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Really good song, beautifully evocative video.

An old "Smiley" Lewis song called "One Night of Sin", about an orgy, that incredibly, Elvis sang in its' original "dirty" form on NBC in 1968. Absolute genius!

Monumental! The great Greil Marcus in "Mystery Train" equated Elvis with Herman Melville.

If that is the case, then this TV special was Elvis' "Moby Dick".

Towering!

A great American artist, really unparalleled in our history.

Did you actually read my post? I said Darlene Love is the queen of E Street and her performance on Letterman each year at Christmas is one of the highlights of the season.

Why the odd reaction on your part?

There is our next United States Senator!

@seafoambluebell God bless you for what you said, brilliant! My great friend, the late Joe DiMona, was the headwriter for General Hospital and he was the one who created the Luke and Laura scenario that culminated in the appearance of Elizabeth Taylor and the wedding of Luke and Laura in 1981. Fa...

I love that more than words could ever express! Saw them do it on Saturday Night Live in 1978 with the blown out on voice and in concert in the long ago summer.

fucking ay....perfect, from the "Courageous Kat and Minute Mouse" to the end.....

God Bless Sonny Curtis and the late great Bobby Fuller!!!!! RIP Joe Strummer.

thank you for posting. He is a monumental American, easily our greatest popular artist and most importantly the King of Rock n Roll....

An absolute theatrical genius, and a great, great singer.

Gorgeous. Thank You for posting

compelling...despite whatever was going on with him physically, he remained to the end an epic American artist.

I just love it! How perfect, that Mick, a guy who shagged a bird or two in his day, should do the theme for a story about a serial womanizer, lovely. He has always been such a wonderful writer. Great song.

Absolutely beautiful. It moved me to tears. Merry Christmas.

Beautifully captures the sadness of the season. A wonderful homage to lost love at Christmas.

Moves me to tears t his time of year.

That is about as cool as anything I have ever seen. She is an absolutely monumental American artist, and this is the greatest rock Christmas song ever and Letterman's proudest moment.

"a song in which the singer is only a co-equal hero to the land itself" as the great Dave Marsh put it.....Chuck Berry wrote it, of course, but this is fundamentally Elvis story.

@jackiechampion so many excellent points....he is a great American writer, one of the most significant poets of the latter half of the 20th century, however he is not as important a figure as Elvis who was and remains the defining figure in rock and American popular culture

as the great Dave Marsh, my neighbor in Connecticut, wrote, "Elvis finally began to sing the Chuck Berry songs that came closest to telling his story, in which the singer makes the long journey from the deep south to Hollywood from the land of guilt and dreams and illusion to the land of guilt ...

god i love this song,,,,,I hear it and it is 1983 all over again

the great La La Brooks! With the power of a runaway train, like their life depended on it...Awesome.

God bless Otis Blackwell.....What a great song!

@shawent That is so beautifully expressed! He was and will always remain the King.

With "Princess Winter Spring Summerfall", the late Judy Tyler, from "Howdy Doody", who died before the release of the movie.

Elvis was at the absolute height of his power here, neither he, nor anyone, would ever be this great again. Really beyond comparison.

As the great Dave Marsh wrote, "Follow that Dream" should have been his encapsulation of the American Dream" It is in so many ways, his story, he was as Springsteen put it, "as great as the whole country itself to me, its symbol" Amen!

The greatest pop star the world has ever seen....He is at the top of his game here, smooth beyond words. Always and forever the King.

sensational!

Thank You Elvis. Your unmatched talent changed the world forever.

an old song by the Gladiolas, that the King brought to life one more time. Even in the final days of his life no one could compare to him. He is a great American artist.

@dabx170 the great Dave Marsh wrote, "so we made him into a god and a King but he was neither. He was something more American and something more heroic". There was nothing racist about Elvis, quite the opposite, he was a man of the people, a great small d democrat. He transcended the blues, and f...

The greatest voice the world has ever heard....

@KittysBlackTooth You are joking right?

great footage, thank you for posting. He was the greatest and is my hero

Great beyond human ken......thank you so much for posting these incredible videos. He was in great voice and great spirt/

at a fundamental level he remained a mystery, as mysterious as the train itslelf. He was the greatest artist America ever produced, and its' most significant cultural figure. Even here, just 10 months from his death, he is scintillating and a tiger man!

Not even remotely in the same class with the King

Amazing that he is gone 34 years...He was the greatest popular artist that the world has ever seen.

he was the embodiment of the American Dream, and the greatest popular culture star the world has ever seen.