His band didnt know he was going to slow the song down. Shows how talented and professional they were. They just fell in time with Elvis. But they always knew he was unpredictable so you will notice how the band never takes their eyes off him. Every live performance, you will see how the entire band watches every move he makes. They once said that at times it would be so loud from all the screaming that they couldn't hear Elvis singing, so they would know where he was in a song by the way he moved. They said they were probably the only band to be instructed by an a** .😂
That was a clip from David Wolper called This is Elvis, with fictionalized Elvis narration and comments from parents. You should see this performance in its entirety. Outstanding. Also this performance was completely improvised according to Elvis’ drummer DJ Fontana.
Milton Berle was the 1st TV Superstar & 1st TV variety show. His Nickname was Mr. Television. Berle is one of the funniest & most famous comedians of all time.
This was a short version of June 5th. Below is the full version The performance of Hound Dog that shocked the world was on June 5, 1956 The Milton Berle. This was before Ed Sullivan Show. This was the first time we ever saw a white man sing and move to the music. In those days everyone just swung their arms for sawed their body, but they didn’t move their feet or hips. Elvis also sung with such passion and energy. He really wasn’t a trained dancer per say he just moved his body to the music. That was unheard of then. Many of those video have edited out his feet and leg movements and sometime part of the whole song. Below is an unedited full version of Hound Dog, that shocking day. ruclips.net/video/WJnVQDA9rHA/видео.html
Changing the song and doing the sexy ended made uptight people so angry but it catapulted him into stardom. That performance was absolutely legendary. Nothing was put on tv like that before.
according to drummer DJ Fontana the slow part was impromptu, he also said that most times they couldn't hear one another on stage so they just looked at Elvis' movements to know where they were.
The thing that strikes me the most about the music from the 50's & 60's is the diversity. They had Elvis, The Everly Brothers, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino to name a few. They all brought something special & unique to the music. Those rock pioneers blended so many different regional & cultural elements to create a new genre of music. No wonder it took the world by storm & shocked people too.
I am 80 and you are doing a brilliant deduction of what I experienced as a Elvis fan in 1956, I was 12 years old when he came on Sullivan. He was earth shattering for the times. Most singers like Bing Crosby, Sinatra, and all were dignified performers who stood there and kind of crooned to the audience like our parents. Never in our lives had we seen a young man grind, buck, sway or dip who was singing to an audience. I was allowed to watch even though my dad kept saying, "What is he doing" the whole time. As a young girl I never had seen such a sensual and handsome guy he just seduced you right on the stage. You need to see real history and the reason people really tried to stop Elvis. First of all he grew up in a poor black community, went to a black church and hung out on Beale Street in Memphis,, where at 15 he would sit outside the black blues club and listen to the music. In the 50's it was really racist, white stations would not play black artists, until Elvis changed that. If you want to see the ramifications of being influenced by black culture, and how it hurt him, see "Elvis Presley and the Black Community" Parts 1 & 2. His association with black artists made him a target of white politicians. But what they couldn't stop was a real teenage movement that he introduced to America. Thanks man you do are a good reactor, thought provoking. Be Blessed
I think they were laughing because Elvis slowed down the tempo. It was very unexpected. One of the band members said they didn’t know he was going to do that. The audience had only heard the fast paced version before.
Elvis was so before his time it's uncanny. If more of what he did in 1956 would have been known, the Beatles would never had the same success 8 years later. Elvis did it all, and was much cooler, so many years ahead.There was no Billboard, no Grammys back then. Only the King! We old boomer remember who was the Goat. In the future only the ones diving into history will probably do the same.
there is nothing planned in his dance, it is the instinctive genius of Elvis that leaves his body caught up in the musical tempo. We find this in Polk Salad Annie for example, improvisation!
Elvis wasn't the first, he just did it better, he called Chuck Berry the real king of Rock n Roll. Elvis was one of a kind, never will be another. He single handedly change the face of popular music at that time. Popular culture and music has not been the same since.
The e is silent. Berle is pronounced “burl”. My mom was a senior in HS when that aired, & I remember her saying Berle was called Mr. Television because people bought tvs to SEE his variety show! He & Ed ushered in the transition from hearing radio shows to watching television shows. Yes, Elvis caused quite the uproar.
Even though this show originally aired before I was even born you need to understand that back then television stations went off the air say between midnight and six o’clock in the morning. And depending on where you live the television stations might have been on the air even less hours.
No there was nothing rehearsed. His band members said. You never knew what Elvis would do, And Elvis said. “ I just do what I feel. I’ve always done that.
Milton Berle was a family show and was not on late at night. I was 6 years old, and I never heard my parents criticize Elvis. Maybe because we were southern and we did go to church.
@JacobRestituto my dad was one of a kind. He was born in 1909, and he really liked rock and roll back then. He liked Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, and many more. He bought their records.
Since I’ve been going down the Elvis rabbit hole after seeing the movie, I found an interview here on RUclips by Milton Berle decades later regarding this particular Elvis performance. He said the next few days after the show, he received roughly 700,000 pieces of, not fan mail, but pan mail. The viewing audience was very upset about Elvis’s performance he said. So he called Elvis’s manager and told him about the huge negative response, but then followed that by saying hang onto him because he’s going to be a huge star exactly because of the hate mail. As Bruce Springsteen said on a video here on RUclips, which was a tribute to Elvis, exposing Elvis on TV was the beginning of something, not just musically, but socially. He stated that Elvis was the right man, with the right talent and charisma, at the right time to light that match for social change.
Elvis’ drummer in this clip, DJ Fontana, got his start drumming at a burlesque show in Shreveport Louisiana. He never took his eyes of Elvis’ backside because the screams were so loud he couldn’t actual hear him singing. “In this footage you can actually see that the band was directed by an ass. Lol. That's according to Scotty Moore, Elvis lead guitarist. And I think it was dj fontana, who mentioned once in an interview that the slow ending of hound dog was an off the cuff moment, totally unexpected.” I guess DJs burlesque experience came in handy!
Milton Berle was a comedian and actor back in that time. There is another video with more of the show without the extra narrative of people against Elvis .
This particular clip was taken from a documentary on Elvis. Thus the voice over and the people’s viewpoints. I love this version. Have you reacted to the live Las Vegas Suspicion Minds? The Las Vegas version shows the entertainment side of him in the 1970. 15 year after Hound Dog. 1968 Comeback Special live version of Trying to Get to You just drips with magnetism.
The guy doing the voice-over wasn't Elvis. Milton mentioned Rudy Vallee. Elvis did a movie with him in the late 1969s. Rudy and Bing Crosby were among the first crooners.
What most people do not realize is that Elvis didn’t spend hour’s Choreographing his moves. In this and all throughout his career he conducted his musicians with his body movements. Scotty More is guitarist, said that sometimes the screaming was so loud that you couldn’t hear where Elvis was in the song, but they know by his body movements where he was. Scotty said the band was literally conduction by (Elvis’s) an ass.
Jacob, the majority of people loved Elvis. That's why he had 4 gold records by the time he made his last performance on the Ed Sullivan show. You know negatively gets more responses. In our house my parents had no problem with Elvis. They sat in our living room watching while my sister and I went crazy.. In our Hispanic household we were indoctrinated into dancing Latin music and the Elvis moves weren't offensive. We were used to shaking our boody.
You watched the wrong link. You should watch Elvis's whole performance. Also, nothing he did was choreographed, he felt the music and moved to it in the moment. The crowd were not laughing at him, idk what you were watching but it was different clips of things combined. The girls are giggly and screaming. Here is the link: Where he usually stopped the song, to the surprise of his band, he continued in a slower mode and as you can see he does the toe stand several times........long before Michael Jackson. Link: ruclips.net/video/UKCMm8lIlgM/видео.html
Thanks for posting that Barb! Yeah, he watched the wrong one. 👍 This is more like a mini documentary. Let's hope he and everyone else will watch the one you linked. They will be entertained! 😊
You’re not seeing the horror, disgust and repulsion in the older faces in the crowd because they’re a Milton Berle audience who came to the recording of the show *knowing* who the performing guest would be 🤷🏻♂ Would anyone disgusted with Presley even consider attending?
Definitely NOT rehearsed. At the time this was still a relatively new song for Elvis and nowhere will you hear a similar version of it with the impromptu add on at the end of the song. Not in any tudio sessions or live performances. It was just Elvis being Elvis and having a good time and giving the audience a real show. DJ Fontana (drummer) has said that at the time he didn't know what was going on and he was looking at Bill and Scotty for some clue, but they didn't know either. If you watch him during this part you can see him looking around and a little confused or worried. Being the professionals they are, and knowing Elvis as well as they do, they are able to bluff their way through it until Elvis decides to end the song. It was actually a very risky thing for him to do on live TV and 1 of the biggest TV shows of its time. But it's not like he was weighing up the pros and cons, it was just a spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment example of Elvis enjoying his music. He was already The King, even back then.
The difference in standards today is so crazy. Today, women perform half naked and nothing is thought of it. Yet, back then, swiveling hips caused people to be horrified. I bet it didn't stop them from looking, or staying til the end of the show.
Elvis was only 21 here, & just 19 when he first started performing like this, & had a meteoric rise to fame, so still a teenager, & he was copping so much negativity …. For his dance movements & for his refusal to compromise in his friendships with Black people & Black singers. The South had strict segregation laws, which Elvis flouted & he was considered to be a threat by authorities & parents. It would have been so easy for him to just stand still while he sang, or play his guitar, & not to hang around with his Black friends. But Elvis, though shy off stage, & nervous too, would not back down, & so he paved the way for future artists to be able to express themselves as they wanted, & he helped to bridge the gap between Black & White, & to start breaking down enforced segregation through music.
First, this clip you have seems to be a weird blend of several different documentaries about Elvis so you are not seeing the complete Hound dog performance, and possibly not the audience that was there. You should try to find the clip of just the Milton Berle show of Elvis. Also, at this time, all white performers just stood singing-they did not move around. Elvis was accused of being like a burlesque/stripper dancer around his microphone pole. This performance and all of his performances were never choreographed, as others have said. In some ways, Elvis was music incarnate-the music inhabited his whole body. You should listen to some interviews from the people who were in his band. They are really interesting.
Elvis was such a disruption on the music scene. It changed things. Like beatles, MJ, Maddona, NWA, Nirvana. I miss all the diverse music. So much put out now sounds the same. Can't wait for someone or some group to really change things again. There are talented people I enjoy now. Don't get me wrong. but there is a magic that has been missing.
The religious people who were watching at home on TV and the ones who did not like anything improper. Wow and look at now disgusting. Poor Elvis really copped it.
Jane H commenting …. I don’t think it was a case of him being so provocative in his movements, it was more a case that up to the point when Elvis first performed publicly, singers had stood still when performing, or had played guitar & stood still. No-one had ever danced around while singing & playing guitar, so Elvis took the world by storm. The young people went crazy for him, but their parents & grandparents were horrified. Disgusted, might be a better word. They saw the effect he was having on their teenage daughters, & they started labelling his dancing as obscene, vulgar, animalistic, trying to bring white people down to the level of the N word, etc. Elvis had been raised in a very poor black community, & the dancing & music he saw & heard were absorbed into the young boy that he was. So naturally, when he started performing, that was what he carried within him. He always said, if he couldn’t move, he couldn’t sing. Quite literally, music was in his very blood & soul. The voice of young Elvis in the 50s matured into a deeper, richer chest voice in the 60s, when he did virtually no live performances, until his Comeback Special in 1968, by which time he had not performed publicly for 11 years … two years in post-war Germany & then 9 years as the highest paid Hollywood star. He did sing & dance in all 31 of his movies made during that period, but he had no choice in what he sang & he wasn’t happy with the lightweight films they made him do. His voice in the 70s was even more rich & mature, until his decline in health, from around 74 until his death in 77, but his final concert, 8 weeks before his death, was perhaps his finest yet.
This was Elvis, THE KING
Never rehearsed Elvis absolutely felt the music you need to understand they were learning to be rock stars
His band didnt know he was going to slow the song down. Shows how talented and professional they were. They just fell in time with Elvis. But they always knew he was unpredictable so you will notice how the band never takes their eyes off him. Every live performance, you will see how the entire band watches every move he makes. They once said that at times it would be so loud from all the screaming that they couldn't hear Elvis singing, so they would know where he was in a song by the way he moved. They said they were probably the only band to be instructed by an a** .😂
That was a clip from David Wolper called This is Elvis, with fictionalized Elvis narration and comments from parents. You should see this performance in its entirety. Outstanding. Also this performance was completely improvised according to Elvis’ drummer DJ Fontana.
Milton Berle was the 1st TV Superstar & 1st TV variety show. His Nickname was Mr. Television. Berle is one of the funniest & most famous comedians of all time.
He was also "Uncle Milty." Tuesday nights 8pm.
This was a short version of June 5th. Below is the full version
The performance of Hound Dog that shocked the world was on June 5, 1956 The Milton Berle. This was before Ed Sullivan Show. This was the first time we ever saw a white man sing and move to the music. In those days everyone just swung their arms for sawed their body, but they didn’t move their feet or hips. Elvis also sung with such passion and energy. He really wasn’t a trained dancer per say he just moved his body to the music. That was unheard of then. Many of those video have edited out his feet and leg movements and sometime part of the whole song. Below is an unedited full version of Hound Dog, that shocking day.
ruclips.net/video/WJnVQDA9rHA/видео.html
Changing the song and doing the sexy ended made uptight people so angry but it catapulted him into stardom. That performance was absolutely legendary. Nothing was put on tv like that before.
according to drummer DJ Fontana the slow part was impromptu, he also said that most times they couldn't hear one another on stage so they just looked at Elvis' movements to know where they were.
This was the performance what Elvis got panned for you need to watch it on your own all of it the complete song great reaction
The thing that strikes me the most about the music from the 50's & 60's is the diversity. They had Elvis, The Everly Brothers, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino to name a few. They all brought something special & unique to the music. Those rock pioneers blended so many different regional & cultural elements to create a new genre of music. No wonder it took the world by storm & shocked people too.
I am 80 and you are doing a brilliant deduction of what I experienced as a Elvis fan in 1956, I was 12 years old when he came on Sullivan. He was earth shattering for the times. Most singers like Bing Crosby, Sinatra, and all were dignified performers who stood there and kind of crooned to the audience like our parents. Never in our lives had we seen a young man grind, buck, sway or dip who was singing to an audience. I was allowed to watch even though my dad kept saying, "What is he doing" the whole time. As a young girl I never had seen such a sensual and handsome guy he just seduced you right on the stage. You need to see real history and the reason people really tried to stop Elvis. First of all he grew up in a poor black community, went to a black church and hung out on Beale Street in Memphis,, where at 15 he would sit outside the black blues club and listen to the music. In the 50's it was really racist, white stations would not play black artists, until Elvis changed that. If you want to see the ramifications of being influenced by black culture, and how it hurt him, see "Elvis Presley and the Black Community" Parts 1 & 2. His association with black artists made him a target of white politicians. But what they couldn't stop was a real teenage movement that he introduced to America. Thanks man you do are a good reactor, thought provoking. Be Blessed
I think they were laughing because Elvis slowed down the tempo. It was very unexpected. One of the band members said they didn’t know he was going to do that. The audience had only heard the fast paced version before.
Oh cool
Yep! Not choreographed. His band was so good, including Vegas years, they knew to keep an eye on Elvis, as they never knew what he’d do. Amazing.
You should see the Milton Berle interview about Elvis, that's very interesting
First time he performed it like this🎸
Elvis was so before his time it's uncanny. If more of what he did in 1956 would have been known, the Beatles would never had the same success 8 years later. Elvis did it all, and was much cooler, so many years ahead.There was no Billboard, no Grammys back then. Only the King! We old boomer remember who was the Goat. In the future only the ones diving into history will probably do the same.
There is even a funny skit at the end with Milton Berle
there is nothing planned in his dance, it is the instinctive genius of Elvis that leaves his body caught up in the musical tempo. We find this in Polk Salad Annie for example, improvisation!
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Elvis wasn't the first, he just did it better, he called Chuck Berry the real king of Rock n Roll. Elvis was one of a kind, never will be another. He single handedly change the face of popular music at that time. Popular culture and music has not been the same since.
Sorry he was the first
The e is silent. Berle is pronounced “burl”. My mom was a senior in HS when that aired, & I remember her saying Berle was called Mr. Television because people bought tvs to SEE his variety show! He & Ed ushered in the transition from hearing radio shows to watching television shows. Yes, Elvis caused quite the uproar.
WOW VERY Interesting about Mr. Television!!
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@@JacobRestituto do u take suggestions thru your bussiness account or?
This clip from "This is Elvis" is fabulous....as the entire documentary❣️🥇💎🎆
Even though this show originally aired before I was even born you need to understand that back then television stations went off the air say between midnight and six o’clock in the morning. And depending on where you live the television stations might have been on the air even less hours.
No there was nothing rehearsed. His band members said. You never knew what Elvis would do, And Elvis said. “ I just do what I feel. I’ve always done that.
If ya grew up in the 60’s you know how important #Elvis was to music and culture.
Before #Elvis there was nothing-John Lennon
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Milton Berle was a family show and was not on late at night. I was 6 years old, and I never heard my parents criticize Elvis. Maybe because we were southern and we did go to church.
interesting!
@JacobRestituto my dad was one of a kind. He was born in 1909, and he really liked rock and roll back then. He liked Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, and many more. He bought their records.
After this television only showed Elvis from the waist up
Since I’ve been going down the Elvis rabbit hole after seeing the movie, I found an interview here on RUclips by Milton Berle decades later regarding this particular Elvis performance. He said the next few days after the show, he received roughly 700,000 pieces of, not fan mail, but pan mail. The viewing audience was very upset about Elvis’s performance he said. So he called Elvis’s manager and told him about the huge negative response, but then followed that by saying hang onto him because he’s going to be a huge star exactly because of the hate mail. As Bruce Springsteen said on a video here on RUclips, which was a tribute to Elvis, exposing Elvis on TV was the beginning of something, not just musically, but socially. He stated that Elvis was the right man, with the right talent and charisma, at the right time to light that match for social change.
Elvis’ drummer in this clip, DJ Fontana, got his start drumming at a burlesque show in Shreveport Louisiana. He never took his eyes of Elvis’ backside because the screams were so loud he couldn’t actual hear him singing. “In this footage you can actually see that the band was directed by an ass. Lol. That's according to Scotty Moore, Elvis lead guitarist. And I think it was dj fontana, who mentioned once in an interview that the slow ending of hound dog was an off the cuff moment, totally unexpected.” I guess DJs burlesque experience came in handy!
Milton Berle was a comedian and actor back in that time. There is another video with more of the show without the extra narrative of people against Elvis .
This particular clip was taken from a documentary on Elvis. Thus the voice over and the people’s viewpoints. I love this version.
Have you reacted to the live Las Vegas Suspicion Minds? The Las Vegas version shows the entertainment side of him in the 1970. 15 year after Hound Dog.
1968 Comeback Special live version of Trying to Get to You just drips with magnetism.
The guy doing the voice-over wasn't Elvis.
Milton mentioned Rudy Vallee. Elvis did a movie with him in the late 1969s. Rudy and Bing Crosby were among the first crooners.
What most people do not realize is that Elvis didn’t spend hour’s Choreographing his moves. In this and all throughout his career he conducted his musicians with his body movements. Scotty More is guitarist, said that sometimes the screaming was so loud that you couldn’t hear where Elvis was in the song, but they know by his body movements where he was. Scotty said the band was literally conduction by (Elvis’s) an ass.
You just didn't do that in the 1950s Elvis kicked the door down...
There are a number of great performances from Elvis on the Milton Berle Show . I can send you links if you are interested.
Jacob, the majority of people loved Elvis. That's why he had 4 gold records by the time he made his last performance on the Ed Sullivan show. You know negatively gets more responses. In our house my parents had no problem with Elvis. They sat in our living room watching while my sister and I went crazy.. In our Hispanic household we were indoctrinated into dancing Latin music and the Elvis moves weren't offensive. We were used to shaking our boody.
There's another vid of this performance with the whole song, and a skit afterwards. This one didn't show much.
Not rehearsed dance moves 100% improvised
You watched the wrong link. You should watch Elvis's whole performance. Also, nothing he did was choreographed, he felt the music and moved to it in the moment. The crowd were not laughing at him, idk what you were watching but it was different clips of things combined. The girls are giggly and screaming. Here is the link: Where he usually stopped the song, to the surprise of his band, he continued in a slower mode and as you can see he does the toe stand several times........long before Michael Jackson. Link: ruclips.net/video/UKCMm8lIlgM/видео.html
Thanks for posting that Barb! Yeah, he watched the wrong one. 👍 This is more like a mini documentary. Let's hope he and everyone else will watch the one you linked. They will be entertained! 😊
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@@dave-ox2eo Thank you for that!
You’re not seeing the horror, disgust and repulsion in the older faces in the crowd because they’re a Milton Berle audience who came to the recording of the show *knowing* who the performing guest would be 🤷🏻♂ Would anyone disgusted with Presley even consider attending?
Definitely NOT rehearsed. At the time this was still a relatively new song for Elvis and nowhere will you hear a similar version of it with the impromptu add on at the end of the song. Not in any tudio sessions or live performances. It was just Elvis being Elvis and having a good time and giving the audience a real show.
DJ Fontana (drummer) has said that at the time he didn't know what was going on and he was looking at Bill and Scotty for some clue, but they didn't know either. If you watch him during this part you can see him looking around and a little confused or worried. Being the professionals they are, and knowing Elvis as well as they do, they are able to bluff their way through it until Elvis decides to end the song. It was actually a very risky thing for him to do on live TV and 1 of the biggest TV shows of its time. But it's not like he was weighing up the pros and cons, it was just a spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment example of Elvis enjoying his music. He was already The King, even back then.
The difference in standards today is so crazy. Today, women perform half naked and nothing is thought of it. Yet, back then, swiveling hips caused people to be horrified. I bet it didn't stop them from looking, or staying til the end of the show.
Error lo interesante de Elvis es que FLUIA no era una coreografia ensayada como los de mas.
Elvis was only 21 here, & just 19 when he first started performing like this, & had a meteoric rise to fame, so still a teenager, & he was copping so much negativity …. For his dance movements & for his refusal to compromise in his friendships with Black people & Black singers. The South had strict segregation laws, which Elvis flouted & he was considered to be a threat by authorities & parents. It would have been so easy for him to just stand still while he sang, or play his guitar, & not to hang around with his Black friends. But Elvis, though shy off stage, & nervous too, would not back down, & so he paved the way for future artists to be able to express themselves as they wanted, & he helped to bridge the gap between Black & White, & to start breaking down enforced segregation through music.
First, this clip you have seems to be a weird blend of several different documentaries about Elvis so you are not seeing the complete Hound dog performance, and possibly not the audience that was there. You should try to find the clip of just the Milton Berle show of Elvis.
Also, at this time, all white performers just stood singing-they did not move around. Elvis was accused of being like a burlesque/stripper dancer around his microphone pole. This performance and all of his performances were never choreographed, as others have said. In some ways, Elvis was music incarnate-the music inhabited his whole body. You should listen to some interviews from the people who were in his band. They are really interesting.
so wild!!
Sorry, Jacob, Milton's name was pronounced "Burl", not Burle
Elvis was such a disruption on the music scene. It changed things. Like beatles, MJ, Maddona, NWA, Nirvana. I miss all the diverse music. So much put out now sounds the same. Can't wait for someone or some group to really change things again. There are talented people I enjoy now. Don't get me wrong. but there is a magic that has been missing.
It’s not rehearsed. Lol
Can you please react to RM's npr tiny desk concert
Somebody gave you another BAD CLIP. This is NOT the complete version. This is edited down and that is NOT Elvis, it's an impersonator speaking.
No bueno
Why did you miss the middle bit out Mr Master musician 🙄
not sure, ms beth
Berle....pronounced same as burl.......1 syllable
thank you!
@@JacobRestituto You are welcome. 🫡
The religious people who were watching at home on TV and the ones who did not like anything improper. Wow and look at now disgusting. Poor Elvis really copped it.
ruclips.net/video/FjJr5Yimfeo/видео.html
Jane H commenting …. I don’t think it was a case of him being so provocative in his movements, it was more a case that up to the point when Elvis first performed publicly, singers had stood still when performing, or had played guitar & stood still. No-one had ever danced around while singing & playing guitar, so Elvis took the world by storm. The young people went crazy for him, but their parents & grandparents were horrified. Disgusted, might be a better word. They saw the effect he was having on their teenage daughters, & they started labelling his dancing as obscene, vulgar, animalistic, trying to bring white people down to the level of the N word, etc. Elvis had been raised in a very poor black community, & the dancing & music he saw & heard were absorbed into the young boy that he was. So naturally, when he started performing, that was what he carried within him. He always said, if he couldn’t move, he couldn’t sing. Quite literally, music was in his very blood & soul. The voice of young Elvis in the 50s matured into a deeper, richer chest voice in the 60s, when he did virtually no live performances, until his Comeback Special in 1968, by which time he had not performed publicly for 11 years … two years in post-war Germany & then 9 years as the highest paid Hollywood star. He did sing & dance in all 31 of his movies made during that period, but he had no choice in what he sang & he wasn’t happy with the lightweight films they made him do. His voice in the 70s was even more rich & mature, until his decline in health, from around 74 until his death in 77, but his final concert, 8 weeks before his death, was perhaps his finest yet.
Then you go to 1961 in Blue Hawaii and Elvis singing 'Slicing Sand'.