Reply With QuoteNo, I don't believe Humperdinck influenced Elvis in any way. They may have been friends but I guess I'm just tired of everyone's trying to look more important to Elvis than they really were.
Thanks for the read though Jen.
Singer Engelbert Humperdinck has recently told the media that he has the high-collars and sideburns first. "I had them in 1965 and Elvis put his on in 1972! The true story is this, Elvis had a lady sketching him to find an outfit for him to go on his world tour. That's where the white jump suit came in. She designed this white jumpsuit with the high collar and the long black side-burns. She presented it to him and he went (in Elvis voice) 'Hell, that's not me, that's Engelbert Humperdinck'. So therefore you know who had it first".
Elvis and Engelbert were great friends. 'I loved the man,' he said. 'The first time I met him he had come to meet me. He came to see my show first before I went to see him. Believe me, it took me a good 10 minutes to quieten the audience down once I introduced him. He stood up and he had a cape on and he opened the cape as he stood in the booth in Las Vegas with the cape open like Batman. The audience went absolutely berserk and I said 'shhhh, this is my show'. No, I couldn't quieten them down. So I brought out some of my big gun songs to try - which worked in the end. Elvis came backstage and he said 'thank you very much, what a great show'. This is how humble he was. He said 'thank you for introducing me'. Elvis! I said 'Elvis, I can't thank you enough for being at my show'. Elvis was such a nice guy, a very nice guy."
(News, Source;SanjaM/ElvisInfoNetwork)
No, I don't believe Humperdinck influenced Elvis in any way. They may have been friends but I guess I'm just tired of everyone's trying to look more important to Elvis than they really were.
Thanks for the read though Jen.
"I had them in 1965 and Elvis put his on in 1972! The true story is this, Elvis had a lady sketching him to find an outfit for him to go on his world tour".
Elvis actually started using the high collars in '68 with the black leather suit he used on the comeback special. It was Bill Belew who came up with the idea, and kept using it with the two piece suits Elvis used in '69, and then with the jumpsuits that came in '70. Bill wasn't thinking of Engelbert, napoleonic collars was simply something around, like bell bottoms little later.
Same with the long sideburns, Elvis decided to grow them back around '68 simply cause he feel like doing it, and it was just something fashionable then, (guess Lennon and all the hippies copied Engelbert too), and fitted Elvis perfectly as he errr.. was known for his then long sideburns back in the 50's?
The real matter is (if anything is real when discussing this) is that Elvis probably was not to keen on Humperdinck. Maybe at first, but not later on. Does anyone remember the Priscilla story about Humperdinck? Maybe also not completely true, but hey, the man's name is doubtful to begin withKidding here of course.
And the high collars, well, it was just a fashion, also for common folks back in those days. Men, wore shirts with high collars, and men had sideburns in the late sixties, and seventies. Not a big deal.
Elvis just went with the fashion back then I guess.
Another celeb trying to 'overinflate' their importance in 'The Elvis Story'..............
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Elvis was always the first with style, it started back in the 50's with his sidburns, and turning is collar up. I am tired of eveyone trying to take something away from Elvis and give themselves the credit.
Elvis was foremost and first with style.
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Elvis was always the first with style, it started back in the 50's with his sidburns, and turning is collar up. I am tired of eveyone trying to take something away from Elvis and give themselves the credit.
Elvis was foremost and first with style.
And that's it, you got it right for sure.Elvis was always the first with style, it started back in the 50's with his sidburns, and turning is collar up. I am tired of eveyone trying to take something away from Elvis and give themselves the credit.
Elvis was foremost and first with style.
It wouldn't matter to me even if Elvis copied Engelbert Humperstink, whatever Elvis did he made it his own, people don't where Jumpsuits wear aviator glasses and false sideburns to look like Engelbert do they??
There are so many things wrong with Engelbert's story that it's hard to know where to begin.
And it's not the first time he has told this either- I remember he told a similar story on the Big Breakfast years ago.
Reading the story above, it makes it sound as though the jumpsuit and the longer 1972-era sideburns came about instantly and simultaneously, when in fact all of the fans know that the long sideburns evolved gradually as did the jumpsuit which evolved from the 2-piece outfits.
The "jumpsuit era" Elvis was a very natural evolution over many years- and was not the result of a single overnight styling session which Engelbert seems to think is the case!
And Engelbert conveniently forgets that Elvis had sideburns since 1953! In fact there is a circa. 1953 picture of Elvis holding a pipe and dressed in a white suit where his sideburns are super-long......way before anyone had even heard of Engelbert Humperdink.
Last edited by JRtherealJR; 12-08-2010 at 02:01 PM.
Elvis had his own style from High School, he had sideburns back then, he stayed true to himself even when others gave him a hard time about it.
He followed his own fashion, he dressed for himself, he never copied anyone.
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Engelbert Humperdinck, what and influential artist isn't he? pffff.... sorry couldn't resist.
I think people should stop taking credit for Elvis and start recognizing what they learned from him
I am very weary of these 70's guys coming out of the woodwork now to tell tall tales about Elvis - Tom Jones indeed.
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There is a reason these guys use Elvis, they simply want some of that superstar kudos to rob off on to them. If you can bring up Elvis in a conversation naturally people think this guy must have been good if Elvis went to see them?
Ask any teenager who Enhelbert is and then ask who Elvis is and I bet they are more inclined to know who Elvis is.
I think it's funny that Elvis had an unusual name and kept it
while "engelbert" had a regular name and changed it to that weird and rather sophomoric stage name
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right on the nose my friend!Elvis was always the first with style, it started back in the 50's with his sidburns, and turning is collar up. I am tired of eveyone trying to take something away from Elvis and give themselves the credit.
Elvis was foremost and first with style.
Play it James!
also right on the nose!!
I don't see anything accurate in that story. Old age is rough on some people.
I sometimes think that that a lot of these people...like Emptybutt Humbletwink and Tom Jones etc. spent so much time living in the shadows of Elvis that they are now just happy to take any bit of second-hand credit that they can get their hands on.It`s all a bit on the sad side really.
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