Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it’s a whole new social revolution — the 60’s comes from it. (Leonard Bernstein)
Elvis was an instinctive actor…He was quite bright…he was very intelligent…He was not a punk. He was very elegant, sedate, and refined, and sophisticated. (Walter Matthau)
A water glass full of whiskey
And women that I never knew too well
Lord, the things I’ve seen and done
Most of which I’d be ashamed to tell
I don’t know how it started
But that’s what makes a man a man, I guess
Now I’m holdin’ on to nothing’
Tryin’ to forget the rest
I’m lookin’ back on my life
To see if I can find the pieces
I know that some were stolen
And some just blew away
Well, I’ve found the bad parts
Found all the sad parts
But I guess I threw the best parts away
Lord away, away
Playing the bars, playing like a star
Anything to get a name
Carryin’ on, living on songs
My friends wrote to me to sing
I’m lookin’ back on my life
To see if I can find the pieces
I know that some were stolen
And some just blew away
Well, I’ve found the bad parts
Found all the sad parts
But I guess I threw the best parts away
Away, away
Lord, the pieces of my life
They’re everywhere, they’re everywhere
And the one I miss most of all
Is you and you know who
Lookin’ back on my life, Lord
To see if I can find the pieces
Lookin’ back on my life, today
To see if I can find the pieces
Lookin’ back on my life
God help me find the pieces
The song went gold and became a hit in June of 1969 when the cultural icon and Artist of the Century (commonly known as “Elvis”, and sometimes referred to as “The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” or “The King”) Elvis Aaron Presley (1935-1977) recorded it in his album From Elvis in Memphis. Piano on this song was played by then unknown Ronnie Milsap (born 1944).
Lyrics
Seven lonely days
And a dozen towns ago
I reached out one night
And you were gone
Dont know why youd run,
What youre running to or from
All I know is I want to bring you home
So Im walking in the rain,
Thumbing for a ride
On this lonely kentucky backroad
Ive loved you much too long
And my loves too strong
To let you go, never knowing
What went wrong
Kentucky rain keeps pouring down
And up aheads another town
That Ill go walking thru
With the rain in my shoes,
Searchin for you
In the cold kentucky rain,
In the cold kentucky rain
Showed your photograph
To some old gray bearded man
Sitting on a bench
Outside a genral store
They said yes, shes been here
But their memory wasnt clear
Was it yesterday,
No, wait the day before
So I finly got a ride
With a preacher man who asked
Where you bound on such a dark afternoon?
As we drove on thru the rain
As he listened I explained
And he left me with a prayer
That Id find you
I’ve got something to tell you
That I think you ought to know
That my eyes are on you baby
Since a long time ago
And now I fin’ly got the nerve
And I’m gonna make my move
Now don’t you try to turn me off
Cause it’s gonna be hard to do
I’ve got a thing about you baby
Ain’t nothing I can do
I’ve got a thing about you baby
A thing about lovin’ you
Ain’t it just like a woman
When she knows she’s got a man
She’ll wring you out and turn you ’bout
In the palm of her hand
And then she starts to thinkin’
Then maybe she’s put you in a blind
She’ll give you just a little lovin’
It’ll drive you out of your mind
I’ve got a thing about you baby
Ain’t nothing you can do
I’ve got a thing about you baby
A thing about lovin’ you
Among numerous cover versions of the popular wartime ballade The Last Farewell is one by Elvis Presley on his last album From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee. This exquisite song is well suited to reflect the tragic and beautiful life of such a great nice man like Elvis Aaron Presley.
Words & music by Roger Whittaker – R.A. Webster
There’s a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor
Tomorrow for old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
I’ve heard there’s a wicked war a-blazing
And the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising
Their guns on fire as we sail into hell
I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow
But how bitter will be this last farewell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
Though death and darkness gather all about me
My ship be torn apart upon the seas
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
And the heaving waves that brought me once to thee
And should I return home safe again to England
I shall watch the English mist roll through the dale
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
Zum Andenken an den Irren von Kärnten, ein Nachtrag von Elvis PresleyWhen they said you was high classed, well, that was just a lie. (Hound Dog)
Jugendarbeit à la Jörg H.
Wer dem Verbrechen Nachsicht übt, wird sein Komplize. (Voltaire)
Oder wie Doppelmoral, Narzissmus und Größenwahn entstehen und wohin sie führen können…
Die Welt bricht plötzlich zusammen für die biedere Haiders Fangemeinde, nicht nur wegen seinem unrühmlichen Abgang,nachts volltrunken rücksichtslos durch ein Ortsgebiet rasend (tolles Vorbild für die Haider-Jugend), sondern zumal der Rassist und Antisemit Jörg Haider schwul war und auf junge Knaben stand, die seine Söhne hätten sein können. Die britische Tageszeitung The Guardian berichtete, dass er Jugendlichen aus der benachbarten Slowakei bevorzugte,weil das Schutzalter für Homosexuelle dort bei 15 Jahren liegt.
Warum es gerade aus ethischen Gründen notwendig und anständig ist, die Homosexualität des Rechtspopulisten Jörg Haider publik zu machen und sein wahres Gesicht zu demaskieren, hat mit seiner Doppelmoral zu tun. Er war dafür, dass Menschen, die auf Grund ihrer Homosexualität in ihren Heimatländern verfolgt wurden, kein Asyl erhielten. Er hetzte gegen jede Art von “Minderheit”, und er wusste natürlich, warum er sich nicht “outete”, weil er die Doppelmoral vor seinen Anhängern, überwiegend selbsternannten Moralapostel, nicht eingestehen konnte, ohne unglaubwürdig zu werden.
Es ist das ironische Schicksal vieler Moralprediger, dass sie ihren öffentlich lautstark verkündeten strengsten Moralvorstellungen selbst nicht gerecht werden. Sie dröhnen gegen Ehebruch und haben eine Mätresse. Sie führen Kreuzzüge gegen außerehelichen Sex und gehen regelmäßig ins Freudenhaus. Sie verurteilen aufs Schärfste Trunksucht und werden ausgerechnet bei Trunkenheit am Steuer erwischt.
Jörg Haider als “Law & Order”-Mann kam – und es klingt wie eine Offenbarung – ums Leben, als er eine schwerwiegende Straftat beging (Alkohol am Steuer). Der Mann, der für Recht und Ordnung eintrat, sah sich außerhalb des Gesetzes, dessen gnadenlose Einhaltung er von Anderen mit aller Strenge verlangte.
Solche Verlogenheit seitens eines angeblichen “Vorbildes” soll und muss weiterhin entlarvt werden, ohne Rücksicht auf die Pietät, die in diesem Fall fehl am Platz ist, denn es geht hier um Wichtigeres als den selbstverschuldeten Tod eines alkoholisierten Rasers, nämlich die Erhaltung und Stärkung der demokratischen Kultur in einer immer mehr von Verklärung, Intoleranz und Rassismus bedrohten Welt.
Der Mythos des Saubermanns Jörg Haiders wird weiterhin bröckeln. Und das ist auch gut so!
I wasn’t just a fan, I was his brother. He said I was good and I said he was good; we never argued about that. Elvis was a hard worker, dedicated, and God loved him. Last time I saw him was at Graceland. We sang Old Blind Barnabus together, a gospel song. I love him and hope to see him in heaven. There’ll never be another like that soul brother. (James Brown)
Elvis Presley was born and raised in the ‘Bible Belt’ of the USA. He read the Bible and prayed regularly and was very knowledgeable about spiritual matters. In the seventies he started to include more Gospel songs in his repertoire and had the Gospel groups, the Imperials, the Sweet Inspirations and later, J.D. Sumner and the Stamps as his backing singers. He was also known to read passages from the Bible during his concerts. The most beautiful Gospel song Elvis Presley sang is probably Where did they go, Lord?
(Words & music by Weisman-Wayne; Interpret: Elvis Presley)
How can you lose what you never had?
I tell myself when I’m feeling sad
You don’t have the right to cry
You believed your own lie It’s your fault because
You thought that she was yours
Think it over once, think it over twice
I wish I could take my own advice
I know I should be glad, why does it hurt so bad
How can you lose what you never had?
Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it’s a whole new social revolution. (Leonard Bernstein)
I’m so lucky to be in the position to give. It’s really a gift to give.
When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times…I learned very early in life that: ‘Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend – without a song.’ So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you!
Scientology is both immoral and socially obnoxious…It is corrupt sinister and dangerous. It is corrupt because it is based on lies and deceit and has its real objective money and power for Mr. Hubbard… It is sinister because it indulges in infamous practices both to its adherents who do not toe the line unquestionably and to those who criticize it or oppose it. It is dangerous because it is out to capture people and to indoctrinate and brainwash them so they become the unquestioning captives and tools of the cult, withdrawn from ordinary thought, living, and relationships with others. (Justice Latey, ruling in the High Court of London)
Elvis Presley’s voice was remarkable in the sense that, through it, he touched people in a way only great artists can do. In fact, the people he touched are as diverse as humanity itself and, because of that his popularity has transcended race, class, national boundaries, and culture. There is no simple answer about why that is so, all I can say is he had that magic. When Elvis Presley was first popular, many people said that he did not have a good voice. Almost everyone, today, knows that he did, but more people today should see him not simply as a performer, but as an artist with a great soul. (Dr. John Bakke Will, professor of the University of Memphis, in an interview with the US State Department, on the legacy of Elvis Presley)
I wasn’t just a fan, I was his brother. He said I was good and I said he was good; we never argued about that. Elvis was a hard worker, dedicated, and God loved him. Last time I saw him was at Graceland. We sang Old Blind Barnabus together, a gospel song. I love him and hope to see him in heaven. There’ll never be another like that soul brother. (James Brown aka the Godfather of Soul)
When I first heard Elvis’ voice, I just knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody, and nobody was going to be my boss. He is the deity supreme of rock and roll religion as it exists in today’s form. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. I thank God for Elvis Presley. (Bob Dylan)
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo)
Elvis Aaron Presley – the most Christian icon of American pop culture – was Jewish.
In 1998, The Wall Street Journal published an article named All Shook Up in the Holy Land exposing Elvis Presley’s Jewish roots. Elvis’ maternal great-great grandmother, Nancy Burdine, was a Jew. Her daughter gave birth to Doll Mansell who gave birth to Gladys Smith who gave birth to Elvis Aaron. According to rabbinic law, which confers Jewish lineage by way of the mother, that makes Elvis Presley Jewish.
The book includes the following discoveries about Elvis’s Jewish background: Elvis always wore a Jewish Chai pendant; he put a Star of David on his mother’s headstone; he spent his teenage years living in a predominantly Jewish Memphis neighborhood; cantorial records may have influenced Elvis’s singing style. According to the authors, Max Wallace and Jonathan Goldstein, Elvis grew up in a Jewish area of Memphis and as a teenager, lived downstairs from a local Rabbi, Alfred Fruchter.
The Rabbi’s widow, Jeanette Fruchter, recalls; “He was about 15 years old then and we got along so beautifully. He was such a nice boy, such manners. He called my husband Sir Rabbi.”
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made. (Oscar Wilde, Irish genius born in Dublin, died in Paris)
Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen and down the mountain side
The summer’s gone and all the roses dying
‘Tis you, ’tis you must go and I must bide
But come ye back when summer’s in the meadow
Or when the valley’s hushed and white with snow
And I’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy I love you so
But if you come and all the roses dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
You’ll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an “Ave” there for me
And I shall feel, tho’ soft you tread above me
And then my grave will richer, sweeter be
For you will bend and tell me that you love me
And I shall rest in peace until you come to me.
Statues of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, both were born in Kentucky. Kentucky memorial at Vicksburg National Military Park. Photo by J. Williams.
The Kentucky Derby is known as “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports” for its approximate duration, and is called “The Run for the Roses” for the blanket of roses draped over the winner.
Seven lonely days
And a dozen towns ago
I reached out one night
And you were gone
Don’t know why you’d run,
What you’re running to or from
All I know is I want to bring you home
So I’m walking in the rain,
Thumbing for a ride
On this lonely Kentucky backroad
I’ve loved you much too long
My love’s too strong
To let you go, never knowing
What went wrong
Kentucky rain keeps pouring down
And up ahead’s another town
That I’ll be walking through
With the rain in my shoes,
Searching for you
In the cold Kentucky rain,
In the cold Kentucky rain
Showed your photograph
To some old gray bearded men
Sitting on a bench
Outside a general store
They said “Yes, she’s been here”
But their memory wasn’t clear
Was it yesterday,
No, wait…the day before?
Well I finally got a ride
With a preacher man who asked
“Where you bound on such a cold dark afternoon?”
As we drove on through the rain
And he listened I explained
And he left me with a prayer
That I’d find you
Kentucky rain keeps pouring down
And up ahead’s another town
That I’ll be walking through
With the rain in my shoes,
Searching for you
In the cold Kentucky rain!
In the cold Kentucky rain!
In the cold Kentucky rain!
For 50 years: Elvis Presley Induction into the US Army
Elvis Aaron Presley entered the United States Army at Memphis, Tennessee, on March 24, 1958, and then spent three days at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. He left active duty at Fort Dix, New Jersey, on March 5, 1960, and received his discharge from the Army Reserve on March 23, 1964.
During his active military career Elvis Presley served as a member of two different armor battalions. Between March 28 and September 17, 1958, he belonged to Company A, 2d Medium Tank Battalion, 37th Armor, stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. During this assignment he completed basic and advanced military training.
Presley’s overseas service took place in Germany from October 1, 1958, until March 2, 1960, as a member of the 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 32d Armor. For the first five days of that period he belonged to Company D of the battalion, and thereafter to the battalion’s Headquarters Company at Friedberg.
While in Germany Elvis Presley wore the shoulder sleeve insignia of the 3d Armored Division.
His music lives on, and 30 years after his death, his life and achievements continue to have deep impact on the global culture. Elvis Presley is not only the King of Rock and Roll and an icon of the modern pop culture, but also a great performer of R&B, gospel and country songs and an amazing entertainer on stage.
Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old times they are not forgotten
Look away, look away, look away Dixieland
Oh I wish I was in Dixie, away, away
In Dixieland I take my stand to live and die in Dixie
For Dixieland, that’s where I was born
Early Lord one frosty morning
Look away, look away, look away Dixieland
Glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory hallelujah
His truth is marching on
So hush little baby
Don’t you cry
You know your daddy’s bound to die
But all my trials, Lord will soon be over
Glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory hallelujah
His truth is marching on
His truth is marching on
Elvis Presley’s last television special recorded by CBS in Omaha on June 19, 1977. An outtake not seen in the original 1977 Special. Originally by Canadian poet Gordon Lightfoot. The rhythm guitarist is John Wilkinson, who Elvis Presley sings to and the guitarist next to him is James Burton, who played for Ricky Nelson in the fifties.
A trailer of a documentary made by a French producer about the ELVIS phenomenon today. The story of his life before and after his death. Images done for more than five years about the King and the 30th anniversary of his passing away.
The so-called Unchained Melody performed by Elvis Presley at his last public appearance before his death: 30 years ago, but still THE KING.
U.S. President Jimmy Carter said, two months later, on August 17th, 1977:
“Elvis Presley’s death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique and irreplaceable. More than 20 years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense, and he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor of his country.”
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