Elvis Presley interview 21st March 1960

[N1mr0d100]

In 1956 when I was 6 years old I fell in love with Elvis. I thought other people sang better than he did (my father for 1), I thought other people were better looking (only had photos to look at), but I wore the hole out of the Jail House Rock 45 my parents gave me. I hadn't worn out the 45 of Bambi the deer that sat next to it on my shelf. I think it was the rhythm. I always have rhythm in me and like to listen/sing what's in sync with where I'm at. With Elvis I get in sync with where he's at.

[debbieb221]

@N1mr0d100 wow seriously other people were better looking than elvis(the best lookin man that ever walked the earth) also i dont think there was ever a better singer than him(no one else could sing different genres of music like he did hes the best at everything

[thenicedudejay]

Elvis was a genius , mixing all those music styles together into rock'n roll. Kudos to Sam Phillips also , for believing in him.

[blueyisblue1]

Why do the haters get on if they don't like Elvis? Says plenty i think. Regardless of what the haters think Elvis' PEERS adore him, Jackie Wilson worshipped the ground Elvis walked on, BB King adored him, quote 'They didn't get it wrong calling Elvis the King, he was and is' some say Chuck Berry was the one yet he said 'What di i think of Elvis? He was the greatest there was, is or ever will be' i can go on and on with thousands of quotes.. Elvis is King, of Cool, of Bling, of Style....

[patriciaobrian]

@willpn

Posting ridicolous comments two times doen't make them any better, you know. Please spare us your company and stick to the Jacko videos.

[willpn100]

@patriciaobrian My comments are not ridicolous cos they are based in facts. It is you who must spare youtube with your innocuous and dangerous informations!!!! So, I suggest you the following books:

- "Rock Around the Clock" - The Record that Started the Rock Revolution, by Jim Dawson.

- "Rockonomics" - The Money Behind the Music, by Marc Eliot.

It´s all there, you´ll see many facts that any Elvis fan know.

[patriciaobrian]

@willpn100

You have proved a couple of times that you are anything but well informed. Please help yourself to the publications of Henry Pleasants: The Great American Popular Singers, Will Friedwald: A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Richard Middleton: All Shook Up? Innovation and Continuity in Elvis Presley’s Vocal Style, Simon Frith: Wise Men Say. That's just to name a few very well known musicologists in the field of popular music.

[willpn100]

@patriciaobrian I have so many informations that I´m gonna tell you one more: Bing Crosby charted more hits than Elvis, Beatles and The Jacksons combined. So that you must look up billboard charts and then come argue with me, ok!!!!! That is fact not argument of a ignorant and obsessed fan like you!!!!!!

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

@willpn100

Hi.

I think Bing Crosby was, is and always will be a great entertainer.

I have been to his grave a few times.

There has never been anyone there.

Not one.

How many visit Elvis Presley's grave?

We can't count that high.

[willpn100]

@GeorgeVreelandHill and so what? Elvis grave is a kind of "outlet"!!! where you can buy and sell nicknacks.

[debbieb221]

@willpn100 ur full of shit and jealous cause u know u could never be half as great as the king

[willpn100]

@debbieb221 Being jealous of a rocker who served in the military, poses a good guy, looks like a magazine cover model and has acted in bad movies, is much pretension!. Such attitudes are not rockers.

[patriciaobrian]

@willpn100

Besides, there is an almost ridiculous amount of great singers who praise Elvis vocal style - ranging from the popular music field (Bob Dylan, Elton John, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Robert Plant) as well as classic: Bryn Terfel and Tiri Te Kanawa.

[willpn100]

@patriciaobrian Sory, Patriciaobrian, but Bob Dylan, Elton John., Paul MccCartney and John Lennon´s favourite vocalist is Little Richard. According to Robert Plant´s interview he said once: I wanted to sing like Gene Vincent, and wear black leather like Gene Vincent did.

[debbieb221]

@willpn100 well obviously u have never listened to all of plants interviews cause he says that he remembers walking with his mother at 9 yrs.old and all of a sudden hearing elvis sing and that started it all for him and if u listened to the beatles talk about elvis then u will know HE started it for them too and elvis is the biggest sellinrecordin artist of all time so grow and get the hell off this site cause ur too jealous of what elvis was

[willpn100]

@debbieb221 This interview does not say anything. Besides, Elvis never explained anything. How much pretension to say that I'm jealous of Elvis. The King of cover versions does not arouse envy in anyone.

[patriciaobrian]

@willpn

Another book you should read is: Michael T. Bertrand: Race, Rock And Elvis. How A White Take On Black Sounds Revolutionized Race Relation. People as closed-minded as you unfortunately are the biggest hindrance on the way to racial integration. That's the end of the discussion for me, for discussing with trolls full of hatred is useless.

[willpn100]

@patriciaobrian I will not read the book you recommended cos it was not written over facts but over arguments. I want facts not arguments!!!!!.You must stop trolling on youtube tracking my comments. About the end of the discussion, that goes for you too!!!!!

[pattenable]

ELVIS IS THE KING

[gdbruyck]

Elvis Presley : On the Train and arriving in Los Angeles California, April 20, 1960 to film G.I. Blues.

[fortymick]

well for sure he was good lookin an all that,but im sure the day he cut his first record he was amazed and humbled that it got to where it get!! Elvis never proclaimed to be the greatest singer in fact he cringed at bein called the king!! but he made a hell of a lotta people happy and if there is a god, thats gunna count at the gates!!!

[Seedofwinter]

Look at that hair. LOL Imagine if someone from nowadays tried to pull that off?

[thehitchrules]

Stunningly good-looking and insanely talented. No wonder he has God-like status to this day. 42 was way too young to go out.

[patriciaobrian]

He was ridicolously talented also. Great vocal range, unique vocal style, great live performer and he played several instruments as well.

[willpn100]

@patriciaobrian Elvis singing style was derived from the white italian middle-class singers who dominated radio and records until early fifties. Often he´d do impersonations of Frank Sinatra and Johnny Ray a pop sensation in the early fifties, so that Elvis unique vocal style do not exist. He did not play any instrument well as you said. Like a performer there are thousands of great live performers. About the good looking, Pat Boone, Rick Nelson, also have good looking. Justin Bierben too!

[patriciaobrian]

@willpn100

So, this time Elvis singing style was stolen from the white Italian middle-class crooners. The last time I saw one of your posts he stole it from black singers who were of course better than him, according to you. You are really pathetic, although quite entertaining. Besides, I never said that Elvis did not play any instrument well, see my post. Obviously you can't read - which kind of explains it all, LOL.

[willpn100]

@patriciaobrian Elvis singing style was derived from the white italian middle-class singers. I did not say that he stole it from black singers, I said that he stole SONGS not singing style from them. You´re really pathetic, although you are not ridicolously talented!!!!

[Applejacks360]

I can't believe how beautiful he is, I wasnt even listening to what he was saying lol just staring.

[mscinematic40]

OH MY GOD. Would you idiots who keep thinking Elvis is just some tool go and research FULLY all about Elvis yourself? By talking about him this way you're basically going to live with lies your whole life if this is the impression you're getting. Elvis didn't even know why people took such an inclination to him in the first place. He wasn't arrogant and stuck- up about himself. Don't ASSUME. He actually helped boost black artists to the top. He broke boundaries. He made it "okay" to listen to b

[BarbaraLois]

Why do some idiots always bring up race? Elvis and music is the subject. He was/is gorgeous and the best singer ever. Thanks for this video. Enjoye it very much.

[newsoul29]

@crazy4corbinbleucx elvis is and always will be the king of rock n roll.

[crazy4corbinbleux]

Elvis is NOT the king. He didn't write his own music or produce it.. frankly all he was, was a commercial tool to get black music out to the white audience who wouldn't accept it unless it was a "Handsome" looking man like Elvis. If RACE and LOOKS didn't matter, Elvis would've long been a Black man by now!

[huskiepride1206]

@crazy4corbinbleux u obviously dont understand y ppl like elvis and y he is still hugely popular.. there is one and only elvis and there will never be another.. he is in 4 different music hall of fames and if u think they put him in there because he is a "tool" then u are discrediting all those hall of fames.. i doubt Corbin Bleu will ever be in a hall of fame

[JAARNO88]

@crazy4corbinbleux Actually elvis did produce his music, and if you heard the session tapes you would know this! he often would remove lyrics and make changes because his instinct told him what worked. he was aware of everything the musicains were doing and would pull them up if they got it wrong. he was givin the title the king because of his popularity being so huge, not that he cared about what they called him.

[crazy4corbinbleux]

@JAARNO88 Hahahaha, cut the crap. That's the biggest lie i've heard. Please, don't kid yourself. Elvis had NOTHING to do with the works of his songs. It was already written and produced by Black people before he got in the studio and put his voice to it. He was merely just a marketing tool to get all the white audience to accept this kind of music. Like I said before, if RACE and LOOKS didn't matter, Elvis wouldn't long been a Black man by now!

[ElvLeg]

@crazy4corbinbleux I'll give you credit on saying that probably if Elvis was black he wouldn't make it as big. But stop being a racist and a bitter fuck. ELVIS was a white guy, with greek's god looks, a spectacular voice and was very sexy on stage. No black man in the 50s had this all qualities, so get over it. Elvis in the 50s was the producer of his own records, you can check it by yourself..I hate when people like you , who know nothing about history, come here talk shit playing the ignorant

[crazy4corbinbleux]

@ElvLeg OH please. Elvis didn't write OR produce his music. That's what the Blacks did for him. The dude became famous because of his looks, and his looks only. He was a mediocre talent, his stage presence [due to his way to appeal women with his eccentric dance-moves, style, etc.] got him where he got. When I look at all these comments, they're all saying how "handsome" Elvis is. No one is sitting here talking about how musically TALENTED the man was. Ironically, he was 260 lbs before he died!

[melkiemelkie]

@crazy4corbinbleux A TOOL???? hahaha, in 1956, they wished he didn't exist. He was a threat. They compared him with the devil at that time.

[patriciaobrian]

@crazy4corbinbleux

Blablablablablablablablaablabl­al!

[crazy4corbinbleux]

@patriciaobrian Yeah, you KNOW it's true. Heck, everyone does, but not everyone wants to admit to our extreme racist pasts. Yet, unknowingly, we are doing it again with Justin Bieber. Look at everyone around him. He is selling BLACK music. But HE is the product.

[elvispresley11]

I wonder if Elvis had a son instead that really looked like him.

[rollingstopp]

he said that in 1956 ,haters were saying rock n roll was dying off--unbeleivable

[MICHELLEGIBBONSx]

What a fuckin babe.

[dmngzrlnd]

elives hair looks fuckin sick ha ha

[freedencevia]

@dmngzrlnd its spelled "elvis" :)

[kaschak75]

I Wish i had his hair and face!

[Zecalran]

@kaschak75 and so too did Michael Jackson my boy! :) but it's a good wish nonetheless.. :)) peace & cheers my friend!

[Classicalmusic111111]

He was so good looking.

[djsvideodiarys]

why was he so goodlooking?

[Brenda0312F]

@djsvideodiarys Becaus he was Elvis! hahaha

[schmui]

he looks a little like ali in 0:13 don't you think? or am i just stoned :D

[Dixielandrock]

Did so little interviews in

[Dixielandrock]

Great vid never seen this interview before ... Elvis did so

[miniemymoe]

till this day i have not seen a man better looking!

[getrealthen]

@miniemymoe

DUDE me neither. He had all the looks in Hollywood during his time here, when he passed he took all them good looks with him...now his daughter is beautiful......but I kind of wish she would ROCK IT soon....we are all waiting or her to rock it.....do you think she will?

[sosoanglaise]

fuck he is so goddamn gorgeous

[Xazy86]

Damn, he was HOT!

[SpringMum]

Pity, it would have been 8 years to the day BEFORE I was born.

[TheSweeney74]

The correct date of this interview is April 20th 1960. He'd just arrived in LA to start work on 'G.I. Blues'.

[Canashea]

he's ridiculously handsome, thats for sure!

Happy Birthday Elvis!!!

[melkiemelkie]

@Canashea He is so good looking, he can't be from this earth. He can't be human.

[michaelvkelly1]

his hair as ridiculously big at this stage!!

[melkiemelkie]

Fantastic. But where is the rest???

[rockandroll9876]

Awesome video