are you lonesome tonight laughing version

[david72]

Hey all elvis fans i was listening to AYLT the laughing version today and this is such a great funny recording i just wish there was footage of this song!!!! I just have a question what is the exact story of why elvis was laughing??

[monk37]

What Joe Esposito related was that Elvis started doing the song

and a woman jumped up on a long table that ran towards the stage and she was running crazy down the table towards Elvis

and that started the laughing

then as she ran, she knocked into a guy and knocked his toupee off

[hounddog]

i love this version of the song, there also a version i think form the 68 special where he changes the words.

You can't help but laugh along to the live version.

[debtdbruno]

What Joe Esposito related was that Elvis started doing the song

and a woman jumped up on a long table that ran towards the stage and she was running crazy down the table towards Elvis

and that started the laughing

then as she ran, she knocked into a guy and knocked his toupee off


LOL...........I got a slight variation of that.

I e-mailed EPE, the reply was, that a guy 'tipped' his toupe at Elvis because he changed the line........'gaze at your bald head and wish you had hair'........that set Elvis off laughing.............take your pick!!!!!!:lmfao::lmfao:

[KPM]

The song is priceless at showing the fun Elvis could have while performing. He had a very off kilter sense of humor and thats one of the things I like about him.

[monk37]

I've also heard it was a woman running and the toupee guy as separate versions.

Whatever it was that happened, I don't think it's unreasonable that Elvis did the bald head line and just cracked himself up without anything else

after all, the audience doesn't seem to be reacting to anything

[JDD]

And yet another version that various people have repeated, is that Charlie Hodge was making faces at him.