Would've been 80 today.
Elvis Presley - Always On My Mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9sRJ-eOHnc#)
Wearing my Elvis belt buckle today. RIP to the king.
Elvis is Everywhere - Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knc9LKjukSQ#)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb0Jmy-JYbA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb0Jmy-JYbA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ox1Tore9nw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ox1Tore9nw)
He ain't dead.
He was helping with the head stem bearings on my Monster last night...
He and I were just having grilled peanut butter & banana sandwiches for lunch.
Thank you. Thank you, very much.
http://youtu.be/GhlBT2X0Rw4 (http://youtu.be/GhlBT2X0Rw4)
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http://youtu.be/uDqE4teYyUA (http://youtu.be/uDqE4teYyUA)
My panties just got damp.
drove a truck for my dad when he was 19 yo.
no shit.
Quote from: ducatiz on January 08, 2015, 06:40:22 PM
drove a truck for my dad when he was 19 yo.
no shit.
That's pretty cool. I saw him in concert 1973 at Cole Field House UMD.
Quote from: kopfjäger on January 08, 2015, 07:11:56 PM
That's pretty cool. I saw him in concert 1973 at Cole Field House UMD.
yeah, they had the old style time cards adn my uncle would pull out Elvis' time card now and then -- there were no xeroxes yet -- and one day, it disappeared.. lol
most people in Memphis in the 50-60s had Elvis encounter stories.. that was before my time tho.
Quote from: ducatiz on January 08, 2015, 07:34:54 PM
yeah, they had the old style time cards adn my uncle would pull out Elvis' time card now and then -- there were no xeroxes yet -- and one day, it disappeared.. lol
most people in Memphis in the 50-60s had Elvis encounter stories.. that was before my time tho.
[thumbsup] 8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYH5SPsnaT8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYH5SPsnaT8)
that was the last song at the local roller skating rink back in the '80's.
The Mac Davis penned "A Little Less Conversation" still satisfies me too.
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvlxRvhCB_A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvlxRvhCB_A)
Quote from: krolik on January 08, 2015, 09:42:37 PM
But he has left the building.
i grew up going to the movie theater where this saying started.
It was the Poplar Plaza theatre
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/11355/photos/5710 (http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/11355/photos/5710)
One of the old fashioned two-screen art deco theatres -- each house had about 400 seats and both had a "cry room" upstairs so people could watch behind glass without disturbing the others. The screens were HUGE back then.
The story is that people heard Elvis was upstairs watching a film and people starting freaking out -- the manager of the theatre started saying over the intercom "Elvis has left the building! Elvis has left the building!"
We were saying that when I was in 2nd grade way back when..
^^^^
The phrase was first used by promoter Horace Lee Logan on December 15, 1956, near Shreveport, Louisiana, to plead with concert-goers not to leave a concert hall to try to see Elvis, as he had already left, and instead remain to see the other acts on the bill. The full quotation was:
"Alright, alright, Elvis has left the building. I've told you absolutely straight up to this point, you know that he has left the building; he left the stage and went out the back with the policeman and he is now gone from the building."
I assume it was repeated many times by the time it was said in Memphis .
I was always said around Memphis that the Plaza was the first place it was mentioned, but I can't find any documentation to that effect.
But like I said, we grew up with it.. lol.. and Elvis sightings around Memphis..