Posted by Roy
on 1/16/2008, 9:02 am, in reply to "Elvis"
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One song I always liked but never hear mentioned is Guitar Man, released in early 1968. Up until then I was frankly bored with Elvis because all he was doing for several years was slushy, Perry Como-ish ballads. I asked Mom why Elvis couldn't do some hard rock once in a while and she said probably because he was "getting old" (he had just passed age 30 around this time--good thing Mick Jagger wasn't eavesdropping when Mom made that comment).
But a lot of listeners must have been asking the same thing (I believe John Lennon did--directly) and so Guitar Man hit the charts. And one thing I loved about the song was the reference he made in the song to Mobile, Alabama, my Mom's birthplace!
-Roy
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