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another mess of blues with wikipedia and elvis

A MESS OF BLUES seems to be the song that sums up many of the entries on Wikipedia for rock & roll in general and Elvis Presley in particular. Their article on the soundtrack album for the 1968 NBC-TV Special ELVIS is so error-ridden as to be not only not useful, but to be downright harmful! [Continue reading]

can fifty million elvis fans be wrong? (yet more gold records vol. 2)

IN TWO RECENT ESSAYS here on A Touch Of Gold, I addressed issues regarding Elvis Presley’s 1959 album ELVIS’ GOLD RECORDS VOL. 2 (RCA Victor LPM-2075). Specifically, I examined how the record was titled in its Wikipedia entry, where it is referred to as by the phrase “50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong,” as if that was the record’s title. [Continue reading]

50 neal umphred fans can’t be wrong (wiki woes 2)

THIS IS A FOLLOW-UP TO MY ARTICLE “50,000,000 Wikipedia Contributors Can’t Be Wrong (Hah!)” posted earlier here on A Touch Of Gold. That piece addressed Wikipedia’s poorly written entry titled “50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong” and its many errors and misconceptions. [Continue reading]

50,000,000 wikipedia contributors can’t be wrong (hah!)

I WAS PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES on my article “Elvis’ Golden Caricatures Volume 3” on this site and had to link a title to a Wikipedia entry. Normally, I just find the entry, copy the address, and head back to my site and paste the link into the text. [Continue reading]

A FEW QUOTES

“[Elvis] came to the session, picked the songs, and if something in the arrangement was changed, he was the one to change it. Everything was worked out spontaneously. Nothing was really rehearsed. Consciously or unconsciously, everyone imitated him.” – Bones Howe

“You have no idea how great he is, really you don’t. You have no comprehension, it’s absolutely impossible. I can’t tell you why he’s so great, but he is. He’s sensational.” – Phil Spector

"I don’t think he ripped them off. I think once something has been exposed, anyone can add or take from it if they like. He was just so great, so popular, and so hot, and so anything that he played became a hit.” – B.B. King

“He was an integrator. Elvis was a blessing. They wouldn’t let black music through. He opened the door for black music.” – Little Richard

"Elvis was a great man and did more for civil rights than people know. To say he was a racist is an insult to us all.” – Ernest Withers

"The only white boy that had soul—who could sing as good as any of them—was Elvis When it comes to singing, nobody had everything like Elvis. I’ll tell the world, Elvis was the greatest of all time." – Muhammad Ali

“The first time that I appeared on stage, I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, ‘What’d I do?’ And he said, 'Whatever it is, go back and do it again.' ” – Elvis Presley

"Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the 20th century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it’s a whole new social revolution [and] the '60s come from it.” – Leonard Bernstein