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
>>>>
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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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>> 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
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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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