Elvis- Love Me Tender

Mine is
Suspicious Minds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q04_ClDxRsk

I’d have to say the first song I think of Elvis is probably a tie between these 4 songs-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnPGt_Cf1z4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlKJ-0bnxdA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILx_8FEGfzE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E32SCqI_3sE
However there’s a ton of other songs I like of Elvis Presley’s a lot. Rock-Roll was underground till Elvis put it on the map and ever since then, music has never been the same. With Elvis bringing attention to Rock-n-Roll, it opened up a floodgate for Rock-n-Roll to change music forever.
However I do rank "Suspicious Minds" high up on my list of many, many songs I like of Elvis Presley’s. Other songs of his that are high up on my list is songs such as: "You were always on my mind" and Willie Nelson who originally wrote it does a great version of it too. Also other songs high up my list of songs of his I like a lot, other people mentioned as well such it’s "It’s now or never", "Can’t help falling in love", "Viva Las Vegas", "In the Ghetto" and this tune others mentioned that Nicholas Cage made look good and sound good in the early 90’s all over again-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwfZyQeinTI
Also high on my list of Elvis P’s songs I like a lot is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAR_pdLCThI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln6vg4hmnmw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSfq81aRYL4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnRr098HecM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DigLUmeAUjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oov69t4LSw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-yZifpgCR0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj5913VcdmE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJac6OykfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_eE0NPArEY
Plus there’s lots of other songs of Elvis’s that I like too.

Look at the cover of TV Guide 26 July-1 Aug! A striking resemblance.

He played Elvis and won a Golden globe for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_%282005_Mini-series%29

It’s nice and not that expensive. Lots of old Elvis movies on TV.

Ive always loved this song and indeed the whole "Graceland" album, probably one of my favourite albums ever. But what is the true meaning of this song ? What is it really about ?

For me, the key line has always been ‘these are the days of miracles and wonders…so don’t cry baby don’t cry’ and the talk about businesses and generations throwing ’stars off the pop charts’. I’m not sure about the rest of the lyric, but I’ve always taken this bit of the song to mean that in the modern age man is too willing to submit to living in a ‘plastic bubble’, being too involved with shallow things in life and unaware of what is going on in the world around him and his own life.

The rest of the ‘graceland’ album is all about mixing african and american music and cultures together, so it might be that Paul Simon is telling us here to escape the bubble and start thinking about cultures and backgrounds other than our own. Either that or he’s just having fun with nonsense words (I doubt the line ‘the bubble and the baby with the babbon heart’ is meant to be serious somehow!!) I love this song too – its always been my favourite track off that LP!!

I have to write a paper on innovative thinkers regarding business. And I want to go with someone underlooked/not well known. Thoughtful answers please. No BS.

Thanks!

Honestly I think both of those people are good choices. Priscilla turned Elvis’ property (Graceland) from almost bankrupt to an extremely profitable business and letting fans tour his personal home….pretty smart. Rachel Ray, she has taken an ordinary idea (easy, easy but oh-so-delicious meals) and made the difficult seem easy (by making great meals seem so easy). But yet, she has a natural talent for cooking even without professional schooling and a personality that pulls you in. IMHO

People talk a lot about the King of NY, the King of the South, the King of the West Coast.

Is there just one King? Is there one Supreme Ruler?

NAS
**starts G.O.A.T. chant**

aloha guyz

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another beautiful country song from the King

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Elvis Presley FOREVER!!!

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I’ve got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle Jesus meek and mild
I’ve got this harlot that I’m stuck with carrying another man’s child
The solitary star announcing vacancy burnt out as we arrived
They’d throw us back across the border if they knew that we survived
And they were surprised to see us
So they greeted us with palms
They asked for ammunition, acts of contrition and small alms

I might recite a small prayer
If I ever said them
I lay down on an iron frame
Found myself in bedlam
I wish that I could take something for drowning out the noise
Wailing echoes down the corridors

I’ve got this imaginary radio, and I’m punching up the dial
I’ve got the A.C. trained on the T.V. so it won’t blow up in my eye
And everything that I thought fanciful and mocked as too extreme
Must be family entertainment here in the strange land of my dreams
Now I’m practicing my likeness of St. Francis of Assisi
For if I hold my hand outstretched
A little bird comes to me

I might recite a small prayer
If I ever said them
I lay down on an iron frame
Found myself in bedlam
Escaping from the fingers that were stretching through the bars
Wailing echoes down the corridors

The player piano picks out “Life Goes On”
The ring tone rang out “Jerusalem”
And in this pit of sadness
Where the rank of wretched plunge
We’ve buried all the innocents
Now we must bury revenge

They’ve got this scared and decorated girl strapped to the steel trunk of a mustang
And then they drove her down a cypress grove where traitors hang and stars still spangle
They dangled flags and other rags along a coloured thread of twine
And then they dragged that bruised and purple heart along the road to Palestine

Someone went off muttering, he mentioned thirty pieces
Easter saw a slaughtering, each wrapped in bloodstained fleeces

Then my thoughts returned to vengeance, but I put up no resistance
Though I seemed a long way from my home
It really was no distance

And I might recite a small prayer
If I ever said them
I lay down on an iron frame
Found myself in bedlam
Bowing like an actor acknowledging applause
Playing the Crusader who was conquering the Moors
And he knew the consequences, but he won’t accept the cause
Wailing echoes down the corridors

Bedlam, Bedlam, Bedlam

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