To me, nothing is better than An American Trilogy. Other than that, I don't much care for young, pretty-boy Elvis. I like him when he was older, demented and fat. Elvis shuffling around in Nixon's desk looking for pens to hand out to his entourage. Kentucky Rain and In the Ghetto are my two favorites after Trilogy.
I'd not heard the FYC's remake. I like a lot of Elvis' stuff, a lot of other folks stuff that he did, and vice versa... Never understood his costume flair.
Elvis was a little before my time but I think he did a song called .... Huk Huk of Burning Love
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much" Teddy Roosevelt
All of them!! Some of my favorites are....Can't Help Falling Love With You, The Wonder Of You, It's Now Or Never, Suspicious Minds, Wooden Heart, Are You Lonesome Tonight, and How Great Thou Are. I am not a big fan of gospel music, but his gospel songs are very good.
Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter did Suspicious Minds back in the seventies.
Waylon, was Elvis's bass player for a long time. He ended up quitting disgruntled because he was writing so many songs for Elvis and getting so little recognition or loyalties for his work. After he left, he sold more records than Elvis and Buddy Holly (another guy he played bass for) combined. Whenever you hear Waylon do an old 'Elvis' song, it really was a Waylon song in the first place-- Suspicious Minds may be the best example, but there are many more.
Did Elvis ever write a song? He sure did have a pretty voice and a lot of women who liked him, I'll give him that, but my mom got me to the point to where I couldn't stand him. Back in the day when a dozen 8 tracks was a big ol' box and quite a music selection, I think she might of had ten of 'em that were Elvis and two Conway Twitty's that she played everywhere she went. I got to where I would prefer silence to either one of those two choices. I think she cried for a week when Elvis died.
American Trilogy for me, too. Yeah, I don't really like the early stuff. Would have been good, if he had lived longer. Same with John Denver. Older he got, the better he got. Died too soon.
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