Thanks, Doug. Many cases of the apprentice outstripping the master, even if
that was not the objective. Presley peaked, so it is said, at Sun in the
50s. Costello started out edgy, extended his range, without slipping into
the mainstream and continued to write. Did Presley write anyhing himself?
Bill
On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 at 5:37 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Enjoyed it, too, Bill; a real contrast there (yet the younger took that
> name in homage as much as (his real) snark.
>
> But how personalities react & then react…
>
> Doug
>
> > On Feb 6, 2018, at 11:26 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Sheila, Andrew. The King was a drip to me. MacManus lively,
> > irascible, a risk taker whose later works lost me mainly when they got
> > over-earnest. Whoda thunk he’d turn out to be an amiable nightshow host!
> > It’s a point of difference for most anyway, which Elvis you’d have on
> your
> > toast, so to speak.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 at 2:11 pm, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Ah, two sides of Elvis! I much prefer the bespectacled one - he can sing
> >> outside the pop charts.
> >>
> >> Andrew
> >>
> >> <
> >>
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> >>>
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> >>
> >> On 7 February 2018 at 08:30, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Pretty intriguing, Bill. Thank you for the portraiture!
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Never close
> >>>>
> >>>> Elvised apart
> >>>>
> >>>> in the 70s
> >>>>
> >>>> one candle holding
> >>>>
> >>>> the swivel-hipped
> >>>>
> >>>> Wooden heart denier
> >>>>
> >>>> the other rolling with
> >>>>
> >>>> the Pumped up
> >>>>
> >>>> bespectacled
> >>>>
> >>>> Detective watcher
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Sister one dumped
> >>>>
> >>>> her own King
> >>>>
> >>>> Left him to his meat
> >>>>
> >>>> in the bush
> >>>>
> >>>> Set up camp
> >>>>
> >>>> with her issue
> >>>>
> >>>> Danced with herself
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Sister two
> >>>>
> >>>> already encumbered
> >>>>
> >>>> at stage Costello
> >>>>
> >>>> cleared out
> >>>>
> >>>> left issue
> >>>>
> >>>> hooked up
> >>>>
> >>>> with Joe Strummerite
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> One still passes on platitudes
> >>>>
> >>>> Two leaves that sort of thing to Joe
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> bw
> >>>>
> >>>> 7.2.18
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andrew
> >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >> Books available through Walleah Press
> >> http://walleahpress.com.au
> >>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
>
>
>
>
> Swept snow, Li Po,
> by dawn’s 40-watt moon
> to the road that hies to office
> away from home.
>
> Lorine Niedecker
>
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