Re: Did Elvis ever lapse into Elizabethan prose?

Ross Howard filted:
>
>Oy! I know you American-type individuals get a kick out of wrecking
>the spelling of such words as "colour" and "honour", but you don't
>have to extend it to French, you know.

All that French spelling is made up, anyway....

>Anyway, "Amoureuse"... great toon, bad reckid. I too had very fond
>memories of it, but I just gave it a listen for the first time in,
>ooh, about 30 years and it hasn't worn well at all. (That
>four-bars-of-this-and-four-bars-of-that arrangement! That lame choir!
>That really annoying yodelly bit in the chorus!)

She *has* re-recorded it, you know...see if you can find the remake on her
"Almost Naked" CD...as sexy as the song was back in the day, now she's added a
little maturity to her performance of it, and as the album title is meant to
imply, that performance is a "near-live" one....

Got a collection of her sixties stuff from Motown that shows off her talent in
its earliest form....

>Proper voice on her, though -- she was the K.D. Lang of the '70s in
>many respects. (Both could make *No Business Like Show Business" sound
>sexy, for starters.)

In those days, we could always look to Toni Tennille to torch it up good,
too....r

.

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