I was 12 in 1956, and I can tell you they couldn't contain it, it was spontaneous and some even cried I kid you not. One of my greatest memories of the 50's the part that was tough was when you went to his new movies,. they would stand up right in the theater and the guys would say "sit down and shut up". He was earth shattering he was my youth. Still love him at 80. thanks great reaction. The sexiest man who ever lived. 😍
Loved your story. I read an article of a man that was at some of Elvis' shows and he said this was something new. He had seen girl scream at Frank Sinatra but he had never seen girls cry. Elvis could make the girls cry. I think I would have been one of those girls. His charisma comes through the videos and even his pictures. Couldn't imagine being in his presence. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤❤
I LOVE the perspective of people who lived the whole Elvis phenomenon in real time. People now don't understand how times were with no social media, limited TV stations, books, magazines, and radio were the means of entertainment. Being a fan of an artist was a much more personal experience. You had to physically go out and buy the records. You'd listen, enjoy, catch some TV appearances, and get to know the album front to back. If you were lucky, Elvis was touring, and you were able to see the phenomenon in person. Then you'd wait for the next album. Today's age of one song downloads is just so impersonal to me. There's SO MANY irrelevant "artists." There's NOTHING like Elvis, not even close.
LOL , I'm 80 years old and remember that feeling like it was yesterday ... it was most unladylike but completely spontaneous ! Those were the days ... still miss him !
Baby Elvis! ❤ Love it. It was described to me like this, Suzi. Elvis was part of the Silent Generation (1928-1945), a generation who were shaped by WWII and the Great Depression. Elvis was born smack bang in the middle of this time period in 1935, dirt poor in Mississippi. The 50's were a time of conformity in American life, then came 1956 and you had Elvis leaping out at you on the TV screen, having fun on stage, moving, being sexy, freely expressing himself (despite censorship). So yes, the girls just couldn't contain themselves! A very good doco to watch is Elvis '56. It is about that single year in his career, the year he exploded.
If you compare this with a clip from, say, Perry Como at the same time you will see how revolutionary and extraordinary Elvis was. No-one had ever seen anything like this. It scared a lot of parents and he was denounced from pulpits and accused of causing juvenile delinquency!! It's great to see him having so much fun just doing what came naturally as he felt the music. A true original and musical genius ❤
Love your Elvis reactions, but looking through your list I'm amazed that you haven't done; Trying To Get To You from the 68 Comeback Special. That is Elvis at his rocking finest. Just a man and and his guitar belting out old fashioned Rock N Roll. Travis would especially love it because the King really cuts loose with the vocals.
Raw and with 0.00 training here, just a natural master of the craft. And an accidental revolution, that still resonates today. 🍻 Just the coolest dude that ever walked upright.
I still cant contain it!! Every now and then i let out a little scream listening to this man! And I'm old and been listening to Elvis over 60 yrs. Cant help it! Love the man.
Am now 84 and clearly remember seeing Elvis for the first time at 15. 2 months later met him in person. He. was dark blonde, blue eyed and “drop dead” GORGEOUS!!! He was just 21. However, the mania was already starting. Elvis had to begin to “hide out “, because he literally had a very hard time finding some privacy.
What was great about Elvis, he didn't take himself to seriously. The audience picked up on that, his movements and looks didn't hurt😊 audience pick up on the fun he was having AND.. What A VOICE!!
This is so young Elvis.. he hadn't even dyed his hair black at this point... he was a natural blond as a child.. I've heard that he loved Roy Orbison and that's why he started dying his hair black. I'm so thankful that my Mom raised on Elvis and my Dad raised me on Frankie.. My Dad passed away in 2007.. my sister (only sibling) passed in 2015.. Mom's now in a nursing home but still loves Elvis.. the nurses have a pic of Elvis outside her door. They've also put a CD player in her room so she can listen to Elvis.
They couldn’t contain their response to Elvis. Frank Sinatra before him had screaming girls as well, however this was a lot more primal. He was the first to have girls throw their panties on the stage. It was an emotional physical scream. And all these years later it still stands. And trust me, after he traveled the south prior to his being “discovered” by the national audience, that 19 yo boy new how to stir up a crowd, but he never really got over it. He truly was all about the fans.
I'm 74, and I couldn't contain my feelings. He was so gorgeous that I couldn't help myself. I had never seen anyone like him. Of course, I would cry, too. I wish that I could go back in time.
If you notice in this video that there are 4 members in the band. A lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass fiddle (later replaced by a n electric bass guitar), and drums. Elvis may have not been the very first, but he definitely popularized this arrangement setting the stage for The Beatles, etc. to this very day.
Elvis cemented the set up. Bands after would copy it. Incidentally having been raised in the 50's it was unbelievable how he resurrected the whole guitar industry. Often only used in mountain and country music, he made it cool and the orders from every band in the world flooded in. You can even calculate his Empact and not just to music.
Unless you actually lived in those times , you can't fully appreciate how REBELLIOUS Elvis was considered to be by parents, chuch leaders , etc. Elvis being suddenly drafted into the Army was the government's way of getting Elvis out of the public eye so that he couldn't corrupt the youth of America . Little did they know that his millions of fans were more than happy to wait for Elvis to get OUT of the Army to resume his career...With Elvis away for 2 years in the Army , the government thought that he would basically be forgotten by his fans ...HOW WRONG THEY WERE !!!
Not only did singers not move on stage before Elvis, but movies and television had no nudity or profanity, and everyone on the cover of a magazine was fully clothed . So naturally - a teenage girl growing up in a "pre Elvis 1950's society" like that - is going to be overwhelmed by what she sees as unprecedented and suggestive stage moves.
At the very beginning of the song, when he says READY SET GO MAN GO, he's looking and pointing at Ed Sullivan. Ed swore he'd never have 'that guy' on his show but was converted into a fan just by meeting Elvis. Elvis, in that moment, was trying to bring Ed into the fun....
Gordon Stomer, onstage now with Elvis, tells the best stories about all of this time. He and their group were horrified at first, to the guys you see now. It was a joy to watch happen
WHERE WAS ELVIS & WHERE WAS ED SULLIVAN -- On September 9, 1956, neither Elvis nor Ed Sullivan were in the studios that day for broadcasting. A month before Elvis' appearance on his show, Sullivan suffered from an almost fatal automobile crash that left him hospitalized for weeks & was unable to recover from his injuries quickly enough. British actor Charles Laughton filled in for Sullivan as host for Presley's debut performance. With regards to Elvis, he also was not in New York where the Sullivan show was broadcast from -- Elvis was at Television City in Hollywood where he was in the middle of filming "Love Me Tender." And it was Laughton who introduced Elvis that night making it all appear like Elvis was on the Ed Sullivan stage.
I saw him in 1975 and yes it wasn’t just a girl screaming I mean all 10,000 people at the Norfolk scope Coliseum went into a frenzy from the time he walked on the stage until he left. Something I will always treasure!❤️
Notice the lighter color of his hair. That's his natural color. Light brown. He colored it black just before his first colored movie LOVING YOU.....and it stayed that way until his death.
OK so if you didn't know - In Elvis' 45 min audio interview in 72 He said -----It looked like I was having an Epileptic FIT!!!!!! during those days LMAO that was Hilarious OMG such a funny man I Loveeee Young Elvis ---
Before Elvis, young girls screamed just for much as Frank Sinatra (and others before), but more of Elvis' performances were recorded/aired. Also there was a loosening of acceptable teenage expression in the mid-1950s.
I recall reading in an Elvis biography that when the janitors would clean the auditorium seats later they would often see puddles of urine on the floor where some of the teenage girls had pissed themselves in excitement from watching Elvis perform.
I was 12 when i saw this. I screamed at home. People say that girls screamed for Sinatra too but, sorry, not like this. Plain and simple, this was a sexual awakening.
His back up singers and the band back then were all 10 or so yrs older than Elvis. I had just turned 12 and it was the beginning of 7th grade with a middle aged nun as teacher. Most of the class watched Ed Sullivan that night, and many parents did not like what they saw. Even my 24 yr old sister did not care for that new music. 1956 saw every magazine and newspaper write about ELvis . Anyway, within a few months the nun brought a portable record player to the class and played classical music in an effort to sway us away from Elvis. The thing was, that back then females did not even do sexy moves. Elvis changed a lot.
Re: how did Elvis manage to offend so many ... well, obviously, the sexy moves, smouldering performances, etc., certainly were big contributers, but, it's really important to recognize that many, many people, radio stations, etc., were outraged and offended by Elvis's "***ger music." (Sorry, disgusting, I know, but it's true.) Check out the documentary about Elvis and the black community - you'll hear such gems as "an attempt to degrade the level of the white man to that of the n*....) - just paraphrasing, but not diluting. This, sadly, was a significant part of public offended reaction to Elvis. It needs to be acknowledged. On a more positive note - you're the cat's pajamas, Elvis. And look HOW MUCH FUN HE'S HAVING!
I grew up in Elvis' heyday and honestly? Even when I was a little kid, I thought he was rather creepy. I don't know whether it was the way he curled his lip like he smelled something nasty under his nose, the dyed black hair (he was naturally blonde) or the way he "danced". I thought it rather looked like he was convulsing. Then, he went "Vegas" with the capes, jumpsuits, sequins, etc. I preferred Bobby Darrin (you should check out "Mack the Knife"), Fats Domino, Nat King Cole and, believe it or not, Dean Martin. Nope, Elvis never did it for me.
I was 12 in 1956, and I can tell you they couldn't contain it, it was spontaneous and some even cried I kid you not. One of my greatest memories of the 50's the part that was tough was when you went to his new movies,. they would stand up right in the theater and the guys would say "sit down and shut up". He was earth shattering he was my youth. Still love him at 80. thanks great reaction. The sexiest man who ever lived. 😍
Loved your story. I read an article of a man that was at some of Elvis' shows and he said this was something new. He had seen girl scream at Frank Sinatra but he had never seen girls cry. Elvis could make the girls cry. I think I would have been one of those girls. His charisma comes through the videos and even his pictures. Couldn't imagine being in his presence. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤❤
I LOVE the perspective of people who lived the whole Elvis phenomenon in real time. People now don't understand how times were with no social media, limited TV stations, books, magazines, and radio were the means of entertainment. Being a fan of an artist was a much more personal experience. You had to physically go out and buy the records. You'd listen, enjoy, catch some TV appearances, and get to know the album front to back. If you were lucky, Elvis was touring, and you were able to see the phenomenon in person. Then you'd wait for the next album. Today's age of one song downloads is just so impersonal to me. There's SO MANY irrelevant "artists." There's NOTHING like Elvis, not even close.
LOL , I'm 80 years old and remember that feeling like it was yesterday ... it was most unladylike but completely spontaneous ! Those were the days ... still miss him !
Baby Elvis! ❤ Love it. It was described to me like this, Suzi. Elvis was part of the Silent Generation (1928-1945), a generation who were shaped by WWII and the Great Depression. Elvis was born smack bang in the middle of this time period in 1935, dirt poor in Mississippi. The 50's were a time of conformity in American life, then came 1956 and you had Elvis leaping out at you on the TV screen, having fun on stage, moving, being sexy, freely expressing himself (despite censorship). So yes, the girls just couldn't contain themselves! A very good doco to watch is Elvis '56. It is about that single year in his career, the year he exploded.
Agreed. It was like going from black and white TV to technicolor!
King from another Planet 🥋🎤🎸😏👑😘🫦🔥
You two are great. I don't care what Elvis sings i could listen& watch this man all night.❤ Elvis
Had the pleasure of meeting the drummer..DJ FONTANNA ❤..ELVIS WAS THE COOLEST DUDE TO WALK THE PLANET ❤❤❤❤
The Greatest entertainer ever! There will never be anyone like him. Long live The King!!
Could you imagine seeing that in person? Back then it was known as Elvis Mania. Thanks Guys 😊
Elvis always the best and always will be
If you compare this with a clip from, say, Perry Como at the same time you will see how revolutionary and extraordinary Elvis was. No-one had ever seen anything like this. It scared a lot of parents and he was denounced from pulpits and accused of causing juvenile delinquency!! It's great to see him having so much fun just doing what came naturally as he felt the music. A true original and musical genius ❤
Love your Elvis reactions, but looking through your list I'm amazed that you haven't done; Trying To Get To You from the 68 Comeback Special. That is Elvis at his rocking finest. Just a man and and his guitar belting out old fashioned Rock N Roll. Travis would especially love it because the King really cuts loose with the vocals.
Raw and with 0.00 training here, just a natural master of the craft.
And an accidental revolution, that still resonates today. 🍻
Just the coolest dude that ever walked upright.
Elvis Presley Is The Best 💯 Period,May He R.I.P
Elvis was soo young here.
I still cant contain it!! Every now and then i let out a little scream listening to this man! And I'm old and been listening to Elvis over 60 yrs. Cant help it! Love the man.
Big ol’ hunk of love.
Am now 84 and clearly remember seeing Elvis for the first time at 15. 2 months later met him in person. He. was dark blonde, blue eyed and “drop dead” GORGEOUS!!! He was just 21. However, the mania was already starting. Elvis had to begin to “hide out “, because he literally had a very hard time finding some privacy.
Fire 🔥🔥🔥
there was nobody like that
We either cried & shook all over trying to contain ourselves, or we just had to let it go and scream. I did both
Absolutely fantastic, one of my favourite performances he did on Ed Sullivan,❤❤
This is a good boy.--Ed, to America
Good to see you lovely couple Susie blonde hair is on point ! More Elvis 😊❤
What was great about Elvis, he didn't take himself to seriously. The audience picked up on that, his movements and looks didn't hurt😊 audience pick up on the fun he was having AND.. What A VOICE!!
They couldn't contain it!
4.15 am in Bristol England and I’m rocking and ready for work
This is so young Elvis.. he hadn't even dyed his hair black at this point... he was a natural blond as a child.. I've heard that he loved Roy Orbison and that's why he started dying his hair black. I'm so thankful that my Mom raised on Elvis and my Dad raised me on Frankie.. My Dad passed away in 2007.. my sister (only sibling) passed in 2015.. Mom's now in a nursing home but still loves Elvis.. the nurses have a pic of Elvis outside her door. They've also put a CD player in her room so she can listen to Elvis.
I heard it the other way around. Elvis dyed his hair to look like Tony Curtis then Ray dyed his to look like Elvis.
@@Laura-M-L he dyed it black because it brought attention to his eyes and made them stand out better.
@ yes, and he realized that look on Tony Curtis onscreen.
So fun.
They couldn’t contain their response to Elvis. Frank Sinatra before him had screaming girls as well, however this was a lot more primal. He was the first to have girls throw their panties on the stage. It was an emotional physical scream. And all these years later it still stands. And trust me, after he traveled the south prior to his being “discovered” by the national audience, that 19 yo boy new how to stir up a crowd, but he never really got over it. He truly was all about the fans.
Well that woke me up 👍👍👍
Just amazing x
Awesome!!!!❤❤❤
I'm 74, and I couldn't contain my feelings. He was so gorgeous that I couldn't help myself. I had never seen anyone like him. Of course, I would cry, too. I wish that I could go back in time.
If you notice in this video that there are 4 members in the band. A lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass fiddle (later replaced by a n electric bass guitar), and drums. Elvis may have not been the very first, but he definitely popularized this arrangement setting the stage for The Beatles, etc. to this very day.
Elvis cemented the set up. Bands after would copy it. Incidentally having been raised in the 50's it was unbelievable how he resurrected the whole guitar industry. Often only used in mountain and country music, he made it cool and the orders from every band in the world flooded in. You can even calculate his Empact and not just to music.
To see him in person was the ‘thrill of it all’………energetic, good looking and he/they feel the music. ❤🕺
I'm 74 yrs old. Elvis broke us free from being copies of our parents and old and stuffy. Lv him still forever ❤❤❤❤
Thank you thank you very much love ya
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Unless you actually lived in those times , you can't fully appreciate how REBELLIOUS Elvis was considered to be by parents, chuch leaders , etc. Elvis being suddenly drafted into the Army was the government's way of getting Elvis out of the public eye so that he couldn't corrupt the youth of America . Little did they know that his millions of fans were more than happy to wait for Elvis to get OUT of the Army to resume his career...With Elvis away for 2 years in the Army , the government thought that he would basically be forgotten by his fans ...HOW WRONG THEY WERE !!!
Please reqct to elvis 1954 blue moon its just him and his guitar, just amazing vocals in it🫶🏻
Not only did singers not move on stage before Elvis, but movies and television had no nudity or profanity, and everyone on the cover of a magazine was fully clothed . So naturally - a teenage girl growing up in a "pre Elvis 1950's society" like that - is going to be overwhelmed by what she sees as unprecedented and suggestive stage moves.
That "big guitar",was called a "dog house"base😂 great recation you all
That is called the ' Base Fiddle'
Great
At the very beginning of the song, when he says READY SET GO MAN GO, he's looking and pointing at Ed Sullivan. Ed swore he'd never have 'that guy' on his show but was converted into a fan just by meeting Elvis. Elvis, in that moment, was trying to bring Ed into the fun....
I Was The One
grade six we never saw anyone move like that he was too too handsome wow it was awesome
Håber aldrig i stopper med jeres Elvis reaktioner ❤🤩
Gordon Stomer, onstage now with Elvis, tells the best stories about all of this time. He and their group were horrified at first, to the guys you see now. It was a joy to watch happen
WHERE WAS ELVIS & WHERE WAS ED SULLIVAN -- On September 9, 1956, neither Elvis nor Ed Sullivan were in the studios that day for broadcasting. A month before Elvis' appearance on his show, Sullivan suffered from an almost fatal automobile crash that left him hospitalized for weeks & was unable to recover from his injuries quickly enough. British actor Charles Laughton filled in for Sullivan as host for Presley's debut performance. With regards to Elvis, he also was not in New York where the Sullivan show was broadcast from -- Elvis was at Television City in Hollywood where he was in the middle of filming "Love Me Tender." And it was Laughton who introduced Elvis that night making it all appear like Elvis was on the Ed Sullivan stage.
hey wolf hunters do you do live shows?? love the show guys keep them videos rolling
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I saw him in 1975 and yes it wasn’t just a girl screaming I mean all 10,000 people at the Norfolk scope Coliseum went into a frenzy from the time he walked on the stage until he left. Something I will always treasure!❤️
Yeaaaaaa!!!! ❤❤❤
If you're wondering where Elvis' microphone is, it's overhead. That was a common practice back in the day. There was a mark on the floor to stand on.
Notice the lighter color of his hair. That's his natural color. Light brown. He colored it black just before his first colored movie LOVING YOU.....and it stayed that way until his death.
They seem legit this pair.
It was because of the way he moved/wiggled whatever you want to call it…all his future Ed Sullivan performances were shot from the waist up! 😎
OK so if you didn't know - In Elvis' 45 min audio interview in 72 He said -----It looked like I was having an Epileptic FIT!!!!!! during those days LMAO that was Hilarious OMG such a funny man I Loveeee Young Elvis ---
Have you reacted to Elvis singing Peace in the Valley also on the Ed Sullivan show.
First done by Little Richard. Elvis did it on his second album.
Before Elvis, young girls screamed just for much as Frank Sinatra (and others before), but more of Elvis' performances were recorded/aired. Also there was a loosening of acceptable teenage expression in the mid-1950s.
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elvis was the first after rock and roll singer after just big bands, with no singing
No one screamed before Elvis. There was nothing before Elvis and after Good destroyed evil after WW2 god gave us Elvis.
The first time the girls screamed at him he went back stage and asked "What'd I do?"...The guy said "I don't know but go out and do it again".......
la bombe de ..56 🎸😏👑😘🫦🔥
----------the 1957 STUDIO version of this is wayyy better (audio-wise) but video, Elvis is stunning
I recall reading in an Elvis biography that when the janitors would clean the auditorium seats later they would often see puddles of urine on the floor where some of the teenage girls had pissed themselves in excitement from watching Elvis perform.
I was 12 when i saw this. I screamed at home. People say that girls screamed for Sinatra too but, sorry, not like this. Plain and simple, this was a sexual awakening.
the woman could not control them self’s
U watt EP was irresistable
He had an allergy to underwear that ladies just couldn’t help but notice 😂
His back up singers and the band back then were all 10 or so yrs older than Elvis. I had just turned 12 and it was the beginning of 7th grade with a middle aged nun as teacher. Most of the class watched Ed Sullivan that night, and many parents did not like what they saw. Even my 24 yr old sister did not care for that new music. 1956 saw every magazine and newspaper write about ELvis . Anyway, within a few months the nun brought a portable record player to the class and played classical music in an effort to sway us away from Elvis. The thing was, that back then females did not even do sexy moves. Elvis changed a lot.
What is this country coming to? Let me know when the guy who spins the plates comes on. I like him.
Re: how did Elvis manage to offend so many ... well, obviously, the sexy moves, smouldering performances, etc., certainly were big contributers, but, it's really important to recognize that many, many people, radio stations, etc., were outraged and offended by Elvis's "***ger music." (Sorry, disgusting, I know, but it's true.) Check out the documentary about Elvis and the black community - you'll hear such gems as "an attempt to degrade the level of the white man to that of the n*....) - just paraphrasing, but not diluting.
This, sadly, was a significant part of public offended reaction to Elvis. It needs to be acknowledged.
On a more positive note - you're the cat's pajamas, Elvis. And look HOW MUCH FUN HE'S HAVING!
You do know that he had over 700 songs?
How did you like the Jordanaires sing...er, ah, clapping?
Bill black on bass it's not a guitar
I grew up in Elvis' heyday and honestly? Even when I was a little kid, I thought he was rather creepy. I don't know whether it was the way he curled his lip like he smelled something nasty under his nose, the dyed black hair (he was naturally blonde) or the way he "danced". I thought it rather looked like he was convulsing. Then, he went "Vegas" with the capes, jumpsuits, sequins, etc. I preferred Bobby Darrin (you should check out "Mack the Knife"), Fats Domino, Nat King Cole and, believe it or not, Dean Martin. Nope, Elvis never did it for me.
It was definitely not the norm for girls to scream like that back then.
I think Little Richard did this first, maybe after.
before, I'm pretty sure
Couldn’t care less, Elvis made every song his own. Look at this guy, the delivery, he had everything.
Pure. Unadulterated rock and roll, performed by the greatest of them all.
Elvis was not 19 in this clip, he was 21! 🙄