Elvis Hmmmmm! Have a look what Arthur Crudup had to say, and Big Mama Thornton. Little Walter was lowered into his grave broke and stabbed to death in a street fight while Elvis pocketed the money for 'My Babe', and gave a second rate vocal performance of the song. Ask yourself this question. If Elvis had been ordinary looking, how far would he have got on his singing alone? He would have been a footnote in popular music.