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01 Jul 2009, 7:55 pm

What are your favorite Elvis Presley songs?

Some of mine are:

. 'Suspicious Minds'
. 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?
. 'His Latest Flame'
. 'The Next Step Is Love'
. 'Make Me Know It'
. 'Hound Dog'
. 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me'
. 'Always On My Mind'
. 'Surrender'
. 'In The Ghetto'
. 'Can't Help Falling In Love'
. 'Twenty Days And Twenty Nights'

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01 Jul 2009, 10:17 pm

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Lotsa gospel...American Trilogy, plus all the old school gospel stuff.



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01 Jul 2009, 11:41 pm

I liked "In The Ghetto." It made me cry.


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02 Jul 2009, 8:50 am

"In The Ghetto" is a beautiful song and lyrically extraordinary for its time.

My favourite, though, is one that most people don't know, which is "I Just Can't Help Believing."



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02 Jul 2009, 3:24 pm

My favourite 3 Elvis songs are a couple of his earlier songs... "Stuck On You", "I Got Stung", and "Good Luck Charm". But I also agree that "In The Ghetto" is beautiful.


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03 Jul 2009, 4:15 pm

JohnHopkins wrote:
"My favourite, though, is one that most people don't know, which is "I Just Can't Help Believing."


The entire album 'That's The Way It Is' that 'I just Can't Help Believing' is off of is amazing. Lots of great songs on there.



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03 Jul 2009, 4:19 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmsOdSC-A_Y[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjWuoyZZOO4[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUHpgZF6ehA[/youtube]



Listen to all of these songs. Tell me what you think. They are all songs from the album 'That's The Way It Is'.



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04 Jul 2009, 7:01 pm

bossa nova baby
king creole
jailhouse rock
kentucky rain
little sister
need your love tonight
big hunk o'love

basically, the jordanaires-era rockers.

oh, and "in the ghetto" if only for the gorgeous backup sista harmonies. and he mentions chicago.



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04 Jul 2009, 8:41 pm

Suspicious Minds



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04 Jul 2009, 10:52 pm

Mystery train.



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28 Nov 2011, 5:02 pm

Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Blue Suede Shoes
Jailhouse Rock
In The Ghetto
Heartbreak Hotel
Love Me Tender



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28 Nov 2011, 7:17 pm

Well most of his songs aren't actually his songs... :twisted:


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28 Nov 2011, 7:25 pm

some have been mentioned

Devil in Disguise pops into my head first



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29 Nov 2011, 8:07 am

Always On My Mind
Suspicious Minds
The Wonder Of You
If I Can Dream



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29 Nov 2011, 8:30 am

i have no interest in presley. as far as i know he did not compose any songs, and his guitar playing ability seemed to me to be limited to token strumming of simple chords.

i did not like the melody of any of his songs (except for one that i forget the name of)

i also have no partiality to his vocal ability (his vibrato was too fast and forced), and the timbre of his voice was not especially rich. i hated elvis movies and never watched more than 5 minutes or so of any of them.

his dancing characteristics were teachable to any fit person, and he was not mesmerizing to watch like fred astaire (a motor genius).

i do not understand the hysteria he created. i understand he was exceptionally good looking, and i think that was a major factor in peoples idolization of him.

tammy (my friend) used to adore peter cetera because he had (he would be too old now) an amazing voice, but she did not know what he looked like. when i showed her some youtube videos, she was majorly disappointed, and lost her attraction to his voice almost immediately.


i think that elvis presley had the opposite effect on women.

many elvis impersonators sing better than elvis did i think.

i am not an authority i know, and there is probably something in him i do not see.

presley in my mind was not musically gifted.