Elvis was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, in a 2 room shack of a house his dad built with money he borrowed from his boss. That's how dirt poor they were. He was one half of identical twins; the other boy - Jesse Garon - was stillborn. They were so poor, that Jesse Garon was buried in a shoebox in an unmarked grave. At Graceland they have a plaque with his name on it in his memory. Elvis always got along with the black community and learned a lot about music from his friends of color. Also, according to the one drop rule, Elvis would not be considered white, since he has Cherokee ancestors on both the Smith (his mother) and the Presley (his father) sides of the family. His paternal grandfather, Jesse Dunning Presley, was not happy that his two sons, Elvis' father Vernon and his brother Vester, married two sisters, Gladys and Clettes who were known to have Cherokee blood in their family tree. J.D. Presley was quite the racist a-hole, often drunk and a philandering husband to Minnie Mae (they were actually separated long before they finally divorced in 1954) who was always competing with his sons Vester and Vernon and who was known to abuse his kids when drunk. J.D. was publicly against race mixing and was in denial about the Cherokee blood in his own family tree. It was more publicly known that the Smith family had Native blood in their family tree, so when both his sons fell for 2 Smith sisters and Vernon, on top of that, was still a minor at 17 when he eloped with Gladys who was 4 years older than him, Jesse was totally pissed off. As a child, Elvis already had many friends in the black community at the time his family was one of 4 "white" families that lived in the predominantly black neighborhood The Hill, just across from Shake Rag. His childhood friend Sam Bell said that some of the (black) kids in that neighborhood had lighter skin than Elvis (th-cam.com/video/LrFCyNMvZWk/w-d-xo.html). One of Elvis' bodyguards once said that he thought it was a miracle Elvis got into Humes High School in Memphis, because it was "lily white". Elvis wanted to be more open about his Native ancestry, but his manager "colonel" Tom Parker (real name Andreas van Kuijk) was against it because he was afraid it might cost Elvis fans (and himself money). They did have Elvis play characters in his movies though where he had Native American blood (Flaming Star, G.I. Blues, Stay Away Joe). Once Elvis had his own (apprentice) job learning to be an electrician, he saved up his money and bought his clothes in the same style that many of his friends of color wore. He was called a (forgive me, just stating facts here) "n-lover" and got beaten up several times too. Later, when he was an established star, he would not perform at places where the members of color of his back-up band/orchestra weren't allowed.
He was amazing! There is no doubt he really cared about everyone. He was a beautiful person and a great singer. He has the biggest heart. He was amazing and I’m glad you’re going to stick up for him if you hear anybody saying anything bad. thank you for doing that. Everything you said about him is true I don’t know how else to say it, but he was definitely was amazing in so many ways
@@twanomusicreactions The white suit version is at th-cam.com/video/xA142IsjQiE/w-d-xo.html & does NOT have those "ads" covering him up @ end like so many videos have.
@jarnieri9583 - This song also encompassed the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Elvis & producer-director Steve Binder watched the news on TV that Kennedy had just been shot. They then spent hrs. discussing assassinations & the general turmoil of the world @ time. Binder then asked Walter Earl Brown to compose a song based on those discussions which was a song for the hope of peace & harmony, but it was not a literal tribute to any one person in particular -- it was about the sad state of affairs of the world & hoping things could get better. The red tie he wore on the white suit version was for the blood shed in Vietnam.
LOVE Elvis❤ Love him singing these great words. He meant every word. White suit is beautiful. I think when he wore the white suit it was earlier. Christmas time.
1935 on January 8 a huge star was born, but sadly in 1977 on august 16 we lost a great musician, a amazing singer, but we also lost a amazing humanitarian that helped so many people that he did not even know. Today over 46 years after his death, people are still calling Elvis the King of Rock'n'Roll (he said that Chubby Checker was the one that should be called King of Rock'n roll, if any human should), Elvis didn't like that title and he believed that the only King was God and he actually told this to his fans several times, he said: I believe that God is the only true king, sometimes he added Jesus Christ. I think that Elvis is and only the king of Rock'n roll, he is the king of music because he can sing very well in any genre, but what do you think, is he good enough to be called a music king? Elvis was really in my mind, the King of GOSPEL and other music, no one does it better then him, he is best known for making Rock'n roll famous, so he was called The King of Rock'n roll, but he never liked that people called him that, he repeatedly stopped fans who said that he was the king of rock'n roll, telling them: I'm just an entertainer and singer, God is the only true King (sometimes he also said Jesus Christ is the only King)... He also never liked the "so called joke" Elvis the Pelvis, he loved Jokes, but that was for him very hurtful to hear people say, or write. Elvis was born in the poor part of Tupelo Mississippi (in a shotgun house) and it was mainly Afro Americans living there, at the place where Elvis family lived there only lived 3 more white families, the rest was colored people, his family was dirt poor until he became an artist after singing in a mainly colored peoples church during his childhood. Did you know that he had several friends that where Afro Americans, one of his friends where James Brown, yes THAT James Brown (The King of Soul), another artist was B.B King, yes that B.B King... He also was a good friend with Mohamed Ali, yes the GREATEST boxer of all time, he even had a Robe made for him, but it was to much bling on it so Ali wouldn't where it more then one time to a fight. He really admired Martin Luther King very much, Elvis felt that all people are equal, unfortunately he never got to meet him, that would have created to much problems for both of them at that time. He had several medical problems, Glaucoma, (Insomnia) sleeping problems, irritable bowel syndrome, things that affected his real life and made him need medication to function. Yes, he took medicines that today are considered to be called drugs, but at that time doctors prescribed it to him and to ordinary people, they did not know of the problems it could give people (side effects). He never took any so-called street drugs, but unfortunately he did not realize that those medications would be a problem for him, he thought that they where ordinary medicine because his doctor prescribed them to him and to everyone else that needed it. Many out of his relatives died at a relatively young age, so even if he wouldn't have the medication, he might have died at about the same age. He could never be alone and thus himself, at that time the word superstar did not exist, so nothing could prepare him for that kind of life. Did you know that a big group of white people actually smashed his records and wanted to ban his music, just because they called the music he did so called N... music, that is so painful to think that some people actually can think like that, skin color is just color and nothing more, when will people start to realize that? There are some videos of when Elvis joking and messing up, he loved to joke around and pretend that he did not have control, but he had total control, he actually conducted his musicians and back up choirs all the time ! He is the only person to have 2 records gone to sell Gold and 2 to to sell Platinum since he died. Elvis is also in almost every genre of Music Hall of Fame (5 that I'm sure of Rock 'n' Roll, Country, Gospel, Rockabilly and Rhythm and Blues), if Gospel is a genre in Music Hall of fame, then he should be in there to, but no one else is in more then perhaps 2 genres. Not bad for someone who never took a single singing lesson, yes he sang in church so perhaps he learned a little there, right? Something else that people tend to overlook: He always conducts his musicians and backup singers, he never gets credit for being able to doing that. Imagen you are a singer, you have great Musicians, you have great backup singers, no Guest Artists, no Auto tune, no Lip singing and no Fireworks, now all is about your skill, could you handle that pressure? At the time when Elvis started to perform, Auto tune did not exist yet and when it became available, then he still did not use it, he did not need to, he always sang so that you could hear every word that he sang, the Fans always felt that he sang to just you ! That is what Elvis did in over 1600 concerts (during his 20 years as an artist), despite having problems with his health, like his Glaucoma, the headlights must have hurt his eyes like crazy. He sang over 800 songs, I wonder how he could remember them all, he never wrote a song himself, so he had to remember other peoples lyrics, well that is amazing in it self. By the way he had Glaucoma and that must have been difficult being in the headlights all the time, that could be why he sometimes closes his eyes, but also sometimes squinting! This unfortunately made him temporary blind after the shows, that is why they led him of the stage and into his car, that is something that not many people knew about Elvis. Elvis suits was made of 100% Polyester, or 100 cotton (I'm not sure witch one), it was originally a karate suit, it was very light, but it was hot, so it made him sweat a lot, he got some bad press about that, but if you give it all then you will sweat, it should be positive, right? About the deep base voiced JD Sumner (a member of The Stamps Quartet) he is a Basso Profundo, I think it's called that, it is the deepest base singer there is. A video about him helping others, look at this: th-cam.com/video/CrJ1c9tm-C0/w-d-xo.html Elvis made a show where all the money went to build the Memorial after Pearl Harbor, he talked to the nations about taking the Polio vaccine, Elvis took the first injection himself, he helped by donating a big amount of money to St Jude hospital, they fight against cancer (especially children with), he gave away loads of juwelery, gave away cars, he even gave away some houses to total strangers. Elvis started an organization that helps people to get out of Homelessness (Presley Charitable Foundation), this organization helps people even now close to 50 years after he passed away. A thing that you perhaps did not know: Elvis ALMOST NEVER did a show OUTSIDE OF USA, yes he did sing a few times in Canada: 4 concerts, 2 times in Toronto, 1 time in Ottawa and 1 time in Vancouver (during the 50:s?). When the Aloha From Hawaii (Live in Honolulu 1973) was showed it had close to 1.5 Billion viewers from around the whole world and 3.7 billion people lived on earth at this time, so it was close to 1/3 of all of the population on the earth that viewed the show, it was the first time a single artist was shown LIVE around the globe. Video of Mohammad Ali speech after Elvis died: th-cam.com/video/PO8Kq_3KTyI/w-d-xo.html I have to say that I loved being at Graceland and seeing his home, first we were at the shotgun house in Tupelo where he lived in his early years, he was born there ! You don't have a guide taking you on a tour, you can go all over yourself, but stay outside of the ropes and do not attempt to go upstairs, the outside is huge, so is the house, but you don't realize that from the front of the house. I don't regret for a second that I was there, or that I stood at his grave site and said out loud that this is for the humanitarian Elvis/the person/the man and then I gave him a military salute, the others there just looked at me and asked if I didn't like his music. So I told them that he was clearly one of the best singers and artists ever, but I loved his big heart more, he helped so many people without getting credit for it, he didn't want the credit of helping others, he did it out of love and respect and to me that is what true charity is all about. This PLACE (GRACELAND) should be a protected part of music history and also American history forever, I think that people will keep coming for years and years and years to come ! Elvis did lots of things for America to, he helped in a big way to avoid getting Polio (he took the vaccine in a TV show and that made the interest for taking the vaccine to go up from 0,6 % all the way up to 80 % in 6 months), so in 6 months he got 79.4 % more of the American people take the Polio vaccine and shortly after it was eradicated from USA, he also helped in the fight to defeat Cancer by helping to build up St Jude's children cancer treatment clinic by donating a huge amount of money to them, he also helped to build the Memorial over Pearl Harbor and many other things!
You look soooo good with your hair short like that. More masculine. Thanks handsome for the reaction. I'm 25 so I know I am too old for you, but not too old to flirt. Right.???❤❤❤❤❤
We definitely need someone spreading love and not preaching the hate. I could add so much, but I won’t. We are all humans. Same emotions. Goodness comes from within. Not defined by what our skin color is. If you are wrong, you are wrong. If you hate, you hate. That comes from within. The wonderful Dr. King preached content of character, not color of skin, because we are all humans. We all mess up sometimes. We all can reflect and grow better, regardless of your color.
There's no point in fighting each other because of skin color .. just causes hurt.. color of skin means nothing... Nothing.. who you are as a person is what matters.
(comment disappeared) You'll need to see the version which was the closing for the '68 comeback special in a white suit at th-cam.com/video/xA142IsjQiE/w-d-xo.html that does NOT have those "ads" covering him up @ end like so many videos have. This song encompassed the assassinations of both Martin Luther King & Robert Kennedy. Elvis & Steve Binder (the producer-director of the '68 special) watched the news on TV that Kennedy had just been shot. They then spent hrs. discussing assassinations & the general turmoil of the world @ time. Binder then asked Walter Earl Brown to compose a song based on those discussions which was a song for the hope of peace & harmony, but was not a literal tribute to any one person in particular -- it was about the sad state of affairs of the world & hoping things could get better. The red tie he wore w-the white suit version was for the blood shed in Vietnam. Know that EVERY song that Elvis sang was filled with strong passion & emotion, even his upbeat songs -- it was the natural feeling that came from his soul & his gut -- for everything he sang & every performance he did.
He was not feeling well before he sang this in the video with his white suit. He went in anyway. MLK jr had died just before he did that concert in the white suit. His manager didn’t want him to sing this song at that time.
Twano? It sure doesnt look and sound like the Twano I subscribed to several yrs ago. It's been a minute and I'm really glad to see Twano's presence back on TH-cam, but his face, voice, and way of expressing himself here couldnt have changed that much. This reactor has also has a tat and seems more bulked. Unless Twano has also been re-uploading his video reactions from a few yrs back and this is the uptodate much more matured version of him? I hope he/ you? read this and clarify. Thanks.
This is 56 yrs ago... Elvis was trying to put out the message then.. why haven't we listened?? .. Sad to me.. Sorry. MLK was also putting out that message in an amazing way b4 he was murdered. Elvis just was singing a song in tribute
This is not the real performance. He never performed that song in his black leather suit. Look for him I’m a white suit and his name in lights behind. It’s real and much more passionate.
Its a beautiful song and its still relevant.
Elvis was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, in a 2 room shack of a house his dad built with money he borrowed from his boss. That's how dirt poor they were. He was one half of identical twins; the other boy - Jesse Garon - was stillborn. They were so poor, that Jesse Garon was buried in a shoebox in an unmarked grave. At Graceland they have a plaque with his name on it in his memory.
Elvis always got along with the black community and learned a lot about music from his friends of color. Also, according to the one drop rule, Elvis would not be considered white, since he has Cherokee ancestors on both the Smith (his mother) and the Presley (his father) sides of the family. His paternal grandfather, Jesse Dunning Presley, was not happy that his two sons, Elvis' father Vernon and his brother Vester, married two sisters, Gladys and Clettes who were known to have Cherokee blood in their family tree. J.D. Presley was quite the racist a-hole, often drunk and a philandering husband to Minnie Mae (they were actually separated long before they finally divorced in 1954) who was always competing with his sons Vester and Vernon and who was known to abuse his kids when drunk. J.D. was publicly against race mixing and was in denial about the Cherokee blood in his own family tree. It was more publicly known that the Smith family had Native blood in their family tree, so when both his sons fell for 2 Smith sisters and Vernon, on top of that, was still a minor at 17 when he eloped with Gladys who was 4 years older than him, Jesse was totally pissed off.
As a child, Elvis already had many friends in the black community at the time his family was one of 4 "white" families that lived in the predominantly black neighborhood The Hill, just across from Shake Rag. His childhood friend Sam Bell said that some of the (black) kids in that neighborhood had lighter skin than Elvis (th-cam.com/video/LrFCyNMvZWk/w-d-xo.html). One of Elvis' bodyguards once said that he thought it was a miracle Elvis got into Humes High School in Memphis, because it was "lily white". Elvis wanted to be more open about his Native ancestry, but his manager "colonel" Tom Parker (real name Andreas van Kuijk) was against it because he was afraid it might cost Elvis fans (and himself money). They did have Elvis play characters in his movies though where he had Native American blood (Flaming Star, G.I. Blues, Stay Away Joe). Once Elvis had his own (apprentice) job learning to be an electrician, he saved up his money and bought his clothes in the same style that many of his friends of color wore. He was called a (forgive me, just stating facts here) "n-lover" and got beaten up several times too. Later, when he was an established star, he would not perform at places where the members of color of his back-up band/orchestra weren't allowed.
He was amazing! There is no doubt he really cared about everyone. He was a beautiful person and a great singer. He has the biggest heart. He was amazing and I’m glad you’re going to stick up for him if you hear anybody saying anything bad. thank you for doing that.
Everything you said about him is true I don’t know how else to say it, but he was definitely was amazing in so many ways
Go back and watch him sing this in the white suit from the same show….
watched the wrong performance 🤦🏽♂️
@@twanomusicreactions The white suit version is at th-cam.com/video/xA142IsjQiE/w-d-xo.html & does NOT have those "ads" covering him up @ end like so many videos have.
the song was a tribute to MLK jr. the special you just watched was a few months after his assassination in Memphis. where Elvis lived.
Also, Robert Kennedy
@jarnieri9583 - This song also encompassed the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Elvis & producer-director Steve Binder watched the news on TV that Kennedy had just been shot. They then spent hrs. discussing assassinations & the general turmoil of the world @ time. Binder then asked Walter Earl Brown to compose a song based on those discussions which was a song for the hope of peace & harmony, but it was not a literal tribute to any one person in particular -- it was about the sad state of affairs of the world & hoping things could get better. The red tie he wore on the white suit version was for the blood shed in Vietnam.
@@joannedungan8381 THANK YOU for mentioning Kennedy -- rarely anyone does -- especially when it comes to the white suit version.
He's really the KING!
Twano
Puedes reaccionar a la canción The Wonder Of You - Elvis Presley
Por favor
He was one of a kind for sure. And he loved everybody you can see it in his music. ❤
Heartfelt tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. done right after he was assassinated. 😢
Best reaction I've ever seen from the heart!
You see him, so great! ❤ your reaction!! Thank you for sharing.
How lovely to see this reaction
Wasn’t this man incredible. Watch this song again where he is in the white suit - it will blow your mind even more. Love from Australia. 💕🇦🇺
I am quite sure he would love to have a conversation with you because you’re genuine & people notice that in others🩷
Loved your reaction to this song of Elvis. Thank you all the way from New Zealand. He was the real deal for sure.
Thank you for this heartfelt review…it was very touching. 👍👍
Great job
LOVE Elvis❤ Love him singing these great words. He meant every word. White suit is beautiful. I think when he wore the white suit it was earlier. Christmas time.
1935 on January 8 a huge star was born, but sadly in 1977 on august 16 we lost a great musician, a amazing singer, but we also lost a amazing humanitarian that helped so many people that he did not even know.
Today over 46 years after his death, people are still calling Elvis the King of Rock'n'Roll (he said that Chubby Checker was the one that should be called King of Rock'n roll, if any human should), Elvis didn't like that title and he believed that the only King was God and he actually told this to his fans several times, he said: I believe that God is the only true king, sometimes he added Jesus Christ.
I think that Elvis is and only the king of Rock'n roll, he is the king of music because he can sing very well in any genre, but what do you think, is he good enough to be called a music king?
Elvis was really in my mind, the King of GOSPEL and other music, no one does it better then him, he is best known for making Rock'n roll famous, so he was called The King of Rock'n roll, but he never liked that people called him that, he repeatedly stopped fans who said that he was the king of rock'n roll, telling them:
I'm just an entertainer and singer, God is the only true King (sometimes he also said Jesus Christ is the only King)...
He also never liked the "so called joke" Elvis the Pelvis, he loved Jokes, but that was for him very hurtful to hear people say, or write.
Elvis was born in the poor part of Tupelo Mississippi (in a shotgun house) and it was mainly Afro Americans living there, at the place where Elvis family lived there only lived 3 more white families, the rest was colored people, his family was dirt poor until he became an artist after singing in a mainly colored peoples church during his childhood.
Did you know that he had several friends that where Afro Americans, one of his friends where James Brown, yes THAT James Brown (The King of Soul), another artist was B.B King, yes that B.B King...
He also was a good friend with Mohamed Ali, yes the GREATEST boxer of all time, he even had a Robe made for him, but it was to much bling on it so Ali wouldn't where it more then one time to a fight.
He really admired Martin Luther King very much, Elvis felt that all people are equal, unfortunately he never got to meet him, that would have created to much problems for both of them at that time.
He had several medical problems, Glaucoma, (Insomnia) sleeping problems, irritable bowel syndrome, things that affected his real life and made him need medication to function.
Yes, he took medicines that today are considered to be called drugs, but at that time doctors prescribed it to him and to ordinary people, they did not know of the problems it could give people (side effects).
He never took any so-called street drugs, but unfortunately he did not realize that those medications would be a problem for him, he thought that they where ordinary medicine because his doctor prescribed them to him and to everyone else that needed it.
Many out of his relatives died at a relatively young age, so even if he wouldn't have the medication, he might have died at about the same age.
He could never be alone and thus himself, at that time the word superstar did not exist, so nothing could prepare him for that kind of life.
Did you know that a big group of white people actually smashed his records and wanted to ban his music, just because they called the music he did so called N... music, that is so painful to think that some people actually can think like that, skin color is just color and nothing more, when will people start to realize that?
There are some videos of when Elvis joking and messing up, he loved to joke around and pretend that he did not have control, but he had total control, he actually conducted his musicians and back up choirs all the time !
He is the only person to have 2 records gone to sell Gold and 2 to to sell Platinum since he died.
Elvis is also in almost every genre of Music Hall of Fame (5 that I'm sure of Rock 'n' Roll, Country, Gospel, Rockabilly and Rhythm and Blues), if Gospel is a genre in Music Hall of fame, then he should be in there to, but no one else is in more then perhaps 2 genres.
Not bad for someone who never took a single singing lesson, yes he sang in church so perhaps he learned a little there, right?
Something else that people tend to overlook:
He always conducts his musicians and backup singers, he never gets credit for being able to doing that.
Imagen you are a singer, you have great Musicians, you have great backup singers, no Guest Artists, no Auto tune, no Lip singing and no Fireworks, now all is about your skill, could you handle that pressure?
At the time when Elvis started to perform, Auto tune did not exist yet and when it became available, then he still did not use it, he did not need to, he always sang so that you could hear every word that he sang, the Fans always felt that he sang to just you !
That is what Elvis did in over 1600 concerts (during his 20 years as an artist), despite having problems with his health, like his Glaucoma, the headlights must have hurt his eyes like crazy.
He sang over 800 songs, I wonder how he could remember them all, he never wrote a song himself, so he had to remember other peoples lyrics, well that is amazing in it self.
By the way he had Glaucoma and that must have been difficult being in the headlights all the time, that could be why he sometimes closes his eyes, but also sometimes squinting!
This unfortunately made him temporary blind after the shows, that is why they led him of the stage and into his car, that is something that not many people knew about Elvis.
Elvis suits was made of 100% Polyester, or 100 cotton (I'm not sure witch one), it was originally a karate suit, it was very light, but it was hot, so it made him sweat a lot, he got some bad press about that, but if you give it all then you will sweat, it should be positive, right?
About the deep base voiced JD Sumner (a member of The Stamps Quartet) he is a Basso Profundo, I think it's called that, it is the deepest base singer there is.
A video about him helping others, look at this: th-cam.com/video/CrJ1c9tm-C0/w-d-xo.html
Elvis made a show where all the money went to build the Memorial after Pearl Harbor, he talked to the nations about taking the Polio vaccine, Elvis took the first injection himself, he helped by donating a big amount of money to St Jude hospital, they fight against cancer (especially children with), he gave away loads of juwelery, gave away cars, he even gave away some houses to total strangers.
Elvis started an organization that helps people to get out of Homelessness (Presley Charitable Foundation), this organization helps people even now close to 50 years after he passed away.
A thing that you perhaps did not know: Elvis ALMOST NEVER did a show OUTSIDE OF USA, yes he did sing a few times in Canada: 4 concerts, 2 times in Toronto, 1 time in Ottawa and 1 time in Vancouver (during the 50:s?).
When the Aloha From Hawaii (Live in Honolulu 1973) was showed it had close to 1.5 Billion viewers from around the whole world and 3.7 billion people lived on earth at this time, so it was close to 1/3 of all of the population on the earth that viewed the show, it was the first time a single artist was shown LIVE around the globe.
Video of Mohammad Ali speech after Elvis died:
th-cam.com/video/PO8Kq_3KTyI/w-d-xo.html
I have to say that I loved being at Graceland and seeing his home, first we were at the shotgun house in Tupelo where he lived in his early years, he was born there !
You don't have a guide taking you on a tour, you can go all over yourself, but stay outside of the ropes and do not attempt to go upstairs, the outside is huge, so is the house, but you don't realize that from the front of the house.
I don't regret for a second that I was there, or that I stood at his grave site and said out loud that this is for the humanitarian Elvis/the person/the man and then I gave him a military salute, the others there just looked at me and asked if I didn't like his music.
So I told them that he was clearly one of the best singers and artists ever, but I loved his big heart more, he helped so many people without getting credit for it, he didn't want the credit of helping others, he did it out of love and respect and to me that is what true charity is all about.
This PLACE (GRACELAND) should be a protected part of music history and also American history forever, I think that people will keep coming for years and years and years to come !
Elvis did lots of things for America to, he helped in a big way to avoid getting Polio (he took the vaccine in a TV show and that made the interest for taking the vaccine to go up from 0,6 % all the way up to 80 % in 6 months), so in 6 months he got 79.4 % more of the American people take the Polio vaccine and shortly after it was eradicated from USA, he also helped in the fight to defeat Cancer by helping to build up St Jude's children cancer treatment clinic by donating a huge amount of money to them, he also helped to build the Memorial over Pearl Harbor and many other things!
Love your reaction!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤!
You look soooo good with your hair short like that. More masculine. Thanks handsome for the reaction. I'm 25 so I know I am too old for you, but not too old to flirt. Right.???❤❤❤❤❤
Welcome to the club!! Go to visit Memphis TN and your Graceland! ❤
Tour Graceland!!!!
Amazing song. React to the same song from the 68 special where he wa wearing the white suit
Civil rights
We definitely need someone spreading love and not preaching the hate. I could add so much, but I won’t. We are all humans. Same emotions. Goodness comes from within. Not defined by what our skin color is. If you are wrong, you are wrong. If you hate, you hate. That comes from within. The wonderful Dr. King preached content of character, not color of skin, because we are all humans. We all mess up sometimes. We all can reflect and grow better, regardless of your color.
There's no point in fighting each other because of skin color .. just causes hurt.. color of skin means nothing... Nothing.. who you are as a person is what matters.
(comment disappeared) You'll need to see the version which was the closing for the '68 comeback special in a white suit at th-cam.com/video/xA142IsjQiE/w-d-xo.html that does NOT have those "ads" covering him up @ end like so many videos have.
This song encompassed the assassinations of both Martin Luther King & Robert Kennedy. Elvis & Steve Binder (the producer-director of the '68 special) watched the news on TV that Kennedy had just been shot. They then spent hrs. discussing assassinations & the general turmoil of the world @ time. Binder then asked Walter Earl Brown to compose a song based on those discussions which was a song for the hope of peace & harmony, but was not a literal tribute to any one person in particular -- it was about the sad state of affairs of the world & hoping things could get better. The red tie he wore w-the white suit version was for the blood shed in Vietnam.
Know that EVERY song that Elvis sang was filled with strong passion & emotion, even his upbeat songs -- it was the natural feeling that came from his soul & his gut -- for everything he sang & every performance he did.
He was not feeling well before he sang this in the video with his white suit. He went in anyway. MLK jr had died just before he did that concert in the white suit. His manager didn’t want him to sing this song at that time.
I'm so proud of you for coming out gay. You go boy 🎉❤
Twano? It sure doesnt look and sound like the Twano I subscribed to several yrs ago. It's been a minute and I'm really glad to see Twano's presence back on TH-cam, but his face, voice, and way of expressing himself here couldnt have changed that much. This reactor has also has a tat and seems more bulked. Unless Twano has also been re-uploading his video reactions from a few yrs back and this is the uptodate much more matured version of him?
I hope he/ you? read this and clarify. Thanks.
Mlk tribute
This is 56 yrs ago... Elvis was trying to put out the message then.. why haven't we listened?? .. Sad to me.. Sorry. MLK was also putting out that message in an amazing way b4 he was murdered. Elvis just was singing a song in tribute
That song is based on Martin Luther Kings speeches, today the only rap about sex and luxury... its sad
This is not the real performance. He never performed that song in his black leather suit. Look for him I’m a white suit and his name in lights behind. It’s real and much more passionate.
When I saw the video it threw me. I don’t ever remember him doing that song in black. Only at the end of 68 comeback special in the white
That song is based on Martin Luther Kings speeches, today the only rap about sex and luxury... its sad