Yay or nay: Elvis/Beatles/Elvis vs Beatles

According to my parent’s generation, so did Elvis, who was responsible for the downward slide of teenage morality. They weren’t up on the drug scene the Beatles engendered-ours was a small, rural, conservative town where only the most daring(a clique of 3 or 4 males) went to smoke weed behind the hamburger stand that bordered the school campus.

I vote for the Beatles.

I was too young to see Elvis at his best. The only Elvis movie I saw at the theater was “Blue Hawaii”, the first in a double feature that my grandmother and I stumbled into when I was about 6 or so. She was distressed at the pelvis shaking, I didn’t understand why at the time.

In our high-school cafeteria, we, surprisingly, had a Jukebox. I musta heard “Hey, Jude”; “Let it Be” and “Lucy in the Sky w/ Diamonds” 1000 times during my first two years of HS. By then, other artists were singing Elvis songs and delivering them better!! Poor guy-what a waste of talent!!

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Keep in mind that Elvis never wrote a single song (not that there’s anything wrong with that), and much of what he recorded were songs that had been recorded before, some of them many times; very few songs were written specifically for him. (of course, same is largely true for the Beatles prior to Rubber Soul)
IMO, the best version of “Hound Dog” is the original by Big Mama Thornton.

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Needs some music. About the BEST thing that Elvis did was create a cross over opportunity for ‘black’ music into ‘white’ culture. https://youtu.be/BmpwvxW0gW0

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