Gospel
Country & Western
R & B
Pop/Contemporary
Of these 4, which type of music do you think Elvis sung the best and why??
"More people today should see him not simply as a performer, but as an artist with a great soul."
John Bakke, professor emeritus
University of Memphis
This is a great example of R & B.....(he says "awe, get dirty, baby")
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"More people today should see him not simply as a performer, but as an artist with a great soul."
John Bakke, professor emeritus
University of Memphis
Originally Posted by ehollier
This is a great example of R & B.....(he says "awe, get dirty, baby"
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He looks so captivated by the rhythm of the music (and a song that he'd played about 4 times prior!) its as if he's put himself in a trance!!!!!!!!!! Music was truly part of his soul!!!!!! Absolutely incredible!!!!!
"More people today should see him not simply as a performer, but as an artist with a great soul."
John Bakke, professor emeritus
University of Memphis
god that's a hard one to answer i love his R & B stuff but songs like tomorrow Never Coem, What Now My Love, Surrender when you can truley hear the range of his voice are just amazing.
Sorry can't slpit the two
I know what you mean. I love everything he sings, and they fall in all catagories. I just think his R & B stuff fits his persona b/c he was very, as Steve Binder, director of the '68 Comback Special, "blantantly sexual and had a dark side underneath."
"More people today should see him not simply as a performer, but as an artist with a great soul."
John Bakke, professor emeritus
University of Memphis
his magic is that he could sing all kinds, but i prefer the r&b music.
it was just more of Elvis. i can't explain it.
All I wanted was a white knight with a good heart, soft touch, fast horse
Ride me off into the sunset Baby, I'm forever yours
No doubt he was a genius in all kinds
Anyway, my vote goes to Gospel...nobody can sing it with the same intensity and passionI almost cry when I listen some of the songs he sang
I love his R&B and Gospel. You could really feel those somgs .
"I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem."
In his own way, he sung each and everyone greatly. In different styles. So i think he sung all of them best.
I'm with you Baby Girl!
Daddy, I miss you more every day. You will always be my hero..
Glad you agreeI'm with you Baby Girl!
What about a rock and roll option?
i think his gospel was amazing. he really had a passion for each song. he had sang a lot of them since childhood, which i think helped to tie the bonds with the style. his voice was so pure, like he was singing right to Jesus.
Daddy, I miss you more every day. You will always be my hero..
He could sing the phone book on the mode gospel or sing the Traviata on the rhytme of jailhouse rock!
That's why he was the King !
"Kill that blower or blow that killer. Whatever."
Elvis-TTWII
I agree with Elvis Lady 1984, Elvis could sing Gospel like no other person. Of couse he could sing anything great.
I agree with Elvis Lady 1984, Elvis could sing Gospel like no other person. Of couse he could sing anything great.
Perhaps you've should have added 'ballads'...
If that option was there, I'd vote for that. But now, I'll go with 'gospels'. You can see/hear that that genre is closest to his heart. He used it during recording sessions to warm up, sang it in his hotelroom after shows with friends/bandmembers and songs from this genre always were highlights when he did them live.
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I apologize that I didn't. My thinking was to list the original music styles, (Country, R & B and Gospel combined are supposed to be what comprises Rock and Roll) that he began with in the 50's and lumped Pop/Contemporary as anything else. If you think about it, he was Contemporary in his day in the 50's and he continued that trend in the 60's and 70's.
"More people today should see him not simply as a performer, but as an artist with a great soul."
John Bakke, professor emeritus
University of Memphis
I voted for Country and Western. Elvis can sing C&W ballads better than anyone else in the studio and on the stage. Sometimes they call rock 'n' roll, country and western but why the rock songs is called both types.
Frank
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