Good Songs to Share -- Blue Christmas

While everyone is singing “White Christmas”, Elvis Presley is singing “Blue Christmas”, which is not an ordinary Christmas song.

Last year, Joseph Hall, a young man, imitating his idol, Elvis Presley, “The King of Rock 'N' Roll”, performed in the “American Got Talent” show in the United States. He sang Elvis’ “Hound Dog”, a 1956 hot hit, as his debut song. It’s quite interesting to see a dynamic handsome man singing a pop song, which can be dated back more than 50 years, a lot older than him. Just in his performance, he was carrying away all the audience, especially the females, in hoorays and ecstasy, and even the three judges were moved by the hot wave on the spot. In addition to Joseph’s outstanding performance, it is him deliberately imitating Elvis’ explosive stage charisma and the emotion of “Hound Dog” that have produced great impact on the audience. It also proves that Elvis’ influence has lasted for decades and continues to do so...

In my opinion, if a singer has great talents in voice, presentation, technique, he is almost perfect regardless of regions or eras, and if he has a knack for songs in different styles, then he is a rare phenomenon, and moreover, if he can create his own style, initiate and drive the trend, then it’s really fabulous, and he must be a superstar, and the early Elvis Presley is the one who did it; he himself is a white man, but he is able to mix country music, the Soul of the black and some other elements into a unique personal style. His performance on stage is much different from the trend of that time, but his charisma strikes crazy all the young people around the world. There are many wonderful pieces of his early works, for instance, those dynamic songs like “Hound Dog”, “Jailhouse Rock”, “Blue Suede Shoes”, etc... or those with slow rhythm like “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”, “Can’t Help Falling in Love”, “Love Me Tender”, “Crying in the Chapel”, etc... Numerous... Inexhaustible. So, he has got a nickname, the King, which he deserves very much.

That’s a Christmas gift of celebration at the bottom: a fragment of “Hound Dog” Joseph Hall sang in the “American Got Talent” in 2008, song and dancing stirs the audience so much, you can imagine that Elvis made a similar TV show in the fifties or sixties, definitely a big shock on the society at that time.



From Simon.del.mondo
Translated by Tameer