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

I would like to think one of the connections James Brown saw with him was the dancing, the ability to feel the rhythm all over his body and to use different sections of his limbs and torso as if they were parts of a drum kit.

That clip I hadn’t seen before, the films my mother watched always seemed to have him in a marina with a little captain’s cap or some other boring getup.

Two years later there was an intriguing tribute from Rockpile to pique my interest once again:
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/22/archives/rock-rockpile-performs.html

Then a few months later they also came up with this tribute, playing a song I had never heard of before https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/11/concerts-for-the-people-of-kampuchea-little-sister-rockpile-with-robert-plant2.html, which eventually led to my fateful encounter with Doc Pomus and the minor blues turnaround.

Of course, prior to this, in addition to the studio films I had also seen my mother watching some of the concert films or performances but to be an honest I had a hard time telling him apart from Tom Jones although it was clear to even me that Engelbert Humperdinck was a distant third.

In high school I knew the songs that were oldies staples on WCBS-FM and I ended up buying A Date With Elvis and Elvis' Golden Records. A few years later in the college library I ran into and befriended a guy wearing a little Elvis pin on the lapel of his denim jacket, a fellow now known on WFMU as Mr. Fine Wine. Finally right after college I read a excerpt from an upcoming book about soul music in the Village Voice about Roosevelt Jamison, Quinton Claunch and the Goldwax label and their artist James Carr, none of whom I had ever heard before, http://www.peterguralnick.com/post/47106712366/roosevelt-jamison-1936-2013 and of course that ultimately led me to further Elvis exploration

Tbh not sure what date or year Geraldo started wearing the jumpsuit but it was pretty early on

The local multiplex has had limited screenings of the Comeback Special--last Thursday, the anniversary of Elvis's death, and again today. (That's it.) Saw it tonight in a theatre that was almost full.

My favorite songs were the three Sun recordings, and the Jimmy Reed and Lloyd Price covers. The hits medley reminded me again that my appreciation of a lot of Elvis's music is arm's-length. The "Guitar Man" set-piece, which was like some bizarre synthesis of The Band Wagon and Laugh-In, went on forever. I liked Elvis's throwaway mockery of "MacArthur Park," and the Steve Binder/Priscilla making-of interview beforehand was really good.

My favourite moment of all was non-musical: when Elvis got very quiet and said he wanted to say a little about music. ("Very little.") He came right up to the edge, then backed off into generalities--if felt like he wanted to say a lot more than he actually did. Maybe he wanted to apologize for the movie phase of his career, or confess that he was completely baffled by what was going on around him. He said he liked the Beatles, but I don't know how convincing he was ("The Beatles, the Beards..."--that was great.) It was a great, vulnerable moment, and he got to pay tribute to the importance of gospel in his life, but I do think he left some things unsaid.

ARGHHH i forgot to go & i missed it ;_;

I don't know why they limited this to two days. I was in Oakville, 25 miles outside of Toronto, and the theatre was almost sold out. I'm sure they would have done well with a week-long run.

That Beatles Beards quote is all time.

Here are the full results, finally.

Thanks! I feel like maybe one of my tail end votes went missing but don’t want nitpick.

Really enjoying the 136-ranked gospel tune, “I, John,” which keeps appearing in my Release Radar playlist, although it may be a “sweetened” version with a new backing track and vocals.

FYI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool%27s_Gold_Loaf

holy cow

Any Day Now was my #1. For me it's the pinnacle of the American Studios sessions. The band came up with an unbeatable arrangement (I love Reggie Young's descending intro lick), and Elvis's vocal is impeccable. BTW, Ronnie Milsap was working out of Memphis at the time, appearing nightly at a club called TJs, and Elvis went to see him several times. Milsap recorded over a dozen sides at American and was also a background singer on the Elvis sessions. He did a fine version of the song but doesn't communicate anguish like Elvis does.

― Ρεμπετολογια, Monday, July 30, 2018 2:10 PM

Did Ρεμπετολογια die? otherwise I am confused:(

Yes, sorry. Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

oh wow. I don't normally look at that thread. RIP indeed

Bunch of these showing up in one of my Made For You algorithmic playlists. I must have been revisiting last summer.

Unless the algorithm mixes various summers together and is reaching back to years past.

this poll only getting 19 ballots taught me a good lesson about the alleged breadth of ILM listeners. it's nevertheless a good music message board, but in essence a pavement fan club. RIP

Yup. Same for this POLL: Wishin' and Votin' - the BURT BACHARACH SONGBOOK Poll Results, speaking of Ρεμπετολογια's #1, "Any Day Now."

yeah, that one too.

I listened to Lonnie Mack's "Memphis" earlier today, speaking of something we talked about on this thread.

listening to the s/t debut and thinking about scotty moore's 25 watt echosonic, which is discussed in detail here with lots of interesting photos:

http://www.scottymoore.net/echosonic.html

this poll only getting 19 ballots

still regret not finding the time to do a ballot :/

here too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKO9eQAK7o

here too

here three

i’d love to do this rollout again & comment some more on the tracks - i really enjoyed this poll & still love nothing more than talking about the King

i’d love to do this rollout again & comment some more on the tracks - i really enjoyed this poll & still love nothing more than talking about the King

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, October 11, 2020 7:19 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm up for this

Bassist Norbert Putnam looks back at the legendary Nashville Cats recordings with Elvis Presley

Sock a little polk salad to me.
Don’t you know I need a meal.

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