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!!!
Every time we went to Tampa to visit our relatives my cousin would drag me on the bus downtown to the lastest Elvis movie. She had a strip of cloth hanging on her bedroom mirror that she and her best friend managed to rip off of Elvis at a concert.
Thank you! We’re going to see it.
Probably not, maybe people who are fanatically into Elvis Costello think of him first, but most don’t. Elvis Presley is just too huge. I tell you though, this sticks in my head clear as day — When I was a teen growing up in the 1970s, me and my friends would always hit the local record store to look through the records and one day we came across Elvis Costellos first album “My aim is true” and just laughed our asses off, I mean hysterical laughing. A picture of this goofy looking skinny guy with big glasses and the name Elvis with Costello like Abbott and Costello. That was really brilliant on his part because it was so funny it made us remember the guy and buy is records later on, just from browsing album covers.
We saw the Elvis movie last night. I thought it was an incredible performance.
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