Happy birthday, Elvis Presley
by Adam J. Morris on Jan 8, 2009 2:45 PM CST
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speaking of which
I became Uncle Longhorn today around 1pm.
Stability is key, and JD is a Beast.
Jindal - 2012
thanks peeps
only thing is, he was born in Washington, D.C.
I’m going to have a Redskins fan in the family now, I don’t know about that…
Stability is key, and JD is a Beast.
Jindal - 2012
give him a bunch of cowboys paraphernalia
you can totally be a cowboys fan if your extended family is
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heh...interesting
is that part of the rules that were discussed in Miles’ thread?
Stability is key, and JD is a Beast.
Jindal - 2012
Congrats, Uncle Longhorn!
Be sure to send the new midget some UT gear and a Rangers item or two. And try to find a way to spend a little quality Texas time with him(or her)
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
by Ed Coffin on Jan 8, 2009 4:46 PM CST up reply actions
Elvis
Every once in a while I think about how amazing it must have been when he first entered the music scene.
I think more along the lines of the Beatles...
Maybe even a Zepplin, The Who.. just that whole era. Ed? Ed?
That's Ed's line
"A ~.650 OPS from a COF should get you deported, not traded for."
- The Huntressatron
by inactive lsb user on Jan 8, 2009 3:24 PM CST up reply actions
I think
that the difference between pre-Elvis and Elvis-era music is far greater than the difference between pre-Beatles and during Beatles or anything else.
I’m a huge Beatles fan, and would listen to them over Elvis any day. But without Elvis there would have been no Beatles. Elvis is really the Babe Ruth of music – you can argue whether he was the greatest ever, but there is no doubt that he was relative to his time and he’s almost certainly the most important.
i don't think your contention is true at all
i’m not saying the beatles galvanized the change in music but the change in music during the 60’s is much greater than the change in music during Elvis’s era.
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No, he's right
Elvis was a HUGE influence on them, according to the Beatles themselves. Without Elvis, everything after that would have been different. The late 60’s are a direct outgrowth of the British Beat Music scene, and the British scene was the Brits response to what they were hearing from American rockabilly and Motown in the late 50s and early 60s, dominated by Elvis.
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I was spinning 33-1/3 RPM stuff
And tapes, at WBOW-AM at the time. Junior in college, broadcast media major, working late hours music and news. Elvis created a relatively bigger outcry (for and against the “new” rock than any of the Brit bands that followed. He was also the first white entertainer to adopt one spectrum of delta and Memphis R&B into general audience availability. Most R&B was measured, message stuff, slower with no frenetic beat, but Presley picked up the ‘hot club’ sound, from places that were literally off limits to such as the military – and others! The next chronological shifts were adoption of Chicago jazz into southern R&B, or the Motown Sound. Then the Beatles, the Who, later Pink Floyd (introduced classically originated symphonic relationships between percussion and instrumental solos into a blended message plus messenger metaphor). The a sort of return to a Ray Charles led Gulf Coast R&B club sound. For instance, in 1960 I went to a dirt floor, mostly all black joint up the little Biloxi river called Si’s Place. Literally a converted barn. Amazing sounds and improvisation. Back on topic, I’d judge there were five phase shifts between Carl Perkins and Elvis, and the divergence to either rap or shock rock. Whew … too much info.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
by Ed Coffin on Jan 8, 2009 4:41 PM CST up reply actions
No doubt
Listen to a bunch of songs from 1954-55 or so, then listen to a couple of tunes by Elvis, Chuck Berry (Maybelline has a guitar sound that is just miles away from the general pop tone then), Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, etc.
I have a Rockabilly type channel on Pandora that I like to listen to once in a while.
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Just go to Pandora
and type in Gene Vincent, or a song title like Twenty Flight Rock (by Eddie Cochran). That’s how I got that channel. You get lots of neat rarely heard stuff by Orbison, Perkins, et al.
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All-time favorite Elvis song...
Go!
"Was this really necsarry?" - cowpoke/hurler hurley
Me
"Was this really necsarry?" - cowpoke/hurler hurley
Two faves (I know that's cheating)
“In the Ghetto” – still relevant.
“Suspicious Minds”, although Dwight Yoakum does it better.
+1 on "Suspicious Minds"
And on Dwight doing it better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs3ydbvHkFU
Did Jon Daniels downsize your old position at Dunking Donuts?
by LSJ on Jan 8, 2009 4:30 PM CST up reply actions
both good ones
Honestly, it’s tough to pick just one.
"Was this really necsarry?" - cowpoke/hurler hurley
Suspicious Minds
And shame on those of you for saying somebody did it better than the King…on his birthday!!
One of my favorite karaoke tunes
is It’s Now or Never, just for it’s over the top cheesiness.
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Burning Love
for the cheese factor alone. Nothing better than bloated Elvis in the white jumpsuit doing Burning Love.
Get off my lawn.
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