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I just thought that Elvis had all the money in the world, all the Cadillacs and all the girls, and all he did was play the guitar and sing.
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I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
I ducked just as the first strand broke somewhere down the line and came whipping over the sideboards.
I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.
The rest of the time I devoted to painting or to those other activities a young and healthy man just out of college finds interesting.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
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The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.
I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.
`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.
It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.
I and Elvis
*" And I Love You So " was covered by Elvis Presley, Helen Reddy, Shirley Bassey, Glen Campbell, Engelbert Humperdinck, Howard Keel and a 1973 hit for Perry Como
It was a beginning that eventually led to Elvis Presley recording a dozen of her songs, including " I Got Lucky " and " Spinout ".
Will Jordan portrayed Sullivan in the films I Wanna Hold Your Hand, The Buddy Holly Story, The Doors, Mr. Saturday Night, Down with Love, and in the 1979 TV movie Elvis.
Hawkins ' song " I Put a Spell on You " was central to the plot of Stranger than Paradise, while Mystery Train is inspired by and named after a song popularized by Elvis Presley, who is also the subject of a vignette in Coffee and Cigarettes.
* plus VII: A-Ha's " Take on Me ", Gordon Lightfoot's " If You Could Read My Mind ", Amy Grant's " Good For Me ", Aretha Franklin's "( You Make Me Feel Like ) A Natural Woman " ( also Carole King ), Elvis Costello and the Attractions ' " Everyday I Write The Book ", and the Traveling Wilburys ' " Not Alone Any More ".
The title track, which was written by Elvis Costello, was originally recorded for his 2002 album When I Was Cruel.
In 2000, Shepherd's bestselling autobiography was published, titled Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think, written in collaboration with Aimee Lee Ball.
*"( I Don't Want to Go to ) Chelsea ", an Elvis Costello song from his second album, This Year's Model.
Commenting on Perkins's playing, Sam Phillips has been quoted as saying that, " I knew that Carl could rock and in fact he told me right from the start that he had been playing that music before Elvis came out on record ...
In addition to playing piano and Hammond organ with the Heartbreakers, Tench is also known as a skilled session musician, having recorded with dozens of notable artists, including Johnny Cash, U2, Elisa, Stevie Nicks, Lucinda Williams, Sam Phillips, You Am I, Susanna Hoffs, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, The Rolling Stones, Don Henley, John Prine, Ringo Starr, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Waylon Jennings, Paul Westerberg, X, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Carlene Carter, The dB's, Alanis Morissette, The Ramones, The Screaming Trees, The Tragically Hip, The Divinyls, The Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, The Cult, The Jayhawks, Dave Rawlings, Fiona Apple, Lone Justice, Sean Watkins, New Found Glory, Tift Merritt, Peter Case, Neil Diamond, Ryan Adams and Powderfinger, Naughty Sweeties City of Glass, as well as many others.
Songs he recorded, such as Harry Warren's " I Found a Million Dollar Baby ", were sung in an Elvis style, which did not suit his personality.
When I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis.
So I got a few moves from Elvis and one or two from Sonny Boy Williamson II and Howlin ' Wolf and threw them all together.
" Eyewitness Jerry Schilling writes, " The way Elvis looked out at us at that moment, I thought I could see a mix of hurt over the attacks he ’ d been subjected to in the press, and a deep pride in who he was and what he was doing.
* April 20 – Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood for the first time since coming home from Germany to film G. I.
Other notable artists who recorded early Diamond songs were Elvis Presley, who interpreted " Sweet Caroline " as well as " And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind "; Mark Lindsay, former lead singer for Paul Revere & the Raiders, who covered " And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind "; the English hard-rock band Deep Purple, which interpreted " Kentucky Woman "; Lulu, who covered " The Boat That I Row ", and Cliff Richard, who released versions of " I'll Come Running ", " Solitary Man ", " Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon ", " I Got The Feelin ' ( Oh No No )", and " Just Another Guy ".
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