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http://thehumorzone.co.uk/Videos/elvis_celine.wmv
Amazing

OMG. Where's that pukey emoticon again???

Gaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!

(Words fail me...but ennyway, thanks to the digital wonderland and its potential for profit and pandering to lowest-common-denominator KRAP, 24/7, we have Transitional Elvis standing next to Canadian Yowler/Howler, singing one of The King's most forgettable opuses (Opi? Opey? Well, Dopey, fer sure...). Perfect for AI.

"AI" also refers to "Artifical Intelligence"--has anyone else noticed/commented upon this strange coincidence?

Elvis didn't die on August 16, '77...for me he died in '64...when he did the last of his real songs. Grumpy sez...)

jingle_jangle wrote:
Elvis didn't die on August 16, '77...for me he died in '64...when he did the last of his real songs. Grumpy sez...)

Nah, I think it was when he went into the Army and came out an "actor." He was a far better Rock and Roll singer than an actor...

"Prepare to be startled...prepare for magnificence..."

When I hear Ryan Secrest use language like that, I know what's coming is going to be muy malo. He was half right, though...it was startling, the way a wave of airsickness can be. Magnificent? In the Caesar's Palace sense, I guess. It was certainly far cheesier than anything either one of them could manage on their own, and that's saying quite a bit. If there's anything we can be thankful for, it's that the 'industry' hasn't seen fit to create a string of horrific cinematic vehicles for the lamentable Ms. Dion, the way they did for 'The King'...but perhaps I'm speaking to soon...

(Speaking of 'Caesar' and his 'Palace'...did you know that the more modern terms 'Czar' (tsar) and 'Kaiser' were derived from the original Latin honorific title? How much business do you think a joint in Vegas called 'Czar's Palace' or 'Kaiser's Palace' would get, discounting the odd flock of Russian or German tourists?

Just a reminder no bad language (and yes British english is spoken here fluently) or politics gentlemen. Posts have been edited accordingly.

collin wrote:

jingle_jangle wrote:
Elvis didn't die on August 16, '77...for me he died in '64...when he did the last of his real songs. Grumpy sez...)

Nah, I think it was when he went into the Army and came out an "actor." He was a far better Rock and Roll singer than an actor...

+1. That was really bad. I'm so glad I don't watch TV.

collin wrote:

jingle_jangle wrote:
Elvis didn't die on August 16, '77...for me he died in '64...when he did the last of his real songs. Grumpy sez...)

Nah, I think it was when he went into the Army and came out an "actor." He was a far better Rock and Roll singer than an actor...

...and for me, some of his best-sung and best-produced stuff came immediately post-Army. The movies were vehicles, nothing else, and back then we were suckers for cool. Remember, this was pre-invasion and pre-JFK assassination. My best buddy back then, who lived for cool, could be heard singing the crawfish call from "King Creole". He'd prolly be embarassed to admit it these days--he's a Top Dawg Jungian analyst now...Hmmm.

Elvis' pompadour was emulated by other stars and the kids on the street, who were too young to remember the Sun Sessions stuff.

'61-'64 really was Elvis' golden age, IMO. There was a pent-up demand for him and his stuff, and Col. Parker orchestrated it magnificently.

I'll never forget my favorite Corvette show car--the terrific Sting Ray, in its Bill Mitchell big-block, candy apple red finery, snaking through the Florida Keys on Highway 1 in a series of long helicopter shots, in the otherwise totally-forgettable "Clambake"...but other Presley movies did have some good music and the bikini-clad starlets are still worth a gander to old guys like me.

My own nominee for best Presley song of that era?

Why, "Return to Sender", of course, Thought you'd never ask!

Oooohhhh, Brian, ya cut me best line! Oh, well...a line that good I should have recognized, and cut meself, I s'pose...

Just a note on the global nature of 'world culture'...I was perusing a book on the twentieth century history of gamelan in Bali some years back, when I noticed something interesting: all the young players in the late 50's/early 60's had 'Elvis'-style pompadours. My Balinese music teacher, who's two years younger than me, reports that he can remember a time in the mid-to-late 60's when all the young Balinese cats were sportin' Beatles haircuts.

It's all part of bein' a human bein'...

And by the way, folks...Dr. JJ gets away with a line like 'pre-invasion'? If I said that, I'd get get me flamin' ears boxed...

Oh wait...'arf a moment...you meant 'The British Invasion', didn't you, Dr.?

That's very different.......never mind.

Naw, I was referring to Canadians, actually...Burton Cummings, Neil Young, Randy Bachmann, and of course Ms. Dion.

Ya know, I totally forgot Elvis did record some music after the Army years.... Return to Sender was a great song.

I always get the idea that it was straight to the movies....."Blue Hawaii" and all the cheesy love ballads, hastily written etc... some good stuff there, but not necessarily music designed to be appreciated as music alone, and not simply part of the film.

Ps...I did watch "Kid Galahad" the other day. Pretty good film, he did alright in that one.

I like this duet Elvis did with Emily Lou Harris better