1. What is the first Elvis song you remember hearing?

2. What is your favorite Elvis song?

3. What is your favorite Elvis movie?

4. Do you prefer the early Elvis years - 50's or late 60's or 70's?

5. Did you ever see Elvis in concert?

Did you ever meet Elvis?



okay.......................

1. really, really hard here coz I do believe I heard him in the uterus in '65......... lol
I can't really say because I've heard Elvis Presley music all my life!!!! Literally!

2. Oh my......
Again, I'm a HUGE Elvis Presley Fan........... so bare with me

How Great Thou Art, Release me, Memories, Way Down, ............ I'll have to narrow it down and post again......... lol

3. Definitely Change of Habit and Charro!

4. I would go with late 60's early 70's........

5. Never saw him in concert when he was alive but saw the Elvis in concert thing back in the 90's.

6. I did get to meet Elvis at the Cincinnati Greater Airport when he came off of his plane and met with maybe 30 of us fans. It was in 73 and my mother and father took us 3 kids. It was awesome!

Okay here goes:

1. What is the first Elvis song you remember hearing?

"Kentucky Rain"


2. What is your favorite Elvis song?

This is so hard (as the man had too many great songs), but I would say his epic 1969 #1 hit "Suspicious Minds" (which, sadly of course, was his final such hit)


3. What is your favorite Elvis movie?

A tie between "Jailhouse Rock" and "King Creole"


4. Do you prefer the early Elvis years - 50's or late 60's or 70's?

Another tough one--I would say either one was the King at his best.


5. Did you ever see Elvis in concert?

Unfortunately, I was seven when the Man passed away.


Did you ever meet Elvis?

Sadly, no.


As a post-script--one thing I wish would happen is that the emphasis on Elvis would stop being simply about the guy's image and focus more on the music that he was able to produce during his time. People need to know the substance behind that image a heck of a lot more than they do (IMHO), because there is a lot of substance.

Amen to that Erik!!!!!!

Elvis had so many songs that were never released as hits that were awesome as well. I love all of Elvis' music - from the beginning to the end. My dad used to give us Elvis albums each year for Christmas as gifts. I have Almost In Love, Moody Blue......... but didn't keep all of them thru the years Now they're all available on cd but I have a turntable so I'm able to play the albums from the 60's and 70's - with no scratches on them.


I do love Jailhouse Rock too! I bought all the VHS tapes and now of course they're all on DVD.......... and I'm sure another 10 years or so, DVD's will be a thing of the past and something else will take their place. lol

I love Elvis' music as much as you love Linda's music. Elvis is and has been a part of my musical upbringing since I was brought in the world in the 60's. lol I even have the little pocket calendars that Elvis used to have every year - even from '77.

Love, Love, Love your post!!!!

Now, once you get past the Sun Records years, and that first international burst onto the scene in 1956, probably the most important artistic phase of Elvis' career would have to be the sessions he did in Memphis forty years ago this month, under the aegis of legendary producer Chips Moman at American Studios, located a short fifteen-minute drive from Graceland.

With the encouragement of Moman and the American Studios session crew, Elvis worked like an absolute fiend on a whole backlog of songs from all genres that he had wanted to work on for most of the 1960s while being forced by the Colonel to do (and this still gets me) stuff like "Queenie Wahine's Papaya." And I'm not just talking about the hits that came out of those sessions ("In The Ghetto"; "Suspicious Minds"; "Don't Cry Daddy"; "Kentucky Rain"); those are important, but they're just the beginning. Elvis also recorded material like "Long Black Limousine" (which turned out, of course, to be just a little too prescient just nine years later); "Stranger In My Own Home Town" (probably Elvis' most savage studio recording; he and the Memphis crew are really enjoying themselves); "You'll Think Of Me" (not the Keith Urban one); and an R&B/gospel favorite of his, "Without Love (There Is Nothing)."

If you can get it (best bet being on Amazon), look for all these songs and many more from those sessions on The Memphis 1969 Anthology: Suspicious Minds, which covers the whole thing, including the 1969 album releases From Elvis In Memphis and Back In Memphis (both of which were monstrous million-sellers back in the day). I submit to you, they match or surpass anything any male artist today, country or otherwise, could come up with.

AMEN to your post!!!! There were so many of his "b" songs on his 45's that were never released as singles that were just as good, if not better than the ones released!!!!

I do have the Memphis 1969 Anthology........... again, I love, love, love Elvis Presley! My dad even has some of the promo albums of Elvis from the '70s.

I admire your knowledge and love for Elvis! There'll never be anyone who will ever come close to what/who Elvis Presley was/did.

I just feel that it's important to know how Elvis worked in the studio when he was fully committed, as he certainly was during the Memphis sessions of 1969.

Another song of his that is highly underrated is his version of the Eddy Arnold classic "I Really Don't Want To Know", from his 1971 album Elvis Country, a collection of some of his favorite classic and contemporary country material that he did his way. His take on "I Really Don't Want To Know" sounds very much like an outtake from the Memphis sessions, even though the song was recorded in Nashville. It just missed getting into the Top 20, peaking at #21 in February 1971 (it still sold a million, however).