75 Reasons We (Still) Love Elvis -- Part Two

ELVIS FOREVER! His contribution to America, both in his music and in sharing his wealth so generously, will never be forgotten. Elvis donated much of the money that funded the memorial for the U.S. Arizona, a battleship moored in Pearl Harbor and sunk by the Japanese during the attack of December 7, 1941. Thousands of sailors died in that sinking ship, and are entombed within it.

Dear BearStar, I would be so thrilled if Elvis were alive, even if he no longer performs. His death was untimely, to say the least. I think you tried to reply to me, but the alphabet soup link didn't work, but I do want to thank you for trying. After any beloved performer or leader dies too soon, there are always some who cannot accept his death, or who even try to resurrect him. After the great revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was assassinated in Mexico around 1912, rumors swept the country that he had come alive again. Hope springs eternal! May God bless you and the Presley family.

BearStar55, You are so wrong and it is wrong to put this in peoples head you give them hope that he is still alive but I for one better than any no that Elvis is passed, I wish with all my heart that he was still here but I would not give any one false hopes.
Happy Birthday my sweet Elvis.

Elvis's music will live on long after any fuss about his sideburns or his stage gyrations is forgotten. He had the most fantastic sense of musical timing; he could bring a lyric straight into a listener's heart. He was the greatest histrionic singer, never to be equalled, and he put meaning into verses that lesser singers thought silly, like Hound Dog and Teddy Bear. He also had the matchless ability to elicit love, especially from female fans. Like Frank Sinatra, he received massive feminine adoration; both were the lone offspring of excessively devoted mothers.
Elvis had the personal strength to withstand attacks from all sorts of moralizers who condemned him and claimed he was a bad influence on teens. But, considering his wealth, the temptations, isolation and pressures of fame, Elvis behaved remarkably well, in comparison with other megastars. But, he was done in by drug dependency, which began in the Army when officers were passing out Benzedrine pills to keep soldiers awake on watch at night. Elvis got started on these pills after he was nearly overcome by fumes from a small gas heater he had brought along to keep warm on his night watch during the German winter. In those days, Benzedrine was available without prescription and nobody knew how harmful it was. Addiction was not well understood. Elvis's drug habit got worse; he became increasingly dependent on powerful prescription narcotics, and this is what finally took his life.

long live the king,
pat mitchell,age 66

CALLING ELVIS:

“Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do'em all together, I guess.”
~Elvis Presley~

“Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'”
~Elvis Presley~

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.”
~Elvis Presley~

“Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one”
~Elvis Presley~

“Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.”
~Elvis Presley~

“The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.”
~Elvis Presley~

“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”
~Elvis Presley~

“Ah just act the way ah feel.”
~Elvis Presley~

“I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch "Rebel Without a Cause" a hundred times over.”
~Elvis Presley~

"When I was a child, ladies and gentleman, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend -- without a song." So I keep singing my song."
~Elvis Presley~

“We're all just waiting to see what changes, if any, will be made,”
~Elvis Presley~

I LIVED IN FOREST CITY,ARK, JUST 32 MILES FROM MEMPHIS,-TN., I WAS STATIONED @ MILLINGTON,TN A FEW MILES AWAY FOR A SHORT TIME, WAS THERE WHEN DR MARTIN LUTHOR KING WAS ASSASSINATED, USED TO CROSS OVER THE BRIDGE AND FOLLOW THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND GO UP PAST THE JAIL. I WENT BT THERE WENT THEY CAUGHT RAY, PUT HIM ON THE 3RD FLOOR AND LEADLINED ALL THE WINDOWS SO HE HE COULDN'T BE SNIPED AT.WENT TO THE FARGO BROS (NWA TAG TEAM CHAMPS) NIGHTCLUB AND MET BUFORD PUSSER, WALKING TALL, AFTER HE GOT OUT OF THE HOSP.HE WAS A BIG MAN. NEVER MET OR SAW ELVIS.