It’s a long way from people being outraged at Elvis swaying his hips.
He was shockingly vulgar for the times. Then he joined the Army and after that ended up doing a bunch of B movies and show tunes. "Viva Las Vegas" was about as wild as he got after the Army. That and shooting out television sets - which, in retrospect, I can't really blame him for.
Then you had the times where he would fly on his private jet to Denver to get some of those sandwiches...
"Fool's Gold Loaf" which was a pound of this and a jar of that and soon you were talking some real calories.
***It’s a long way from people being outraged at Elvis swaying his hips.***
If you will remember, on the Ed Sullivan show they only showed Elvis from the waist up. I remember it well.
It’s a long way from people being outraged at Elvis swaying his hips.
But my mother warned me it would always get worse from there because humans are prone to try to “outdo” the last guy. My long deceased mother was a great judge of humanity. She attributed it to what she read in the Bible.
Ed Sullivan said that Elvis’ gyrations at rehearsal were lewd because he believed Elvis had hidden a coke bottle in his trousers and was swinging it around.