Posted on 07/19/2022 3:34:30 PM PDT by ontap
My wife and I went to see Elvis…again…I am seldom moved by a motion picture but this one is special. First let me lead with the fact that I am 75 years old. Elvis was a big part of my youth and life. His career span 23 years, a relative short time for the impact he made. He’s been dead for forty five years and as far as I know no single artist has even gotten close to his success. The Beatles and Stones have but I said single artist. I was seven years old when he started out, I was thirty at the time of his death. Please excuse the rambling of an old man but so many memories of my youth came gushing back. Bare with me while I share some of them. I turned sixteen in 1963 and met a little thirteen year old girl,actually she was two weeks away from being fourteen….I fell in love with her, unfortunately she did not reciprocate the feelings. I’m guessing all of you have a similar story. I went in the Marine Corp at age twenty in 1967 I got out in 1969. Upon arriving home I met a woman and married her in 1970…actually it was that thirteen year old I fell in love with in 1963 she was now twenty. Needless to say neither of us were the same people. We will celebrate our 53rd anniversary in March of 2023. I’ve been in love with her for sixty years. We had two children and now have seven grandchildren and three, soon to be four, great grandchildren. I imagine you are wondering what one has to do with the other, well as I sit through that movie it all came back…at different times in the movie I remember the different parts of our relationship. Now I realize how fortunate we are to have lived the life we have. There has never been any one like Elvis…and to my mind there never will be. Thanks for listening to my story of me, my wife and Elvis. He put my life to song! Hell…I might go see it again!!!
I seem Elvis almost every day in the local 7-11.
I enjoyed Elvis in his earlier years but lost interest during his Las Vegas years.
Remember seeing a movie theater reprise of his first movie, with a girlfriend, when I was 13.
I have a digitally remastered album of his greatest hits.
He was the “king”, Michael Jackson was not.
Garth Brooks
Don’t try to lay no boogie-woogie on the king of rock and roll.
Agreed, Garth Brooks is the Elvis of our generation. Pretty amazing entertainer. Good guy too.
“Before anyone did anything,
Elvis did everything!!!!”
fyi-Engelbert Humperdink and Tom Jones are 86yo and 82yo, respectively. They both are reportedly still performing live onstage.
what are your favorite songs? Pick a few?
“Agreed, Garth Brooks is the Elvis of our generation. Pretty amazing entertainer. Good guy too.”
I am devoted to C/W but have zero Garth Brooks. We hit the skip button if he comes on our streaming service.
Thanks for the post. Off to see Elvis Follow That Dream Movie.
I rate it his best movie. Some others are good. The Ann Margret Vegas ok for that sort of thing.
Seems to me you are reviewing your wonderful life not the movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_You_(1957_film) was his best movie.
My wife and I used to see him in Claremore, OK at a little Mexican restaurant by the fair grounds.
He is a very friendly guy.
Saying that, I don’t care for his music, his first album wasn’t bad. All down hill from then on.
Judy Garland and Bob Hope come to mind, but the point isn't worth arguing😉
Elvis was older than me. I look back at photos and movies and think, that SOB was handsome as all hell.
Elvis had a way about him and nobody can outElvis Elvis.
He was also very talented and somewhat eccentric.
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