie travels around the world in minutes but the truth stays home , people like you we need more of keep up the good work and always do your own research for the truth

Thank you for coving Elvis. 😊

Elvis didn’t just know about the hood. He grew up in it and he has the right to sing about it, he knew what the Ghetto was. Before Memphis Elvis was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. He grew up attending the Black Baptist church and he didn’t know he looked different. Elvis is in 4 different Halls of Fame. He recorded over 200 Gospel songs. That is what I listen to now. The world needed him longer. I remember someone having a go at him for having a Black cook. She was family to him and she wouldn’t go home until he went to bed in case he needed something. She was paid a high wage and he bought her a house and a new car so he knew she would safe. Find me just one truth that shows Elvis was racist.

I’m so thankful that the TRUTH about Elvis is coming out.. There’s a part 2 to that documentary. Did you know that Whitney Houston’s mom sang background vocals with the Sweet Inspirations for Elvis? He was so much more than we will ever know. Blessings to you young man and thanks again 🎸🎼

Watch Elvis with the generous heart. It goes into the many people he helped. It's got a lot of information in it.

Actually several kinds of music influenced Elvis! Lol. Country, opera, R&B, Rockabilly, Gospel...etc. He loved music in general! He took that love of music & helped create a new sound....that was unique! He was one of a kind...& other artists copied him! Lol.

Man bro first, I've just got to say you got an awesome speaking voice. Back in the day my friends in the radio business all said guys with a deep resonant voice like yours is what they all worked at trying to develop. The coolest sounding guys on the radio had voice like yours. Some people say I have a deep voice, but I can feel the soul & rumble in yours listening to you talk in yr video here. Anyway, you brought up some really good points in your commentary. Head around the four-minute mark you were talking about hip hop artist dealing with similar I can't remember the year but I think was Ice-T or Ice Cube gave interview saying something about how they were receiving some of the same treatment and pushed back in the 90s that Elvis was dealing with in the 50s. And in the 8 minute mark you started talking about that older Reverend Brewster, his way of speaking how you didn't understand what he was saying, yet it was so eloquent, had me laughing 😂. You're not the first one to say that. That was Reverend Brewster's M.O. He was known for speaking like he was speaking in Parables almost. It really made people stop and think when they listened to him. he's actually probably one of the more powerful important voices of this whole little documentary. A lot of people often undercut or don't really realize just who he was, or how important his voice is. Reverend Brewster considered to be one of the most prolific Gospel songwriters of the 20th century. He also was a profoundly important voice and leader among civil rights activists in the early days of the movement in Memphis area. I've spoke with older folks from that era that said - "when Reverend Brewster spoke everybody listened". He was one of the most respected voices of the community. His appraisal and respectful words of Elvis say more than people often even realize. And he had a lot more Pro Elvis statements made in the Press over the years then just in this video. But I'm glad you picked up on his voice and keyed in on him. Enjoyed your commentary.

I'm just about to watch part 2. I'm glad you are covering this. I have alway seen it around but never did get to it. Oh, the little boy at the beginning with his parents wearing the cute hat was elvis. He had it even then too 🙂🕺💕

I think if we had access to this info while Elvis was alive, maybe the narrative would have been different, especially about him growing up in black neighborhoods. Then again, though we finally have the stories affirming Elvis's affinity for the black community, there are still those who will never acknowledge he wasn't a racist. Whether it's testimony from James Brown, Sammy Davis, Jr., Muhammad Ali, Jackie Wilson, The Sweet Inspirations, and even his housekeeping staff, some refuse to let go of that lie.

💘 loved your reaction

Seems Chuck D didn't expect that every African American performer who actually knew Elvis strongly defended him as being a courageous, lifelong friend of the Black community. I believe in the honesty of Elvis's peers, and not the lies of one jealous little man who knew he could never measure up to Elvis the King, who has always been the GOAT.

I loved listening to your thoughts on this. I think it’s hard to accuse one of cultural appropriation when that particular person grew up in the same circumstances. He was influenced for his whole life, it was the culture he grew up in

He took a lot of flak by these narrow minded people. But he stuck to his unapologetically.

WELL SAID😊✌️

helow from chile ...

His own culture was black and White church and secular. Your culture is what you grow up with ... That's you! Blaming him for stealing black music is in itself a racist remark!

Elvis aimer tous les Américains c est le seul chanteur américain qui attirer le monde entier quand on voit Elvis a télé c est une merveille que dieu a créé ce charme cette classe et surtout a armée il était le plus photographier au monde et Hollywood aucun chanteur ou acteur ou sportif arrive à sa classe c étais le plus beau de toute amerique entiere

"Stories to the contrary" came out about ELVIS because of jealously. . .I call it Elvis Envy. They wanted to ruin his legacy.

There's a part two. He hated being called the King he said the only King was Jesus Christ

When that guy trashed Elvis it was ignorant and nasty. This film has gotten the truth out to people who grew up thinking Elvis was a thief and a racist. Music by its very nature never belongs to only one group of people. That is how music dies. Instead it spreads and grows and brings people together. That is how the musicians have always done it.

you could be a voice double for bobby womack ha

Can you imagine this pastor ordering a Starbucks lol

That was Rev Bruster elvis preacher in Tupelo I think

Search RU-vid for Part 2 of Elvis and the black community. You’ll find out what James Brown thought of Elvis.

Plz do some elvis music

Better always to get first hand accounts from those who experienced Elvis. He can’t help singing the songs he grew up with ..black gospels and rhythms and blues.. you sing what influenced you. Like one of tgrm said rlvis didn’t steal but infused black music and gave it injection where now it’s all over and accepted.

The racism claims started from the magazine “Sepia”. An anonymous “Person from the Street” alleged that they heard Elvis say “the only thing N*groes can do for me is buy my records and shine my shoes” on a tv program earlier that year. They claimed to remember him saying it on the Boston program called “Person to Person”. Jet Magazine did an investigative report on the claims and the learned that 1.) Elvis was never on that show and 2.)At that point in his life Elvis had never been to Boston. It was also discovered that the owner of Sepia magazine had been openly racist himself. Many believe that Sepia magazine was trying to put a wedge between Elvis’ fans and destroy Elvis’ career in the process. Unfortunately less people saw the Jet magazine article that proved these claims were false, so people still believe that Elvis said these things.

So much misinfo about him in regards to black community thinking he was racist….exactly the opposite is true.

A little thing? Elvis stating he would not perform at the ASTRODOME if the black members of his group were not allowed to be with him was a "little thing"? What the hell would he need to do for you to call it a big deal?

I wish you listen to these people so you can get the whole true story about Elvis Presley instead of stopping to make comments. We want to hear everything they say about Elvis Presley.