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Perfect Pop – Vol. 6 ('60s special)
Looking over my shortlist for the Perfect Pop series, I realised that the ’60s column was much longer than that of other decades. I guess that pop might have been more perfect in the 1960s than in...
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Perfect Pop – Vol. 8
Here are a few more perfect pop records which brings the number of featured songs up up to 100 (by my rough count). Stevie Wonder – You Are The Sunshine Of My Life.mp3 This song has been covered a...
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Elvis movies quiz
What it says in the title… Guess the Elvis movie from the synopsis. Clue: all these movies were made after Elvis served his fatherland. The answers are in the comments section. Not that I’d know any of...
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The Originals Vol. 13 – Elvis edition 1
After a three-months absence, The Originals are returning. I must admit to having been discouraged from continuing it after more than half of the previous instalments were DMCAed by Blogger. Happily,...
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The Originals Vol. 15 – Elvis edition 2
Big Mama Thornton – Hound Dog.mp3 Freddie Bell & the Bellboys – Hound Dog.mp3 Elvis Presley – Hound Dog.mp3 RCA Studios, New York. Monday, 2 July 1956. Elvis turned up for his third and final...
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The Originals Vol. 16 – Elvis edition 3
In the third Elvis special in this series we look at the originals of That’s All Right (1954), My Baby Left Me (1956), His Latest Flame (1961), Cant’ Help Falling In Love With You (1961) and Viva Las...
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The Originals Vol. 21 – Elvis edition 4
This is the fourth and final Elvis special in the Originals series. That is 20 cover versions (plus Glenn Reves’ demo acetate of Heartbreak Hotel), out of some 250 cover versions Elvis recorded. Most...
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The Originals – Elvis Presley Vol. 1
On 8 January Elvis would have turned 80. Let that sink in. And when you bump into an 80-year-old man today…that could be Elvis now! To mark Elvis’ birthday, here’s the first of two mixes of original...
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The Originals – Elvis Presley Vol. 2
The first part of the Elvis Originals covered (as it were) the Rock & Roll years and early post-GI period. Here we have the originals of songs Elvis covered in the 1960s and ’70s. Elvis Presley’s...
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Any Major Elvis Covers
Where were you when you learned of Elvis’ death, 40 years ago on August 16? I was at a church summer camp. At 11 I didn’t really appreciate the importance of Elvis. To me, he was a name and face one...
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