There's an Elvis movie quiz over at Any Major Dude With Half A Heart. I don't think I've ever seen a single Elvis movie, so I'll take the zero. But, the clues are funny to me, because of their wacky 60's Pick-A-Premise-From-A-Hat absurdity:
- Elvis is a singing heir to a pineapple plantation in Hawaii ...
- Elvis is a singing swimming pool lifeguard who couldn’t cut it in the circus.
- Elvis is a singing rodeo rider
- Elvis is a singing bush pilot who takes care of a little Chinese kid.
- Elvis is a singing rodeo rider (again), but with an ethnic twist: he is of Native-American descent.
- Elvis is a ghetto doctor who doesn’t sing an awful lot. But he falls in love.
- ... and my favorite: Elvis is a singing insurance salesman who moonlights as a lion tamer and falls in love with the circus clown’s daughter.
Yes, I know Elvis didn't sing "Vehicle" (but he could have).
So brilliant.
I used to do this tune with a local band. Maybe the worst, stupidest song ever written, including the Barney theme.
That was the beauty of Elvis. The man would sing anything, anything at all.
A lot of guys I work with worship Elvis, but I never really got the Elvis thing. To me, he just seems like a guy who was born for Vegas. Kind of a one-man Rat Pack, only from a trailer park instead of Hoboken.
But there’s nobody who can take pure cheese and camp and push it one step beyond like Elvis.
Thanks –
ClaaaaammmmBAKE!
momma’s little baby loves clambake clambake?
wow. that’s some kinda terrible.
thanks to years of Cartoon Network, Elvis reminds me of Johnny Bravo, and not the other way round.