Manipulated to death, yes I think that’s well put, Doug. I only know about
those early years through a biography on Johnny Cash I read years ago. Cash
and Carl Perkins did not get somuch support from Sun after Presley and his
act appropriated black acts fo a growing white audience.
Though of doingba mash up of songs Presley sang and Costello wrote but
somehow I got to thinking of Diana Ross and Love Child and have mashed it
with Elvis’s Edge of Reality.
Child of reality: love edge
Started school, walk along
a fake line, thin darling
Dark shadows
somebody threw out
Oh I hear strange voices
She drove me to the point
in poverty. Never meant
to follow me to tenement slum
The brink of society
tormenting me, Whoa;
if she’s not real
in a worn, torn dress
then I’m condemned to
laughing. She sits there,
old, cold, so afraid
I can’t explain
I’ll only end up hating
Hold on, nameless face,
so afraid that others knew
the name of shame
Here’s where life’s dream
lives in doubt -
the edge, what I feel -
misunderstood mockery
bw
9.2.18
On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 at 2:57 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I’m not a big Presley fan (though I do still remember seeing him before Ed
> Sullivan on the Tommy Dorsey show, & in 1954 that was something new). And
> that’s one point, he was something new to a lot of white young people.
> cuter appropriation> We didn’t think that way then. nd my first 45 was fats
> Domino, so what that all means I dont know.
>
> Yeah, he didn’t write, he was manipulated to death, yet he did sing some
> songs terrifically.
>
> Costello continues, as you say, & is a silver/songwriter maker.
>
> Doug
>
> > On Feb 7, 2018, at 4:34 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >>>>
> >>>> <
> >>>>
> >>
> https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail
> >>>>>
> >>>> Virus-free.
> >>>> www.avast.com
> >>>> <
> >>>>
> >>
> https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail
> >>>>>
> >>>> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >> 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
> >>
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
> 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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