Will there ever be another Elvis?

@originnone i like all those people but they will never be Elvis...just people who were inspire by him

@DIABLISS What about all those who inspired Elvis ?

@bijouxbroussard never heard of them....because they were like teachers...those who can do, those who can't do as well as Elvis...teach

@DIABLISS I think she's actually talking about the blues/R&B folks who Elvis listened to....

@originnone Exactly. And I suspect she’s "too young" to know how black musicians were segregated, so that much of their music wasn’t played on all stations or heard by those who didn’t actively seek it out—which Elvis did.

@bijouxbroussard One of the folks they talked about in my class was an alto who was to perform in Washington DC but the Daughters of the American revolution wouldn't let her when they found out she was black. She had been performing all over Europe. Apparently Eleanor Roosevelt intervened to get her back on the docket. I can't recall her name.

@originnone yes, i know all about Elvis origins. but he watched some locals perform and took it to an incredibly new level. Every talented person got inspired by some one else beforehand...people aren't born knowing how to play the piano or sing like a bird

@DIABLISS Remember the scene from Forrest Gump where Elvis copied Forrest's dance? LOL

@bijouxbroussard i am not too young for anything. too old for alot though. when i was a child i lived with my extended family and down the road lived a slew of black people. my mother married one and i was babysat by others. i didn't really think about the differences until i moved Cincinnati where every one hates everyone and black people were segregated.

before that...i think i assumed that i lived with my relatives in a village and we looked alike and the next village had a whole other family that just happened to be black and then maybe another village down the road with people of another color lived together there. i didn't think that we were different. just different shades

@originnone i have been thinking about it since i posted the question

@DIABLISS Your upbringing was unusual. It confirms that you’d have no concept of what many others experienced during those times.

@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 Whatever. Or in your language, "erm kay". 😅

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