Elvis was super generous. Wen he died he was only worth about 1 $10mil. He gave much of it away as he made it. The first truck Elvis bough never made it to his house. While taking it 4a ride from the dealership after buying it, he seen a black man plowing with an old horse. After talking to the farmer, he found out that he also uses the horse for pikups an deliveries. Elvis then gave the farmer his new truck right there on the spot. He called a friend to come pik him up. He had his friend take him 2a tractor dealership and bought the farmer a tractor. Wen he came bak with the tractor, all he asked of the farmer is to take care of the horse well an rest it. 😇🙏
Elvis was born in a 2 room shack of a house his dad built with money he borrowed from his boss on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi. That's how dirt poor they were. He was one half of identical twins; the other boy - Jesse Garon - was stillborn. They were so poor, that Jesse Garon was buried in a shoebox in an unmarked grave. At Graceland they have a plaque with his name on it in his memory. Elvis always got along with the black community and learned a lot about music from his friends of color. Also, according to the one drop rule, Elvis would not be considered white, since he has Cherokee ancestors on both the Smith (his mother) and the Presley (his father) sides of the family. His paternal grandfather was not happy that his two sons, Elvis' father Vernon and his brother Vester, married two sisters, Gladys and Clettes who were known to have Cherokee blood in their family tree. But he was in denial about the Cherokee blood in his own family tree. As a child, Elvis already had many friends in the black community at the time his family was one of 4 "white" families that lived in the predominantly black neighborhood The Hill, just across from Shake Rag. His childhood friend Sam Bell said that some of the (black) kids in that neighborhood had lighter skin than Elvis (ruclips.net/video/LrFCyNMvZWk/видео.html). One of Elvis' bodyguards once said that he thought it was a miracle Elvis got into Humes High School in Memphis, because it was "lily white". Elvis wanted to be more open about his Native ancestry, but his manager "colonel" Tom Parker (real name Andreas van Kuijk) was against it because he was afraid it might cost Elvis fans (and himself money). They did have Elvis play characters in his movies though where he had Native American blood (Flaming Star, G.I. Blues, Stay Away Joe). Once Elvis had his own (apprentice) job learning to be an electrician, he saved up his money and bought his clothes in the same style that many of his friends of color wore. He was called a (forgive me, just stating facts here) "n-lover" and got beaten up several times too. Later, when he was an established star, he would not perform at places where the members of color of his back-up band/orchestra weren't allowed. Elvis did not die "on the toilet". He died in the bathroom and was found several feet away from the toilet on the floor. His prescription drug abuse, lifestyle, eating habits and ailments totally destroyed the functioning of many of his organs. ruclips.net/video/EcStrLEvizU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/85GJqLex9oc/видео.html
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 You can make fun of it, but yeah: the Smith children (Elvis' mother and her siblings) did indeed work in the fields picking cotton from very young ages on. They were poor; parents and 6 children lived in a one room shack. Elvis' maternal grandfather supplemented his income from working in the fields with moonshining and doing all kinds of manual labor even as far as 10 miles from where they lived (walking to and from on a daily basis). Most children, including Elvis' mother Gladys and her siblings, only went to school in the winter, for about 4 months a year. The rest of the year they were needed to work in the fields: hoeing, chopping, picking cotton and pulling corn. Elvis' father, Vernon, was a sharecropper.
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 I think you got that backwards: your reaction to my post suggest YOU are a drunk, or can't read. You obviously know nothing about the Smith or Presley family, so just give up.
46 years after his death, people are still calling Elvis the King of Rock'n'Roll, but he didn't like that title, he believed that the only king was God and he actually told this to his fans several times, he said: I believe that God is the only true king. I think that Elvis is and only the king of Rock'n roll, he is the king of music because he can sing very well in any genre, but what do you think, is he good enough to be called a music king? Elvis was really in my mind, the King of GOSPEL and other music, no one does it better then him, he is best known for making Rockn roll famous, so he was called The King of Rockn roll, but he never liked that people called him that. He repeatedly stopped fans who said that he was the king of rock'n roll, telling them: I'm just an entertainer and singer, God is the only true King!! Elvis was born in the poor parts of Tupelo Missisippi and it was mainly Afroamericans living there, at the place where Elvis family lived there only lived 3 more white familys, the rest was colored people, his family was dirtpoor until he became an artist after singing in a mainly colored peoples church during his childhood. Did you know that he had several friends that where Afroamericans, one of his friends where James Brown, yes THAT James Brown (The King of Soul), another artist was B.B King, yes that B.B King... He also was a good friend with Mohamed Ali, yes the GREATEST boxer of all time, he even had a Robe made for him, but it was to much bling on it so Ali wouldn't where it more then one time to a fight. He really admired Martin Luther King very much, Elvis felt that all people are equal, unfortually he never got to meet him, that would have created to much problems for both of them at that time. He had several medical problems, Glaucoma, sleeping, irritable bowel syndrome, things that affected his real life and made him need medication to function. Yes, he took medicines that today are considered to be called drugs, but at that time doctors prescribed it to him and to ordinary people, they did not know of the problems it could give people (side effects). He never took any so-called street drugs, but unfortunately he did not realize that those medications would be a problem for him, he thought that they where ordinary medicine because his doctor prescribed them to him and to everyone else that needed it. Many of his relativs died at a relatively young age, so even if he wouldn't have the medication, he might have died at about the same age. He could never be alone and thus himself, at that time the word superstar did not exist, so nothing could prepare him for that kind of life. Did you know that a big group of white poeple actually smashed his records and wanted to ban his music, just because they called it so called N... music, that is so painfun to think that some people actually can think like that, skincolor is just color and nothing more, when will people realise that? There are some videos of when Elvis joking and messing up, he loved to joke around and pretend that he did not have control, but he had total control, he acctually conducted his musicans and back up choirs all the time ! He is the only person to have 2 records gone to sell Gold and 2 to to sell Platinum since he died. Elvis is also in almost every genre of Music Hall of Fame (5 that I'm sure of Rock 'n' Roll, Country, Gospel, Rockabilly and Rhythm and Blues), if Gospel is a genre in Music Hall of fame, then he should be in there to, but no one else is in more then perhaps 2 genres. Not bad for someone who never took a single singing lesson, yes he sang in church so perhaps he learned a little there, right? Something else that people tend to overlook: He always conducts his musicans and backup singers, he never gets credit for being able to do that. Imagen you are a singer, you have great musicans, you have great backup singers, no Guest Artists, no Autotune, no Lipsinging and no Fireworks, now all is about your skill, could you handle that pressure? At the time when Elvis started, then Autotune did not exist yet and when it became availible, then he still did not use it, he did not need to, he always sang so that you could hear every word that he sang, the Fans always felt that he sang to just you ! That is what Elvis did in over 1600 concerts (during his 20 years as an artist), despite having problems with his health, like his Glaucoma, the headlights must have hurt his eyes like crazy. He sang over 800 songs, I wonder how he could remember them all, he never vrote a song himself, so he had to remember other peoples lyrics, well that is amazing in it self. By the way he had Glucomea and that must have been difficult being in the headlights all the time, that could be why he sometimes closes his eyes, but also sometimes squinting ! This unfortually made him temporary blind after the shows, that is why they led him of the stage and into his car, that is something that not many people knew about Elvis. Elvis suits was made of 100% Polyester, or 100 cotton (I'm not sure witch one), it was originally a karate suit, it was very light, but it was hot, so it made him sweat a lot, he got some bad press about that, but if you give it all then you will sweat, it should be positive, right? About the deep basevoice JD Sumner (a member of The Stamps Quartet) he is the Basso Profundo, I think it's called that, it is the deepest base singer there is. A video about him helping others, look at this: ruclips.net/video/CrJ1c9tm-C0/видео.html Elvis made a show where all the money went to build the Memorial after Pearl Harbour, he talked to the nations about taking the Poliovaccin, Elvis took the first injection himself, he helped by donating a big amount of money to St Jude hospital, they fight against cancer (especially children with), he also gave away juwelery, gave away cars, he even gave away some houses to total strangers. Elvis started an organization that helps people to get out of Homelessness (Presley Charitable Foundation), this organization helps people even now close to 50 years after he passed away. A thing that you perhaps did not know: Elvis ALMOST NEVER did a show OUTSIDE OF USA, yes he did sing a few times in Canada: 4 concerts, 2 in Toronto, 1 in Ottowa and 1 time in Vancouver (during the 50:s?). When the Aloha From Hawaii (Live in Honolulu 1973) was showed it had 1.5 Billion viewers from around the whole world and 3.7 billion people lived on earth at this time, so it was close to 1/3 of all of the population on earth that wiewed the show, it was the first time a single artist was shown LIVE around the globe. Video of Mohammad Ali speech after Elvis died: ruclips.net/video/PO8Kq_3KTyI/видео.html I have to say that I loved being at Graceland and seeing his home, first we were at the house in Tupelo where he lived in his early years, he was born there ! You don't have a guide taking you on a tour, you can go all over yourself, but stay outside of the ropes and do not attempt to go upstairs, the outside is huge, so is the house, but you don't realise that from the front of the house. I don't regret for a second that I was there, or that I stood at his grave site and said out loud that this is for the humanitarian Elvis/the person/the man and then I gave him a military salute, the others there just looked at me and asked if I didn't like his music. So I told them that he was clearly one of the best singers and artists ever, but I loved his big heart more, he helped so many people without getting credit for it, he didn't want the credit of helping others, he did it out of love and respect and to me that is what true charity is all about. This PLACE (GRACELAND) should be a protected part of music history and also American history forever, I think that people will keep coming for years and years and years to come ! Elvis did lots of things for America to, he helped to avoid getting Polio (he took the vaccin in a tv show that made the intrest for taking the vaccin go from 0,6 % to 80 % in 6 months), he also helped in the figth to defeat Cancer by helping to build up St Judes children cancer treatment clinic, he also helped to build the Memorial over Pearl Harbour and many other things!
another great one from his 1968 comback special was(IF I CAN DREAM) in the white suit MAKE SURE YOU WATCH THE LIVE PERFORMANCE, this is a tribute to MLK after his assination
@@Reactionsbyalex If I Can Dream from the 68 Comeback Special demonstrates the range Elvis had, as well as the emotion and passion he had. He is rhe King of Rock, but his facirite mysic was Gospel. He won 3 Grammys during his career...all were for gospel, with 2 being different versions of How Great Tho Art. Also, you should check out Elvis and the Black Community. It's a 2 part mini-doc with comments from his peers, and the Reverand W. Herbert Brewster frim the East Trigg Baptist Church in Memphis.
That’s from the 70’s. Mac Davis write the song for Elvis. Elvis knew what poverty was and lived in the projects in Mississippi and in Memphis, TN He never forgot his roots.
Elvis grew up in a Tupelo, Mississippi ghetto; Dad, Vern, was in jail for bad checks. He sang in church...Gospel was his first love...he sang "That's All Right, Mama" in 1954, when a teenager for his Mother's birthday, at Sun Records. He was a Spec 4 in the Army, got out in 2 years. Released "Heartbreak Hotel" in 1956 to a massive amount of controversy from religious groups because of his movements. He made a string of musical romance movies, that he didn't want to do. Finally got a decent script for "King Creole", his only b&w movie. He just wanted to make music. His singing career took a dip when his wife left him, and the Beatles arrived, his "Comeback Tour" helped immensely. When he sang "In the Ghetto", which his manager thought would kill his career, he fought to sing it, (it was written by Mac Davis, who originally titled it "The Vicious Cycle"), and here we are...as relevent, and often played, today as it was in 1969, when it was released. His backup singers were the Sweet Inspirations, which included Cissy Houston, mother of Whitney Houston. Thank you for your great reaction.
I hope you fall into the Elvis Presley rabbit hole. I’d love to watch your journey! Some good ones to start with: My Way, I’ll Remember You, American Trilogy, Fever, You Gave Me A Mountain … all from the 1973 Aloha From Hawaii concert. Interestingly, the Aloha concert was the first-ever concert by a single performer broadcast all over the world via satellite. It was seen by an estimated 1.3 billion people worldwide. Great reaction! Much love ❤️
Elvis never turned his head away. He knew what growing up in a Ghetto meant and he never saw colour or race. There were no other white men in the South in the 50’s who stood up for equality. Even when they called him the white N word and smashed his records they couldn’t change his heart. He never backed down. The world needed him longer. One of his back up singers was Cissy Houston, Whitney’s Mother. There are two video’s if you haven’t seen them called Elvis and The Black Community part one and part two. In part two you will see Whitney talking about going to work with her Mother when she was a child. I really love the more than 200 Gospel songs he recorded. His love of God and music came from a Black Baptist Church where he grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi. He never knew he was the only white kid in there. He moved to a poor part of Memphis in High School and they put him in the Choir at that Baptist Church. All of his friends loved him no matter what colour. Only the Establishment wanted him gone. Thank you.
There were no other white men in the South in the 50’s who stood up for equality. what a lot of BULLSHIT! tell me when he stood up for black people? did he ever use his microphone and speak about civil rights? did he ever march along side MLK in support of civil rights? lets start with those 2 questions.
You definitely need to watch the live version of IN the Ghetto. No one wanted to record this song because of the subject matter, it was written by Mac Davis and Elvis went against his manager and Record Company to record it.. He knew the struggle since he was raised in extreme poverty and in the Ghetto.. keep going with Elvis reactions, go down the rabbit hole you won't regret it.
Please do reaction on Elvis * If I can dream" (Comeback Special 1968) It was a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F Kennedy. * Elvis and the Black community.
And James Brown and Elvis considered each other Soul Brothers. James spent a few hours mourning alone with Elvis's casket in Graceland after Elvis died.
I was raised on Elvis by my mom who was born in 1948 so she grew up with the classic rock n roll in the 50’s and 60’s , and she grew up poor, she grew up in a two room house ( not two bedroom) with 8 siblings it’s a 4 room house now ( 5 rooms including the bathroom with 2 bedrooms, a living room, and a kitchen)my grandmother didn’t have indoor plumbing until the 1980’’s around the time I was born and my mom was a single mother for most of my early childhood and early teenage years so I grew up poor too so this music always resonated with me
Congratulations! By far one of the best listening of In the ghetto. I'm an Elvis fan from Uruguay. I know how though is th reality for some communities in USA. But what is (sadly) impresive, is how those lyrics in our days can apply to every country. In Uruguay we have a tough problem with a drug called "pasta base".Young people loosing their lives living in the streets, going to jail. Still "we are to blind to see or we look the other way".
No one would record this Mac Davis song as it was too raw, especially during the race riots in the 1960s. A top RCA executive said we can't release it. Elvis heard it and said, "That's my next single, son" and walked away. The great Sammy Davis Jr famously turned it down. Only Elvis was willing to risk his career to get that record on the air-waves. Only Elvis could have performed it and gotten the radio play when it came out in the late 1960's, during the Civil Rights Movement. He made it his platform. One of his major public statements on the issues of racism and poverty. Without uttering a single press release or public statement. Not a single political word or comment. Amazing power of song by a very brave and loving human being.
Thanks so much for reacting to Elvis! Mac Davis wrote the song. Could you react to this one that fits right into your comments: Elvis Presley - Walk A Mile In My Shoes - with story and song lyrics (2:41).
I started practicing this tune again earlier this year, as I really wanted to play it as part of my acoustic set during the holiday season, but eventually decided not to, as I felt that as an old white guy playing this tune at this time could cause some division (among at least a few), which is exactly what a performer NEVER wants during an event, but watching you react made me decide to include it in the rest of my sets this month. I sat here with tears rolling down my face watching you react the same way I did the first time I heard it 30 years ago as a young guy. Life is hard and music can help bring us together and make even the worst times more bearable. Thanks for the lesson and honest reaction. ✌👉
Elvis was most likely a Melungeon, through his mother Gladys. Her maiden name was Smith and Elvis' great-great-great-grandmother was Morning Dove White, a Cherokee Indian from Tennessee. That seems to be the bridge to Presley’s Melungeon heritage. (Melungeons are mixed race, an ethnicity from the Southeastern United States who descend from Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans brought to America as slaves and indentured servants. Some Melungeons also had Indian ancestry.) So I feel it makes sense that Elvis had a natural feeling for Black music and culture, plus the fact that he grew up in the predominately Black part of Tupelo and had many Black friends.
Great reaction! You should check out If I Can Dream from Elvis. It’s an MLK tribute he performed at on the 68 comeback special shortly after MLK was killed.
You are the first reactor that I have seen that picked up the point at the end and mentioned it, that the cycle continues 😥My first time watching you, I am curious to watch another👍 good luck to you🍀
You aughta watch the live version of this song, where Elvis is wearing a white jumpsuit with red trim. It’s great, though still sad 😔‼️ And yeah, this was a country song that crossed over to Pop. One of my favorites.
he sang gospel country and love songs there is another song he sang choke me up he sang if i can dream he sang it in a white outfit and a biker black outfit he sang that song in tribute to Dr king's i have a dream speech
So much about Elvis people don't know. He was so poor and was raised in a black neighborhood. It's a very deep history and you really should do a deep dive into his life... it was a classic success story followed by a terrible tragedy... I subbed in hopes you would look at some other of his works... would love to hear your opinions :)
Mac Davis, the writer of both this and "If I Can Dream", grew up in poverty with kids of color. He's best known as a country musician, I suppose, but he was an amazing writer. I'm a 53 year-old white man, and this song punches me hard, even today. Outstanding reaction, sir. Continue your journey, and enjoy.
A man that traveled with Elvis said they came upon an old black man and woman broke down in an old truck full of wood he picked them up took them to a new car lot bought them a new truck went back and loaded their wood. He was born in poverty and he knew
Elvis was raised in the ghetto around black people this childhood friends were black also he didn't fall off he quit doing music to do movies I think there's over 20 movies Elvis Presley starred in then he returned to music
Just like everybody else. Head poppin to the beat until verse 3 then it's all tears and realization. In almost 60 years every new class has to learn this cuz for some reason the ones that came before still won't help the next in line. It takes people! Everytime the government tries, it just comes with more and more red tape and the situation gets worse and worse.
I must say I enjoyed your reaction to this vid please will you do your reactions to "If I can dream" and "Elvis in the black community Part 1&2" you won't be disappointed thank you Joe Grixti.
The TWO BEST VIDEOS to learn why the black community really liked Elvis when he was alive I linked below. This is very important history ... often left out of too many discussions about Elvis in today's black community (at least before the new movie) and sadly not the stuff that they teach in high school history books. The people THAT KNEW ELVIS PERSONALLY of course KNEW THE TRUTH about Elvis, and what made him SO DIFFERENT from other white musicians of the day, and different than white people in general. #1 Recommendation: Elvis and the Black Community. A great collaboration of interviews by legends and historic figures in the black community discussing Elvis. ruclips.net/video/xd1pXw1DmsA/видео.html #2 Recommendation: Just as important to watch. An amazing HISTORICAL interview with one of Elvis' first close friends, a black gentleman by the name of SAM BELL. Sadly Sam died soon after this interview. You'll learn more watching this one video than ANY ONE HOUR HISTORY CLASS you ever attended. The beginning of the new ELVIS MOVIE came from this very interview about LIFE in one of the first mixed (predominantly black) communities in America. Black and white boys playing TOGETHER -- didn't happen down in the segregated South in the 1930s and 40s -- it was very dangerous to life and limb for kids or adults. You don't want to miss this if you want the actual truth: ruclips.net/video/LrFCyNMvZWk/видео.html&t= Elvis was different, and his perspective was different than most white people of his day, especially among other whites in the South. Elvis grew up in the poorest parts of the South during the Great Depression and Segregation. And he understood the very lowest depths of poverty. Only 4 white families on his block, he lived and played and prayed with black children while living in a 1 room shotgun shack without running water or electricity. His father built the home with a borrowed $150, then lost it because they couldn't afford to pay it back. How poor was Elvis? His twin brother Jesse Garon Presley was still born about 30 minutes before Elvis... and the Presleys were so poor that they couldn't afford a coffin, so Jesse had to be buried in a shoebox. Elvis was uniquely born at a time and place, Tupelo (SHAKERAG) AND Memphis (BEALE STREET) when so much new music and dance were happening. Elvis was TRAINED BY BLACK MUSICIANS in black churches (and white musicians in white churches) in the 1940s BEFORE most of the legends like Little Richard or James Brown or Chuck Berry rocked the world. Rev W Herbert Brewster of the East Trigg Baptist Church asked Elvis to join when he was 13, after Elvis and his family moved to Memphis. They were jamming before and during the legendary black musicians got heard. He was able to merge music genres and black and white culture better than anyone and created the sound and stage performance of Rock and Roll. AND as soon as ELVIS started to make money -- THEY ALL MADE MONEY!
it is not the BLACK COMMUNITY!!! it is a few black people that met Elvis. if a few black people make up the black community then you are looking to justify Elvis not using black artists.
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 Can I ask what you mean by Elvis "not using Black artists"? Do you mean not using them in a capacity other than as backup singers? Or in what sense?
@@sadfaeryOf course you can, the only black artists used was the sweet inspiration. If you check out the videos, whilst recording you will only see white musicians. we can go one step further and if you check the movies he starred in, if you see a black person, the most screen time they get is 6 seconds. Now, if we look at Steven Pomeroy's comment. He talks about Elvis and the black community. If Elvis did so much, then why did it take him 16 years to use black artists? Not saying Elvis wasn't a good looking guy, good voice good entertainer, what I am saying he was marketed to a white audience.
Oh how could you be such a fool. and how little you know. when black people were doing drugs back in the 50's and 60's and 70's and 80's and 90's and 2000's and the police found them in the streets they put them in jail. now as we see what is happening in Philadelphia for example, we see lots of white people stoned and on the streets. Now they call this a mental health problem because it is effecting white people. Had they been black, where do you think they would be?
My husband was a grade behind Elvis in high school in Tupelo...and I have seen Presley's family home before they dressed it up for public view. It was a simple little frame house and somewhat rundown & I believe it was on Highway 78 - been awhile. Tupelo was a prosperous little southern town in the 50's when I was there and the black community was on the edge of the town proper and was referred to as 'Shake Rag'...a cluster of small and well-buit homes provided by the community. An aside: I have often wondered if his twin had survived how it would have changed his life's path. He had enormous faith and an incredible voice! Gotta say, seeing your reaction to this song made me tear up a bit. The lyrics are thoughtful - aren' they?
Elvis was living as a poor white boy in the black community, not a s black boy in the black community, if you think for one minute there is no difference, ask the reactor if there is no difference.
He fell off because he got arrested because of the music he was doing and got the offer of jail time or joining the military, so Elvis joined the Army and went to Germany for years
Elvis started using drugs in the army back in 1958. Check this out In 1970 Elvis writes to President Nixon (the I am not a crook guy) and offers his services to help combat illicit drug use in the USA. Elvis mentioned that he knew a lot about drugs and was accepted by the hippies. He said he could go right into a group of young people or hippies and be accepted which he felt could be helpful to him in his drug drive. Nixon and Elvis exchanged pleasantries and agreed that “those who use drugs are in the vanguard of American protest.” In 1977 Elvis dies of drug overdose and drug abuse. Putting Elvis in charge of speaking on narcotic abuse is like leaving Dracula in charge of the blood bank. Hypocrisy: What is an example of hypocrisy? People who tell you not to eat candy while they chomp away on candy all day.
I am doing a survey. How many comments below are from black US people? I have asked this question on may Elvis reaction videos, and the answer is still zero.
“Trying to get to you” live performance from his 68 Comeback Special shows Elvis raw & powerful.
YES!!! LOVE THAT ONE!
Thank you for reacting to Elvis. I recommend " Elvis and the black community that eco will never die" It's very interesting.
Elvis was super generous. Wen he died he was only worth about 1 $10mil. He gave much of it away as he made it. The first truck Elvis bough never made it to his house. While taking it 4a ride from the dealership after buying it, he seen a black man plowing with an old horse. After talking to the farmer, he found out that he also uses the horse for pikups an deliveries. Elvis then gave the farmer his new truck right there on the spot. He called a friend to come pik him up. He had his friend take him 2a tractor dealership and bought the farmer a tractor. Wen he came bak with the tractor, all he asked of the farmer is to take care of the horse well an rest it. 😇🙏
Elvis was born in a 2 room shack of a house his dad built with money he borrowed from his boss on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi. That's how dirt poor they were. He was one half of identical twins; the other boy - Jesse Garon - was stillborn. They were so poor, that Jesse Garon was buried in a shoebox in an unmarked grave. At Graceland they have a plaque with his name on it in his memory. Elvis always got along with the black community and learned a lot about music from his friends of color. Also, according to the one drop rule, Elvis would not be considered white, since he has Cherokee ancestors on both the Smith (his mother) and the Presley (his father) sides of the family. His paternal grandfather was not happy that his two sons, Elvis' father Vernon and his brother Vester, married two sisters, Gladys and Clettes who were known to have Cherokee blood in their family tree. But he was in denial about the Cherokee blood in his own family tree. As a child, Elvis already had many friends in the black community at the time his family was one of 4 "white" families that lived in the predominantly black neighborhood The Hill, just across from Shake Rag. His childhood friend Sam Bell said that some of the (black) kids in that neighborhood had lighter skin than Elvis (ruclips.net/video/LrFCyNMvZWk/видео.html). One of Elvis' bodyguards once said that he thought it was a miracle Elvis got into Humes High School in Memphis, because it was "lily white". Elvis wanted to be more open about his Native ancestry, but his manager "colonel" Tom Parker (real name Andreas van Kuijk) was against it because he was afraid it might cost Elvis fans (and himself money). They did have Elvis play characters in his movies though where he had Native American blood (Flaming Star, G.I. Blues, Stay Away Joe). Once Elvis had his own (apprentice) job learning to be an electrician, he saved up his money and bought his clothes in the same style that many of his friends of color wore. He was called a (forgive me, just stating facts here) "n-lover" and got beaten up several times too. Later, when he was an established star, he would not perform at places where the members of color of his back-up band/orchestra weren't allowed. Elvis did not die "on the toilet". He died in the bathroom and was found several feet away from the toilet on the floor. His prescription drug abuse, lifestyle, eating habits and ailments totally destroyed the functioning of many of his organs. ruclips.net/video/EcStrLEvizU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/85GJqLex9oc/видео.html
Man that is interesting. Crazy how times used to be.
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 You can make fun of it, but yeah: the Smith children (Elvis' mother and her siblings) did indeed work in the fields picking cotton from very young ages on. They were poor; parents and 6 children lived in a one room shack. Elvis' maternal grandfather supplemented his income from working in the fields with moonshining and doing all kinds of manual labor even as far as 10 miles from where they lived (walking to and from on a daily basis). Most children, including Elvis' mother Gladys and her siblings, only went to school in the winter, for about 4 months a year. The rest of the year they were needed to work in the fields: hoeing, chopping, picking cotton and pulling corn. Elvis' father, Vernon, was a sharecropper.
@@jayeginn5963 no they did not have others living with them. she never picked cotton, she was a drunk.
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 I think you got that backwards: your reaction to my post suggest YOU are a drunk, or can't read. You obviously know nothing about the Smith or Presley family, so just give up.
46 years after his death, people are still calling Elvis the King of Rock'n'Roll, but he didn't like that title, he believed that the only king was God and he actually told this to his fans several times, he said: I believe that God is the only true king.
I think that Elvis is and only the king of Rock'n roll, he is the king of music because he can sing very well in any genre, but what do you think, is he good enough to be called a music king?
Elvis was really in my mind, the King of GOSPEL and other music, no one does it better then him, he is best known for making Rockn roll famous, so he was called The King of Rockn roll, but he never liked that people called him that.
He repeatedly stopped fans who said that he was the king of rock'n roll, telling them:
I'm just an entertainer and singer, God is the only true King!!
Elvis was born in the poor parts of Tupelo Missisippi and it was mainly Afroamericans living there, at the place where Elvis family lived there only lived 3 more white familys, the rest was colored people, his family was dirtpoor until he became an artist after singing in a mainly colored peoples church during his childhood.
Did you know that he had several friends that where Afroamericans, one of his friends where James Brown, yes THAT James Brown (The King of Soul), another artist was B.B King, yes that B.B King...
He also was a good friend with Mohamed Ali, yes the GREATEST boxer of all time, he even had a Robe made for him, but it was to much bling on it so Ali wouldn't where it more then one time to a fight.
He really admired Martin Luther King very much, Elvis felt that all people are equal, unfortually he never got to meet him, that would have created to much problems for both of them at that time.
He had several medical problems, Glaucoma, sleeping, irritable bowel syndrome, things that affected his real life and made him need medication to function.
Yes, he took medicines that today are considered to be called drugs, but at that time doctors prescribed it to him and to ordinary people, they did not know of the problems it could give people (side effects).
He never took any so-called street drugs, but unfortunately he did not realize that those medications would be a problem for him, he thought that they where ordinary medicine because his doctor prescribed them to him and to everyone else that needed it.
Many of his relativs died at a relatively young age, so even if he wouldn't have the medication, he might have died at about the same age.
He could never be alone and thus himself, at that time the word superstar did not exist, so nothing could prepare him for that kind of life.
Did you know that a big group of white poeple actually smashed his records and wanted to ban his music, just because they called it so called N... music, that is so painfun to think that some people actually can think like that, skincolor is just color and nothing more, when will people realise that?
There are some videos of when Elvis joking and messing up, he loved to joke around and pretend that he did not have control, but he had total control, he acctually conducted his musicans and back up choirs all the time !
He is the only person to have 2 records gone to sell Gold and 2 to to sell Platinum since he died.
Elvis is also in almost every genre of Music Hall of Fame (5 that I'm sure of Rock 'n' Roll, Country, Gospel, Rockabilly and Rhythm and Blues), if Gospel is a genre in Music Hall of fame, then he should be in there to, but no one else is in more then perhaps 2 genres.
Not bad for someone who never took a single singing lesson, yes he sang in church so perhaps he learned a little there, right?
Something else that people tend to overlook:
He always conducts his musicans and backup singers, he never gets credit for being able to do that.
Imagen you are a singer, you have great musicans, you have great backup singers, no Guest Artists, no Autotune, no Lipsinging and no Fireworks, now all is about your skill, could you handle that pressure?
At the time when Elvis started, then Autotune did not exist yet and when it became availible, then he still did not use it, he did not need to, he always sang so that you could hear every word that he sang, the Fans always felt that he sang to just you !
That is what Elvis did in over 1600 concerts (during his 20 years as an artist), despite having problems with his health, like his Glaucoma, the headlights must have hurt his eyes like crazy.
He sang over 800 songs, I wonder how he could remember them all, he never vrote a song himself, so he had to remember other peoples lyrics, well that is amazing in it self.
By the way he had Glucomea and that must have been difficult being in the headlights all the time, that could be why he sometimes closes his eyes, but also sometimes squinting !
This unfortually made him temporary blind after the shows, that is why they led him of the stage and into his car, that is something that not many people knew about Elvis.
Elvis suits was made of 100% Polyester, or 100 cotton (I'm not sure witch one), it was originally a karate suit, it was very light, but it was hot, so it made him sweat a lot, he got some bad press about that, but if you give it all then you will sweat, it should be positive, right?
About the deep basevoice JD Sumner (a member of The Stamps Quartet) he is the Basso Profundo, I think it's called that, it is the deepest base singer there is.
A video about him helping others, look at this: ruclips.net/video/CrJ1c9tm-C0/видео.html
Elvis made a show where all the money went to build the Memorial after Pearl Harbour, he talked to the nations about taking the Poliovaccin, Elvis took the first injection himself, he helped by donating a big amount of money to St Jude hospital, they fight against cancer (especially children with), he also gave away juwelery, gave away cars, he even gave away some houses to total strangers.
Elvis started an organization that helps people to get out of Homelessness (Presley Charitable Foundation), this organization helps people even now close to 50 years after he passed away.
A thing that you perhaps did not know: Elvis ALMOST NEVER did a show OUTSIDE OF USA, yes he did sing a few times in Canada: 4 concerts, 2 in Toronto, 1 in Ottowa and 1 time in Vancouver (during the 50:s?).
When the Aloha From Hawaii (Live in Honolulu 1973) was showed it had 1.5 Billion viewers from around the whole world and 3.7 billion people lived on earth at this time, so it was close to 1/3 of all of the population on earth that wiewed the show, it was the first time a single artist was shown LIVE around the globe.
Video of Mohammad Ali speech after Elvis died:
ruclips.net/video/PO8Kq_3KTyI/видео.html
I have to say that I loved being at Graceland and seeing his home, first we were at the house in Tupelo where he lived in his early years, he was born there !
You don't have a guide taking you on a tour, you can go all over yourself, but stay outside of the ropes and do not attempt to go upstairs, the outside is huge, so is the house, but you don't realise that from the front of the house.
I don't regret for a second that I was there, or that I stood at his grave site and said out loud that this is for the humanitarian Elvis/the person/the man and then I gave him a military salute, the others there just looked at me and asked if I didn't like his music.
So I told them that he was clearly one of the best singers and artists ever, but I loved his big heart more, he helped so many people without getting credit for it, he didn't want the credit of helping others, he did it out of love and respect and to me that is what true charity is all about.
This PLACE (GRACELAND) should be a protected part of music history and also American history forever, I think that people will keep coming for years and years and years to come !
Elvis did lots of things for America to, he helped to avoid getting Polio (he took the vaccin in a tv show that made the intrest for taking the vaccin go from 0,6 % to 80 % in 6 months), he also helped in the figth to defeat Cancer by helping to build up St Judes children cancer treatment clinic, he also helped to build the Memorial over Pearl Harbour and many other things!
another great one from his 1968 comback special was(IF I CAN DREAM) in the white suit MAKE SURE YOU WATCH THE LIVE PERFORMANCE, this is a tribute to MLK after his assination
Really? I will keep that in mind. Thank so much for watching.
@@Reactionsbyalex If I Can Dream from the 68 Comeback Special demonstrates the range Elvis had, as well as the emotion and passion he had. He is rhe King of Rock, but his facirite mysic was Gospel. He won 3 Grammys during his career...all were for gospel, with 2 being different versions of How Great Tho Art. Also, you should check out Elvis and the Black Community. It's a 2 part mini-doc with comments from his peers, and the Reverand W. Herbert Brewster frim the East Trigg Baptist Church in Memphis.
@@Reactionsbyalex 100% worth watching, all about the turmoil in the US, and was written right after the death of MLK Jr.
Elvis was born in object poverty. He lived in low income housing.. He was born in 1935. They didn’t get out of the projects until Elvis became famous.
That’s from the 70’s. Mac Davis write the song for Elvis. Elvis knew what poverty was and lived in the projects in Mississippi and in Memphis, TN He never forgot his roots.
you have to watch the live version he did on stage with the sweet inspirations
Elvis grew up in a Tupelo, Mississippi ghetto; Dad, Vern, was in jail for bad checks. He sang in church...Gospel was his first love...he sang "That's All Right, Mama" in 1954, when a teenager for his Mother's birthday, at Sun Records. He was a Spec 4 in the Army, got out in 2 years. Released "Heartbreak Hotel" in 1956 to a massive amount of controversy from religious groups because of his movements. He made a string of musical romance movies, that he didn't want to do. Finally got a decent script for "King Creole", his only b&w movie. He just wanted to make music. His singing career took a dip when his wife left him, and the Beatles arrived, his "Comeback Tour" helped immensely. When he sang "In the Ghetto", which his manager thought would kill his career, he fought to sing it, (it was written by Mac Davis, who originally titled it "The Vicious Cycle"), and here we are...as relevent, and often played, today as it was in 1969, when it was released. His backup singers were the Sweet Inspirations, which included Cissy Houston, mother of Whitney Houston. Thank you for your great reaction.
Love your reaction. I agree with the others on here saying listen to Elvis If I Can Dream from the '68 Comeback Special.
I hope you fall into the Elvis Presley rabbit hole. I’d love to watch your journey! Some good ones to start with: My Way, I’ll Remember You, American Trilogy, Fever, You Gave Me A Mountain … all from the 1973 Aloha From Hawaii concert. Interestingly, the Aloha concert was the first-ever concert by a single performer broadcast all over the world via satellite. It was seen by an estimated 1.3 billion people worldwide.
Great reaction! Much love ❤️
Please watch Elvis and the Black community part 1 and 2.Also If I Can Dream,Elvis sang that as a tribute to MLK.
You will really enjoy Elvis❤️
He was just FANTASTIC✌️
Elvis never turned his head away. He knew what growing up in a Ghetto meant and he never saw colour or race. There were no other white men in the South in the 50’s who stood up for equality. Even when they called him the white N word and smashed his records they couldn’t change his heart. He never backed down. The world needed him longer. One of his back up singers was Cissy Houston, Whitney’s Mother.
There are two video’s if you haven’t seen them called Elvis and The Black Community part one and part two. In part two you will see Whitney talking about going to work with her Mother when she was a child.
I really love the more than 200 Gospel songs he recorded. His love of God and music came from a Black Baptist Church where he grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi. He never knew he was the only white kid in there. He moved to a poor part of Memphis in High School and they put him in the Choir at that Baptist Church. All of his friends loved him no matter what colour. Only the Establishment wanted him gone. Thank you.
There were no other white men in the South in the 50’s who stood up for equality.
what a lot of BULLSHIT!
tell me when he stood up for black people?
did he ever use his microphone and speak about civil rights?
did he ever march along side MLK in support of civil rights?
lets start with those 2 questions.
is my question too intellectual for you?
Thank you for your reaction to this song Elvis was great he loved everyone
You definitely need to watch the live version of IN the Ghetto. No one wanted to record this song because of the subject matter, it was written by Mac Davis and Elvis went against his manager and Record Company to record it.. He knew the struggle since he was raised in extreme poverty and in the Ghetto.. keep going with Elvis reactions, go down the rabbit hole you won't regret it.
Please do reaction on Elvis
* If I can dream" (Comeback Special 1968) It was a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F Kennedy.
* Elvis and the Black community.
Might I suggest "Suspicious Minds" Live in Vegas by Elvis he really puts on show for a future reaction
Yes!!!!
@@Cindrbell I say Yes!! too 🙂
Elvis lived in low income projects in the "blacks side" the Ghetto. He sang in a black church and was good friends with BB King....
And James Brown and Elvis considered each other Soul Brothers. James spent a few hours mourning alone with Elvis's casket in Graceland after Elvis died.
I was raised on Elvis by my mom who was born in 1948 so she grew up with the classic rock n roll in the 50’s and 60’s , and she grew up poor, she grew up in a two room house ( not two bedroom) with 8 siblings it’s a 4 room house now ( 5 rooms including the bathroom with 2 bedrooms, a living room, and a kitchen)my grandmother didn’t have indoor plumbing until the 1980’’s around the time I was born and my mom was a single mother for most of my early childhood and early teenage years so I grew up poor too so this music always resonated with me
Congratulations! By far one of the best listening of In the ghetto. I'm an Elvis fan from Uruguay. I know how though is th reality for some communities in USA. But what is (sadly) impresive, is how those lyrics in our days can apply to every country. In Uruguay we have a tough problem with a drug called "pasta base".Young people loosing their lives living in the streets, going to jail. Still "we are to blind to see or we look the other way".
The first time I heard this song I musta been about nine years old. I cried like a baby as I played it over and over.
My man Elvis beautiful inside and out and such a generous soul
Very well said. Bless you. We never know people situations.
Elvis is the Truth he grow up like us in the ghetto
No one would record this Mac Davis song as it was too raw, especially during the race riots in the 1960s. A top RCA executive said we can't release it. Elvis heard it and said, "That's my next single, son" and walked away. The great Sammy Davis Jr famously turned it down.
Only Elvis was willing to risk his career to get that record on the air-waves. Only Elvis could have performed it and gotten the radio play when it came out in the late 1960's, during the Civil Rights Movement.
He made it his platform. One of his major public statements on the issues of racism and poverty. Without uttering a single press release or public statement. Not a single political word or comment. Amazing power of song by a very brave and loving human being.
I really hope you explore more of Elvis' songs bc he dominates! G.O.A.T.
Kentucky Rain
Suspicious Minds
Burnin Love
Thanks so much for reacting to Elvis! Mac Davis wrote the song. Could you react to this one that fits right into your comments: Elvis Presley - Walk A Mile In My Shoes - with story and song lyrics (2:41).
I started practicing this tune again earlier this year, as I really wanted to play it as part of my acoustic set during the holiday season, but eventually decided not to, as I felt that as an old white guy playing this tune at this time could cause some division (among at least a few), which is exactly what a performer NEVER wants during an event, but watching you react made me decide to include it in the rest of my sets this month. I sat here with tears rolling down my face watching you react the same way I did the first time I heard it 30 years ago as a young guy. Life is hard and music can help bring us together and make even the worst times more bearable. Thanks for the lesson and honest reaction. ✌👉
The song was written by the late Mac Davis, who also "Don't Cry Daddy" for Elvis. Another good song for you to hear if you haven't already heard it.
Elvis was most likely a Melungeon, through his mother Gladys. Her maiden name was Smith and Elvis' great-great-great-grandmother was Morning Dove White, a Cherokee Indian from Tennessee. That seems to be the bridge to Presley’s Melungeon heritage. (Melungeons are mixed race, an ethnicity from the Southeastern United States who descend from Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans brought to America as slaves and indentured servants. Some Melungeons also had Indian ancestry.) So I feel it makes sense that Elvis had a natural feeling for Black music and culture, plus the fact that he grew up in the predominately Black part of Tupelo and had many Black friends.
I saw Elvis and i subbed but please with Elvis it needs to be the live version to get the real effect.
Great reaction video, your generous remarks are so spot on.❤
In my childhood it was a dirt road up a holler, it hasn’t changed much
it shows in your comment.
Great reaction! You should check out If I Can Dream from Elvis. It’s an MLK tribute he performed at on the 68 comeback special shortly after MLK was killed.
I did not know Mac Davis wrote that song. Thank you for sharing that information.
You are the first reactor that I have seen that picked up the point at the end and mentioned it, that the cycle continues 😥My first time watching you, I am curious to watch another👍 good luck to you🍀
more elvis please.
You aughta watch the live version of this song, where Elvis is wearing a white jumpsuit with red trim. It’s great, though still sad 😔‼️ And yeah, this was a country song that crossed over to Pop. One of my favorites.
This is the first time I have listened to you. So far I like what I’m hearing and will continue watching you on RUclips
Ty Alex ty 👍
Beautiful that you had an open mind and listen. TYVM!! New sub here.
Try “if I can dream”. In the white suit pleeeaaase!!
React to "If I Can Dream" an Elvis tune that was a tribute to MLK. Released in 1968 just after MLK was assassinated.
Mac Davis wrote this song and recorded it too, and did just ad good a job as Elvis
he sang gospel country and love songs
there is another song he sang choke me up he sang if i can dream he sang it in a white outfit and a biker black outfit he sang that song in tribute to Dr king's i have a dream speech
So much about Elvis people don't know. He was so poor and was raised in a black neighborhood. It's a very deep history and you really should do a deep dive into his life... it was a classic success story followed by a terrible tragedy... I subbed in hopes you would look at some other of his works... would love to hear your opinions :)
Mac Davis, the writer of both this and "If I Can Dream", grew up in poverty with kids of color. He's best known as a country musician, I suppose, but he was an amazing writer. I'm a 53 year-old white man, and this song punches me hard, even today. Outstanding reaction, sir. Continue your journey, and enjoy.
Mac didn't write "if I can Dream", as that was Earl brown, but yeah... In the ghetto sure was a far cry from "It's hard to be humble". ;-)
A man that traveled with Elvis said they came upon an old black man and woman broke down in an old truck full of wood he picked them up took them to a new car lot bought them a new truck went back and loaded their wood. He was born in poverty and he knew
and black people weren't and still are?
Kentucky Rain, to me is one of his best.
Check out if I can dream by Elvis 👍
Please do Elvis suspicious minds or jail house rock
Great reaction
Elvis was raised in the ghetto around black people this childhood friends were black also he didn't fall off he quit doing music to do movies I think there's over 20 movies Elvis Presley starred in then he returned to music
Elvis grew up in poverty. He sings with so much emotion
Check out Walk a mile in my shoes by Elvis
Yes, that poor ghetto boy does need a helping hand, it’s called his father. Man up!
Elvis was the only one who dared to sing this song
Just like everybody else.
Head poppin to the beat until verse 3 then it's all tears and realization.
In almost 60 years every new class has to learn this cuz for some reason the ones that came before still won't help the next in line.
It takes people!
Everytime the government tries, it just comes with more and more red tape and the situation gets worse and worse.
I must say I enjoyed your reaction to this vid please will you do your reactions to "If I can dream" and "Elvis in the black community Part 1&2" you won't be disappointed thank you Joe Grixti.
Have you heard IF I CAN DREAM?
Nice reaction Alex. 😊😊😊Love the 💥💥💥bomb!! Keep the videos coming! ✌❤
Why would anyone judge anyone for being financially poor. They may be rich in love
🎯. Thank you Joanne for watching.
agree, they could be rich in many other ways.
The TWO BEST VIDEOS to learn why the black community really liked Elvis when he was alive I linked below. This is very important history ... often left out of too many discussions about Elvis in today's black community (at least before the new movie) and sadly not the stuff that they teach in high school history books. The people THAT KNEW ELVIS PERSONALLY of course KNEW THE TRUTH about Elvis, and what made him SO DIFFERENT from other white musicians of the day, and different than white people in general.
#1 Recommendation: Elvis and the Black Community. A great collaboration of interviews by legends and historic figures in the black community discussing Elvis. ruclips.net/video/xd1pXw1DmsA/видео.html
#2 Recommendation: Just as important to watch. An amazing HISTORICAL interview with one of Elvis' first close friends, a black gentleman by the name of SAM BELL. Sadly Sam died soon after this interview. You'll learn more watching this one video than ANY ONE HOUR HISTORY CLASS you ever attended. The beginning of the new ELVIS MOVIE came from this very interview about LIFE in one of the first mixed (predominantly black) communities in America. Black and white boys playing TOGETHER -- didn't happen down in the segregated South in the 1930s and 40s -- it was very dangerous to life and limb for kids or adults. You don't want to miss this if you want the actual truth: ruclips.net/video/LrFCyNMvZWk/видео.html&t=
Elvis was different, and his perspective was different than most white people of his day, especially among other whites in the South. Elvis grew up in the poorest parts of the South during the Great Depression and Segregation. And he understood the very lowest depths of poverty. Only 4 white families on his block, he lived and played and prayed with black children while living in a 1 room shotgun shack without running water or electricity. His father built the home with a borrowed $150, then lost it because they couldn't afford to pay it back. How poor was Elvis? His twin brother Jesse Garon Presley was still born about 30 minutes before Elvis... and the Presleys were so poor that they couldn't afford a coffin, so Jesse had to be buried in a shoebox.
Elvis was uniquely born at a time and place, Tupelo (SHAKERAG) AND Memphis (BEALE STREET) when so much new music and dance were happening.
Elvis was TRAINED BY BLACK MUSICIANS in black churches (and white musicians in white churches) in the 1940s BEFORE most of the legends like Little Richard or James Brown or Chuck Berry rocked the world. Rev W Herbert Brewster of the East Trigg Baptist Church asked Elvis to join when he was 13, after Elvis and his family moved to Memphis. They were jamming before and during the legendary black musicians got heard. He was able to merge music genres and black and white culture better than anyone and created the sound and stage performance of Rock and Roll. AND as soon as ELVIS started to make money -- THEY ALL MADE MONEY!
it is not the BLACK COMMUNITY!!!
it is a few black people that met Elvis.
if a few black people make up the black community then you are looking to justify Elvis not using black artists.
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 Can I ask what you mean by Elvis "not using Black artists"? Do you mean not using them in a capacity other than as backup singers? Or in what sense?
@@sadfaeryOf course you can, the only black artists used was the sweet inspiration. If you check out the videos, whilst recording you will only see white musicians. we can go one step further and if you check the movies he starred in, if you see a black person, the most screen time they get is 6 seconds.
Now, if we look at Steven Pomeroy's comment. He talks about Elvis and the black community.
If Elvis did so much, then why did it take him 16 years to use black artists?
Not saying Elvis wasn't a good looking guy, good voice good entertainer, what I am saying he was marketed to a white audience.
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 Curious, what year was you born?
@@jfterrell you work it out. I fought in Vietnam
Wow, subbed. I'm always happy when someone sees the point of the song. It's a recycle. It's just over and over.
And again thank you for saying poverty instead of black. I grew up in a "hood" in KC. It's about money more than color.
You need 2 listen 2 If I Can Dream by Elvis
I’m so shocked at the number of blacks that’s never heard the song ... being young , I assumed everyone listened to the same radio station.
there is a reason why black Americans haven't heard of Elvis.
Elvis was marketed to an all white audience.
Whitney Houston's Mom singing background.
Check out if I can dream it's a tribute to MLK Jr 🙏💙 by Elvis ty
could u react to jailhouse rock from the movie jailhouse rock from the movie jailhouse rock by Elvis presley please, just subscribed.
Where's the video??
In fear of the video being blocked I felt the best option would be this.
Watch the live version
Yes the story of poverty.
When are young black men and women going to break this cycle? No one else can fix this cycle.
Oh how could you be such a fool.
and how little you know.
when black people were doing drugs back in the 50's and 60's and 70's and 80's and 90's and 2000's and the police found them in the streets they put them in jail.
now as we see what is happening in Philadelphia for example, we see lots of white people stoned and on the streets.
Now they call this a mental health problem because it is effecting white people.
Had they been black, where do you think they would be?
Don't know too much about elvis,I do know that a Man named Mac Davis wrote this.
Elvis was living in a poor black community as a child never seen color
My husband was a grade behind Elvis in high school in Tupelo...and I have seen Presley's family home before they dressed it up for public view. It was a simple little frame house and somewhat rundown & I believe it was on Highway 78 - been awhile. Tupelo was a prosperous little southern town in the 50's when I was there and the black community was on the edge of the town proper and was referred to as 'Shake Rag'...a cluster of small and well-buit homes provided by the community.
An aside: I have often wondered if his twin had survived how it would have changed his life's path. He had enormous faith and an incredible voice!
Gotta say, seeing your reaction to this song made me tear up a bit. The lyrics are thoughtful - aren' they?
Elvis was living as a poor white boy in the black community, not a s black boy in the black community, if you think for one minute there is no difference, ask the reactor if there is no difference.
How about BLOW FLY you can’t play on RUclips if you do you will have to Center it he makes TWO LIVE CREW look like kids
He fell off because he got arrested because of the music he was doing and got the offer of jail time or joining the military, so Elvis joined the Army and went to Germany for years
Elvis started using drugs in the army back in 1958.
Check this out
In 1970 Elvis writes to President Nixon (the I am not a crook guy) and offers his services to help combat illicit drug use in the USA.
Elvis mentioned that he knew a lot about drugs and was accepted by the hippies.
He said he could go right into a group of young people or hippies and be accepted which he felt could be helpful to him in his drug drive.
Nixon and Elvis exchanged pleasantries and agreed that “those who use drugs are in the vanguard of American protest.”
In 1977 Elvis dies of drug overdose and drug abuse.
Putting Elvis in charge of speaking on narcotic abuse is like leaving Dracula in charge of the blood bank.
Hypocrisy: What is an example of hypocrisy?
People who tell you not to eat candy while they chomp away on candy all day.
I am doing a survey. How many comments below are from black US people?
I have asked this question on may Elvis reaction videos, and the answer is still zero.
Great reaction!