Will there ever be another Elvis?

@Bignakedguy can i have one of those?

@DIABLISS Yes you may. They come In different colors to

@Bignakedguy yay

@DIABLISS Says [b]you[/b]. 🙄

@bijouxbroussard yes, and i am right. none of them were sexy or good looking or fascinating in the same way

@DIABLISS That’s your opinion, which you’re of course, entitled to.

@bijouxbroussard I think she's just being adversarial for its own sake at this point. I can barely follow the thread of argument.

@bijouxbroussard so you don't agree with someone's opinion on Elvis....and you are done...petty

@CountScrofula i assume you are speaking of me. i am just answering to people commenting on my question. and for people to get so worked up about a conversation on Elvis of all things is childish...and kinda funny

@cherokeepatti if Elvis had lived that long, that might be what he sounded like. was that guy an Elvis imitator years ago?

@DIABLISS I’ve never seen an Elvis imitator with those same resemblances including that voice. I knew two families who would drive to Arkansas and listen to Bob Joyce preach and sing back over 20 years ago. They were Elvis fans. I believe he was the real Elvis who had gotten fed up with the industry and not having any privacy when he’d try to go out and leave Graceland. The paparazzi would be waiting for him. The location of the church is on the same road that goes straight to Graceland.

@cherokeepatti they have some similarities but you can't change eyes and the mouth is all wrong. and Elvis would be alot older. However, they could be related and that would make it more likely for one to sound like the other

@bijouxbroussard so....what? that means i don't know for a fact that there will never be another Elvis? i didn't know anything about him until '64 when i moved to the big city. So i was bombarded with music and tv because that is all people did back then. i was immersed in media. i saw and heard what was going on in a way that others took for granted.

@DIABLISS [b]Whatever.[/b] Or in your language, "erm kay". 😅

@bijouxbroussard i thought you were done? and i got erm kay from your little group years ago

@Coralmist i would say that Michael was in the running but still, not Elvis....just close

@DoubleRings lovely. thanks

@Bignakedguy so true

Soul was Sam Cooke ! Sexy, too. 😳

@bijouxbroussard lovely voice but physically not much and he didn't have that presence

@caPnAhab but there isn't anyone close to bringing the same spirit

@DIABLISS I don't know, I wouldn't say there absolutely isn't. Maybe they haven't been seen yet, or they don't exist yet?

@DIABLISS Brendan Bowyer was a singer in the Royal Show Band
Used to sing in Dallis and Elvis used to go hear him sing

@antonioioio i will look him up. thanks

@antonioioio Do the Hucklebuck...he wasn't sexy though, but i see your point

@SW-User i will never believe that. and if they had stayed together....they would have outsold everyone

@DIABLISS you dont know that. The Stones have sold 240 million records.

@SW-User yes...and they stayed together forever and will die together and still keep going. but if the Beatles had stayed together, they would have outsold everyone everywhere.

@uncalled4 why they're not half as good anymore

@SW-User I think there will always be worthwhile music. But the breakthroughs of the 50s/60s and even 70s are done. But I'll take good songwriting or a great band. Take Queen for example--ALL FOUR wrote hit songs, three were singers, one was among the all-time best. You're not going to see that again.

@uncalled4 i am so saddened by the fact that my sisters and friends had such an influence over me. i wish i had followed Queen more not to mention the countless extremely talented musical people that were famous in the sixties and seventies.

@Human1000 I would have said that Elvis's greatest contribution was introducing white kids to Black music. And he shared that contribution with Buddy Holly among others.

[quote]The film includes flashes of Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Yola), Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (Shonka Dukureh), Little Richard, Mahalia Jackson (Cle Morgan) and Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (Gary Clark Jr.) singing "Hound Dog," "That's All Right" and more – recognizing them as the original vocalists behind Elvis' covers. The movie also shows the admiration between Elvis and blues singer King.[/quote]

[quote] ... Thornton, widely acknowledged as the vocal architect of "Hound Dog," made the song a hit, only for it to be eclipsed by Elvis' cover.

... Thornton's story is not unique, as Elvis was influenced by B.B. King, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Jackson, Tharpe, Big Boy and more.

Little Richard argued that he was the rightful heir to the king of rock 'n' roll title, with Berry up there with him. "I sang (rock 'n' roll) a long time before I presented it to the public," Richard told Rolling Stone in 1990. “I really feel from the bottom of my heart that I am the inventor." [/quote]

[b]https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/06/30/elvis-presley-complicated-relationship-black-music/7746069001/[/b]

@ElwoodBlues I don't think anyone knows who invented rock and roll because it was gradual. a radio announcer came up with the name. but Little Richard was too weird to have had an impact on that many in a serious manner. all of the rest you named i am sure had a big impact on Elvis but that is just the way it goes. We are all inspired by people and become what we are and then only one became Elvis.

@ElwoodBlues @DIABLISS Great points. I’ve found Fats Domino to be the perfect segway of blues into rock. Little Richard’s music still amazes me because the energy is just so insane!

@wildbill83 i think that Bob Dylan would have been Bob Dylan even if there were no music before him

@Elanor but there was Bing Crosby and then Sinatra and then Elvis and then the Beatles....and now nothing

Ahh I gotcha

Like the 27 club

They were all of a certain kind of connection in their musical careers … forever a mystery @DIABLISS

@DIABLISS You dont understand, but that doesn’t surprise me. Elvis was very popular in the mainstream, and he was marketable as the white voice and face of what had been dismissed as "black music" in the segregated South. That [b]is[/b] the way the music business (and other businesses) in the U.S. had always been.

@bijouxbroussard erm kay

@DIABLISS Whatever.

@caesar7 now that is funny! Eminem insists he has a great singing voice, too

@caesar7 Kanye is a fool. But Elvis learned a lot from the black musicians of his day. He was even criticized for it in the beginning. People have either forgotten now, or they don’t realize that.

@bijouxbroussard That's true.

@Darksideinthenight2 tone deaf?

@DunningKruger so true....it hurts

@SW-User they said in the news today that Phil is immobile. i love him.😫

@DIABLISS He does not have long to go in this world, very sick man