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♪ For I can’t help
♪ Falling in love
♪ With
♪ You...
I’d like to talk to you a little bit,
ladies and gentlemen, about how I got in this business.
There’s been a lot written and a lot said,
but never from my side of the story.
People can stay home and hear you sing,
but when they pay their money to come out
and see you on a personal appearance,
those people want to see a show.
They come out to see some action.
"Elvis Presley is
a no talent performer,
riding the crest of a wave of mass hysteria."
And how’s your feeling on that? "No talent performer."
I don’t know, I don’t even want to think about it.
He ain’t nothing but an idiot.
♪ Glory, glory
♪ Hallelujah
♪ His truth
♪ Is marching
♪ On
♪ His truth is marching
♪ On...♪
Hi, this is Elvis Presley.
I guess the first thing people want to know
is why I can’t stand still when I’m singing.
Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers
and some people just sway back and forth.
I just sort of do them altogether, I guess.
Singing rhythm and blues really knocks it out.
Knocks it out...
♪ Oh, baby, baby Baby, baby, baby
I watch my audience and listen to them
and I know that we’re all getting something
out of our system and none of us knows what it is.
♪ Come back, baby I want to play house with you ♪
The important thing is that we’re getting rid of it
and nobody’s getting hurt.
Rock and Roll music, if you like it and if you feel it,
you can’t help but move to it.
That’s what happens to me, I can’t help it.
I mean, I have to move around, I can’t stand still.
I’ve tried it and I can’t do it.
♪ Well, it’s one for the money Two for the show ♪
Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.
Are you kidding?
I didn’t do anything, I would just jiggle, you know?
I get in kind of rhythm with the music,
jump around to it because I enjoy what I’m doing.
I’m not trying to be vulgar. I’m not trying to sell any sex.
♪ Oh, walk the dog ♪
When did you first start singing?
Do you call it ’singing’, the stuff you do?
♪ Baby, if I made you mad ♪
Do I call it singing?
That is what you call it?
Well, I’ve sold five million records.
Somebody calls it singing.
So, that’s how it happens.
You get a record and then you get on television,
and you go to Hollywood, so...
So I wasn’t ready for that town
and they wasn’t ready for me, you know?
♪ Well, I said shake, rattle and roll ♪
♪ Crawfish ♪
I went to Hollywood and I made "Love Me Tender,"
"Loving You" and loving her...
Loving whoever I could get my hands on at the time, you know?
And then I did "King Creole,"
so I was really getting used to the Hollywood bit, you know.
I had a Cadillac and I had sunglasses on.
I’m sitting in the back seat, saying,
"I’m a movie star, I’m a somebody."
♪ Sad sack was sitting on a block of stone ♪
There is quite a group of people
who don’t approve of the thing you do.
They seem to think that it contributes
to juvenile delinquency and all sorts of things.
You given any thoughts to, uh,
the unpopular side of your audience?
Yes, sir, I have. I’ve tried to figure it out.
I don’t see how they can think
that it would contribute to juvenile delinquency.
Someone solely singing and dancing. I don’t see that.
♪ You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
♪ Crying all the time ♪
I believe with all of my heart
that it is a contributing factor
to our juvenile delinquency of today.
♪ I’ve got a dirty feeling ♪
Why I believe that is
because I know how it feels when you’re singing.
So limber and loose.
- I know what it does to you. - Extremely bad temper.
Of the evil feeling that you feel when you sing,
the lust position that you get into in the beat.
If you talk to the average teenager of today
and you ask them what it is
about rock and roll music that they like,
the first thing they’ll say is, "The beat, the beat, the beat."
It happened so fast, it’s hard to keep up with it, you know?
It’s just, boom, overnight and there it was.
It happened very fast to all of us,
my mother and my father and all of us that...
you know, everything happened overnight.
And so we had to adjust to a lot of things very quickly.
A lot of good things.
I have seen his clothes completely torn off.
Scratched all over, bleeding.
Just wild fans.
I have Elvis Presley on the phone. Hello?
Hello.
Hello, Elvis. Just one moment.
Hello, Elvis. Your style of gyrating while you sing
has been bitterly criticized,
even by usually mild and gentle TV critics.
Do you think you’ve learned anything
from the criticism levelled at you?
- No, I haven’t. - You haven’t, huh?
Because I don’t feel I’m doing anything wrong.
If there’s anything I’ve tried to do,
I’ve tried to live a straight, clean life
and not set any kind of a bad example.
I will say that there are people
that are going to like you and people that don’t like you
regardless of what business you’re in or what you do.
You cannot please everyone.
But what about the rumor that you once shot your mother?
Well, I think that one takes the cake.
♪ Well, since my baby left me
♪ Well, I found a new place to dwell ♪
And then right when I was going good, I get drafted.
And overnight it was all gone. It was like a dream.
Pah! Changed.
Do you feel that rock and roll,
the popularity of rock and roll,
will diminish in any way while you’re in the army?
Well, sir, rock and roll has been around
for many years. Uh...
It used to be called rhythm and blues,
and as far back as I can remember, it’s been very big.
Although in the last five years,
it’s gotten much bigger.
I personally don’t think it will ever die completely out,
because they’re going to have to get something mighty good
to take its place as far
as the young people are concerned.
Maybe someday I can come back when my army tour is up,
as an entertainer, and then I’ll have more time
and maybe I’ll have an opportunity
to kind of make myself at home over here.
Arrivederci!
No, that’s Italian.
Have two years of sobering army life
changed your mind about rock and roll?
"Sobering army life?"
Uh... no, it hasn’t. It hasn’t.
It hasn’t changed my mind, because...
I was in tanks for a long time, you see,
and they rock and roll quite a bit.
- Fire! - On the way!
♪ Girls! Girls! Girls!
- ♪ Girls - ♪ Going swimming
- ♪ Girls - ♪ In bikinis
- ♪ Girls♪ - ♪ Walking and a-wiggling by ♪
It’s a new Elvis, one you’ve never seen before.
♪ She said, Hey, bossa nova, baby
♪ Keep on working for this ain’t no time to quit
♪ She said, Go, bossa nova, baby
♪ Keep on dancing I’m about to have myself a fit
♪ Bossa nova, bossa nova ♪
For a while there was a theory
that anything I did would sell and so forth.
Well, I knew that was not true.
Whether it’s a song, a script or whatever,
it’s got to be good.
Wake up, Greg. It’s time to head for the hills.
You can’t talk. You’re a dog!
Hollywood’s image of me was wrong, and I knew it,
and I couldn’t say anything about it.
Couldn’t do anything about it.
It’s nobody’s fault maybe, except my own.
A lot of times the things that I didn’t fully believe in.
And I was doing a lot of pictures close together
and the pictures got very similar.
♪ Girls! Girls! Girls!♪
So I’d read the first four or five pages
and I knew that it was just a different name
with 12 new songs and I had to gear down
’cause I had to sing to a dog.
♪ The edge of reality
♪ The edge of reality ♪
I had thought that they would give me a chance
to show some kind of acting ability.
Oh, I mean business.
But it did not change.
It did not change.
I was so concerned. That’s all I talked about.
It worried me sick.
♪ Now in a single moment your past grows dim
And I became very discouraged.
♪ One thought goes racing across your mind
One of the reasons why Elvis has stayed around
as long as he has, has been due to a great mastermind
of his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
♪ With eyes that hide the man within
Colonel Tom Parker...
♪ You’ve lived and died and come to life again ♪
They couldn’t have paid me
no amount of money in the world
to make me feel any self-satisfaction inside.
♪ The edge of reality
It did not change.
♪ Do you miss me?
But it did not change.
♪ Do you miss me?
But it did not change.
♪ Do you miss me?♪
Did not change. Did not change.
So I had to change it, which I did.
Should be all on camera.
♪ When Moses walked the children out of Egypt land
♪ He said, "Now, don’t you worry
♪ We’re in the Lord’s hands
♪ He’s gonna walk beside us
♪ The time is coming near
♪ He’s gonna wash away all our misery and our fear"
- ♪ I got a feeling in my body - CHOIR: ♪ Feeling in my body
♪ This will be...♪
I just missed it.
I missed the closeness of an audience, of a live audience.
So just as soon as I got out of the movie contracts,
I started to do live performances again.
Like right now, I’m going into Vegas
and it’s just on my mind, all the time.
Songs, wardrobe, lighting, sound.
♪ Deep inside
♪ My cup of love was overflowing
♪ Huh
♪ I found the stranger I’d been looking for ♪
We start discussing the songs first.
There must be four or five hundred songs.
Out of that four or five hundred,
I have to pick 20 at the most.
Then we start rehearsing with a small band,
with a rhythm section, and we go through several songs,
maybe 50 songs.
We do that for several days and we try to add to it.
♪ Now and then
♪ There’s a fool such as I ♪
♪ Hey, Mama Don’t you treat me wrong
♪ Put your dress on Go on home, all right
♪ Hey, hey
♪ What I say
♪ What I say ♪
These are some of the, like, the first songs I did,
you know, long before World War II.
There’s only 426.
So...
♪ I was the one
♪ Who taught her to cry
♪ And she
♪ I don’t know the words ♪
Then we go to Vegas and we pick up the voices,
and then graduate to the big band.
But all this starts to take place two or three months
before I ever make a public appearance.
Right on time.
What’s going on, man?
Camera crew, gentlemen, how are you? Good to see you.
I’m glad you could be here.
♪ When I said
♪ I needed you
♪ You said you would always...♪
It takes me five minutes to figure out where I am.
♪ Oh, you don’t have to say you love me
♪ Just be close at hand
♪ You don’t have to stay forever
♪ I will understand
♪ But believe me
♪ Believe me
♪ Oh, believe me ♪
On the, uh...
modulation, we could have the voices to, uh...
It’s just for the modulation.
♪ Believe me
♪ Oh, believe me
♪ Believe me
♪ Oh, say you love me
♪ Just be close at hand ♪
But I liked all type of music, you know?
When I was in high school...
I had records of Mario Lanza and the Metropolitan Opera.
I just... I love music.
The Spanish. I like the Mexican flavor.
♪ Plowing through the ragged skies
♪ And up the cloudy draw
♪ Trying to catch the devil’s herd
♪ Across these endless skies ♪
♪ La, la, la, la, la, la ♪
♪ As I walk along, I wonder
♪ What went wrong with our love
♪ A love that was so grand
♪ And as I still walk by
♪ I think of the times we’ve had together
♪ While our love...♪
Where’s the director? Oh, there he is.
You want me to let you know when we’re gonna do that, um...
What you call it?
Well, we’re not going to do it now.
Wow...
- What key is this? - I don’t know.
When I first realized I could sing,
at about two years of age, I found myself singing.
I mean, I was singing and people would listen to me
around the housing project where I lived.
I was about eight years old
and they entered me in a talent show.
I wore glasses, had no music,
and I won... I think it was fifth place
in this talent contest.
I got a whipping the same day.
My mother whipped me for something.
I went on the rides.
Destroyed my ego completely.
But I would sing in church, with my mother and father.
But I would never sing in public.
I was very shy about it.
♪ Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
♪ Oh, I believe in yesterday
♪ Suddenly
♪ I’m not half the man I used to be
♪ There’s a shadow hanging over me
♪ Oh, I believe in yesterday
♪ Yesterday ♪
Okay.
Okay. Just pick a key.
All right.
♪ Something in the way she moves
♪ Attracts me like no other lover
♪ Something in the way she woos me
♪ I don’t want to leave her now
♪ You know I believe and how ♪
♪ Something in the way she moves
♪ All I have to do is think of her
♪ Something in the way she shows me ♪
Very suggestive lyrics, man.
♪ I went and bought myself a ticket
♪ And I sat down in the very first row
♪ They pulled the curtain
♪ But then when they turned the spotlight way down low ♪
It’s Elvis
at the International Hotel in Las Vegas.
It’s Elvis!
800 radio stations are plugging him
and this is... I’ve been in Vegas since 1953
and I’ve played every star.
I have never, never had we had the advanced reservations
that we have with Elvis.
♪ I went and bought myself a ticket
♪ And I sat down in the very first row
♪ They pulled the curtain
♪ But then when they turned the spotlight way down low
♪ Singing, ying-yang
♪ Ying-yang ♪
Charlie? Charlie!
Charlie!
I’ve never gotten over what they call stage fright.
I go through it every... every show.
I never get completely comfortable with it.
At no given time.
And I don’t let the people with me
get comfortable with it.
And that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there.
It’s a new audience.
They haven’t seen this before.
So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.
That’s bold. That’s bold!
It’s a little frightening and exciting.
Elvis!
I love you!
I see people of all different ages
and things out there, you know?
If I do something good, they let me know.
If I don’t, they’ll let me know that, right?
I work absolutely to them, whether it’s six or 6,000,
it doesn’t really matter.
They bring it out of me. The ham.
♪ Love me tender Love me good...
♪ Well, that’s all right, Mama That’s all right with you
♪ That’s all right, Mama Just anyway you do
- ♪ Well, that’s all right - ♪ That’s all right
- ♪ That’s all right now - ♪ That’s all right
♪ That’s all right, Mama Anyway you do
♪ Well, Mama, she done told me Papa done told me too
♪ Son, that gal you’re fooling with
♪ She ain’t no good for you
- ♪ But that’s all right - ♪ That’s all right
- ♪ That’s all right
♪ That’s all right now, Mama Anyway you do
When I was called to make my first record,
I went into the studio and I started singing.
I started jumping up and down, and I wasn’t even aware of it.
And if I stood up in front of an audience
and did nothing but sing, if I didn’t put on a show
and if I didn’t act like I enjoyed what I was doing,
they wouldn’t come out to see me next time I went back.
♪ I’m leavin’ town, my baby I’m leavin’ town for sure
♪ Well, then you won’t be bothered with me
♪ Hangin’ ’round your door
- ♪ But that’s all right - ♪ That’s all right
- ♪ Yeah, that’s all right now - ♪ That’s all right
♪ That’s all right now, Mama Anyway you do
♪ Ah, da-da-dee, dee, dee-dee Dee, dee, dee-dee
♪ Dee, dee, dee-dee Dee, dee, dee-dee
- ♪ Well, that’s all right - ♪ That’s all right
♪ That’s all right now, Mama Anyway you do
♪ Well, that’s all right, Mama Anyway you do ♪
You see, country music was always a part of the...
of the influence on my... on my type of music anyway.
It was a combination of... of country music and gospel
and rhythm and blues all combined,
is what it really was.
As a child, I was influenced by all that.
♪ Well, I’m the king of the jungle
♪ They call me the Tiger
♪ I am the king of the jungle
♪ They call me the Tiger
♪ But if you cross my path
♪ You take your own life In your hands
♪ Well, I get up on a mountain and I call my bear cat
♪ Yeah, I get up on a mountain and I call, whoo, my bear cat
You got it, baby!
♪ My bear cat comes running
♪ and the hound dogs stay way back
Come on!
♪ Well, I get up on a mountain and I call my bear cat
♪ My bear cat comes running
♪ And the hound dogs stay way back
♪ Way back! Way back!♪
Love you!
Ah, well...
Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to the International.
My name is Fats Domino.
You’ve been known in the past
as the "King of Rock and Roll."
Do you think your style’s changed now
from the days when you were King,
or do you consider that still your style?
Well, I just do whatever I feel on stage, you know?
I just always did that.
Would the following names please...
No.
When I was a little kid...
Yes, Kirk?
When I first started out in this business, I was, uh...
Out fooling around, driving a truck.
Which is pretty hard to do when you drive a truck.
But anyway, I was out fooling around
and I got a bunch of ants in my pants...
And so, ah, Ed Sullivan saw me and he said,
"Hmm, son of a bitch..."
So, uh...
So he said, "Put him on TV
and shoot him from the waist up," you know?
As a great philosopher once said...
♪ You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
♪ Cryin’ all the time
♪ You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
♪ Cryin’ all the time
♪ Well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit
♪ And you ain’t no friend of mine
♪ You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
♪ Cryin’ all the time
♪ You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
♪ Cryin’ all the time
♪ Well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit
♪ And you ain’t no friend...
♪ You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
♪ Cryin’ all the time
♪ You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
♪ Cryin’ all the time
♪ Well, you ain’t never
♪ ...friend of mine
♪ You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
♪ Cryin’ all the time
♪ You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
♪ Cryin’ all the time
♪ Well, you ain’t never...
♪ But you ain’t no friend of mine ♪
So that’s really how I got started.
Not really, but something like that.
Now where’s the... pardon the expression,
the clapboard?
Oh! You clapped already. Oh, okay.
What about, uh, have you guys got lead sheets
on "Polk Salad Annie?"
- Yes! - We can do that?
Whoo!
Lord have mercy.
Catch this, Sam.
That’s it, though. That’s all I can do, man.
Ah...
We’re going to get dirty on you, ladies and gentlemen.
When we start it, you flow with me.
Okay.
♪ Got a little morphine
♪ Gimme a little hish hash, baby
♪ Polk salad Annie
♪ Where is your fanny at ♪
Yeah, Lord.
Some of you all never been down South too much.
I’m going to tell you a little story
so that you’ll understand what I’m talking about.
Down there we have a plant
that grows out in the woods in the fields
and it looks something like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it polk salad.
That’s polk salad.
Used to know a girl that lived down there
and she’d go out in the evenings and...
She’d march a little bit, wouldn’t she?
Hup! Hup!
Anyway...
Uh, she’d go out and pick a mess of it.
Don’t make any sense does it? Pick a mess of what?
Yeah, babe!
Carry it home and cook it for supper.
Because that’s about all they had to eat.
But they did all right.
’Cause that’s about all they had to eat.
But they did all right.
All they had to eat.
But they did all right.
♪ Down in Louisiana
♪ Where the alligators grow so mean
♪ Lived a girl that I swear to the world
♪ Made the alligators look tame
♪ Polk salad Annie
♪ Gators got your granny
♪ Everybody said it was a shame, y’all
♪ ’Cause her mama was working on the chain-gang
♪ A mean, vicious straight razor-toting woman
♪ Lord, have mercy on her
♪ Every day before suppertime
♪ She’d go down by the truck patch
♪ And pick her a mess of polk salad
♪ And carry it home in a tow sack
♪ Polk salad Annie
♪ Gators got you granny
♪ Everybody said it was a shame
♪ ’Cause her mama was working on the chain-gang
♪ You sock a little polk salad
♪ You know I need a real mess
♪ You sock a little polk salad
Yeah, baby!
Yeah!
You’re right. You’re right.
Very good.
♪ Sock a little polk salad
♪ You know I need A real mess of it
♪ Sock a little
♪ You know I need A real mess of it
♪ Sock a little ♪
Yeah, baby!
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I’m not doing it tonight.
- Yeah, you’re sure not! - Very good, Elvis.
I’m not doing it tonight.
That’s it. That’s it.
What’s interesting about... about music,
and about all the people here...
they find new sounds, you know,
and they do things differently, themselves.
So it’s like a new experience every day.
The guy on the guitar will find a new lick
or the guy on the piano will find something,
or the voices will add something.
And I hear all this and it inspires me.
♪ Baby, I know it
♪ You lost that lovin’ feelin’
♪ Whoa, oh, that lovin’ feelin’
♪ You lost that lovin’ feelin’
♪ Now it’s gone, gone, gone
♪ Whoa-oh ♪
Yeah.
You know, we did two shows a night for five weeks,
but we never let it get old.
Every song is like, we do it for the first time.
And that’s... that’s one of the secrets, you know?
♪ Baby, baby, I’d get down on my knees for you
♪ That’s how much I love you
♪ If this suit wasn’t too tight
♪ That’s how much I love you
♪ Sweet baby
♪ If you would only love me like you used to do
♪ That’s how much I love you
♪ Yeah
♪ That’s how much I love you
♪ Sweet baby
♪ We had a love
♪ A love
♪ A love you don’t find every day
♪ Oh, no
♪ You won’t find it every day now
- ♪ Don’t - ♪ Don’t
♪ Don’t take it away
♪ Listen to me talkin’ to
♪ Bring back that lovin’ feelin’
♪ Whoa, that lovin’ feelin’
♪ Bring back that lovin’ feelin’
♪ Now it’s gone, gone, gone
♪ And I can’t go on
♪ Whoa-oh-oh
♪ Bring back that lovin’ feelin’
♪ Whoa-oh-oh
♪ Bring back that lovin’ feelin’
♪ Whoa-oh-oh ♪
Yeah, thanks.
Never finish a show, folks, but...
Hey, the lights are on. I can see you.
Hello out there. Hello.
Here’s to you.
That’s right, keep some music goin’ back there.
Don’t be afraid to play. Just play it.
Just play the hell out of it. There you go.
It won’t come off. It won’t come off.
It’s tied. It won’t come off.
- ♪ Baby - BACKUP SINGERS: ♪ Baby
- ♪ Baby - ♪ Baby
♪ You’re wearin’ that loved on look
♪ Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop
- ♪ Baby - BACKUP SINGERS: ♪ Baby
♪ You’re wearin’ that loved on look
♪ ’Cause you’re wearin’
♪ That loved on look
I wasn’t popular in school.
I wasn’t dating anybody at school.
I failed music.
I flunked music. Hell! Only thing I ever failed.
They entered me in this talent show.
When I came out, I did my two songs
and when I came off stage,
I think people were kind of rumbling and whispering,
and so forth, because nobody knew I even sang, really.
It was amazing how popular I became at school after that.
♪ Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop
- ♪ Baby - BACKUP SINGERS: ♪ Baby
♪ You’re wearin’ that loved on look
♪ ’Cause you’re wearin’
♪ That loved on look
- ♪ Baby - BACKUP SINGERS: ♪ Baby
♪ You’re wearin’ that loved on look ♪
You didn’t think I’d make it, did you?
I didn’t either.
Get my little stool over here for a second.
Do what?
Hang loose.
When I was about ten years old,
they gave me a choice between a guitar and a bicycle.
So I took the guitar and watched people.
- I learned to play it. - You missed me!
Honey, I wouldn’t come out there again for love nor money.
My dad had seen a lot of people
who played guitar and stuff who didn’t work.
"You should make up your mind," he said, "about either being
an electrician or playing a guitar."
He said, "I never saw a guitar player that was worth a damn."
♪ Little sister, don’t you
kiss me once or twice
♪ And say it’s very nice and then you run
♪ Little sister, don’t you do what your big sister done
♪ Well, I dated your big sister
♪ Well, I took her to a show
♪ I went for some candy
♪ Along came Jim Dandy
♪ And they snuck right out the door
♪ Little sister, don’t you
kiss me once or twice
♪ And say it’s very nice and then you run
♪ Little sister, don’t you do what your big sister
♪ Hey, get back
- ♪ Get back - ♪ Get back
♪ Get back to where you once belonged
- ♪ Hey, get back - ♪ Get back
♪ Get back to where you once belonged
- ♪ Hey, get back - ♪ Get back
♪ Get back to where you once belonged
♪ Well, I used to pull your pigtails
♪ And pinch your turned-up nose
♪ But you’ve been a growin’ and, baby, it’s been showin’
♪ From your head down to your toes
♪ Little sister, don’t you
kiss me once or twice
♪ And say it’s very nice and then you run
♪ Little sister, don’t you do what your big sister done
- ♪ Hey, get back - ♪ Get back
♪ Get back to where you once belonged
- ♪ Hey, get back - ♪ Get back
♪ Get back to where you once belonged
- ♪ Hey, get back - ♪ Get back
♪ Get back to where you once belonged
♪ And that’s all that’s in that son of a gun, right there
♪ All right now ♪
Are you going to keep making movies?
I hope to.
What kind?
Well, I’d like to make better films.
What do you mean?
Well, better than the ones I’ve made before.
Anything lined up?
No, there’s nothing as far as I know.
Is there, Colonel? Anything in the workings?
Can’t think of any myself.
An 8mm Walt Disney special we’re doing next year.
I think. I don’t know.
♪ I see my light I see my light come shining
♪ From the west down to the east
♪ Any day now
♪ I shall be released
Goodbye.
Thank you so much.
♪ I see my light come shining
♪ From the west down to the east
♪ Any day now
Like tying a bed sheet.
♪ Any day now
♪ I shall be released ♪
Dylan!
♪ A hunk A hunk of burning love ♪
There you go. That ain’t bad.
♪ A hunk A hunk of burning love
It’s on backwards, isn’t it?
♪ I’m just a hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ Ahh
♪ A hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ Ah, ah, ah
♪ A hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ Ahh
♪ A hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ I’m just a hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ Ahh
♪ A hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ Ahh
♪ I’m just a hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ Ahh
♪ A hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ Ahh
♪ A hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ Ahh
♪ A hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ Ahh
♪ A hunk A hunk of burning love...♪
But how are we going to fade it onstage?
Just say, patch it up.
Oh! Everybody leave the stage except Bill.
♪ Aah! Aah!♪
Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen,
you’re a fantastic audience.
Now we’re going to spring a new song on you tonight.
We don’t know it too well, but...
If we goof it up, just... just bear with us.
We’ll get it right.
♪ Lord Almighty I feel my temperature risin’
♪ Higher, higher It’s burning through to my soul
♪ Girl, girl, girl, girl You’re gonna set me on fire
♪ My brain is flamin’
♪ And I don’t know which way to go
♪ Yeah
♪ Your kisses lift me higher
♪ Like the sweet song of a choir
♪ You light my mornin’ sky with burning love
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh I feel my temperature risin’
♪ Help me, I’m flamin’ I must be a 109
♪ Burnin’, burnin’, burnin’
♪ And nothing can cool me
♪ Yeah
♪ I just might turn into smoke But I feel fine
♪ ’Cause your kisses lift me higher
♪ Like the sweet song of a choir
♪ And you light my mornin’ sky with burning love
♪ Aah, aah, aah
♪ Burning love
♪ It’s comin’ closer
♪ The flames are now lickin’ my body
♪ Won’t you help me? I feel like I’m slippin’ away
♪ It’s hard to breathe My chest is a-heavin’
♪ Lord, have mercy I’m burning a hole where I lay
♪ Yeah
♪ Your kisses lift me higher
♪ Like the sweet song of a choir
♪ You light my mornin’ sky with burning love
♪ Burning love
♪ Burning love, aah
♪ I’m just a hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ Aah
♪ I’m just a hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ Aah
♪ A hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ Aah
♪ Just a hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ Aah
♪ A hunk A hunk of burning love
♪ I’m just a hunk A hunk of burning love ♪
They had forgotten the ending, really.
Supposed to be "a hunk, a hunk of burning love.
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning..."
Twice.
Drumroll!
They didn’t do it.
♪ Burning love
♪ Burning love ♪
Thank you. You’ve been a fantastic audience.
Now that... that’s a new one.
We’ve never done it on stage before,
so if we goofed up, I’m sorry.
♪ I feel like a stranger
♪ Like a stranger in my own hometown
Elvis!
♪ I feel like a stranger
♪ Like a stranger in my own hometown
♪ All my so-called friends stopped being friendly
♪ Yeah, but you can’t keep a good man down
♪ No, you can’t ♪
- I started to do it. - I didn’t do it.
Nobody heard me.
- What, you did? - Oh, yeah.
I was expecting you to do it.
No, I did the first three or four lines of it, man.
Nobody heard me.
Did you tell ’em you were gonna do it?
- Yeah. - Did you tell yourself?
No.
It look like that little theatre...
- It is the place you played. - It is the place.
- Yeah. - Right.
I played here about twice, didn’t I say?
Flock MC, at the end of this street.
Grab a right here.
That’s when he first started to manage me, right?
Yeah.
Colonel insisted that he have him when he came back here.
Colonel called all the way to my place.
He never forgets, man. He never forgets anybody.
He never forgets people. He never forgets openings.
- That’s right. - Or dates, birthdays,
or anything.
Colonel used to take shows out on the road.
He’d hire me for an extra added singer
and he undoubtedly liked the performance that we did,
so we decided to start working together,
him as my manager.
That’s the Colonel.
- That’s his staff. - Meet Colonel Parker.
That’s Colonel’s staff. Very thin.
♪ You look like an angel
♪ Look like an angel
♪ Walk like an angel
♪ Talk like an angel
♪ But I got wise
♪ You’re the devil in disguise
♪ Oh, yes, you are
♪ Devil in disguise ♪
Did you pick Parker or did Parker come for you?
We more or less picked each other.
You know, I was making quite a bit of money,
but, I mean, I wasn’t as nationally known as I am now.
Uh-huh.
The Colonel has a lot of friends
in the entertainment business, he had a lot of connections.
Oh, yeah.
Moved with lots of people
that are important wheels in the business.
He’s a very amusing guy
and he plans stuff that nobody else would even think of.
I could tell you lots of things.
Hi there. How much are the dogs?
We have the large dogs for five dollars
and the small dogs for three dollars.
When you see things sold on the street,
some of them saying "I like Elvis"
and others saying other things.
do you get much for each time?
Do you get a percentage
when they sell an "I Hate Elvis" button?
To be truthful, I really don’t know.
In fact, I don’t know who sells
"I Hate Elvis" buttons.
Well, it’s the same man who sells the "I Like."
There’s so many places that I haven’t been yet.
Like, I’ve never played New York here, you know?
I’ve never been to Britain either, you know?
I’d like to, yes, sir. I’d like to very much.
I’d like to go to Europe.
I’d like to go to Japan and all those places.
I’ve never been out of this country
except in the service, you know?
♪ Well, I’ve never been to Spain
♪ But I kind of like the music
♪ Say the ladies are insane
♪ And they sure know how to use it
♪ They don’t abuse it
♪ Never going to lose it
♪ I can’t refuse it
♪ Well, I’ve never been to England
Whoo!
♪ But I kind of like the Beatles
♪ So I headed for Las Vegas
♪ Only made it out to Needles
All right!
♪ I got to feel it
♪ Must be near it
♪ Oh, it feels so good, Lord
♪ Feels so...
♪ Well, I’ve never been to heaven
♪ But I’ve been to Oklahoma
♪ Well, they tell me I was born there
♪ But I really don’t remember
♪ In Oklahoma or Arizona
♪ Yeah, what does it matter?
♪ What does it matter?
♪ In Oklahoma or Arizona
♪ Yeah, what does it matter?
♪ What does it matter?♪
Well...
I’d like to do a few oldies but goodies for you.
If you’ll wait about 30 minutes.
That’s a funny-looking thing up there, man.
I hope that thing don’t fall.
Flatter than a pancake, man.
Elvis!
I’ll get up in a minute. Just hang with us.
With the help of the Jordanaires, friends,
we’d like to do one called... "Love Me."
It’s the new one on the end there.
♪ Treat me like a fool
♪ Treat me mean and cruel
♪ But love me
Yeah...
♪ Break my faithful heart
♪ Tear it all apart
♪ But love me
♪ Won’t you love me?
♪ I would beg and steal
♪ Just to feel
♪ Your heart
♪ Beating close to mine
♪ So close to mine
♪ If you ever go
♪ Darling, I’ll be, oh
♪ Oh, so lonely
♪ I’ll be sad and blue Crying over you
- ♪ I would beg and steal - ♪ Beg and steal
- ♪ Just to feel - ♪ Just to feel
- ♪ Your heart - ♪ I want your heart
- ♪ Beating close to mine - ♪ So close to mine
♪ Oh, well, if you ever go
♪ Darling, I’ll be, oh
♪ So lonely
♪ Beggin’ on my knees
♪ All I ask is please
♪ Please love me
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
Whoo! Right on.
You ever pull out any of those old records
from the Sun label and listen to them at all?
They sound funny, boy...
They got a lot of echo on ’em. Man, I tell you.
♪ Blue moon
♪ You saw me standing alone ♪
In a lot of the mail I get,
people ask questions about the kind of things I do
and all that sort of stuff.
Well, I don’t smoke and I don’t drink
and I love to go to movies.
Maybe someday I’m going to have a home and a family of my own
and I’m not going to budge from it.
Are you satisfied
with the image you’ve established?
Well, the image is one thing
and a human being is another, you know?
How close is the image to the man?
It... It... It’s very hard to live up to an image.
I’ll put it that way.
I’ve experienced a lot of the different phases in life.
I’ve experienced happiness, and loneliness and tragedy.
What’s that?
Losing my mother, while I was in the army.
And although I think that things like that,
as tragic as they are,
tend to make you a little better human being, really.
♪ And I miss her
♪ Oh, how I miss her
♪ And I always...♪
I’m going to show Joe that ending.
♪ And I miss her
♪ How I miss her
♪ Oh, how I miss her
♪ And I miss her
♪ Da, da, da, da ♪
I’d like to turn the house light up.
Cause, now that you’ve seen me,
I’d like to take a look at you, okay?
A funny thing happened to me about a year ago.
Joe was showing me how to go up on stage.
It was at intermission and the lights were still on.
And I looked out and I saw a crowd of people.
I got weak in the knees and all of a sudden it just scared me.
You know, I...
It’s funny because I can’t see you, really.
I can only see like the first row here.
There’s a lot of folks out there.
- And out there, too. - Elvis!
Time just wrote an article on The Rolling Stones
and in the article they said that only Elvis Presley,
except for maybe Jagger,
has that ability to play a crowd like a giant instrument
and able to tune them up and to tune them down.
When you work the audience,
how does that happen?
Like, we know maybe 150 songs.
I can change them right there on stage.
I’ll just change to something if I felt we were in a rut
or something wasn’t working. I’d change it.
We’ll get past it. Let’s do "Can’t Stop Loving You."
Let’s put that up next, fellas, okay?
Boy, I’ll tell you, it gets dry up here, man.
I feel like Bob Dylan slept in my mouth.
How they doing that, that light?
That’s what Jerry’s gonna do.
That’s Lamar...
But how do they get it in rhythm?
It’s effective, like on "Can’t Stop Loving You," they do...
♪ I can’t stop...♪
The lights do the same thing.
See, now I got to take care of business.
♪ But time has stood still
♪ Since we’ve been apart
♪ And I can’t stop loving you
♪ I said I made up Made up my mind
♪ To live in memory
♪ Of such a long lonely...
♪ And I can’t stop wanting you
♪ I said it’s useless Useless to say yes, it is
♪ So I’ll just live my life
♪ In dreams of yester...
Yeah, baby!
♪ ...erday
♪ Oh, yeah
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
Yeah!
The big deal is the sound has improved 100%
since opening night.
200%. It sounds much better now. It really does.
I’ll make it 300%.
Every night the sound is increased, you go longer.
That’s right.
The show tomorrow night will be longer.
No, it’s... No, no.
You’re out of the picture, Charlie.
Hey, Charlie, give him that crystal clear look.
Left hand side.
♪ Are you lonesome tonight?
♪ Do you miss me tonight?
♪ Are you sorry we drifted apart?
♪ Does your memory stray
♪ To a bright summer day
♪ When I kissed you and called you sweetheart
Sing it!
♪ Do the chairs in your parlor
♪ Seem empty and bare?
♪ Do you gaze at your bald head
♪ And wish you had hair?
♪ Is your heart filled with pain?
♪ Shall I come back again?
♪ Tell me, dear, ooh
♪ Are you lonesome tonight?
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
I suppose this kind of talk raises another question.
Am I in love?
I wonder if you’re lonesome tonight.
Well, I get lonesome sometimes.
It’s pretty lonely when you, uh...
You know, someone said the world’s a stage
and each of us play a part.
You can get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.
♪ All those lonely, lonely times
I have had and still have some very lonely and...
You need somebody.
♪ I’m so happy that you’re mine
Am I in love? You need somebody.
Love...
I’d like to get married. I’d like to have a family.
I’ve got a feeling that with her,
I won’t be lonesome no matter where I am.
♪ You were always on my mind
♪ Maybe I didn’t hold you
♪ All those lonely lonely times
♪ And I guess I never told you
♪ I’m so happy that you’re mine
♪ If I made you feel second best
♪ Girl, I’m so sorry I was blind
♪ But you were always on my mind
♪ You were always on my mind ♪
It’s weird, isn’t it? In those headphones.
♪ He taught me how
- ♪ To watch - ♪ To watch
- ♪ Watch and pray - ♪ Watch and pray
♪ And live rejoicing
♪ Every
♪ Every day
- ♪ Every day - ♪ Every day
♪ Oh, happy day
- ♪ Oh, happy day - ♪ Oh, happy day
- ♪ When my Jesus washed - ♪ When Jesus washed
♪ Oh, when he washed
♪ When Jesus washed
♪ He washed my sins away
♪ Oh, happy day
♪ Yeah, happy day
♪ Oh, happy day
♪ Happy day
♪ Yeah ♪
I liked all different types of music when I was a child,
you know, of course the Grand Ole Opry
was the first thing I ever heard, probably.
But I liked the blues and I liked the gospel music.
Gospel quartets.
Thank you very much.
We’d like to do a Gospel song, ladies and gentlemen,
that we did in 1966 called "How Great Thou Art."
♪ Oh, Lord, my God
♪ When I in awesome wonder
♪ Consider all the worlds
♪ Thy hands have made
♪ I see the stars
♪ I hear the rolling thunder
♪ Thy power throughout
♪ The universe displayed ♪
We grew up with it from the time I was...
I can remember, like two years old.
I grew up with this because my folks took me there.
And when I got old enough, I started to sing in church.
And I started to...
That’s how you got into singing?
- Well, that’s one of the ways. - One of the ways.
♪ Way in the middle of the air
♪ He saw a mighty number
♪ Way up in the middle of the air
♪ Now, I, John He saw a mighty number
♪ Way in the middle of the air
♪ Oh, John declared that he saw a man
♪ He had twelve bright stars In his right hand
♪ When his eyes flashed fire like the burning sun ♪
- Why don’t we do... - Do that song...
Play "Gilead." You know "Gilead?"
Well, yeah.
Sit over there.
They’ll hear you. Sit down. Play it, son.
But this thing here,
the Gospel thing is just... is really what we grew up with,
more than anything else.
And choosing music too,
because it’s a kind of... if you’ve seen Baptist choirs,
there’s a kind of intensity about it,
and it’s the same kind of intensity and electricity
that you have on stage.
It seems like that on almost every song...
Inside, yeah.
It just isn’t singing notes.
It’s singing something that seems to come
from very deep inside of you.
And at certain times you push out and pull in.
♪ When the whole world
♪ Is falling around me ♪
We put on two shows a lot of times, and we would go upstairs
and sing until daylight, you know, gospel songs.
♪ River flow ♪
It more or less puts your mind at ease.
It does mine.
Otherwise you’d go out here just...
You couldn’t sleep for, you know...
There’s nothing wrong with it, but...
♪ Nearer
♪ My God to Thee
♪ Nearer
♪ My God to Thee ♪
It takes at least four, five hours
to even begin to unwind.
Sing it, fellas.
♪ When Christ shall come
♪ With shout of acclamation
♪ To take me home
♪ What joy shall fill my heart
♪ Then I shall bow
♪ In humble adoration
♪ And then proclaim
♪ Oh, my God
♪ How great Thou art
♪ Then sings my soul
♪ My Savior God, to Thee
♪ How great Thou art
♪ Then sings my soul
♪ My Savior God, to Thee
♪ How great Thou art
♪ How great
♪ Thou
♪ Art ♪
Thank you.
You’re beautiful.
♪ Hey, baby
♪ I ain’t asking much of you
♪ Oh, no, no, no, no no, no, no, no, baby
♪ I ain’t asking much of you
♪ Ooh
♪ Just a big-a big-a big-a hunk of love will do
♪ Will do
♪ Don’t be a stingy little mama
♪ You’re about to starve me half to death
♪ Now you can spare a kiss or two and still have plenty left
♪ No, no, no, baby
♪ I ain’t asking much of you
♪ Well, just a big-a big-a big-a hunk of love will do
- ♪ Will do - ♪ That’s right
Your big chance, man.
♪ Ooh
♪ That’s right, that’s right
♪ You’re just a natural born beehive
♪ Filled with honey to the top
♪ But I ain’t greedy, baby all I want is all you got
♪ No, no, no, baby
♪ I ain’t asking much of you
♪ Yeah
♪ Just a big-a big-a big-a hunk of love will do
- ♪ That’s right - ♪ Will do
♪ That’s right
♪ That’s right, that’s right
♪ I got a wishbone in my pocket
♪ I got a rabbit’s foot around my wrist
♪ You know I’d have all the things
♪ My lucky charms could bring
♪ If you’d give me just one sweet kiss
♪ Oh, no, no, no, no No, no, no, no, baby
♪ I ain’t asking much of you
♪ Yeah
♪ Just a big-a big-a big-a hunk of love will do
- ♪ That’s right - ♪ Will do
♪ That’s right
♪ Just a big-a big-a big-a hunk of love will do
- ♪ That’s right - ♪ Will do
♪ That’s right
♪ Just a big-a big-a big-a hunk of love will do ♪
Whoo!
Thank you.
Let me tell you a little thing tonight.
What is this, man?
You’re starting off right, I’ll tell you.
♪ Bridge over troubled water
♪ I will lay me down
♪ Like a bridge over troubled water
♪ I will lay me down
And I would never let it down.
Yeah.
’Cause there’s a new audience out there.
Plus we enjoy what we’re doing.
♪ And pain is all around
♪ Oh, like a bridge over troubled water
♪ I will lay me down
♪ Yeah, oh, like a bridge over troubled water
♪ I will lay me down
♪ Lay me down ♪
Well, Elvis communicates with us, really.
He has some way of keeping you interested,
and you communicate between you and him.
I’m not going to tell you how.
♪ Sail on, silver girl
♪ Sail on by
♪ Your time has come to shine
♪ All your dreams are on their way
♪ See how they shine
♪ Ooh
♪ If you need a friend
♪ I’m sailing right behind
♪ Oh, like a bridge over troubled water
♪ I will ease your mind
♪ Like a bridge over troubled water
♪ I will ease your mind
♪ All of your mind
♪ Ooh
♪ Ooh ♪
Thank you.
♪ Ooh
♪ As the snow flies
♪ On a cold and grey Chicago mornin’
♪ A poor little Baby child is born
♪ In the ghetto
♪ Ooh
♪ And his mama cries
♪ ’Cause if there’s one thing that she don’t need
♪ It’s another hungry mouth to feed
♪ In the ghetto
♪ Ooh
♪ People, don’t you understand
♪ The child needs a helping hand
♪ Or he’ll grow to be an angry young man some day
♪ Take a look at you and me
♪ Are we too blind to see?
♪ Do we simply turn our heads
♪ And look the other way?
♪ Well, the world turns ♪
Oh, Mr. Presley,
on the subject of the service,
what is your opinion of war protesters
and would you today refuse to be drafted?
Honey, I’d just soon to keep my own personal views
about that to myself
because I’m just an entertainer and I’d rather not say.
Do you think other entertainers
should also keep their views to themselves?
No, I can’t even say that.
♪ Well, the world turns
I’m just an entertainer and I...
I can’t even say that.
I’m just an entertainer and I can’t even say that.
♪ And his mama cries ♪
I can’t even say that. I can’t even say that.
I’m just an entertainer and I can’t even say that.
If you never stood in that man’s shoes,
or saw things through his eyes,
or stood and watched with helpless hands
while the heart inside you dies.
So help your brother along the way,
no matter where he starts.
For the same God that made you made him too.
These men with broken hearts.
I’d like to sing a song along the same line.
♪ If I could be you
♪ If you could be me
♪ For just one hour
♪ If we could find a way
♪ To get inside
♪ Each other’s mind, uh-huh
♪ If you could see you
♪ Through my eyes
♪ Instead of your ego
♪ I believe you’d be I believe you’d be
♪ Surprised to see
♪ That you’ve been blind uh-huh
♪ Now there are people
♪ On reservations
♪ And out in the ghetto
♪ And, brother, there
♪ But for the grace of God
♪ Go you and I, uh-huh
♪ If I only
♪ had the wings
♪ Of a little angel
♪ Don’t you know, I’d fly
♪ To the top of a mountain
♪ And then I’d cry, cry, cry
♪ Walk a mile in my shoes
Yeah, baby.
♪ Yeah, before you abuse
♪ Criticize and accuse
♪ Walk a mile in my shoes
♪ Oh, baby
♪ Walk a mile in my shoes
♪ Walk a mile in my shoes, yo
♪ Yeah, before you abuse
♪ Criticize and accuse
♪ Walk a mile in my shoes ♪
"Suspicious Minds."
♪ We’re caught in a trap
♪ I can’t walk out
♪ Because I love you too much, baby
♪ Why can’t you see
♪ Ooh
♪ What you’re doing to me
♪ Ooh
♪ When you don’t believe a word I’m saying?
♪ We can’t go on together
♪ With suspicious minds
♪ Suspicious minds
♪ And we can’t build our dreams
♪ On suspicious minds
♪ Oh, let our love survive
♪ Oh, no
♪ I’ll dry the tears from your eyes
♪ Let’s don’t let a good thing die
♪ Oh, no
♪ ’Cause, honey, you know I’ve never lied to you
♪ Ooh
♪ Yeah, yeah
♪ We’re caught in a trap
♪ I can’t walk out
♪ Because I love you too much, baby
♪ Now don’t you know
♪ We’re caught in a trap
♪ I can’t walk out
♪ Because I love you too much
♪ Caught in a trap
♪ I can’t walk out
♪ Because I love you too much, baby
♪ Don’t you know
♪ Caught in a trap
♪ I can’t walk out
♪ Because I love you too much, baby
Where you going?
♪ Don’t you know
♪ We’re caught in a trap
♪ Can’t walk out
Huh!
♪ Because I love you too much, baby
♪ Well, don’t you know
♪ Caught in a trap
Hey!
♪ I can’t walk out
♪ Because I love you too much
♪ Oh, caught in a trap
♪ I can’t walk out
♪ Because I love you too much
♪ Caught in a trap
♪ I can’t walk out
♪ Because I love you too much
♪ Caught in a trap
♪ I can’t walk out
♪ Because I love you too much, baby
- ♪ Well, don’t you know - BACKUP SINGERS:
♪ We’re caught in a trap
♪ I can’t walk out
♪ Because I love you too much, baby
♪ Don’t you know
♪ We’re caught in a trap
♪ I can’t walk out
♪ Because I love you too much...
♪ Well, don’t you know
♪ We’re caught in...
♪ I can’t walk...
♪ Because I love you too much
♪ We’re caught in a trap
♪ I can’t walk out
♪ Because I love you too much, baby
- ♪ Oh, don’t you know - BACKUP SINGERS:
♪ We’re caught in a trap
♪ I can’t walk...
♪ Because I love you too much, baby ♪
Oh, hello, it’s me. Good to meet you.
- Cool. - Thank you.
- You worked hard. - You did all my moves.
Oh, God, I missed a step.
Ha, I done all your moves!
Why shouldn’t you be tight? I want you to be tight.
Well, I was pretty tired about halfway through it,
then I thought, "To hell with it," you know?
Yeah, you let loose and then go. You know, what the hell?
- Yeah. - ’Cause everyone says...
- Was that karate? - Yeah. Yeah.
How you doing? Nice to meet you.
You started to rev up and then never stopped.
- Wanna get serious or just... - Yes.
...play a little bit?
A hard way to make a living, you know.
It’s really, really tough.
Mr. Presley,
have you ever grown tired over the years
of the constant attention and fan adoration?
Ah, no, I got used to it.
I would kind of miss it if it didn’t happen, you know?
If nobody saw me or nobody recognized me
or whatever, or asked for an autograph...
To me, it’s just part of the business and, you know,
I accept it,
but I think I would miss it.
Hi, little girl. Hey.
Whoa, what’s the matter, baby?
♪ So hush, little baby
♪ Don’t you cry
♪ You know your daddy’s
♪ Bound to die
And as the years roll along and I’m standing there,
your joy and tears, I’ll gladly share.
And when things go wrong, dear, and the stage is bare,
then they can bring the curtain down,
and I’ll be there.
♪ But all
♪ My trials, Lord
♪ Will soon be over ♪
Then they can bring the curtain down,
and I’ll be there.
Well, I think the most important thing
is the inspiration that I get from a live audience.
I was missing that.
I just missed it.
I missed the closeness of an audience, of a live audience.
♪ Wise men say
♪ Only fools Only fools rush in
♪ Oh, but I, but I
♪ I can’t help
♪ Falling in love with you
♪ Shall I stay?
♪ Would it be Would it be a sin?
♪ If I, if I, I can’t help
♪ Falling in love with you
♪ Like a river flows
♪ Surely to the sea
♪ Darling, so it goes
♪ Some things, you know
♪ Are meant to be
♪ Take my hand
♪ Take my whole My whole life too
♪ For I, for I, I can’t help
♪ Falling in love with...
♪ Oh
♪ For I, I can’t help
♪ Falling in love
♪ With you ♪
I enjoy it, you know?
People wonder how I do it night after night or so on.
I just... I really like it.
I’m perfectly at home out there.
I may lose four or five pounds a show easily,
but I don’t mind it, you know?
I’ve been doing it ever since I’ve been in this business.
Elvis, white trash,
Elvis, the Memphis Flash.
Elvis, under the hood, Elvis, with Cadillac blood,
Elvis, darling bird,
flowered and returned to the Mississippi mud.
Elvis, he didn’t hear the shot,
but Dr. King died just across the lot from Elvis,
the Memphis spleen,
shooting TVs, reading Corinthians 13.
Elvis with God on his knees, Elvis on three TVs.
Elvis, he sang to win, Elvis, the battle hymn.
Elvis changed the center of gravity.
Elvis made it slippery.
Elvis ate America before America ate him.
♪ Do you miss me?
♪ You’ve turned your back on yesterday
♪ Betrayed a man who swore he’d make you pay
♪ One thought goes racing across your mind
♪ Do you miss me?
♪ You’ve lived and died and come to life again
♪ The edge of reality
♪ Do you miss me?
♪ Reality
♪ Do you miss me?
♪ Reality
♪ Do you miss me tonight?♪
♪ We can’t go on together
♪ With suspicious minds
♪ Suspicious minds
♪ And we can’t build our dreams
♪ On suspicious minds
♪ So if an old friend I know
♪ Stops by to say hello
♪ Would I still see suspicion in your eyes?
♪ But here we go again
♪ Asking where I’ve been
♪ You can’t see the tears are real I’m crying
♪ We can’t go on together
♪ With suspicious minds
♪ Suspicious minds
♪ And we can’t build our dreams
♪ On suspicious minds
♪ Don’t fly away
♪ My beautiful bird
♪ Yes, I’m cryin’
♪ Don’t fly away
♪ My beautiful bird
♪ I know I shouldn’t want to keep you
♪ If you don’t want to stay, yeah
♪ Until you’re gone forever
♪ I’ll be holding on for dear life
♪ Holding you this way
♪ Begging you to stay
♪ Love will let me down
♪ We can’t go on together
♪ With suspicious minds
♪ Suspicious minds
♪ And we can’t build our dreams
♪ On suspicious minds
♪ Don’t fly away
♪ My beautiful bird
♪ Yes, I’m cryin’
♪ Don’t fly away
♪ My beautiful bird
♪ Don’t fly away
♪ My beautiful bird
♪ Yes, I’m cryin’
♪ Don’t fly away
♪ My beautiful bird ♪
I’d like to talk to you a little bit,
ladies and gentlemen, about how I got in this business.
There’s been a lot written and a lot said,
but never from my side of the story.