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Mac davis wrote this song, Elvis had the guts to record it
Mac recorded it first.
That's because Elvis was from hood. As matter In fact Mac Davis wrote In ghetto to Elvis.
@@MikkoSimila Mac Davis came from a poor working class family, too. So, it's like he didn't experience rough times, either.
Mac Davis wrote alot of Elvis's songs
First called the vicious circle..
This song always makes me cry. I am the last of 11 children. Born in 1970, white n poor as hell. To say I could relate is an understatement.
It makes me cry too.
I'll pray for you.
Me too. Youngest of 15.
Me too my friend.
Can we be friends please? I have been just living the moments
“In the Ghetto” was first recorded by Elvis in 1969…. so sad that the lyrics are still relevant 52 years later in 2021. 😢
Yes so sad
So true sir, so true
So true. Sadly, the song pointa out it's a continuous circle until more of us "understand" and stop "turning our heads."
Well said
Sad that it's still true😢
Elvis grew up dirt poor in poor neighbourhood & he never judged people , or saw people in colours . He sang with his heartfelt feelings . RIP Elvis , you are still missed . Concerts in heaven now 😇🥰
Yes Elvis grew up in black neighborhood. Where his love of gospel came from
Elvis grew up in extreme poverty, and learned to sing in a black gospel choir. He knew hunger and being desperate. This song came from his heart.
He sang from his heart but he never wrote it was written by mac davis
Mac Davis painted a picture with his words, Elvis interpreted it beautifully and he sang it from the heart. You can’t fake it.
Kaptain Kid born and raised in a “Shotgun Shack” in Tupelo, growing up in government housing in Memphis. Elvis was dirt poor. That soul you can’t fake. But your girlfriend never fakes it with me.....at least that’s what she told me!
A backstory interview with Mac Davis about this song is here (starts at 2:15) ua-cam.com/video/WGSnTfRJlCY/v-deo.html
“....this dude is Hood as hell...” Elvis was dirt poor in Mississippi....you can feel it in his voice! “...this is dope...”
I don't mean to belabor this subject but please go back and listen to the full thing you had maybe 45 seconds somewhere I believe thank you you are wonderful reactor
CAUSE HE LEGIT
Yes he was just like my dirt poor family. My grandmother had 15 kids n my mama got out ..but It was Elvis n Jesus for us
I live in Chicago, I’m 52, I’m bawling...this has always been an issue. My heart is breaking. Love to everyone!
I grew up in Roseland/left is 73/I am 65 and it was a tough neighborhood back then. but back then we didin/t settle our differences with guns it was fists all the way....you didn't die but sometimes you wished you did////if you know what I mean
@@LASchgos from what your saying I can only say was Elvis looking into the future as he sang this song, not only was Elvis a great humanitarian, he was also a visionary to go with the best voice in history, long live Elvis 😊🌏
I also am a lifelong Chicagoan. This song always gets me as well.
At 10 years old Elvis moved from a 2 room shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, and up the road to Memphis where he lived in what was known as "the white ghetto". Back in Tupelo, the class had a music teacher who picked Elvis out of all the voices and told him ".....Elvis, you can't sing..". While many young kids would have been crushed by that, Elvis respectfully replied, "....Oh I can sing all right, but I just don't sound like nobody else...".
I also know Anita Baker was told she "couldn't sing." Apparently, music teachers aren't always the best judge of talent.
Interesting note: he never mentions the child's color.
Mr. Balloffur because to Elvis he was never color blind...He cared just as much for black people then white people...one can assume he’s talking about a black child because it’s in Chicago but that would be racial profiling so I’m assuming it didn’t matter to Elvis what color...a young boy is a young boy no matter the color of there skin.
@@MITCH_61 My point was, most people listen to it would assume it's a black child, but the fact is he never mentions what color the child is, that shows other people's prejudices. Thanks for weighing in.
Few people realized at that time, that poverty and hunger really doesn't care what your race is. Everyone always think its someone elses problem to fix, when truthfully, it is The Master Race who has to fix the problem...you know... The HUMAN Race...
He also doesn't tell us where the father is. Women: be very careful who you sleep with or you will be part of this tragedy.
Because it isn't important. Suffering is suffering.
This tune, "In the Ghetto" is fifty years old. It could have come out yesterday.
The saddest thing is, when an artist releases a song that makes people say "that's so true, we need to do something about it" and 50 years later, people listen to the same song, thinking the same damn thing... Are we that stupid?
Look back through history. We are worse than "that stupid." Wishing you, ALL of you, a Happy Easter!
Except elvis would have been accused of cultural appropriation and racism and entirely shamed for using the word "ghetto"
Or 50 year before it did.
Unfortunately, it'll probably still resonate 50 years from now.
When Elvis and his family moved to Memphis in the early 1950’s they had only what they could carry in one car and they moved into the projects the hood of Memphis and a lot of his musical influences was local black blues singers long live the king
Out of ALL of the "UA-camrs' reactions..... This guy got it.. Understood it.... Was so touching!!.... Just the expressions on his face.... Like the song was speaking of the past....BUT as we all know.... It's the STILL THE SAME!!... ( A VICIOUS CYCLE)
Elvis help a lot of people but he never wanted credit ther was a black singer who got really sick and he paid for hospital send him home and too care of him till he past away he had a really good ❤️ God bless him.
The interviews that Mac the song writer did make it even more thought provoking. His best friend was a black boy. His dad and his friends dad worked at the same place. Mac could not understand that while he and his family were poor his friends family was even poorer and lived in poverty. His dad explained to him that because his friends daddy was black he earned even less that Macs daddy even tho they did the same job. His friend moved away and he missed him so.
Thanks Shelly for info been meaning to look up Mac's history..love from England 🇬🇧
Dude I'm 56 years old and I always cry when I hear this song, because shit hasn't changed in alllll these years....what a shame....♡
Me too and my great grandma was a Leighton
Elvis would turn over in his grave today to know these things have not changed over the years!
I'm 56 years old too. It's not really relevant. I just thought I'd mention it is all.
@@patriciaataylor5646 I think he would believe it.
Things not changing makes me cry too.
You nailed it, my friend. And yes, he grew up poorer than poor. His family lived next to the ghetto part of Tupello, MMississippi. As a very young child he used to wander into the black area (there was segregation in the deep South). The men who sat on porches playing soulful blues. He loved it. One man had patience to teach a little boy some chords on the guitar.
"The vicious cycle" Mac Davis wrote this song because he seen 'the cycle' as a child, Mac was Poor too.
Mesa, AZ
Rip Mac Davis
there was a big difference in being white poor and black poor.
Mac
Mac Davis was one hell of a songwriter
Hey Micheal, I'm in Gilbert. How you doing? You know Mac was poor growing up but it was his 6 year old best friend who really lived in the Ghetto. ..I saw an interview with Mac and he got the guitar lock from a friend in the studio, working on something else but then sharing this little riff that was actually somebody else's, believe it or not. Anyway, he used to remember thinking, " why does my little friend have to go this bad place when we're done playing and we have so much? Yes, he was considered poor, so can you imagine how bad the ghetto had to be that it would leave such an impression on a little 6 year old boy? Anyway, I thought it was interesting
The most simple of songs could make the greatest impact. I listen to all the oldies of every genre because this is where all our music originated and it matters! Poverty has no color and nothing on this earth can unite people the way music does.
Clearly, poverty is also something that will NEVER change. This song has ALWAYS brought me to tears.
Elvis is the King for a reason. He grew up heavily influenced by the blues singers in his area and everyone thought he was black when they first heard his recordings. Not to mention he was the first artist to break boundaries and let his body move freely to the music in his soul. There are many great artists but not many artists that make this kind of eternal impact on music (not just a genre but MUSIC) and the world.
I remember crying to this as a young girl...still makes me cry 50 years on.
Same & it still makes my hair stand on end. Goose bumps everytime I hear it.
Comments like these break my damn heart
Full body goosebumps every time I listen to it!
Mac Davis was trying to write a song about the "vicious cycle" and I think he did a hell of a job.
first to mention Mac Davis not many know he wrote it
Wasn't that the original title.
@@jaded2424 Kind of, it was called "The Vicious Circle"
Davis was a major Country song writer and singer back in the 70s.
@Karen P you got to be kidding me you like Mac Davis is version better than I was version in the ghetto. First off Mac Davis wrote the song for Elvis. Elvis made of such a big impact on the song and he's you don't want to ever recorded it. Mac Davis did not record it it was written strictly for Elvis. Learn your music
Its stunning to me to see the reactions to Mac Davis' song as recorded by Elvis Presley. I could never listen to it my whole life without tears, and it did the same to my mom who was from Elvis' era. Elvis knew poverty and hard times growing up in Missippi, his gift for music got him out of the poverty, but he never forgot where he came from.
He too, lived real, real stuff! He understood poverty, etc cuz he lived it, his heart was huge and he was very generous with everyone!
Elvis grew up the poorest of the poor. Like dirt floors - poor.
Elvis recorded this song in 1969 and there is no video because videos had not been invented then. He was not "hood" he was just poor. Poverty is not reserved exclusively for black people. I am white and I was raised in a house with no running water, no television, and no telephone. We purchased our clothes at a used clothing store and ate only the things we raised in our own garden and believe it or not my parents also regarded another baby as just "another hungry little mouth to feed". We never attended a ball game or a movie or anything else that required an admission fee because there was literally NEVER money for that sort of "extra". Our "bathroom" was an outhouse about 50 feet from our back door. Our house was heated solely by a wood-burning pot bellied stove and if you were not in the room where the stove was located you pretty much froze. It is a serious mistake to think that only little black kids who lived in the city grew up poor. Little white kids who lived in the country grew up poor also. I know because I was one of them and Elvis was also one of them. Yeah, he did a lot of research to record this song. His research was called "life".
@@maryannanderson7517 The first ever recorded video is from 1888......
I did not mean to imply that there were no videos at all cause I don't know about the first recorded video. I was saying that when songs were recorded MUSIC videos were not made to go along with those songs until MUCH later than 1888 and much later than 1969. Are you saying that the video from 1888 was a music video? If that is what you are saying I really would like to see that.
When I was stationed in Memphis, we took a ride southeast on I-22 to Tupelo to see the shotgun house he grew up in. A man of humble beginnings to be sure. ua-cam.com/video/8eLSKsNCb4Q/v-deo.html
@@triecc2265 ok smarty, I think you know damn well she meant music videos
How can anyone not love Elvis he is real doesn't sugar coat anything, his rendition of glory hallelujah is amazing
It's called American Trilogy
@@raywhite4190 and?
@@jcmcnaughton8121 and what?
Elvis was discovered to get the white girls out of the black clubs. Fact!
White America didn't want their white daughters in black clubs. Fact!
Elvis never wrote a song. Fact!
All of his songs were written by white guys, apart from the ones he covered by black artists.
His gyrating was going on long before Elvis made the scene. Fact!
Elvis was groomed. Fact!
Just like all the American and world idols. Fact!
Not saying he wasn't a good performer.
I just didn't take the bait.
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 you chat shit
“If somebody else would’ve said it we probably wouldn’t listen.” And there it is, straight up man. Well said.
Mac Davis wrote and composed this POWERFUL song and sang it as well!
Well Elvis song it'👊
He was told not to do this song but he insisted, you can hear how much it meant to him.
I like when you respond!
All of his songs meant something to him except movie songs He grew up really poor his dad went to prison for forgery he went to church with his mum and used to leave to go the gospel church. He can sing rock n roll ballads gospel country all genres from 1956 onwards..Listen to How great tho art yes he even sang gospel on tour
He recorded the song in 1969. The first Elvis song I ever liked. I grew to love his music now, but this song is the one that touches my soul.
I love a lot of his songs but this and Kentucky Rain are my faves. This song touches me too. I grew up in the hood. I was hungry a LOT. There were 4 of us. Dad had a drug problem. Mom was a waitress. My brothers and I scrambled to find ways to earn money. By the grace of God we avoided trouble because mom tried so hard to involve us in activities and church to keep us occupied. It was a struggle. But my mom did it.
even though Mac Davis wrote the song it struck a real chord in Elvis' reality. Elvis lived the ghetto in his young life!
ua-cam.com/video/WGSnTfRJlCY/v-deo.html this guy wrote it.
ua-cam.com/video/ywsuK3sRtLI/v-deo.html
Mac Davis was a great singer songwriter 👍🏻he wrote a lot of hits !
Mac Davis wrote the song but it's Elvis' heart and soul coming through. Like many in show business, Elvis got caught up in some stuff and made mistakes. But beneath all that he was a very humble and loving man who helped a lot of people. He was also an American patriot who loved his country. I write this comment in June of 2020 when we are dealing with racial issues brought to a head by recent events, and this song is at least as fitting now as it was when he recorded it. I'm glad you were touched by this wonderful song and Elvis' amazing talent.
Love your reaction. Of course, you know by now it was written by Mac Davis in the 1960s, who also recorded several other songs of his own of a more country groove. Apparently not too many people wanted to record this one in the late '60s, but then Elvis owned it. Thank you, Elvis. Still so relevant today. Unbelievable.
I cried like a baby the first time (and every time since then) I heard this at the age of 10 or 11 (1981-1982). Mac Davis was a brilliant songwriter and Elvis was the perfect man to bring it! ❤
9 Nunn bu
Elvis was raised in a two room shack in Miss. He knows what he's talking about.
"People, don't you understand
The child needs a helping hand
Or he'll grow to be an angry young man some day?
Take a look at you and me
Are we too blind to see
Do we simply turn our heads, and look the other way?
Still valid July 7th 2020
Ive watched a lot of reaction videos by many people on YT of songs by artist and this is by far my favorite. Your reaction is like hearing it again for the first time as a young kid back in the 70's. I cried for the young man and for his momma then and still do. Peace!
More truth than any hip hop artist and it's 60 years old
The main change is now most of the violence is drug related, not due to lack of food.
Today’s hip hop is stupid, but Tupac was telling the truth about life in the 90s. Listen to Brenda’s Got a Baby
Brian Thompson
The title of Elvis’ song If I Can Dream was in honour of MLK Jr’s I Have A Dream speech and recorded just after MLK’s assassination in Memphis (EP’s adopted hometown). Elvis reportedly had great admiration and respect for him and RFK. Maybe that’s why he didn’t like to be called the ‘King’ our of respect for the late one.
theconversation.com/amp/if-i-can-dream-the-elvis-tribute-to-martin-luther-king-jr-87845
Generalize some more, try looking even more stupid.
The song was recorded in *1969*
They told him not to do this song written by Mac Davis. But he said I am doing it. . He grew up in the ghetto. That's how he knows and can sing from the heart.
This was written by Mac Davis, a talented lyricist and musician.Elvis knew greatness when he heard it.And Elvis ,as I, grew up poor ,on government assistance.As a 62year old woman, I can answer you...the ghettos have been around FOREVER...poverty is too real.Love to All.God Bless..
Linda Miles amen sister. My mom played this song so many times. 30 years later me and two sisters get together, the song plays on the radio. And all three of us sang together. As we thought back to our childhood.
It's sad that this is still relevant today! I was about 8 years old living in NY city projects when this song came out. I remember crying because I felt how hard it could be for kids and I knew I was one of the lucky ones.
This song was released in 1969, and it reached #2 on the charts. Fifty-One years later, the cycle is still repeating itself. Is there a way, that we can bring it back, make it go to number one, and stop this once and forever. Regardless of your color, gender, we are all the same on the inside, we feel pain, hunger, evil; however we can also feel joy, filled, and happiness! All we have to do, is make it happen. -- Thank you Cigar Ralphy for reminding us, of this vicious cycle that should have gone away a longtime ago.
Elvis was a GREAT MAN
PoboyNCoke is
No Elvis is THE Man the most important and adulated performer of the recorded entertainment era
He’s was a good man even tru his drug addictions and 15 year old wife
@@macdaddyclunker6237his wife was 21 when they got married. You should know the facts before you comment
By far, by f***ing far the best reaction on this song on UA-cam!
It really is the best reaction. He takes me back to the first time I heard this song just being shook. Then listening to it over and over with tears. The music starts and its lovely then Elvis' beautiful voice and the first few seconds your brain is thinking this is great sound. By the end you are just left gobsmacked.
I am 60 years old. I remember we owned this song on a 45 record. At age 10 I listened to this song over and over again. I would cry and I would worry about kids in the ghetto. I was raised in an all white , racist community and never even talked to a black person until I was in high school. We had 3 black students. But I remember as a child listening to this song that I was determined not to be racist. I have tried my best to up hold that. Loved this song.
The live version of this song is amazing. Backing singers just make it so much more. God bless Elvis and the people of the south
Every time, I hear this song, it makes me think about, how cruel life can be.
I just watched "The Story Behind the Song - In the Ghetto" on the Tennessean youtube. It's an interview with Mac Davis who wrote the song. In the first part of the interview, he talks about one of his memories when he was about 5 or 6 which stuck with him his whole life and how he had wanted from his early 20s to write a song about what he had seen and experienced as a child. As a child, he saw the systemic inequality and that vision imbedded itself and finally found a voice in his song. Out of the mouths of babes.
Elvis lived Ghetto. He grew up very poor. He has a big heart for all poor and suffering ppl. He never forgot his roots and gives so much back to the poor and charities. He is annointed by God to heal and love ppl with his profound voice. He reaches right deep inside u and touches u with his true love.
Yes Elvis grew up completely broke! This is one of my favorites of his!
This is one of the best songs ever. Goosebumps and tears every time I hear it because it speaks the truth.
Elvis grew up in extreme poverty. He was a friend of Mac Davis who wrote this song. He was so touched by the song he asked to record it.
Actually, Mac Davis took the song to many artists before Elvis for almost a decade and no one would record it. He took it to a couple people who eventually told him to take it to Elvis because at the time Elvis was the only one big enough to sing what at the time was considered to be an incredibly controversial song. Elvis told his manager and his recording label "I'm singing this song" and he literally forced them to let him record it. Even then, it got almost no play on the radio.
Been listening to this song for 40 years. I cry every time I hear it!
iN 1968/69 ,A singer / songwriter by the name of Mac Davis wrote this song and wanted ELVIS TO sing it . NoBODY wanted to record it for being to politico .
Elvis great grandmother was native american, full blood..
Mac Davis wrote many of Elvis' songs including this one.
Elvis was amazing!! He was and is the king!! No one can touch him ever!! Love your video reaction !! I cry my eyes out hearing this song. It’s beautiful and deep.. Ty for doing this one!! Luv ya brother!
Just found this reaction! Simply one of the most heartfelt, honest reactions I've ever seen! I can't stop rewinding it! Made my day! Thank you for being genuine!
Omg best Elvis reaction I've ever ever seen. Your face said it all. Thank you
@Laurka SkyTiMber his face said everything he felt about the Elvis song
JOANNE DUNGAN His looks were more of a surprise to what the lyrics describe than just how he felt!
Not quite. He thinks Elvis wrote this.
RALPHY this was written by Mac Davis in 1969. Elvis wanted to recorde it for his come back tour. ELVIS grew up in the "ghetto" in Tupelo Mississippi.
Elvis recognized that life in the ghetto is not about race, and pain is felt equally among us all.
Elvis grew up in the ghettos of Tupelo Mississippi. Over 50 years ago he sang this song.
The 39 people with thumbs down must be from the same planet
The deaf planet. WOW
39 brainwashed socialists
Of course people gave this video a thumbs down LOLOL it's just a video of some dude sitting there watching a video.
It was good to see your reaction. Elvis was known in Memphis for his generosity and kindness for the poor of all races. Please follow this with If I Can Dream ( 1968 Comeback special). It's a reaction to losing MLK jr and JFK and the turbulence of the times.
Phyllis B --Oh, I love I have a dream! I’ve got to go hear it as soon as I get off here. This was a great find tonight!
Every body should listen to Elvis music just once because once you have listen to his music you will be a fan for life his music his voice will make you think that he is the greatest sing to ever lived
Elvis is still my favorite singer today and Mac DAVIS is the incredible song writer.
Not as sombre or depressing, but in the same general vein, Dolly Parton's coat of many colors is about growing up poor.
Elvis is the king for a reason bro. Listen to if I can dream, he sang it after MLK was murdered its amazing
Just the mention of If I Could Dream gives me goosebumps!
If you actually listen to the words. He is not saying a color of skin. He describes just a young man who doesn't like the way life is going and breaks away but gets no where, unfortunately. This song is based on his life for those who don't know. A church pastor stopped him before he did anything with that gun in his hand. The song was released in 1969 originally titled The Vicious Circle.
Written by Singer/Songwriter Mac Davis and it was performed in January of 1970. The TCB Band was a group of professional musicians who formed the core rhythm section of Elvis Presley's band from August 1969 until his death in 1977. Elvis decided to return to performing in public. His engagement that christened The International Hotel in Vegas that July would mark his first appearance in over eight years. He could have chosen anybody to sing with him, but he chose The Sweet Inspirations. Deep down inside, he knew the deal. The Sweets provided his shows with some much-needed soul, and I think he appreciated that. They would sing behind him for the rest of his life. Cissy Drinkard Houston, Myrna Smith, Sylvia Shemwell and Estelle Brown are who make up the female group. And yes Cissy Drinkard Houston is the mother of singer Whitney Houston, grandmother of Bobbi Kristina Brown, aunt of singers Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick, and cousin of opera singer Leontyne Price.
One of the few reaction peeps that totally gets this song ! Good Job
Mr Elvis Presley! Thank you for the reaction. I am from Greece and I learn many things about the american culture from Elvis.I learn about the South about the getto and about the country.I like many American singers but Elvis is unique! There is a reason that he is the king!
Elvis was a one of a kind. He was amazing in every stage of his life.
Was your favorite bit when he married a 14 year old, kept her high on drugs, and all the 14 year old girls he slept with during tours and then that one time the condom broke and he had some one in his crew dump her at the hospital alone at 14 to get contraception?
Don’t know how many times the disingenuous story about Elvis marrying a 14 year old crops up. It is well known that he met Priscilla when she was 14 and he was in the army but she was 21 when they married. Also they only kept in touch by phone for a couple of years when he left the army.
@@marianadesilva9174 He also faked his own death and was connected to the mafia. Right. So you either read Williamson's book or read about Williamson's book? Like Cute Kittens already said, Priscilla wasn't 14 when they got married, she was 21, and he didn't keep her high on drugs and he didn't sleep with 14-year-old girls. He liked young women, not young girls. The women who went to his parties were in their late teens and older, while he was in his early 20s. And the story about having a girl dropped off at a hospital for "contraception" is almost funny, since that allegedly happened in 1954. There WAS no contraception in 1954.
Tell em ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
@@marianadesilva9174 you IGNORANT heifer...none of that is true
Elvis grew up poor in Tupelo, Mississippi and he lived in black neighborhoods. His dad went to prison and left him and his mom to fend for themselves. Elvis knew the struggle of finding where the next meal was coming from. He sang gospel in the church. He wanted to provide for his mom and dad and they started him on a singing career.
I love to watch your reaction. That’s why he is the King
1969 Fifty years have past and the cycle continues
"he did come from a very, very poor family so you know, he lived in the hood, he lived in the ghetto and he lives in the ghetto" - i screamed!
Elvis grew up in a one room house in Tupelo MS. Doing from 70's. People who met Elvis were shocked when he gave him his car, his watch, his whatever. He repeatedly gave everybody everything. Always. No one like Elvis who loved everyone from the depth of his soul.
Elvis was the best. No one can ever take his crown you’re exactly right! He delivered this just like he should have no one could sing this like him! Gives me chills too..
This is a perfect song to show just how much you could feel the emotion from Elvis when he sang. Love Elvis, listened to him since I was a kid.
His daughter sang with her dad via a screen with him (because he had already sadly died)...it is amazing!
As a mom this song still makes me cry.
As a Mom who lost a 24 year old son to murder...it breaks my heart, for all the Moms every day who have to say goodbye to their children...it is especially poignant to me now..and still, 7 years later...his Mama cries...
When he says hunger, he talks about so much, the young man hungers for more from life, hungers to get away, and feels a hunger that can't be fed. His frustration leds to the anger. So much said with that one word "hunger"
I loved your reaction to the lyric. As a teenager in the 90s I bought a second hand double Elvis CD. The first CD (early career) was so cool that it took me a while to get to the 2nd one (later career). When I finally did and heard this narrative, I got a shock just like you did. You are right. If someone else had sung it, nobody would have listened.
Elvis is the GOAT. More Elvis.
That's Elvis man, He gets into EVERYONE.........he's the KING.......... the song came out 1969 this is during the Vietnam war, things were not so good back home either. He hit it home with everyone. There was no color for Elvis, White, Black, he was all across the board! We still miss you E.P. RIP
Such a damn good looking man, world #1 seller of all singles, albums, discs, etc., beat out the Beatles and any other contemporary performer/band in distribution sales.
The 1970 concert performance of this song has his back up dingers, “Sweet Inspirations” adding epic falsetto harmonies during his stage performance at The International Hotel in Vegas. It’s worth watching because he is drop dead gorgeous, and yeh, he gives tribute to Mac Davis’s song of Chicago’s blight and poverty, sadness.
You’re right Ralphy in saying how no one else could have pulled this off, not then and still not now. Thanks for keeping Elvis’s legend alive✨ . .He smoked slender cigars called Tipparillos-
"This dude was hood as hell" he said that about Elvis and was 100% on the money. Let that sink in.
@@acm286 Sorry I dont understand how this has anything to do with anything. But I wish you a good day sir :) EDIT: AHHH GOT IT! Listen "beein on the money" means: he was exactly correct. You didnt know that and therefor wrote a stupid comment, yes?
And he died at 43years old I think
@@TheDannyroy69 You were close, but only by a year. He was 42😢
About 2 or 3 days before he died he was to open the new arena in my hometown of Huntington Wv
True story. His dad did time in jail when he was a toddler for falsifying a check for a bigger amount to help support his family. When they moved to Memphis, they literally lived in the projects also known today as the hood. Lauderdale courts was known as The Ghetto.
Listen to Elvis’ tribute to MLK, “If I Can Dream”.
Amen
I love that one
if you can
Greatest song in history in my opinion. Greatest performance as well in history!
Elvis Presley was born in a one room house in Tupelo Mississippi the Family moved to Memphis to find work and elvis lived in the projects his dad went to prison for forging a check to buy food because they were hungry so yes Elvis knew what being poor was I grew up in the ghetto in Chicago my mother raised 5 kids by herself working 2 and sometimes 3 jobs to keep the rent paid and to keep us fed we didnt have foodstamps or help but it made us appreciate the love Our mother gave us and what we were taught about loving everyone no matter color and we all stuck together and helped each other so we were poorer than some but was rich with love and respect for all man because we are All Gods Chilren God Bless You May The Lord Keep You Safe And Well I Love What You're Doing
I was 10 and this Elvis tune blew me away. Mac Davis wrote it, Elvis made it mind blowing. The King. I was a huge fan.
The one who really deserves the credit is the writer Mac Davis
Great reaction 👍
The king of kings 💞
Elvis amazing 😍
Elvis is the king of all music
Much love from the UK
This song was written by country singer and songwriter Mac Davis. He wrote several songs for Elvis, I think. He wrote the song “A Little Less Conversation” that Elvis recorded, but he wrote it with Aretha Franklin in mind as the singer.
Yes and Memories.
3 years later and many other reactions this is still the best.
Remember, Elvis was raised in real poverty, in Tupelo, MS.; the song was released in 1969.
Elvis grow poor he had love and compassion for all man kind
Elvis Presley was a black man in his soul. Elvis Presley's favourite singer was African - American Roy Hamilton. Elvis Presley had such respect for Roy Hamilton that he personally handed him a song Sweet Angelina, which was proven a hit.
Your so right. Thanks for letting people know this
Elvis Presley : From The Ghetto To Becoming A King.
I remember stumbling onto a Google site where Nancy Sinatra was being interviewed and they asked her a question about Elvis and I believe it was regarding their friendship and she mentioned that Elvis called her or either she called the day that Lisa Marie was born or anticipating when Lisa Marie was soon coming to being born and he was excited he told Nancy but he said that he feels bad and concerned that the black babies and the poor babies that were being born that day were not going to have the same privileges that his little baby is going to have.
Elvis did this song in 1969
1969 was the year of the world pivoted. And not necessarily in a good way.
You got it in one.
When I watch these, Elvis lives again by way of the reactions to him.
I am grateful for this format for that reason alone.
Thank you.
Love you Elvis, I was 12 in Minnesota, the song taught me a lot.
If you want to sing like this ! You have got to have lived it ..... welcome to the world of Elvis ❤️
Man, watching your reaction to this song and hearing Elvis' incredible almost 'haunting' voice in this particular song is making me emotional....
BTY: love your reaction, honest & real
Elvis was born half Cherokee and white, family poor, he sang this song in the early 70's. over 50 years ago.. has the cycle been broken?
Your face is incredible to watch, I love it. It’s obvious that you are utterly shocked that this was happening long before your generation was a glint in your parents eyes. I’m in my early 60’s I grew up in Detroit during the riots. I was right there. We were dirt poor. As you may notice Elvis never says the color of this child. I loved this song growing up because I could relate. I still love it today. I was a dirt poor little white girl in the ghetto. I was just like everyone else in my neighbor. We were white, black, Latino, but to me a little girl, we were one. Through the eyes of a child we were one.