This disc starts with the (little bit naughty) March 30, 1972 take 2 rehearsal of ‘Burning Love’. This time in better sound then before. We all know that when Elvis starts changing lyrics and laughing, he is in a great mood. Through several interesting rehearsals we come to a collectio...
Tin Pan Alleyballads, andgospelhymns. Presley knew some of this music from the radio, some of it from his parents’Pentecostalchurch and the group sings he attended at the Rev. H.W. Brewster’s Black Memphis church, and some of it from the Beale Street blues clubs he began frequenting ...
“She was singing to a man. And he was singing to adog.”—Mike Stoller, cowriter of the song “Hound Dog” Presley debuted the song live onThe Milton Berle Showin June 1956, during which the song’s ending was slowed down to a bump-and-grind, with Presley swiveling his hips tono...