For God sake, deaf people should be banned from this forum. Can you idiots get it! Evlis - for his singing - was held in awe by Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis etc.
He sang beautifully in tune. He could play with the melody he ways his contemporaries simply couldn't approach, and, of course, in the UK, all we had of Elvis was his records, apart from a few movie clips.
His voice was his calling card. And, what a voice it was.