This is an absolutely beautiful record, I remember listening to it in the Rock and Roll hall of fame in Memphis but, at the risk of leaving myself open to abuse, I think Elvis's version, though copied, is superior, It's like Elvis's version of Apron Strings by Cliff Richard, this is how Richards should have done it, not trying to sound like Elvis who didn't, sound like Richards trying to sound like Elvis if you see what I mean.
He has been called the Father of Rock and Roll because he was the first one to set the blues to a rock and roll beat. At least that's what RCA and Times proclaim...
@LePatay mick jagger is a a great grandfather who still thinks he's 25 yrs old. In other words, he's an antique teenager. I cannot stand him - he's an immoral piece of filth.
Thanks! When was it issued? It was recorded in 1946 according to Wiki. 1949 for the orange 45rpm.I think he did get some money in the end. It's listed as his copyright now.
Elvis himself said in his last televised special "all this music comes from Gospel Music", nuff said!
What Elvis did was give more exposure to a music that already existed. I hope 20 years from now people won't start saying Vanilla Ice created Hip-Hop.
I can understand a lot of peoples dislike for Elvis... I am white. Elvis made a lot of money on recordings that were written by black songwriters, who saw no money for the simple fact that their skin was the wrong skin color for the time... Elvis made a few really good recordings, but for the most part his songs lacked a certain feeling that were carried by the original recordings.. imo... we are lucky to have access to the internet where we can dig up these "lost" gems
Presley himself is quoted as saying: "A lot of people seem to think I started this business, but rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. So all you racists can stop whining about Elvis.
@anthrofinn Well that shows your ignorance right there. Arthur Crudup wrote many songs and Elvis recorded a few of them, Nothing wrong with that. Elvis appealed to a wider audience and that allowed for growth of the classic blues and RnB. Gave more artists of the genre a bigger listening audience and the rest is history.
Sam Phillips (Sun Records) "Find me a white man can sing negro music with the negro feel I will be a billionaire. " Elvis didn't "steal" he covered, in fact as faithfully as he could. He did lack the soul of the originator; few could match that. His "rockabilly etc." stuff was after his 3 gold Crudup covers. It is fact because he was white that did it. young & handsome/sexy good voice didn't hurt. Nor did payola heheh and he faced repression as a white man doing it then. Arthur blazed his trail
this and elvis , both great sounds for their times. arthur was always greatfull for elvis " getting him out of the sawmill " with record royalties for this , my baby left me , and so glad your mine. and elvis had great taste for admireing big boy crudup.
@rukusbob wrong NO royalties for Arthur. Ever. For anything Classic blues covered by everyone, THE pioneer of Rock NOT even inducted into the Rock Hall! I knew Arthur well, played drums for him , portraits etc. Elvis covered 3 (EARLIEST GOLD HIT) Crudup songs close to Arthur's "style" energtically but less levels expression. Elvis told reporters "I got it all from colored people. In Tupelo I saw Crudup...said if i could ever feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like no one ever saw.
Arthur Crudup (crew'-duhp) - whom I played drums with and took some very nice portraits of - has never been inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame, although many he influenced have, "The colored folks been (performing) it for more years than I know," Elvis told reporters in 1956. "I got it from them ... in Tupelo, I used to hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place where I could feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw'"
Elvis was a young white kid who loved black music and reproduced it with respect. Creative musicians care less about black and white music than their audience. It's usually the audience that puts black and white labels on everything. If Elvis had been allowed to play with blacks he probably would have.
Most of what people call white or black music is actually a mishmash of both culture's music. That goes especially for both blues and rock and roll.
That´s all right little mamma is the most great song through the years .Elvis made this song eternely . Everyone must to know " this is the begging of all"
i prefer the original in all cases.all the rest are copies in a different style and a ripoff of the original artist.get your own hits! i don't like covers.
@Ketren2 I didn't mean Elvis was the 1st to record "That's All Right", I meant Elvis was the 1st to record a Rock n Roll song, based on the definition Allan Freed gave Rock 'n Roll. Which is the melding of Country & Blues into 1 song. Elvis' version is = country & blues. Crudup's version is all blues. The same for "Blue Moon of Kentucky", Elvis took a country song, and sang it = country & blues.
@Ketren2 And Elvis started in 1953, but recorded his first commercial record in May of 1954. Was Elvis the first to sing Rock n Roll? No. But he was the 1st to record it, and anyone that says differently is revising history.
@Ketren2 Prior to 1955 Little Richard sang ONLY gospel songs, (and if you ever heard any he was tamer than any of Pat Boone's covers of Little Richard songs) it was after Little Richard met Esqurita in early 1955, he moved to Rock n Roll, and co-wrote his 1st Rock n Roll song Tutti Frutti. Chuck Berry before 1955,with the recording of Maybellene, was a country singer, not Blues not Rock n Roll. That is why Maybellene is based on an old country song Ida Red, and not from a blues song.
@Ketren2 Chuck Berry & Little Richard (the Rock n Roll Little Richard not the gospel Little Richard) started in 1955. Elvis started in 1953, but he recorded That's All Right in 1955. So how could people be listening to Chuck Berry & Little Richard before Elvis, when Elvis started 1 year before they did.
@EbonyBunny1 I'm correcting a typo: Elvis recorded That's All Right in 1954 I typed 1955 my mistake. Chuck Berry & Little Richard (the Rock n Roll Little Richard not the gospel years of Little Richard) started in 1955. Elvis started in 1953, but he recorded That's All Right in 1954. So how could people be listening to Chuck Berry & Little Richard before Elvis, when Elvis started 1 year before they did.
In 1969 when Arthur Big Boy Crudup visited & played in the UK he spoke about Elvis and said that if his song hadn't been recorded by Elvis he would still have been unknown. He said that he was grateful to Elvis for copying it and doing such a good version.
The world was a very different place in 1954, and far from being celebrated, until Elvis came along music like this would have been banned in a lot of places. To deny Elvis' place in 20th century social and cultural history, even if you don't like him, is just ignorance. Besides, Crudrup signed all his rights away for booze in the 1940s, its not Presley's fault that the guy never made any money (many other struggling songwriters got exceedingly rich thanks to Elvis).
Who is speaking out of ignorance? This man had no education because of piece of shit assholes!! Could not read or write and was fucked over plan & simple if you are okay with that then you should full well understand that you reap what you sow. That is why this country is in the shape that it is in now shit on all the little people and it came home to roost !!!!
No matter how you slice it, Elvis' version is the most influential, and is the definitive version of this great record
Thanks for posting up the record in any case - It's a shame people are not talking about how great the song is, or how good Elvis' was at styling songs in his own way.
It's posted all this ramble backwards - Man I also should have better things to do than this!
@HepCatRob Where is greatness in copying what some one else does? Did elvis once give credit to the artist that wrote the songs he copied? You can only be influential if you write something any fool can base a career on copying the music that someone else wrote! So because your parents like elvis & you have heard people speak of his greatness you are following the herd. Those are the thought processes that create mindless sheep! Please list the songs that elvis wrote that were an influence!!!
@donmagicjuan1000 Many people do cover versions of songs, Presley wasn't the first and certainly wasn't the last. Nobody complained when black artists started covering Beatles songs, stop being so closed minded.
@studiorecordingtools So you are okay with the fact that this man was ripped off by elvis. In bringing up the response that you did do you then feel that what happened to him was okay? IT IS TRULY SAD THAT SO MANY WILL DEFEND SUCH LOWLIFE GREEDINESS! THE ONLY KIND OF PERSON THAT WOULD BE OKAY WITH THIS IS THE SAME KIND THAT WOULD BEAT UP HIS OWN MOTHER FOR A QUARTER!!
Elvis did a cover version, how is that a ripoff? Elvis never claimed he wrote this song, he never denied credit to Crudup. Now sampling without clearance that is common in hip hop, you could consider THAT ripping off, since no royalties are paid or credit given, but here none of that was the case.. or wait, you're joking aren't you
@worldofbong Arthur got credit, NEVER one royalty his whole life. EXAMPLE: His Rock Me Baby (or Mama) was covered by almost all major black blues artists, white bands that followed. (the short list) Etta James, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Johnny Winter, Paul Butterfield, Tina Turner, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater Revival, BB King, Blue Cheer...Not one fucking royalty. Elvis got him recognition making it easier for Chuck Berry & Little Richard
@howlingsandy I'm a huge Elvis fan and I like Arthur Crudups music also, it's a shame he got shat on the way he did, he was a great songwriter and singer who deserved more than he got. Elvis covered more than just That's All Right from Crudup and always gave him the recognition, it was the music companies that screwed poor Arthur and others just like him, but we should all be thankful he gave us the music he did.
Luckily for the world, Elvis' version was far from a rip off. In fact it was a completely inventive version: much more unique, mixing country and hillbilly into this typical blues stomper - thus helping kick start rockabilly and r'n'r.
I don't care which you prefer, or who you do or don't like to listen to, but your comments against Elvis are pathetic.
Elvis was both musically and politically influential to the point where he changed society. His legacy will always be present so deal with it.
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If elvis changed society with his political influence then why the hell did JIM CROW laws exist until the late sixties? Why are there still KKK, Aryan Brotherhood and all the rest ? Dr. Martin Luther King put himself in harms way to try and changed society! So it is your comments that are not only pathetic but without any thought process!!! Elvis was completely over rated !!! As singing is truly the only thing he did! Had it not been for his guitarist & bass player he would have no career!!
It wasn't a politician or protesters who broke down the racial barriers in the U.S. it was Elvis Presley bringing black blues and R&B to white audiences and Chuck Berry bringing country & western and hillbilly music to blacks! It was Rock 'n' Roll that broke that wall between races down!
Actually he never even recieved those royalties.. Crudup and his four children traveled to New York City and signed the necessary legal papers in the Hill and Range office. His attorney took the papers to Julian Aberbach, head of Hill and Rance, for his signature. The next thing you know, his comes back in the room, looking stunned and pale, and says that Aberbach refused to sign because he felt that the settlement gave away more than he would lose in legal action. =(
3) grow some ears so you hear the reality that in cases like this - Elvis Presley's version is a million miles away from the original - Different groove, different styles of picking, different instrumentation, different tones, different tempo's, different atmosphere
The melody and basic outline of the song are the same - That's why they call it a cover song
How many of you people on here actually know anything about music, and how these songs were played and recorded 1) get something better to do 2) If you really want to understand music, try learning how to play it (I'm assuming most of you don't based on the ridiculous comments I have read)
@r4d4101 His classic original version of "That's All Right" was recorded in 1946, wow. The issue is not "was Elvis a rip off?" that's ridiculous The issue is to acknowledge that Black rock and roll was there at least one decade before Elvis had the Whites find out about it. It was called jump blues, boogie woogie, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, rhythm music, swing, race music, you name it - but everything was all there years before the mass media sold it to the world.
@einsteinbrothers Right. Elvis was a beautiful white boy who could dance and did an ok version of the great blues/R n B he heard and loved, he was just more acceptable to the white teenagers, mostly girls, than the "scary black men' like Crudup, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, etc., were to white society. Even being white and pretty, Elvis was still threatening, but he was able to connect with the white kids in a way the black guys couldn't because......he looked like them...only better...
Elvis Presley was a great song stylist. He liked all kinds of music, and got his cues from both Country and Blues. When guys like him, Bill Haley, Carl Perkins etc fused them together, they called it Rockabilly. But one cannot deny the popularity of Elvis was also that he was younger than the previous mentioned artists, and his good looks and suggestive movements on stage helped create controversy which put him in the spotlight. Add to that, he was a white kid singing black.
The Elvis vesrion is important in that it is the 1st record that took in Country, Blues and Rock and Rolled it. His problem like many others was he was exploited.
Why is the Elvis version of this always considered one of the first records? This recording seems much more upbeat and rocking than the Elvis version.
the only reason we are watching this video here on you tube is down to elvis presley making it so well known, if elvis hadnt had covered a couple of his tunes, arthur crudup would be an old jig singer that no-one had ever heard of.
If crudup was that good then he would have sold more records but in fact he needed elvis to make him more popular.
End of day its just an ole shoe shine boy recording of a good song
You have obviously no idea of music or political history. Any idea why black people did not make any money or achieve fame in the States before the 60's?
Boone, u must either be very naive or plain "dumb". If i were u, i would erase what you wrote. It is like your ignorance is blinding you. Crudrup was part of the 30's and segregation and NO APPRECIATION for black culture. Elvis was WHITE, and that is how he got to be so well known, but there are WAY more black artists that are unknown, due to how politics and prejudice caused them to be known only to certain folks. U got lots to learn, that's for sure.
people only search for this stuff due to it being made popular by white rock singers. it wouldnt be on youtube otherwise..
historical facts cannot change the fact that it was elvis that made cruddup famous, as soon as elvis made it big people looked at the original artists
Me thinks that history has tonnes of lower class folks writing and recording hit songs for a packaged faces that can sell it. Just like that shoe shine boy bud. It was a different time back then, any fortune that Auther achieved back then, because of Elvis i think is well deserved. After all he wrote the song didnt he?? Shoe shne boy, or Banker...what difference does that make?
@booneboon You are spot on with what you say. The same could be said for the other black singers who had songs recorded by Elvis. They would have been know only to the black community, many of whom couldn't be bothered to buy their records. Most of Elvis's songs where original anyway. Was there any black rockabilly singers of note
Jailhouse Rock,Loving You, Love Me Tender.All Shook Up.Teddy Bear.Don't Be Cruel.But then you knew that .And Arthur Crudup didn't write any of them.You'll have stop this Elvis obsession of yours.Anyone would think you didn't like him. Now if the X-factor tv show could find a black guy that had ALL of Elvis's assets, then everyone would be happy. But it is not going to happen is it?
@boxingin Ok! Mr intellectual. When you have the best writers in the world breaking down your door to record their songs, you don't need to write your own. Anyway, it isn't just the song, it's the way it's presented. Elvis had no peers in that department. Listen to the difference in Arthurs, and Elvis's version and you will understand.it's not about Blacks getting kneed in the goolies, many White singers suffered that. it's about commercial product. Get the chip off your shoulder and smile.
@frankiehiyo OK Mr. Dumbass. Elvis Presley didn't have any song writen skills just like you don't have any facts to argue with about the matter. I don't care about who was breaking down his door to have him record for them. The truth is that he didn't write any of his hits and if he did please show which one. He played Black musicians songs and I know that that hurts you to hear.
@boxingin Ok Professor.Don't try to bring the colour shit into it.I don't know what you are trying to proove.Other than the fact you dislike White people. Especialy Elvis. Yes, Elvis sang Black musicians songs , so what.They became better known because of it. I don't recall any of them complaining. Many Black singers sang White musicians songs, so what..Let's get this straight,I like good music and I don't give a rats arse if the singer is White, Black or all the colours of the rainbow.
@frankiehiyo You see Mr. Dumbass I too could care less about race but the truth is the truth AND Elvis stole his music from Black people. The whole world knows this except most white people and of course your dumass!
@boxingin Your first words says you are bothered about race.
What is it with people like you. All your kind come up with is how the blacks have struggled, been conned and had things stolen.It was poor old Arthur's record company, and people he was involved with that had his pants down.All Elvis did was record his songs, and with more commercial appeal.This has gone on since music was invented. Did the blacks never steal off the Whites, or even off one another?
@frankiehiyo Stop trying to twist things around you Dumbass and get down to bussiness. Please tell us all how many hit songs Elvis wrote himself and stop running around like the Dodger that you are!
@boxingin Ok! Mr Trouble. Elvis collaborated with guitarist Charlie Hodge, on "You'll Be Gone" He also added the title for the song "Someone You Never Forget" Now go away and sing the blues. Put an Elvis song on and sing away.You might enjoy it.
@frankiehiyo Who in the hell have heard of those cheesy songs but you. And for your information I like Elvis and when I was growing up my mother would watch all of his movies and I would immitate him the best I could. But now I see that he wasn't as original as it was made to seem, that's all.
@boxingin The question was , what songs has Elvis written or collaborated on.I have answered that.The songs are quite good too. Now your are in the hall of rediculous people, to suggest Elvis wasn't all that original. Your Mother had good taste in music though.Now lets call a truce, and enjoy music for what it is, Black or White.
@frankiehiyo@frankiehiyo You see Mr. Dumbass I too could care less about race but the truth is the truth AND Elvis stole his music from Black people. The whole world knows this except most white people and of course your dumbass!
Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis told a white reporter for The Charlotte Observer in 1956, he used to listen to Arthur Crudup, the blues singer who originated Thats All Right, Elviss first record. Crudup, he said, used to bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place where I could feel all old Arthur felt, Id be a music man like nobody ever saw.
If Elvis never said that you probably would not even know who this man is..Elvis gave it up plenty of times for blues
In polite response, I must say that Elvis "stole NOTHING...!!!"
Elvis merely tapped the well of, what in that era, Elvis tapped the well of music NOT recognized by main stream A.K.A. white, and/or popular music, again 'in that era'.
Elvis merely brought this music to the surface for all to listen to, and enjoy just as he did, and as we all [do] enjoy now.
Elvis gave credit where credit due... Elvis was a good man, unlike what we have in the music industry today.
rock and roll is American music. Traditional African-American music played a huge role in its development, but so did Celtic music and christian hymns.
regardless of where its roots are, its enjoyed and played by people of all races today, so it doesn't have a color
It was played by people of all races back then too.
Take the Rock 'N Roll concerts put on by DJ Alan Freed; black and white performers playing for crowds of kids of all races. Alan Freed was hated for "mixing the races" and later became a scapegoat in the "Payola" scandal of the late 50s. Coincidence?
You can get a much cleaner sound for re-recording if you put a wet coat of rubbing alcohol on the record as you play it. It is good to hear the original tune.
Is this the same version of that song, which was on the collection of seven 45 rpms being the first SINGLES of the world? And the year is 1949, which makes this year the 60th anniversary of the single record! Like mine...
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Ummmm.... I like this song. I don't want to argue about who created what first. I wants me that '78, by the way. I'm just going to subscribe to your channel. Nice work putting all the old stuff on here.
Oramikleepunk...In 2 messages you put Jimmy Rogers mixed C&W with R&B and in another you put he wasn't a blues artist.
White Debbie Harry played a MAJOR part in the developement of Rap music in the mid- late 70s in New York in fact the word RAP was taken from her 1980 song RAPture she was very good at poetry and was often around the clubs developing and moulding this style. with disco....starting with Chics Le Freak
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Everything i said is true. Fact. period.
Elvis was second-rate compared to the great black artists who created the music. Every time I've heard a song that was covered by a white artist, and then heard the original by the original black artist...IT'S ALWAYS BETTER...that's just my opinion, as a musician. One may disagree. That's America! Freedom of Speech! But it's my opinion. White people became famous by co-opting black music, have done for over 150 years. Ain't nothing changed.
hey racist,j ust have the balls to say you hate white people then fuck off, nobody cares about your thoughts or your existence...your sooo jealous that elvis was loved by everybody and you will die a nothing ,nobody, listening to old black artist,s no one gave a fuck about now or before because they were shit in the first place...how sad can you get dumbass
Your just as bad as nicodagger....people still listen to blues in America....I like Elvis,but i'm not an Elvis freak.You seem to be racist like nicodagger.
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Well, all i can say is whenever I've heard the original versions of songs Elvis made a hit, like "Hound Dog" or "That's All Right", I hear a HUGE difference in terms of soul, passion, etc. There's no comparison. Elvis had amazing charisma, performing ability, beauty.....great dancer in the beginning...but compared to the great black artists who created the music he interpreted to the largely white masses...well, he was second-rate. Racism was a huge factor in Elvis' success.
racism was a huge factor?...were you dropped on your head as a baby....you must be retarded...durrrr....go back to school you fucking child,you know nothing,you racist dumbass......creepy dipshit
Elvis Presley was doing blues music in 50s and 60s America,if anything a lot of white people hated him because they though he was doing "Black" music{if there is such a thing as I don't think music has a colour}.Elvis liked Mahalia Jackson,Chuck Berry,Little Richard Jackie Wilson and was good friends with Sammy Davis Jnr. for many years.
Elvis was successfull simply by being good..why wern't other white artists as successfull and black people bought his music to.
are you still trying to white wash black music, Elvis wasn't a blues singer, he was a pop singer he couldn't challend Howlin Wolf or Muddy Waters. Also It was called "rap", expanding the word's earlier meaning in the African-American community—"to discuss or debate informally." All Blondie did was to make a pun with Rapture and also help get rap/hip hop culture some recornition. They were a good band but they didn't invent shit, just populaised it, like Elvis.
almanacofsleep..anyone who thinks Elvis wasn't a blues singer knows NOTHING about music I could name you dozens of blues songs Elvis did.
As for Debbie Harry,Rappers delight came out in 79 not 78 and Rapture was written in the same year but released in 1980{US}.Debbie Harry had been around since the 60s and she was good at poetry.She was doing the rounds in the clubs in New York{70s} way before rappers delight and talking to many different acts on the disco scene and added her own style..ctd
by that statement who invented white music, answer is now one, music is a thing that develops with the culture of a soceity, african culture produced african music, as european culture produced european music, africans were taken from their land and placed in america, so there culture was adapted and it became african american. The reason why the blues Jazz etc are seen as having black origin is that american segraed them based on their skin colour meaning that that music stayed afican american
ctd...It was her that influenced The Sugar hill gang to do Rappers delight.
B.B. KIng said"Many people do blues music but only a few know how to sing THE blues and Elvis was one of them."
Try looking up.Tell me why,Steamroller blues,Reconsider baby,Mess of blues,Merry Christmas baby,Blue Christmas or Good time Charlies go the blues..just to name a few...I wait your reply and maybe i'll give you more blues songs that Elvis did.
ctd..., but she has stated many a time that she is embarresed by it and doesn't consider herself a rapper and neither is she deluded enough to think she started rap, lol. Not only are you culturly unaware but just plain ignorant, tell your little theory to any music lover and they laugh you of the face of the earth.
As for BLACK music there is no such thing as there is with white music.
There are black and white artists but what was the generation listening to before WC Handy..many listened to classical which was written by white composers.
If anyone thinks there is such a thing as black music then when did it begin and who was the first black artist who invented music,a black australian a black african a black English man a black frenchmen or a black Russian.What about artists of mixed race?
HAHHAHHHAHHA you tryin to say Debbie Harry invented rap?!?! HAHHAHHAHHA lolzor she was around in the 60's but she wasn't rapping loooooooooool. You must ether be a troll or fucking stupid. Debbie harry was not rapping in the 60s, or 70s, she rapped once, repeat once, on the song rapture that she wrote afrter seeing Grandmaster Flash rap, she was influenced and incouraged by him and others in the rap seen to try her hand at rapping
You'r wrong: "In a segregated society like the USA of the time, Presley became the ultimate white robber of black hits: Arthur Crudup's That's All Right Mama (1954), Roy Brown's Good Rockin' Tonight (1955), Junior Parker's Mystery Train (1955)..."
Rubbish.Elvis never robbed anyone he also sang Country and Western.
Gospel was sung by black and white and was a major part of Elvis's music.
Just because the original singers were black does not mean to say he STOLE them if anything you could say he was admireing there songs and if it wasn't for him doing them a lot of people wouldn't know about them.
If it was SO segregated then how come people like Sammy Davis Jnr, Ella Fitzgerald,Billie Holliday,Ray Charles,The Platters,Chuck Berry,Little Richard,Fats Domino etc..all got heard both on radio and on TV.
"Elvis never robbed anyone he also sang Country and Western" yes, he also robbed that.
"If it was SO segregated...all got heard both on radio and on TV." not at that time. The songs become famous because Elvis, a white singer, robbet that. C'mon, Elvis is a stereotype figure, a commercial product like the Beyoncé of our time. You have 15 years?
robotkarel......How did Elvis rob Country and Western Singers,most of whome were white.More people liked Elvis's versions than the original simply because they were better,Blue Suede shoes is a classic example.
Black people also bought Elvis music to why do you think that was?
I was barely 6 yrs old when I first heard him sing. But Elvis' Blue Suede shoes is not any better than Perkins. Elvis did it just like Carl. When Elvis sang That's When Your Heartaches Begin it is identical to The Ink Spots Version. And he did this song so closely to Crudups it's spooky. Now E had the better voice imho opinion but he took stylings from other people and made them his own.
Elvis's 1960 Version is like Carl Perkin's but not the 56 version that is different,yes his version of Thats when you'r heartache begins is similar but That's alright is more faster and upbeat than Crudups which to me made it more appealing especially to the teenagers at the time.Yes Elvis was influenced by certain artists but when Mariam Keisler who worked at Sun studios at the time asked Elvis on his first visit who he sounded like Elvis replied"Idon't sound like anybody ma'm.
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The song goes back to Blind Lemon Jefferson's "That Black Snake Moan," through Ishman Bracey.
robinmark64 3 weeks ago
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robinmark64 3 weeks ago
Yeow! If not for this song, no Elvis! Awesome! Mr. Crudup, that is way cool.
54markl 3 weeks ago
get some meth out a pharmacy and give it a clean that'll get rid of some of the crackling
conallmcluskie 3 months ago
This is an absolutely beautiful record, I remember listening to it in the Rock and Roll hall of fame in Memphis but, at the risk of leaving myself open to abuse, I think Elvis's version, though copied, is superior, It's like Elvis's version of Apron Strings by Cliff Richard, this is how Richards should have done it, not trying to sound like Elvis who didn't, sound like Richards trying to sound like Elvis if you see what I mean.
thecubanism 3 months ago
He has been called the Father of Rock and Roll because he was the first one to set the blues to a rock and roll beat. At least that's what RCA and Times proclaim...
rwda 4 months ago
Who the fuck is Mick Jagger?
LePatay 4 months ago
@LePatay mick jagger is a a great grandfather who still thinks he's 25 yrs old. In other words, he's an antique teenager. I cannot stand him - he's an immoral piece of filth.
danzigvi 4 months ago
@highschoolmusical841 Lol dunno, that Elvis did a remake of this guy's song?
worldofbong 4 months ago
@highschoolmusical841 ?
worldofbong 4 months ago
Thanks! When was it issued? It was recorded in 1946 according to Wiki. 1949 for the orange 45rpm.I think he did get some money in the end. It's listed as his copyright now.
joehiggs100 4 months ago
The sad thing is that crudop never got a dime for this.
HandInGl0ve 6 months ago
Thanks for sharing this, so cool to hear the original
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stringmanipulator 6 months ago
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roomytag87i6 6 months ago
this is great hearing this original version just shows how much elvis was a head of his time with his version. not just elvis but scotty and bill
this is good but the elvis scotty and bill version was a totally different sound that totally changed the world of music for ever country/rock n roll
fantastic
marycockburn1 7 months ago
Thanks for this vid. As a blues guitarist, I know how important the legacy is. And this is legacy. Thanks once again.
Dogheadj 8 months ago
nice dude!
sonicsteev 9 months ago
Go to "Elvis Come Back Special 1968 (Pt. 2)"
At the 7:45 mark Elvis breaks it down once & for all, "Rock & Roll is basically Gospel and Rythym & Blues. It sprang from that."
powerdon215 10 months ago 2
Elvis himself said in his last televised special "all this music comes from Gospel Music", nuff said!
What Elvis did was give more exposure to a music that already existed. I hope 20 years from now people won't start saying Vanilla Ice created Hip-Hop.
powerdon215 10 months ago
Remembering this legend today: August 5, 1905 - March 28, 1974.
Never got the royalties due....he has his reward, rocking in heaven!
rocktenniscat 10 months ago
I can understand a lot of peoples dislike for Elvis... I am white. Elvis made a lot of money on recordings that were written by black songwriters, who saw no money for the simple fact that their skin was the wrong skin color for the time... Elvis made a few really good recordings, but for the most part his songs lacked a certain feeling that were carried by the original recordings.. imo... we are lucky to have access to the internet where we can dig up these "lost" gems
benlover6669 10 months ago
Presley himself is quoted as saying: "A lot of people seem to think I started this business, but rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. So all you racists can stop whining about Elvis.
grainbrane 11 months ago
This is rock 'n' roll, blues had a son named rock 'n' roll, a bastard of mixed music
styles like country & western, blues, and gospel.
jpsmart59 1 year ago
its creepy how this first music is so hidden away and elvis is SO over hyped. the music business is crooked like a yaks hind leg.
strangecastings 1 year ago
@strangecastings No, it was cause he was white
GrisGrisOnUrDoorStep 1 year ago
this is the first "Rock and Roll" song ever recorded.
fryzee 1 year ago
so arthur crudup had this song before elvis correct?
3ace13 1 year ago
whaen I look at today' "pop stars" ... I dare not call them rock :
Justin Beiber, Hannah Montanna, Rihanna, Britney spears etc...
It makes me think two things.
1. Rock and Roll has come full circle.
2. It's hard for me to tell a difference between Elvis and Justin Beiber.
(both were created for mass consuption)
This further perpetuates my feelings that Elvis was a Phoney and these old blues guys were the real deal.
bugsycline 1 year ago
good job ! thanks !
TheRivergreen 1 year ago
and he yelled "FIRST"
ReadMyCommentBitch 1 year ago
This is very similar to CCR - My baby left me. Listen, and you'll see...
delorayn1 1 year ago
I heart this was the first rock and roll song. 1939...wow.
MORKOS621 1 year ago
@MORKOS621 actually it was written and released in 1946
beliha 1 year ago
@beliha I thought Rock and Roll came about the same year I was born. Turns out it's 11 years older.
MORKOS621 1 year ago
Not sure how old everyone is who's commenting on this song... I'm 20 and I absolutely LOVE it. Can't get enough!
Drumnbeats3 1 year ago
Thanks for posting!!
What kind of player is that?
Make/Year/Model?
Many Thanks!!
RiYeNRoOtSMuSiC 1 year ago
Always go with the originals, and by the way, Elvis sucked. The "King" my ass.
anthrofinn 1 year ago
@anthrofinn Well that shows your ignorance right there. Arthur Crudup wrote many songs and Elvis recorded a few of them, Nothing wrong with that. Elvis appealed to a wider audience and that allowed for growth of the classic blues and RnB. Gave more artists of the genre a bigger listening audience and the rest is history.
Burner1966 1 year ago
I respect and applaude the originals......always will....but i personally believe Elvis took these old blues songs and sang them 10 times better
jmallton 1 year ago
Sam Phillips (Sun Records) "Find me a white man can sing negro music with the negro feel I will be a billionaire. " Elvis didn't "steal" he covered, in fact as faithfully as he could. He did lack the soul of the originator; few could match that. His "rockabilly etc." stuff was after his 3 gold Crudup covers. It is fact because he was white that did it. young & handsome/sexy good voice didn't hurt. Nor did payola heheh and he faced repression as a white man doing it then. Arthur blazed his trail
howlingsandy 1 year ago
I guess you're getting more stupid by the hour.... Who in the hell would call those songs "Hits"? LMAO!
Elvis was a copy cat.
boxingin 1 year ago
this and elvis , both great sounds for their times. arthur was always greatfull for elvis " getting him out of the sawmill " with record royalties for this , my baby left me , and so glad your mine. and elvis had great taste for admireing big boy crudup.
rukusbob 1 year ago
@rukusbob wrong NO royalties for Arthur. Ever. For anything Classic blues covered by everyone, THE pioneer of Rock NOT even inducted into the Rock Hall! I knew Arthur well, played drums for him , portraits etc. Elvis covered 3 (EARLIEST GOLD HIT) Crudup songs close to Arthur's "style" energtically but less levels expression. Elvis told reporters "I got it all from colored people. In Tupelo I saw Crudup...said if i could ever feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like no one ever saw.
howlingsandy 1 year ago
Arthur Crudup (crew'-duhp) - whom I played drums with and took some very nice portraits of - has never been inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame, although many he influenced have, "The colored folks been (performing) it for more years than I know," Elvis told reporters in 1956. "I got it from them ... in Tupelo, I used to hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place where I could feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw'"
howlingsandy 1 year ago
Elvis was a young white kid who loved black music and reproduced it with respect. Creative musicians care less about black and white music than their audience. It's usually the audience that puts black and white labels on everything. If Elvis had been allowed to play with blacks he probably would have.
Most of what people call white or black music is actually a mishmash of both culture's music. That goes especially for both blues and rock and roll.
arifreeman 1 year ago
That´s all right little mamma is the most great song through the years .Elvis made this song eternely . Everyone must to know " this is the begging of all"
Ippularap 1 year ago
The birth of it all, nice!
diddybamber 1 year ago
truely some good stuff here
Katimashi 1 year ago
doesn't sound so different from elvis version...i like it..
stonerumble 1 year ago
i prefer the original in all cases.all the rest are copies in a different style and a ripoff of the original artist.get your own hits! i don't like covers.
steve89z 1 year ago
Thank you very much for offering this precious and fascinating song!!!
Also watching the record is very interesting.
lennon103 1 year ago
@Ketren2 black artists did not resent elvis.
elvis had an influence on everybody with his musical approach. he broke the ice for all of us. - al green
"presley was a good perfomer, on stage he was electrifying" - little richard
almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from elvis. -jackie wilson
" I was a tremendous fan" -bb king
"I love him and hope to see him in heaven" -james brown
"I think he's one of the greatest" -ivory joe hunter
and so on.
theZodiacDigital 1 year ago
@Ketren2 I didn't mean Elvis was the 1st to record "That's All Right", I meant Elvis was the 1st to record a Rock n Roll song, based on the definition Allan Freed gave Rock 'n Roll. Which is the melding of Country & Blues into 1 song. Elvis' version is = country & blues. Crudup's version is all blues. The same for "Blue Moon of Kentucky", Elvis took a country song, and sang it = country & blues.
EbonyBunny1 1 year ago
@Ketren2 And Elvis started in 1953, but recorded his first commercial record in May of 1954. Was Elvis the first to sing Rock n Roll? No. But he was the 1st to record it, and anyone that says differently is revising history.
EbonyBunny1 1 year ago
@Ketren2 Prior to 1955 Little Richard sang ONLY gospel songs, (and if you ever heard any he was tamer than any of Pat Boone's covers of Little Richard songs) it was after Little Richard met Esqurita in early 1955, he moved to Rock n Roll, and co-wrote his 1st Rock n Roll song Tutti Frutti. Chuck Berry before 1955,with the recording of Maybellene, was a country singer, not Blues not Rock n Roll. That is why Maybellene is based on an old country song Ida Red, and not from a blues song.
EbonyBunny1 1 year ago
@Ketren2 Chuck Berry & Little Richard (the Rock n Roll Little Richard not the gospel Little Richard) started in 1955. Elvis started in 1953, but he recorded That's All Right in 1955. So how could people be listening to Chuck Berry & Little Richard before Elvis, when Elvis started 1 year before they did.
EbonyBunny1 1 year ago
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@EbonyBunny1 I'm correcting a typo: Elvis recorded That's All Right in 1954 I typed 1955 my mistake. Chuck Berry & Little Richard (the Rock n Roll Little Richard not the gospel years of Little Richard) started in 1955. Elvis started in 1953, but he recorded That's All Right in 1954. So how could people be listening to Chuck Berry & Little Richard before Elvis, when Elvis started 1 year before they did.
EbonyBunny1 1 year ago
this was the only son i credit'd Elvis for, but now i have been set strait...ty
327malibu66 1 year ago
queries abt royalty to be sent towards Lestor Melrose, seems he forgot.
Peace
arjhendrix 1 year ago
of course the Presley's version was a big version,but the original's version is better .
dannpenn 1 year ago
Lovely - nice to finally hear the original!
shoezz70 1 year ago
I love Elvis version better !
Mahe34 1 year ago
In 1969 when Arthur Big Boy Crudup visited & played in the UK he spoke about Elvis and said that if his song hadn't been recorded by Elvis he would still have been unknown. He said that he was grateful to Elvis for copying it and doing such a good version.
ageingted 2 years ago
The world was a very different place in 1954, and far from being celebrated, until Elvis came along music like this would have been banned in a lot of places. To deny Elvis' place in 20th century social and cultural history, even if you don't like him, is just ignorance. Besides, Crudrup signed all his rights away for booze in the 1940s, its not Presley's fault that the guy never made any money (many other struggling songwriters got exceedingly rich thanks to Elvis).
ElectricLabel 2 years ago
Who is speaking out of ignorance? This man had no education because of piece of shit assholes!! Could not read or write and was fucked over plan & simple if you are okay with that then you should full well understand that you reap what you sow. That is why this country is in the shape that it is in now shit on all the little people and it came home to roost !!!!
donmagicjuan1000 2 years ago
Elvis' version is better
Expozane 2 years ago
No matter how you slice it, Elvis' version is the most influential, and is the definitive version of this great record
Thanks for posting up the record in any case - It's a shame people are not talking about how great the song is, or how good Elvis' was at styling songs in his own way.
It's posted all this ramble backwards - Man I also should have better things to do than this!
HepCatRob 2 years ago
@HepCatRob Where is greatness in copying what some one else does? Did elvis once give credit to the artist that wrote the songs he copied? You can only be influential if you write something any fool can base a career on copying the music that someone else wrote! So because your parents like elvis & you have heard people speak of his greatness you are following the herd. Those are the thought processes that create mindless sheep! Please list the songs that elvis wrote that were an influence!!!
donmagicjuan1000 2 years ago
@donmagicjuan1000 Many people do cover versions of songs, Presley wasn't the first and certainly wasn't the last. Nobody complained when black artists started covering Beatles songs, stop being so closed minded.
studiorecordingtools 2 years ago 4
@studiorecordingtools So you are okay with the fact that this man was ripped off by elvis. In bringing up the response that you did do you then feel that what happened to him was okay? IT IS TRULY SAD THAT SO MANY WILL DEFEND SUCH LOWLIFE GREEDINESS! THE ONLY KIND OF PERSON THAT WOULD BE OKAY WITH THIS IS THE SAME KIND THAT WOULD BEAT UP HIS OWN MOTHER FOR A QUARTER!!
donmagicjuan1000 2 years ago
Elvis did a cover version, how is that a ripoff? Elvis never claimed he wrote this song, he never denied credit to Crudup. Now sampling without clearance that is common in hip hop, you could consider THAT ripping off, since no royalties are paid or credit given, but here none of that was the case.. or wait, you're joking aren't you
worldofbong 2 years ago 11
@worldofbong Arthur got credit, NEVER one royalty his whole life. EXAMPLE: His Rock Me Baby (or Mama) was covered by almost all major black blues artists, white bands that followed. (the short list) Etta James, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Johnny Winter, Paul Butterfield, Tina Turner, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater Revival, BB King, Blue Cheer...Not one fucking royalty. Elvis got him recognition making it easier for Chuck Berry & Little Richard
howlingsandy 1 year ago
@howlingsandy I'm a huge Elvis fan and I like Arthur Crudups music also, it's a shame he got shat on the way he did, he was a great songwriter and singer who deserved more than he got. Elvis covered more than just That's All Right from Crudup and always gave him the recognition, it was the music companies that screwed poor Arthur and others just like him, but we should all be thankful he gave us the music he did.
Burner1966 1 year ago
@donmagicjuan1000 I'm saying you have no reading comprehension lol
studiorecordingtools 2 years ago
Luckily for the world, Elvis' version was far from a rip off. In fact it was a completely inventive version: much more unique, mixing country and hillbilly into this typical blues stomper - thus helping kick start rockabilly and r'n'r.
I don't care which you prefer, or who you do or don't like to listen to, but your comments against Elvis are pathetic.
Elvis was both musically and politically influential to the point where he changed society. His legacy will always be present so deal with it.
HepCatRob 2 years ago 27
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If elvis changed society with his political influence then why the hell did JIM CROW laws exist until the late sixties? Why are there still KKK, Aryan Brotherhood and all the rest ? Dr. Martin Luther King put himself in harms way to try and changed society! So it is your comments that are not only pathetic but without any thought process!!! Elvis was completely over rated !!! As singing is truly the only thing he did! Had it not been for his guitarist & bass player he would have no career!!
donmagicjuan1000 2 years ago
It wasn't a politician or protesters who broke down the racial barriers in the U.S. it was Elvis Presley bringing black blues and R&B to white audiences and Chuck Berry bringing country & western and hillbilly music to blacks! It was Rock 'n' Roll that broke that wall between races down!
chase14 1 year ago 2
@HepCatRob You gotta love the way white folks defend Elvis to death no matter how much prove is thrown in your faces.
boxingin 1 year ago
@HepCatRob Plus, didn't Elvis credit Arthur Crudup as the writer on his version ?
barrytreasure 1 year ago
@HepCatRob very great true description
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LynchburgSourMash 1 year ago
@HepCatRob - u gotta white - talking dat rubbish - maaaaan - rock n roll - is all black music - Elvis just copied like a Xerox machine.
mallcolmx 1 year ago
@mallcolmx I suggest you listen to "Rock n Roll" by Mos Def. You may not like rap, but he talks about the same exact thing you're saying.
kneegrow2727 11 months ago
@HepCatRob Elvis made it white.
andmaketherain 6 months ago
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BabybluesLand 2 years ago
Actually he never even recieved those royalties.. Crudup and his four children traveled to New York City and signed the necessary legal papers in the Hill and Range office. His attorney took the papers to Julian Aberbach, head of Hill and Rance, for his signature. The next thing you know, his comes back in the room, looking stunned and pale, and says that Aberbach refused to sign because he felt that the settlement gave away more than he would lose in legal action. =(
IntaminXtreme 2 years ago
Thanks a lot for the info about Crudup. Even now, young blues and rock musicians, like Jack White, named him as a influence.
BabybluesLand 2 years ago
and ...
3) grow some ears so you hear the reality that in cases like this - Elvis Presley's version is a million miles away from the original - Different groove, different styles of picking, different instrumentation, different tones, different tempo's, different atmosphere
The melody and basic outline of the song are the same - That's why they call it a cover song
HepCatRob 2 years ago
How many of you people on here actually know anything about music, and how these songs were played and recorded 1) get something better to do 2) If you really want to understand music, try learning how to play it (I'm assuming most of you don't based on the ridiculous comments I have read)
HepCatRob 2 years ago
y do all u assholes argue about such bullshit on all these videos. the song is great. leave it at that
redrum427 2 years ago 3
get a life you sad fucks. all versions are good, stop being pathetic, you sound like you should all be in care homes.
RockabillyKathy 2 years ago
This original version is very good. And, is that a 78??? If so its freaking awesome! Gratz on owning such uber stuff.
r4d4101 2 years ago 5
Yes an original 78 rpm pressing, thanks for visiting
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LynchburgSourMash 2 years ago
@r4d4101 Elvis was fine, but Big Boy Crudup was one of the greatest blues singers ever. Check out his slow blues tunes, too.
einsteinbrothers 1 year ago
@r4d4101 His classic original version of "That's All Right" was recorded in 1946, wow. The issue is not "was Elvis a rip off?" that's ridiculous The issue is to acknowledge that Black rock and roll was there at least one decade before Elvis had the Whites find out about it. It was called jump blues, boogie woogie, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, rhythm music, swing, race music, you name it - but everything was all there years before the mass media sold it to the world.
einsteinbrothers 1 year ago
@einsteinbrothers Right. Elvis was a beautiful white boy who could dance and did an ok version of the great blues/R n B he heard and loved, he was just more acceptable to the white teenagers, mostly girls, than the "scary black men' like Crudup, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, etc., were to white society. Even being white and pretty, Elvis was still threatening, but he was able to connect with the white kids in a way the black guys couldn't because......he looked like them...only better...
nicodagger 1 year ago
Estupendo gracias, buen aporte.
Saludos
LouGypsyBlue 2 years ago
Elvis Presley was a great song stylist. He liked all kinds of music, and got his cues from both Country and Blues. When guys like him, Bill Haley, Carl Perkins etc fused them together, they called it Rockabilly. But one cannot deny the popularity of Elvis was also that he was younger than the previous mentioned artists, and his good looks and suggestive movements on stage helped create controversy which put him in the spotlight. Add to that, he was a white kid singing black.
rbound827 2 years ago
That's all right now!
RobinTimmers 2 years ago
That record has some scratches!
brcr29 2 years ago
lol
propperbo2002 2 years ago
Oh the comment below meant to say "first rock records", not "first records" sorry.
goatshilk 2 years ago
The Elvis vesrion is important in that it is the 1st record that took in Country, Blues and Rock and Rolled it. His problem like many others was he was exploited.
BelvueSchools 2 years ago
Why is the Elvis version of this always considered one of the first records? This recording seems much more upbeat and rocking than the Elvis version.
goatshilk 2 years ago
elvis is white arty is color
chargersrock214356 2 years ago
the only reason we are watching this video here on you tube is down to elvis presley making it so well known, if elvis hadnt had covered a couple of his tunes, arthur crudup would be an old jig singer that no-one had ever heard of.
If crudup was that good then he would have sold more records but in fact he needed elvis to make him more popular.
End of day its just an ole shoe shine boy recording of a good song
booneboon 2 years ago
You have obviously no idea of music or political history. Any idea why black people did not make any money or achieve fame in the States before the 60's?
topgonads 2 years ago
Boone, u must either be very naive or plain "dumb". If i were u, i would erase what you wrote. It is like your ignorance is blinding you. Crudrup was part of the 30's and segregation and NO APPRECIATION for black culture. Elvis was WHITE, and that is how he got to be so well known, but there are WAY more black artists that are unknown, due to how politics and prejudice caused them to be known only to certain folks. U got lots to learn, that's for sure.
nestosolo 2 years ago
people only search for this stuff due to it being made popular by white rock singers. it wouldnt be on youtube otherwise..
historical facts cannot change the fact that it was elvis that made cruddup famous, as soon as elvis made it big people looked at the original artists
booneboon 2 years ago 2
Yup, same goes for you. :)
TheHumanpeople 2 years ago
Me thinks that history has tonnes of lower class folks writing and recording hit songs for a packaged faces that can sell it. Just like that shoe shine boy bud. It was a different time back then, any fortune that Auther achieved back then, because of Elvis i think is well deserved. After all he wrote the song didnt he?? Shoe shne boy, or Banker...what difference does that make?
lritchey123 2 years ago
@booneboon You are spot on with what you say. The same could be said for the other black singers who had songs recorded by Elvis. They would have been know only to the black community, many of whom couldn't be bothered to buy their records. Most of Elvis's songs where original anyway. Was there any black rockabilly singers of note
frankiehiyo 1 year ago
@frankiehiyo Show me a list of Elvis's original songs, please. Because to my knowledge he doesn't have many. So show us all that list.
boxingin 1 year ago
@boxingin I'll give you some starters.
Jailhouse Rock,Loving You, Love Me Tender.All Shook Up.Teddy Bear.Don't Be Cruel.But then you knew that .And Arthur Crudup didn't write any of them.You'll have stop this Elvis obsession of yours.Anyone would think you didn't like him. Now if the X-factor tv show could find a black guy that had ALL of Elvis's assets, then everyone would be happy. But it is not going to happen is it?
frankiehiyo 1 year ago
@frankiehiyo So which one of those songs did Elvis write himself you retard.
And once again... Please tell me how many original songs Elvis wrote himsef? Just answer that and stop the running around!
boxingin 1 year ago
@boxingin Ok! Mr intellectual. When you have the best writers in the world breaking down your door to record their songs, you don't need to write your own. Anyway, it isn't just the song, it's the way it's presented. Elvis had no peers in that department. Listen to the difference in Arthurs, and Elvis's version and you will understand.it's not about Blacks getting kneed in the goolies, many White singers suffered that. it's about commercial product. Get the chip off your shoulder and smile.
frankiehiyo 1 year ago
@frankiehiyo OK Mr. Dumbass. Elvis Presley didn't have any song writen skills just like you don't have any facts to argue with about the matter. I don't care about who was breaking down his door to have him record for them. The truth is that he didn't write any of his hits and if he did please show which one. He played Black musicians songs and I know that that hurts you to hear.
boxingin 1 year ago
@boxingin Ok Professor.Don't try to bring the colour shit into it.I don't know what you are trying to proove.Other than the fact you dislike White people. Especialy Elvis. Yes, Elvis sang Black musicians songs , so what.They became better known because of it. I don't recall any of them complaining. Many Black singers sang White musicians songs, so what..Let's get this straight,I like good music and I don't give a rats arse if the singer is White, Black or all the colours of the rainbow.
frankiehiyo 1 year ago
@frankiehiyo You see Mr. Dumbass I too could care less about race but the truth is the truth AND Elvis stole his music from Black people. The whole world knows this except most white people and of course your dumass!
boxingin 1 year ago
@boxingin Your first words says you are bothered about race.
What is it with people like you. All your kind come up with is how the blacks have struggled, been conned and had things stolen.It was poor old Arthur's record company, and people he was involved with that had his pants down.All Elvis did was record his songs, and with more commercial appeal.This has gone on since music was invented. Did the blacks never steal off the Whites, or even off one another?
frankiehiyo 1 year ago
@frankiehiyo Stop trying to twist things around you Dumbass and get down to bussiness. Please tell us all how many hit songs Elvis wrote himself and stop running around like the Dodger that you are!
boxingin 1 year ago
@boxingin Ok! Mr Trouble. Elvis collaborated with guitarist Charlie Hodge, on "You'll Be Gone" He also added the title for the song "Someone You Never Forget" Now go away and sing the blues. Put an Elvis song on and sing away.You might enjoy it.
frankiehiyo 1 year ago
@frankiehiyo Who in the hell have heard of those cheesy songs but you. And for your information I like Elvis and when I was growing up my mother would watch all of his movies and I would immitate him the best I could. But now I see that he wasn't as original as it was made to seem, that's all.
boxingin 1 year ago
@boxingin The question was , what songs has Elvis written or collaborated on.I have answered that.The songs are quite good too. Now your are in the hall of rediculous people, to suggest Elvis wasn't all that original. Your Mother had good taste in music though.Now lets call a truce, and enjoy music for what it is, Black or White.
frankiehiyo 1 year ago
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@frankiehiyo @frankiehiyo You see Mr. Dumbass I too could care less about race but the truth is the truth AND Elvis stole his music from Black people. The whole world knows this except most white people and of course your dumbass!
boxingin 1 year ago
this song winds me up! thanks arthur crudup! elvis stole all the blacks music.
steve89z 2 years ago
Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis told a white reporter for The Charlotte Observer in 1956, he used to listen to Arthur Crudup, the blues singer who originated Thats All Right, Elviss first record. Crudup, he said, used to bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place where I could feel all old Arthur felt, Id be a music man like nobody ever saw.
If Elvis never said that you probably would not even know who this man is..Elvis gave it up plenty of times for blues
howuluvindat 2 years ago 3
Oh please get over it.
Shadesofblue1988 2 years ago
In polite response, I must say that Elvis "stole NOTHING...!!!"
Elvis merely tapped the well of, what in that era, Elvis tapped the well of music NOT recognized by main stream A.K.A. white, and/or popular music, again 'in that era'.
Elvis merely brought this music to the surface for all to listen to, and enjoy just as he did, and as we all [do] enjoy now.
Elvis gave credit where credit due... Elvis was a good man, unlike what we have in the music industry today.
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lionking6199zj 2 years ago 11
@lionking6199zj No... Elvis never stole anything... He just borrowed it without permission. LMAO!!
boxingin 1 year ago
no he didnt... this is called shuffle, elvis merely covered it in a rockabilly form... anyways, rock n roll, is black music, people forget that.
screamineagles92 2 years ago
rock and roll is American music. Traditional African-American music played a huge role in its development, but so did Celtic music and christian hymns.
regardless of where its roots are, its enjoyed and played by people of all races today, so it doesn't have a color
theeverett 2 years ago 4
It was played by people of all races back then too.
Take the Rock 'N Roll concerts put on by DJ Alan Freed; black and white performers playing for crowds of kids of all races. Alan Freed was hated for "mixing the races" and later became a scapegoat in the "Payola" scandal of the late 50s. Coincidence?
Anyways, I agree with your first point.
ToledoSpartan 2 years ago
Wow!
Thanks for it :))
franktyrell 2 years ago
You can get a much cleaner sound for re-recording if you put a wet coat of rubbing alcohol on the record as you play it. It is good to hear the original tune.
boilerplate7 2 years ago 2
Is this the same version of that song, which was on the collection of seven 45 rpms being the first SINGLES of the world? And the year is 1949, which makes this year the 60th anniversary of the single record! Like mine...
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mrmillion500 2 years ago
well think about it....act on it.....enjoy it.....
kittenready 2 years ago
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ErosPoop 2 years ago
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kittenready 2 years ago
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ErosPoop 2 years ago
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kittenready 2 years ago
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ErosPoop 2 years ago
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ErosPoop 2 years ago
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blindboyblue 2 years ago
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LynchburgSourMash 2 years ago
ELVIS IS KING!!! PLAIN AND SIMPLE!!!
cycloneCJproducts 2 years ago
Ummmm.... I like this song. I don't want to argue about who created what first. I wants me that '78, by the way. I'm just going to subscribe to your channel. Nice work putting all the old stuff on here.
mkrdmt 2 years ago
Can't get enough of this here version
Newtwrangler 2 years ago
Oramikleepunk...In 2 messages you put Jimmy Rogers mixed C&W with R&B and in another you put he wasn't a blues artist.
White Debbie Harry played a MAJOR part in the developement of Rap music in the mid- late 70s in New York in fact the word RAP was taken from her 1980 song RAPture she was very good at poetry and was often around the clubs developing and moulding this style. with disco....starting with Chics Le Freak
195477 2 years ago
Hence the song "rappers delight" by the suggar hill gang in 1978, Rapture came out in 1980. So no Debbie Harry didn't invent the term.
almanacofsleep 2 years ago
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Everything i said is true. Fact. period.
Elvis was second-rate compared to the great black artists who created the music. Every time I've heard a song that was covered by a white artist, and then heard the original by the original black artist...IT'S ALWAYS BETTER...that's just my opinion, as a musician. One may disagree. That's America! Freedom of Speech! But it's my opinion. White people became famous by co-opting black music, have done for over 150 years. Ain't nothing changed.
nicodagger 2 years ago
hey racist,j ust have the balls to say you hate white people then fuck off, nobody cares about your thoughts or your existence...your sooo jealous that elvis was loved by everybody and you will die a nothing ,nobody, listening to old black artist,s no one gave a fuck about now or before because they were shit in the first place...how sad can you get dumbass
kittenready 2 years ago
Your just as bad as nicodagger....people still listen to blues in America....I like Elvis,but i'm not an Elvis freak.You seem to be racist like nicodagger.
oramikleepunk 2 years ago
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Well, all i can say is whenever I've heard the original versions of songs Elvis made a hit, like "Hound Dog" or "That's All Right", I hear a HUGE difference in terms of soul, passion, etc. There's no comparison. Elvis had amazing charisma, performing ability, beauty.....great dancer in the beginning...but compared to the great black artists who created the music he interpreted to the largely white masses...well, he was second-rate. Racism was a huge factor in Elvis' success.
nicodagger 2 years ago
racism was a huge factor?...were you dropped on your head as a baby....you must be retarded...durrrr....go back to school you fucking child,you know nothing,you racist dumbass......creepy dipshit
kittenready 2 years ago
nicodagger...Think about this.
Elvis Presley was doing blues music in 50s and 60s America,if anything a lot of white people hated him because they though he was doing "Black" music{if there is such a thing as I don't think music has a colour}.Elvis liked Mahalia Jackson,Chuck Berry,Little Richard Jackie Wilson and was good friends with Sammy Davis Jnr. for many years.
Elvis was successfull simply by being good..why wern't other white artists as successfull and black people bought his music to.
195477 2 years ago
are you still trying to white wash black music, Elvis wasn't a blues singer, he was a pop singer he couldn't challend Howlin Wolf or Muddy Waters. Also It was called "rap", expanding the word's earlier meaning in the African-American community—"to discuss or debate informally." All Blondie did was to make a pun with Rapture and also help get rap/hip hop culture some recornition. They were a good band but they didn't invent shit, just populaised it, like Elvis.
almanacofsleep 2 years ago
almanacofsleep..anyone who thinks Elvis wasn't a blues singer knows NOTHING about music I could name you dozens of blues songs Elvis did.
As for Debbie Harry,Rappers delight came out in 79 not 78 and Rapture was written in the same year but released in 1980{US}.Debbie Harry had been around since the 60s and she was good at poetry.She was doing the rounds in the clubs in New York{70s} way before rappers delight and talking to many different acts on the disco scene and added her own style..ctd
195477 2 years ago
by that statement who invented white music, answer is now one, music is a thing that develops with the culture of a soceity, african culture produced african music, as european culture produced european music, africans were taken from their land and placed in america, so there culture was adapted and it became african american. The reason why the blues Jazz etc are seen as having black origin is that american segraed them based on their skin colour meaning that that music stayed afican american
almanacofsleep 2 years ago
ctd...It was her that influenced The Sugar hill gang to do Rappers delight.
B.B. KIng said"Many people do blues music but only a few know how to sing THE blues and Elvis was one of them."
Try looking up.Tell me why,Steamroller blues,Reconsider baby,Mess of blues,Merry Christmas baby,Blue Christmas or Good time Charlies go the blues..just to name a few...I wait your reply and maybe i'll give you more blues songs that Elvis did.
195477 2 years ago
ctd..., but she has stated many a time that she is embarresed by it and doesn't consider herself a rapper and neither is she deluded enough to think she started rap, lol. Not only are you culturly unaware but just plain ignorant, tell your little theory to any music lover and they laugh you of the face of the earth.
almanacofsleep 2 years ago
As for BLACK music there is no such thing as there is with white music.
There are black and white artists but what was the generation listening to before WC Handy..many listened to classical which was written by white composers.
If anyone thinks there is such a thing as black music then when did it begin and who was the first black artist who invented music,a black australian a black african a black English man a black frenchmen or a black Russian.What about artists of mixed race?
195477 2 years ago
HAHHAHHHAHHA you tryin to say Debbie Harry invented rap?!?! HAHHAHHAHHA lolzor she was around in the 60's but she wasn't rapping loooooooooool. You must ether be a troll or fucking stupid. Debbie harry was not rapping in the 60s, or 70s, she rapped once, repeat once, on the song rapture that she wrote afrter seeing Grandmaster Flash rap, she was influenced and incouraged by him and others in the rap seen to try her hand at rapping
almanacofsleep 2 years ago
When did white music begin ?
ChrisBryon 2 years ago
There is no such thing as "white" music so therefor it couldn't have started at a set time.
Music just evolves from many different places by all people.
195477 2 years ago
You'r wrong: "In a segregated society like the USA of the time, Presley became the ultimate white robber of black hits: Arthur Crudup's That's All Right Mama (1954), Roy Brown's Good Rockin' Tonight (1955), Junior Parker's Mystery Train (1955)..."
scaruffi
robotkarel 2 years ago
Rubbish.Elvis never robbed anyone he also sang Country and Western.
Gospel was sung by black and white and was a major part of Elvis's music.
Just because the original singers were black does not mean to say he STOLE them if anything you could say he was admireing there songs and if it wasn't for him doing them a lot of people wouldn't know about them.
195477 2 years ago
If it was SO segregated then how come people like Sammy Davis Jnr, Ella Fitzgerald,Billie Holliday,Ray Charles,The Platters,Chuck Berry,Little Richard,Fats Domino etc..all got heard both on radio and on TV.
195477 2 years ago
"Elvis never robbed anyone he also sang Country and Western" yes, he also robbed that.
"If it was SO segregated...all got heard both on radio and on TV." not at that time. The songs become famous because Elvis, a white singer, robbet that. C'mon, Elvis is a stereotype figure, a commercial product like the Beyoncé of our time. You have 15 years?
robotkarel 2 years ago
robotkarel......How did Elvis rob Country and Western Singers,most of whome were white.More people liked Elvis's versions than the original simply because they were better,Blue Suede shoes is a classic example.
Black people also bought Elvis music to why do you think that was?
195477 2 years ago
I was barely 6 yrs old when I first heard him sing. But Elvis' Blue Suede shoes is not any better than Perkins. Elvis did it just like Carl. When Elvis sang That's When Your Heartaches Begin it is identical to The Ink Spots Version. And he did this song so closely to Crudups it's spooky. Now E had the better voice imho opinion but he took stylings from other people and made them his own.
wildhorsestudios1421 2 years ago
Elvis's 1960 Version is like Carl Perkin's but not the 56 version that is different,yes his version of Thats when you'r heartache begins is similar but That's alright is more faster and upbeat than Crudups which to me made it more appealing especially to the teenagers at the time.Yes Elvis was influenced by certain artists but when Mariam Keisler who worked at Sun studios at the time asked Elvis on his first visit who he sounded like Elvis replied"Idon't sound like anybody ma'm.
....ctd
195477 2 years ago