Hi Penguin Girl!
Posted on 01/07/2005 8:04:37 PM PST by MoJo2001
Homina...homina...HOMINA!!
Add Lady in Red and
you'll hit the Trifecta.
NICE!
How Cute!
Thanks men in the Military and the Canteen!
Good evening Canteeners!
Good evening Troops!
TGIF!!
I have the weekend off, hooray!
Next week, my hours will be 32 per week instead of the 40-60+ hours I had been working...
Yippee!!
Hope everyone is well!
Hugs all around!
Ms.B
"Piper plays Elvis..."
LOL!!!!!
That's too cool.
Even got the Lips!
Wassup, everyone??? I just got here and haven't begun to read Friday's thread, much less this one.
HiJinx, you still have an empty nest?
"Next week, my hours will be 32 per week instead of the 40-60+"
Don't, repeat, don't follow Ms Poohbear!
Now I just have to get rid of the cloud cover to view the waning moon and clear things up to see Mauna Kea's snow in the morning.
Hi Penguin Girl!
That was a fast trip home!
*HUG*
Goodnight Miss B . . . you stay well now y'hear.
Rock On Mama!
This is nice listening for a change!
We need a bio on here:
Elvis Presley may be the single most important figure in American 20th century popular music. Not necessarily the best, and certainly not the most consistent. But no
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More important from a music lover's perspective, however, are his remarkable artistic achievements. Presley was not the very first white man to sing rhythm & blues; Bill Haley predated him in that regard, and there may have been others as well. Elvis was certainly the first, however, to assertively fuse country and blues music into the style known as rockabilly. While rockabilly arrangements were the foundations of his first (and possibly best) recordings, Presley could not have become a mainstream superstar without a much more varied palette that also incorporated pop, gospel, and even some bits of bluegrass and operatic schmaltz here and there. His 1950s recordings established the basic language of rock & roll; his explosive and sexual stage presence set standards for the music's visual image; his vocals were incredibly powerful and versatile.
Unfortunately, to much of the public, Elvis is more icon than artist. Innumerable bad Hollywood movies, increasingly caricatured records and mannerisms, and a personal life that became steadily more sheltered from real-world concerns (and steadily more bizarre) gave his story a somewhat mythic status. By the time of his death, he'd become more a symbol of gross Americana than of cultural innovation. The continued speculation about his incredible career has sustained interest in his life, and supported a large tourist/entertainment industry, that may last indefinitely, even if the fascination is fueled more by his celebrity than his music.
Born to a poor Mississippi family in the heart of Depression, Elvis had moved to Memphis by his teens, where he absorbed the vibrant melting pot of Southern popular music in the form of blues, country, bluegrass, and gospel. After graduating from high school, he became a truck driver, rarely if ever singing in public. Some 1953 and 1954 demos, recorded at the emerging Sun label in Memphis primarily for Elvis' own pleasure, helped stir interest on the part of Sun owner Sam Phillips. In mid-1954, Phillips, looking for a white singer with a black feel, teamed Presley with guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black. Almost by accident, apparently, the trio hit upon a version of an Arthur Crudup blues tune, "That's All Right Mama," that became Elvis' first single.
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Born January 8, 1935 at 4:35 AM in a two room house in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Hi! Glad to see you're here! (I owe you a FReepmail. Soon.™)
Did you not just leave work?
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