19 Elvis Fans Can Be Polled: The ILM Elvis Presley poll roll out thread

And here is the original, pretty-much-identical except-for-the-vocal version of “Suspicious Minds,” performed by the composer, Mark James. No need for any advanced degree in Kingology to recognize what Elvis brought to the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFP0EP-Oi2I

A little lessmore pre-rollout preamble posting from a different point of view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9psq4wzl98

Seems that Mark James also wrote "Hooked on a Feeling" and, um, "Always on My Mind."

(xpost) A bunch of songs about or referring to Elvis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_or_referencing_Elvis_Presley

My favourites are X's "Back 2 the Base" and R.E.M.'s "Man on the Moon."

Yeah, those are two good ones.

Presumably “The King Is Gone (So Are You)” as posted up thread is also mentioned

Elvis is such an all-encompassing subject, I wouldn't doubt that there are a few dozen songs not on that list where, if you asked the songwriters, they'd tell you they were elliptically writing about Elvis.

Forgot about Mojo Nixon and Gillian Welsh songs.

Yes, he is such a wide-ranging subject that if you can hang on as you dive into the omphalos of his belt buckle, you end up appreciating whole worlds of other music other than what he himself actually recorded.

One thing not on that list that explicitly references Elvis is the Odds' "Wendy Under the Stars."

In parallel to this thread, something just made me remind myself of the interesting story of how the Grand Ole Opry got its name, but sleep is coming so I will save it for another day or another thread.

Doing the images from this poll and damn there's so many good photos of him. He was a very photogenic, gorgeous looking man.

It also makes it very noticeable how bad his health got in his final year. He looks out of shape in 1975 and early 1976 but he still looks great in front of a camera... the spark in his eyes is still there. Then in one year it seems like he aged ten years.

otm. the Wertheimer photos in particular completely slay me

Larry Geller had a good gig putting the L’Oréal into Elvis’s hair every few weeks.

Yeah. For years had the poster on my wall for Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love with the Wertheimer “kiss” on it. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/ten-days-with-elvis-presley

this photo from 76 haunts me, he looks so ...clammy. like you can see his chemical dependence completely catching up with him & overtaking him physically

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fe/a8/c5/fea8c5fe7adb083a637411d01ab1d6da.jpg

I guess we should wait until the American day to get this going? the King never made it here to Olde Europe so it's only right to wait

He didn’t get up early to see a moon launch, apparently, so I suppose you are right

Well, good eveningmorning
Don’t that sun look good going downcoming up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0x6U1aPuk

it's time to take care of business

TCB in a ⚡️

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nX6vC_GKlr4/VfFgiJW76bI/AAAAAAAByLA/NxfZOobP-U0/s1600/1970.%2BNail%2BSwirl.jpg

thanks to Moka for the images

https://i.imgur.com/BO1V4eI.jpg

50. Elvis Presley - “Love Me” 112 points, 5 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNMKIGD07F8

classy but the following one is definitive I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxS0xRpsfgY

https://i.imgur.com/bn4Mgty.jpg

49. Elvis Presley - “Always On My Mind” 119 points, 7 votes

Treat me like a fool.....

Love the images. Always On My Mind too low!

https://i.imgur.com/GOtmGTh.jpg

48. Elvis Presley - “(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear” 127 points, 5 votes

(Have to admit I’ve never taken the time to understand how the points weighting works on these polls)

I gave 50 points for a number 1, 49 for number 2, and so on.

i have a soft spot for this song. and it has a good bouncy rhythm

That’s the first one I voted for here, but don’t mind the other two, just maybe voted for similar stuff in their “slots.”

https://i.imgur.com/e6INzqs.jpg

47. Elvis Presley - “It's Now Or Never” 128 points, 7 votes

this one feels very Bobby Darin to me. love it tho

It must have been his first post-Army single that sounded different to people, like here's a new Elvis. I think of it as part of his Italian restaurant music trilogy, along with "Surrender" and "Kiss Me Quick"

https://i.imgur.com/UJd8LTJ.jpg

46. Elvis Presley - “Crying In The Chapel” 130 points, 7 votes

oops forgot the bold

One of the things I was wondering about during the Jarecki film was whether or not Elvis was in Germany at the same time as the Beatles. They missed each other by a few months: Elvis left in March 1960, the Beatles arrived in August 1960. Not sure how close Elvis was to Hamburg...take some Llewyn Davis-like liberties there and you've got a great movie scene: Elvis gets bored and leaves his post one night, wanders into a club...

The Beatles were pretty green at the beginning of their Hamburg residency, though; Elvis would've wondered why those skinny kids weren't getting booed off the stage.

(In 1962 they played Hamburg with Little Richard, who was sufficiently impressed that he said he'd go back to the States and tell Elvis that the Beatles were the best band in the UK.)

https://i.imgur.com/qedVhSs.jpg

45. Elvis Presley - “Crawfish” 132 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote

lol 1 #1 vote

Wow

I was surprised! But then I'm currently listening to the drugs dialogue from Vegas, 2 September 1974, so to each her own...

Crawfish RULES! but I didnt have as my 1, i had it a fair way down my list iirc

https://i.imgur.com/3t1Nl8h.jpg

44. Elvis Presley - “True Love Travels On A Gravel Road” 136 points, 5 votes

so good

i love this one

I see that I had that one at 35.

(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear: my #34
True Love Travels On A Gravel Road: my #37

I didn't vote for anything else that's popped up so far

https://i.imgur.com/kTM5yaA.jpg

43. Elvis Presley - “Polk Salad Annie” 142 points, 5 votes, 1 number one

I voted for this one too (#47). I don't even think he ever recorded this in the studio, did he? Only live versions.

Two of mine placed so far 'True Love Travels...' (#3) and 'Always on my Mind' (#13) which I expected to be much higher. Didn't vote for 'Teddy Bear', but pleased to see it, light as candyfloss and almost as sweet.

“Steamroller Blues” released as a streaming single yesterday. The Aloha from Hawaii version that is, don’t know from the Royal Philharmonic version.