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Keith Kivell
From: Canada
1. How and when did you first hear about Elvis Presley?
: It was 1962,I was 6 years old, and a friend asked me if I wanted to go his house and listen to his Moms new Elvis Presley record, that record was GI Blues, and from that day on I was hooked on Elvis.
2. What was it that got you hooked on Elvis?
: I guess it would be his voice that got to me, there was just something about it, and I still get exited today when I hear him sing.
3. If Elvis were alive, what would you like to say to him or ask him? "My Message to Elvis": I would tell Elvs thank you for all the years of happiness, and for helping to enrich my life through all the people that I have met because of him.
4. WHICH is your favourite Elvis Presley song or movie?
And why is it your favourite?
: My favorite Elvis song is An Americian Trilogy, I just love the way he sings that song, there is just so much power and emotion in his voice, when I hear this song it says ELVIS.
5. Which is your favourite SUIT that Elvis wore on stage?
: there are guite a few suits that I like, there is the Brown Desert Rose, The Gold Lame suit from 1957, and I also like the King of Spades, and I am also partial to The Aztec Gold suit, because that is the siut he was wearing when I saw him in concert in Detriot in 1977.
6. Who do you think Elvis loved most in his life, his greatest love?
: I think Elvis never reallly got over Priscilla, and that he loved her until the day he died.
7. Where were you and what were you doing when you heard that Elvis had died?
: I was staying at a friends house for a couple of days, when my cousin called and played me a copy of the radio news cast of Elvis' Death.
8. Why do you think Elvis still attracts new fans every year,
even long after his death?
: I think the reason that Elvis still attracts new fans is because his songs are timeless, when some people hear his voice they just get hooked, it is also his magnatisium and style, I also think that once people read about his humanitarian aspects they also fall for him.
Have you been to Graceland?...If so, would you like to share your experence or feelings on this site?
: Yes I have been to Memphis and Graceland 4 times, I was just resently there for the 30th anniversary, and it was incredible, the house is always the same, the trophy room is fantastic, and the raquet ball court is awe inspiring, to see all those gold and platinum awards and the jumpsuits, you could spend hours in there and not get boured.
Then there is the Meditation Gardens, it is just so peaceful, thats about all I can say about that, you have to experience it to know whay I mean.
Elvis was a trend leader and constantly "transformed" himself in his career, like Madonna & music stars are famous for doing nowdays.
Which are your favourite "Elvis eras" in his career?
: Soulful ballads & gospel singer of the '70's
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Would you like to tell us a little bit more about yourself to share on your own Elvis Presley Fan page?: I have been an Elvis fan for 44 years,I have been married for 24 years and have 2 daughters, my 21year old is a casuel Elvis fan, my 15 year old likes Elvis, she is not quite the fanatic that I am, but she does like a lot of his songs, especially Burning Love, I remember being 11 years old and having to ask my parent permission to stay up and watch the Singer special "ELVIS" in 1968,because it staarted at 9pm and that was my bed time, I was just blown away with the Aloha from Hawaii concert, with out Elvis I would never have met all the people that have enriched my live, Elvis has touched every aspect of my life, I donate to charities and try to help out people less fortunate because thats what Elvis did.
Do you collect Elvis music or memorabilia?
: Music, Movies, Books, Souveneir items
How would you rate our Elvis Presley Biography site?
: Very Good
Do you have any suggestions on how we can improve this site for Elvis's fans?:
HELLO Keith
Thank you for comments on our survey. Keith you are amazing! This man you idolize has been a huge influence in your life; Elvis gave his fans so much of himself through his music. For me, apart from Elvis being so good looking and magically talented, his personality, generosity and his warm sincere nature, was just as attracting, because that`s who he was. Elvis is perfect! Once Elvis has touched your heart he will continue to enrich your life forever. Thank you for sharing your Graceland experiences, `what a wonderful feeling to of been there for his 30th anniversary`. I hope to see Graceland one day; it`s really great to hear from fans that have been to his home honoring his memory. Elvis will always be the GREATEST.
Keith blow is the video and lyrics to your favorite song, also including your daughters favorite song`..Enjoy!
American Trilogy-Elvis Presley
American Trilogy-Elvis Presley
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Lyrics for An American Trilogy
performed by Elvis Presley
Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old things they are not forgotten
Look away, look away, look away Dixieland
Oh I wish I was in Dixie, away, away
In Dixieland I take my stand to live and die in Dixie
Cause Dixieland, that's where I was born
Early Lord one frosty morning
Look away, look away, look away Dixieland
Glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory hallelujah
His truth is marching on
So hush little baby
Don't you cry
You know your daddy's bound to die
But all my trials, Lord will soon be over
Elvis Presley — Burning Love (Live '73)
performed by Elvis Presley
(Linde)
Lord Almighty,
I feel my temperature rising
Higher higher
It's burning through to my soul
Girl, girl, girl
You gonna set me on fire
My brain is flaming
I don't know which way to go
Your kisses lift me higher
Like the sweet song of a choir
You light my morning sky
With burning love
Ooh, ooh, ooh,
I feel my temperature rising
Help me, I'm flaming
I must be a hundred and nine
Burning, burning, burning
And nothing can cool me
I just might turn into smoke
But I feel fine
Cause your kisses lift me higher
Like a sweet song of a choir
And you light my morning sky
With burning love
It's coming closer
The flames are reaching my body
Please won't you help me
I feel like I'm slipping away
It's hard to breath
And my chest is a-heaving
Lord Almighty,
I'm burning a hole where I lay
Cause your kisses lift me higher
Like the sweet song of a choir
You light my morning sky
With burning love
With burning love
Ah, ah, burning love
I'm just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Elvis Genealogy
Presley was born poor in Tupelo, Mississippi, the son of Vernon Elvis Presley and Gladys Love Smith Presley. He was raised both in Tupelo and later in Memphis, Tennessee, where his family moved when he was 13. He had a twin brother (Jesse Garon Presley) who died at birth.
The young Elvis took up guitar at 11 and, after high school, worked at Precision Tool Company and then drove a truck for the Crown Electric Company.
Scottish author Allan Morrison claims that Elvis was of Scottish descent. In an as-yet-unpublished book, Morrison claims to have found that his ancestors lived in Lonmay, Aberdeenshire in the 1700s. According to Morrison, records show that Andrew Presley married Elspeth Leg in Lonmay in 1713. Their son, also called Andrew, went to the English colonies in 1745.
Through his father's mother Minnie Mae, Elvis descended from King Henry II of England.
His maternal grandmother was Jewish.
Each of us stands on the shoulders of our ancestors. So too Elvis; his genealogy
provides a fascinating view of the influences that help form him. Our story begins
with Elvis's maternal heritage through his mother, Gladys.
Elvis's great-great-great-grandmother, Morning White Dove (1800-1835), was a
full-blooded Cherokee Indian. She married William Mansell, a settler in western
Tennessee, in 1818. William's father, Richard Mansell, had been a soldier in the
Revolutionary War. Mansell is a French name--its literal translation is the man
from Le Mans. The Mansells migrated from Norman France to Scotland, and then
later to Ireland. In the 18th century the family came to the American Colonies.
The appellation "white" in Morning Dove's name refers to her status as a
friendly Indian. Early American settlers called peaceable Indians "white," while
"red" was the designation for warring Indians or those who sided with the British in
the Revolutionary War. It was common for male settlers in the West to marry
"white" Indians as there was a scarcity of females on the American frontier.
Like many young men in the American Southwest, William Mansell fought with
Andrew Jackson in the Indian Wars of the early nineteenth century. He fought with
Old Hickory in Alabama, at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and later in Florida too.
Returning to Tennessee from the Indian Wars, William Mansell married Morning
White Dove. Elaine Dundy says of the marriage, he (William Mansell) gained
"age-old Indian knowledge of the American terrain; of forests and parries; of crops
and game; of protection against the climate; of medicine lore, healing plants as well
as something in which the Indians were expert--the setting of broken bones."
Moreover, added to Elvis's lineage were Morning White Dove's ruddy Indian
complexion and fine line of cheek.
Like many other settlers, the newlyweds migrated to Alabama from Tennessee
to claim lands garnered in the Indian Wars. The Mansells settled in Marion County
in northeast Alabama near the Mississippi border. The Scots-Irish, like William
Mansell, were the predominant settlers of Alabama. One-tenth of the population in
colonial America was Scots-Irish at the time of the American Revolution. And a
very interesting group they were. The Anglican Reverend Woodmason had this to
say about the Scots-Irish women of William Mansell's day.
"They wore nothing but thin shifts and a thin petticoat underneath. They are
sensual and promiscuous. They draw their shift as tight as possible to the body, and
pin it close, to show the roundness of their breasts, and slender waists (for they are
generally fined shaped) and draw their petticoat close to their hips to show the
fineness of their limbs--so that they might as well be in puri naturalibus."
The Scots-Irish in America were a passionate community living close to the
earth. They disdained the niceties of their British neighbors. Of this Reverend
Woodmason had to say," they delight in their present low, lazy, sluttish, heathenish,
hellish life, and seem not desirous of changing it. These people despise knowledge,
and instead of honoring a learned person...they despise and ill-treat them..."
There were other views on the passionate lifestyle of the Scots-Irish, however.
James Hall of Philadelphia described a young, Scots-Irish frontiersman in this way.
"He strode among us with the step of Achilles...I thought I could see in that man,
one of the progenitors of an unconquerable race; his face presented the traces of a
spirit quick to resent--he had the will to dare, and the power to execute, there was
something in his look which bespoke a disdain of control, and an absence of
constraint in all his movements indicating an habitual independence of thought and
action."
Think of Elvis in these words: the will to dare and the power to execute, a
disdain of control in all his movements indicating a habitual independence of
thought and action. This is the Scots-Irish heritage from which Elvis Presley issued.
In his genes he carried an independence of blood, the will to dare and the power to
execute. Many influences formed Elvis Presley besides the genealogical, yet this
description has a haunting accuracy.
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