POLLS! POLLS! POLLS! The Elvis Presley voting and discussion thread (deadline July 5 2018)

Milky white way
Take my hand precious lord
How great thou art

A gospel parallel career to the day job: Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Little Richard

With Cooke, while his early career was as a gospel singer, I don't think he ever recorded gospel again after "Lovable."

xp Doc Pomus wrote A Mess of Blues, Surrender, Little Sister, Suspicion, Marie's The Name, Viva Las Vegas for starters

― Ρεμπετολογια, Wednesday, July 4, 2018 10:35 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the arrangement on ' mess of blues' is so good. loose and tight in equal measure. and beautiful tonal balance to the recording.

one absolute stinker ('Confidence)

Yes that is definitely the worst Elvis song I've heard. It makes Do The Clam sound like Mystery Train.

just want to namedrop Orion in here. while thrift shopping i came upon this book

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/222985478851_/Elvis-Presley-The-Most-Incredible-Elvis-Story.jpg

i believe it was self published by the author, or that she had some kind of regional deal, but author Gail (G.B. Giorgio, from Marietta GA i believe) had her first book pulled from distribution or something so the first third of the book is a conspiracy theory about publishers trying to silence her.

she puts forth the theory that Elvis faked his death and presents a lot of evidence in this book. the birth certificate and tombstone misspelling of Aaron (his twin brother's first name, he died young, but cast a mysterious shadow over the Presleys) and she talks about the Geraldo 20/20 episode and finally there is the public display, when they showed Elvis's corpse for a public memorial, his nose looks entirely different, his face is described as if he were a poorly made wax dummy.

not that i believe any of it, but it's all incredibly interesting lore. i think she wrote many books on the subject. the last chapter even features the transcription of a rare encounter with The King post-"death" in a Hawaii airport!

one of her theories included the singer Orion. i don't know much about Orion but this is very fascinating because she claimed he was Elvis in disguise, and if you look at Orion's first album, it has a coffin and is called "Reborn". he's actually pretty talented - he sounds like a really good Elvis impersonator.

https://e.snmc.io/lk/f/a/06ace0c3d05ce556f984ddaac015c1c3/2801068.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxJP50Cm9X0

in truth, Orion was singer Jimmy Ellis. that doesn't stop people from jumping to conclusions. from another youtube video:

Barb Delawder
6 years ago
@Tiffany16ization jimmy was not Elvis...jimmy was shot and killed on dec. 12, 1998 along with his ex- wife whien a robber came into his pawn shop in Alabama. there r rumors that jimmy may have been EP's half brother but there is no real proof. but they were 2 different men. jimmy just happened to sound like EP. Jimmy was born in Mississipi but his real mother took him to Alabama to an adoption agengcy where he was adopted at a very young age by the Ellis's.

lol the audience in that video

dont know how y'all have time for this

i wd probly try to sneak in "Clambake" (the song)

I don't have time for this! But it'll happen anyway. We're up to 9 ballots. I'll close voting next Monday or Tuesday.

http://rollingstoneindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/elvis-comeback-special-1968-cropped.jpg

I forgot to remember to forget hervote and was under the weather this weekend, so thanks for the extension.

9 ballots? Come on folks, don’t let the King down.

i’ll throw something together this weekend

Almost home euler! Have you counted results if not forward them to my mail I’ll do it next week.

Keep voting people! I refuse to start this poll if we don’t get at least 15 votes for it.

Ballots not votes

i'll send a ballot later today

Can’t remember the recording history of “Suspicion,” wondering if such knowledge will affect my ballot

I will also send a ballot in the next few days!

Will be sending ballot

If I manage to get it together to send in a ballot, it might just consist of the last fifty Elvis songs I have listened to at that point in time.

http://www.elvisblog.net/Voting%20For%20The%20Elvis%20Stamp/Poster%20.jpg

https://www.sweetmagnoliatours.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Elvis-blanket-throw-Jan-2018.jpeg

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Probably drafting a ballot tonight.

Drafting ballot right now, just found via Wiki that all of these songs were recorded on 7 June 1970, released on Elvis Country. There were some really fertile sessions once he was reinvigorated after the 1968 special and before the Colonel's live touring treadmill kicked in:

Tomorrow never comes
Funny how time slips away
I really don't want to know
Faded love
I washed my hands in muddy waters
Make the world go away

Voted!

A lot of my stuff ended up being later-period and like, half of From Elvis In Memphis, and a lot of known singles.
I should have dug in to his catalog more but I feel like I just needed to vote with my heart.

THIS way to fun times:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f0/b3/b5/f0b3b58acb1d6ec0e6efbfa437b356be--youre-hot-in-august.jpg

Voted

Is this due today? *twiddles thumbs*

Voted.

Lots of 70s stuff on my ballot. (I went the full 50.)

let's say due end of day tomorrow? I am so bad at this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVyOm-D94J4&frags=pl%2Cwn

Just kidding. Ballot sent.

let's say due end of day tomorrow? I am so bad at this.

― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, July 22, 2018 8:24 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

let's try that again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG5nqWBI7Ok&frags=pl%2Cwn

How many ballots so far?

Trying to get this done, listening to Radio Free Shake Rag whilst doing so.

Euler, did you get my ballot?

Okay, finalizing, about to send via U.S. Male email.

Sent. Please let me know if you did not receive.

band perfect on this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGGmOf_zdU

Voted!

A lot of my stuff ended up being later-period and like, half of From Elvis In Memphis, and a lot of known singles.
I should have dug in to his catalog more but I feel like I just needed to vote with my heart.

THIS way to fun times:
🖼

:D

Although tbh I skewed more 50s than 70s although I did include some of the more obvious 70s cuts

How many of you are voting for songs written by Ed Wood’s ex?

Sent!

time to push this poll across the line

https://www.graceland.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1football.jpg

"We gotta win this race"

ok 17 ballots now, should we call it sufficient?

"We gotta win this race"

https://www.hampshire.edu/news/2015/09/29/slow-down-and-enjoy-the-17mph-ride-a-hampshire-style-tribute-for-professor-kelly

My alma mater!