"Lust,
Elvis" – The unreleased BMG CD
The
first time I met him I was blown away, I just looked at him
and said, "Damn, son, you about the best looking thing I ever
did see, kinda’ wish I was a girl right now, Elvis." - Jerry
Reed (composer of ‘Guitar Man’).
"Elvis
is wearing the black karate-style suit and his hair, dyed
pitch-black as always, is swept back off his face in the style
he created 14 years ago. His sideboards are now very long
and spiked again, and are also jet-black. He is incredibly
handsome, with possibly the best film profile since Rudolph
Valentino." (Description of Elvis 1969) BMG yet again this
year released another Elvis "love songs" compilation.
While
there is a positive reason to have these kind of CDs in local
record shops, Elvis Presley wasn’t always about love and,
in the fifties more importantly, he was far more about lust!
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EIN
suggested in our recent review of "Love, Elvis" that
the gorgeous & sexy tongue-kissing cover might have
been more suitable instead for the still-missing RCA
compile "Lust, Elvis"!
The
powerful impact that Elvis made in the 1950s was of
a new sexual pent-up passion, suggesting that teenage
middle-America could shatter their Perry Como shackles
and break free.
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In
a delicious observation the New York Times’ Jack Gould said,
"When Presley executes his bumps and grinds, it must be remembered
by the Columbia Broadcasting System that even the 12-year-old's
curiosity may be overstimulated." However the suggested censorship
of Elvis on TV "from the waist up" and the banning of his
evocative & sexual rock’n’roll records would, of course, only
fuel the adolescent fire. Elvis’ image threatened mainstream
America and his curled-lip, greasy-hair, sideburns and flashy
attitude challenged the post-war status quo.
If
this juggernaut of teenage sensuality were allowed to escape,
nothing would ever be the same. And so the media strained
at the seams with both sides trying to repress Elvis’ new
attitude while at the same time celebrating this new & exciting
individuality.
Elvis
was basically too damn sexy for mainstream TV - but 82% of
the US viewing audience couldn’t help but watch! The battle
for media censorship struggled while Elvis, seemingly unintentionally,
kicked down the door for everyone to follow. American youth
would never be the same, & the rest of the world would follow.
The
train that was suggestively called "rock’n’roll" had already
been trundling down the line towards middle-America for several
years, but suddenly it had an unrelenting engine dripping
with hot, greasy, sensual energy & sweat – It was totally
unstoppable and the engine was Elvis!
And
although the mundane American Dream was suddenly threatened
by this nightmare, what made it even more unstoppable was
that it was totally natural.
While
Elvis oozed lust & desire from every pore, it was still totally
spontaneous, unplanned, yet burnin’ hot!
As
Elvis said in 1956, "I’m not trying to be vulgar, I’m not
trying to sell any sex, I’m not trying to be nasty. I just
enjoy what I’m doin’ and trying to make the best of it."
Elvis
was just a natural great-looking, sex-god and surely that
deserves a CD worth of celebration.
So
here is the new BMG CD Lust, Elvis - Play it dirty
as suggested by EIN, play it at home to the partner you desire.
"Lust,
Elvis - Play it dirty"
Such
A Night
Give
Me The Right
One
Night of Sin
Baby,
Let’s Play House
Money
Honey
Baby,
What Do You Want Me To Do
It
Feels So Right
Little
Sister
High
Heel Sneakers
Trouble
Let
Yourself
Go
Down
In The Alley
I
Want You With Me
Fever
Anyway
You Want Me
Shake,
Rattle and Roll
Blue
Christmas ("Play it dirty" '68 Special version)
Burning
Love
If
You Talk In Your Sleep
Relax
Reconsider
Baby
Note
- Interestingly Elvis is often compared to the British romantic
poet Lord Byron. Byron was even noted for his disdainful curl
of his upper lip. The astounding connection is that Byron
also died young (aged 36) with his autopsy noting problems
due to an enlarged heart and damaged liver!
Many
thanks to 'Sanja Archives' for the images.
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