C80: Songs About Elvis

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In My Hour Of Darkness, I think

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

According to some, "Under the Milky Way" by the Church is about Elvis' last night on Earth.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Bobby Bare's "The All-American Boy"

― footlog, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Barry Tiffon - A Candy Bar for Elvis

― Lloyd Bonecutter (Lloyd Bonecutter), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Warren Zevon: Porcelain Monkey, Jesus Mentioned

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Loads of Nick Cave - Tupelo, Saint Huck, ummm....

― Charles Dexter (Holey), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Even though it came out a few years before EP died, I've always pretended the Jerry Lee Lewis's "The Hole He Said He'd Dig For Me" was about Elvis.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Gen X - "King Rocker"
Janis Martin - "My Boy Elvis"

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

The Who - "Real Good Looking Boy" or something. A recent recording.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Danny Mirror - 'I Remember Elvis Presley'. A 'cash-in on his death' UK hit in 1977 by some Belgian geezer.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Emmylou Harris, "Boy From Tupelo"

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Eurythmics, "Angel"

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Steve Forbert, "House of Cards" (from Young Guitar Days), which is great, if only for the line about pissing on a black cadillac. And the Parson's verse mentioned up-thread is, I think, from the song "Return of the Greivous Angel" (lyrics by Tom Brown): "The news I could bring I met up with the king / On his head an amphetamine crown / He talked about unbuckling that old bible belt / And lighted out for some desert town."

― Roy Kasten, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Peter & the Test Tube Babies - Elvis is Dead

― Bill E (bill_e), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Alex Chilton - "I Wish I Could Meet Elvis"

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Couple 45s that could be tough finds digitally:

Audrey, "Dear Elvis"
Lou Monte, "Elvis Presley for President"

― jared, Thursday, 10 November 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Paul Simon's "Graceland". Well, it's about his house.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 November 2005 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link

doublehappys 'big fat elvis', but it's awful
prefab sprout 'jordan the comeback'

― keyth (keyth), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Living Colour - Elvis is Dead

Probably can include Fight the Power as well.

― The Cricklewood Massive (The Cricklewood Massive), Thursday, 10 November 2005 07:10 (eighteen years ago) link

the odds--wendy
("i was fucking wendy, under the stairs, the night that elvis died")

does any one have this btw?

― anthony, Thursday, 10 November 2005 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Phil Lynott - The King's Call

― naranjito (Koens), Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link

"Listening to Elvis," Syd Straw
"The King is Gone," Ronnie McDowell
"Worthless Thing," Elvis Costello
"Elvis Presley in America," U2 (I think that's what it's called)

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 10 November 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link

"I Try to Think About Elvis," Patty Loveless
"Amnesia," Mekons

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 10 November 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Colorblind James Experience 'Considering a Move to Memphis'

― horace broon (horace broon), Thursday, 10 November 2005 12:44 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

You are missing a number.
1. Big Train--John Fogerty
2. We Remember the King--Johnny Cash and the Class of 55
3. My Tribute to Elvis--Entire album by Merle Haggard including From Graceland to the Promised Land

― David L. Smith, Monday, 12 December 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

"Advertising Space" by Robbie Williams.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

on a related note, can we name 10 songs where the singer busts out an Elvis imitation for a line or two? Doesn't have to be quoting Elvis lines, more like dipping into the standard Elvis voice for a few bars. The reason I ask is that Robert Plant's "hey baby"s at the end of "Fool In the Rain" sound a little Elvis-y. Thanks!

― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link

^^"Man on The Moon"

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link

oh yeah, thanks C. Grisso! Stipe doing Kaufman doing Elvis, no less. I'm surprised that more singers haven't done this

― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 23:46 (ten years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/82/245957988_65372207c0.jpg

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link

Chris Houston - "Baby Jesus Looks Like Elvis"
Blue Mountain - "Epitaph"
The Residents' "the baby king" interludes all over The King and Eye (in order, though!) would spice up any compilation

Need to second, and emphasize, Nick Cave's "Tupelo"

Ron Hynes' "Cryer's Paradise" is largely about Elvis; Hynes also breaks into a funny little Elvis impersonation toward the end of the song.

― Has talent, needs to figure out how to improve (staggerlee), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link

Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)

Not sure if it's actually about him, but at least he's referenced.

― Mule, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link

Scott Walker - Jesse

― Admin is dead, e/t is permitted (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link

five years pass...

Slade: "Far Far Away" ("I've sang the glory that was Rome/And passed the hound-dog singer's home")

― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 19 July 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link

Dylan - "Went to See the Gypsy"

― Brad C., Saturday, 20 July 2019 01:55 (four years ago) link

Tom Jones version of Gillian Welch's "Elvis Presley Blues," the original version of which was mentioned upthread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZnXlgKHCHk

― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 01:59 (four years ago) link

Is it possible that this thread does not yet mention Belle & Sebastian’s “A Century of Elvis”?

― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 02:27 (four years ago) link

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi79WixayY8
Jimmy Webb, “Elvis and Me”

― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 November 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link

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