elvis

ELVIS

 

we have this bucket list that we are trying to empty out

while we can 

eg we went to the grand canyon this year and later this

summer we will be going to nicaragua

elvis wasnt on my bucket list but we went to graceland anyway

my motherinlaw was with us on our reunion trip

my wet suitcase sisterinlaw was able get us tickets that 

allowed for a private tour of graceland 

as my mominlaw wanted to go 

so we did 

have to keep peace in the family you know

am glad i did

i use to think man that family is making money off everyone 

going to see graceland and buying elvis stuff until i saw 

everyone there

now i understand

after seeing everything and listening to the stories

its history 

a legend that helped start the rock n roll movement and 

who influenced a lot of musicians yes even the beatles

did you know of all the gold records that he sold that 

he only won 3 emmies and only for gospel music

he once since his daughter had never seen snow jumped on his

private large jet 

flew to colorado got off and let her play in the snow for awhile

then turned around and flew back to memphis

his graceland where he lived was 13 acres

about the size of our country n 

of course i couldnt sing like he could or gyrate like he could

i bet during the 50s those baptist preachers had sermons about

elvis

am sure my father probably was one of them 

bet his daughter liked elvis though

elvis got his influence for some of his music from gospel singing

and especially was influenced by the black gospel singers

now days we are influenced by the black rappers

i would go with the black gospel singers myself

watched some film of elvis gyrating

can see why those girls were all screaming and grabbing at him 

he was the one that started the dirty dancing i bet

and a lot of what we see on music dvds and video today

thanx elvis 

he did take care of his family 

especially his mother

something we all should be doing

theres a picture of elviss mom at graceland

that looks a lot like my moms picture that ive posted

on this blog in the past

did make me stop a minute and think of her

the people visiting there the day we were there all seemed 

respectful and i felt awe

and really felt sadness for this

loss of such a talent at a young age

he did a lot before the age of 40

just think if we had him another 40 years

its been almost 35 years since he died

the king lives on 

the organicgreen doctor