Paying Tribute to The King

[Raised on Rock]

Creedence Clearwater Revival, 1969, My Baby Left Me.

[Diane]

Talking about rockabilly, remember The Stray Cats:

Great idea for a new thread Ale!

I would contribute but my computer is screwed up and won't let me download anything.

All the videos submitted were fantastic but the Stray Cats were my favorite. Brian Setzer is sooo cute!

Diane

[Miss Clawdy]

Kim Wilde - One night



Billy Ray Cyrus - One Night

[Raised on Rock]

Aaron Neville:

[Raised on Rock]

Jesus and the Mary Chain, Guitar Man, also included on the Elvis tribute Album: The Last Temptation of Elvis.

[Raised on Rock]

Freddie Mercury, this time with Baby I Don't Care.



Same song, another band, and not just other band but hey! Led Zeppelin, yes once again, told you they where serious Elvis fans.

[EnigmaticSun]

Thank you for sharing these videos! These prove that you can be an artist doing your own thing and being known for your own thing while having the occasional joy of interpreting an Elvisly song.

[Raised on Rock]

And how can we forget Willie Nelson!




Just a note on this song, everybody credits this song as originally recorded by Brenda Lee. It is only half true. The song was writen for Elvis Presley, and he was the first one to record it in March '72, yet the track was shelved and not issued until November same year. By then the song had already been recorded and released by Brenda Lee who had a moderate hit with it on the country charts. Presley version, despite being released as a B side, and the song already asociated with Brenda Lee, became the world wide known hit.

[Raised on Rock]

This is Hortense Ellis, from Kingstone Jamaica. Now not many people know this, but Presley was quite a sensation in Jamaica. Ellis had moderate success in Britain during the 70's, but she was a big deal in Jamaica since the early 60's. She covered this one somewhere around 1970.

[Tommy]

Can't forget the Judds.

[Raised on Rock]

In fact, let's go Reggae for a while, you'll be amazed by the amount of artists that covered Elvis Presley in Jamaica during the 60's & 70's.

[Raised on Rock]

Can't forget the Judds.

Hey! this is nice, I like it, thanks for sharing!

[Tommy]

Here's another one.

[Tommy]

Hey! this is nice, I like it, thanks for sharing!

Thanks

[Tommy]

Hounddog!

[Tommy]

[Raised on Rock]

Well I think here Mr. Charles is just doing one of his own signature hits, and not really paying tribute to Elvis at all, same thing with Big Mama Thornton.

Great videos anyhow, maybe a similar thread about Presley's favourite artists and the originals from songs that he covered would be interesting.

[Raised on Rock]

Gabba Gabba Hey! Johnny Ramone doing a fantastic instrumental version of Viva las Vegas!

[rickb]

Johnny Ramone had a terrific movie memorabilia collection. Apart from the Elvis stuff in the photo above, he had great old 50s sci-fi stuff

[Raised on Rock]

Lemmy Kilmister from Motorhead, Johnny Ramone from well duh! The Ramones.