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 hate banks”
Have not seen the movie but I recall my mother and her friend went to see Elvis live Feb 16, 1956 at the old Carolina Theater, now the Steven’s Center. Elvis was only 18 at that time. Amazing how time flies.
https://winstonsalemtimetraveler.com/2014/02/16/february-16-1956-elvis-comes-to-town/
LOL...I love it!!!
Evidently two of them didn’t make the cut!!!
I’ve seen the movie. Great music, but the movie itself was about a half hour too long.
The film draws attention to itself as a film, wrought as it is with dissolves, wipes, other innumerable self-reflexive effects.
The filmmaker seems to scream “I am the filmmaker,” and very much at the expense of rich character development or storytelling generally.
One leaves ELVIS with no deeper sense of who Elvis was, what his motivations were (other than to ‘fly away,’) and no better understanding of Tom Parker.
A long, pretty but essentially unrewarding film.
Hahahahahahahaha….,………Garth Brooks????
What a joke.
I preferred Toby Keith over Brooks to play for Trump’s inauguration anyway. Also, I would like to ask everyone to send up a prayer for Toby. He needs all the prayers he can get right now. Thanks.
Long hot day and maybe one too many beers, but I have no clue what you are talking about.
Seriously. Why is Garth Brooks even mentioned in the same thread as Elvis. Yuck.
I agree the movie was entertaining, but what know about Elvis, though, they left out a lot and sugar coated the relationship with Pricilla. Elvis was a total and utter PLAYA ...but I digress.
He was also the best lookin man to have existed thus far in history, probably one of the most talented as well. The movie left me sad, though — sad that the Colonel was such a louse and that Elvis never really realized his true potential. Never toured Europe ... really unbelievable.
My mother was obsessed with him, and I have to admit, passed on a bit of that to me. I can watch the 68 special over and over and never tire of it.
If that’s what you took away fine. I found it very entertaining....but to each his own!!!
“…think they’re so high-fallutin’…”
Your son has good taste. I had to look up that last one up because to be honest, I didn’t know that one.
My life is now richer for this. I am adding it to one of my playlists that I like to run on the Bluetooth on my soundbar when I have friends over.
Thank you for this!
The Shins - Never Gonna Wipe My Butt
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fPHXNhcseJs
Well ontap, at 72 I’m three years behind you, but I still remember 1956 and sitting on my Dad’s lap as he let me steer his 1952 Nash Rambler as we drove down the road listening to Elvis on the radio singing “It’s Alright Mamma.” First Elvis song I ever heard. I still get chills watching my DVD of Elvis’s 1968 comeback special. Great TV!
“His latest Flame”
Most people have never heard of it but when my band played it the audiences couldn’t get enough. We would usually play it twice in a night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBqyBP19o1Q
There is: Fred Astaire.
Wolf Trap
Oh you’ll thank me tomorrow too..when that song is still in your head. 🤣
I loved the Elvis movie, love Elvis music. Love Hank Jr. and feel about Garth Brooks the way Hank Jr does.
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