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Thread #75705   Message #1332687
Posted By: emjay
19-Nov-04 - 03:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: Why do people rave about Elvis?
Subject: RE: BS: Why do people rave about Elvis?
Not for me. Elvis was big when I was in my teens, and while I thought he could sing, I didn't think he always did. I never have spent much time listening to him, I thought the pouty look was tiresome, and the whole staged look was 'way too contrived to be appealing. I really did not like his singing and I still don't and I fail to understand the adulation he receives.
I'm obviously getting too old. I can also remember when girls were "swooning" over Frank Sinatra, and couldn't understand that either. Now I can listen to Elvis and Sinatra a lot less critically and appreciate a lot about their singing without ever going out of my way to hear either one. I think I was determined not to like whatever was popular at the time. (I actually find myself going around singing some of the Beatles songs now, butI wouldn't have admitted that in their heyday.)
But give me the Weavers, or the Clancys and Makem, or Stan Rogers, and many less well-known.