Wasn't Elvis a Cappie?

Wasn't his birthday January 8th?

Elvis Presley was born on January 8th in 1935. Gotta love Ask Jeeves. Mine's the 6th of Jan, I know someone famous was on that day.

NCG

Ah yes, Elvis was the dreamiest Cappie ever created. I was madly in love with a guy who shares The King's birthday...for like 4 years. It really is a shame about Elvis! I love his music, in fact I think it's cooler than much of the crap my generation seems to blindly latch onto these days. Wish he were still here : )

-phoenix

Yepp, I hear ya..

Elvis *.* lol hahaLuZ

wow! I love Elvis, What a hunk and so mysterious. My favorite Caps are Dolly Parton, I think Janis Joplin was one?, Rod sstewart, and my all time favorite, HOWARD STERN!!

Elvis shares my mom b-day, both day and year. Hard to believe that if he was still with us he'd be the same age as her! I too love his music and try to get my hands on any remakes of his songs. I have a fantastic collection by him to date. I'm just sorry I wasn't old enough to be around when he was musically performing at his peak to see him "Live". I was definitely born to late IMO! A greater performer can never exist. He truly was "King"!

That was nice! My mom's b-day 1/28/35, so we are the same age 12 and so was our mums! Getting more interesting all the time!

Elvis was the great break-through for rock 'n roll! Best R&B!

I was too young to see him live...but, my oldest sister did! However, it was not the peak of his career...but, more toward the end when he was bloated, etc...

Elvis was great...but he also had some bad qualities and conflicts that he never worked out and resolved...

I'm so glad so many others agree with me about Elvis!

I should have clarified that I am also too young to have EVER been alive when he was alive, but his cheesy movies— Can't get enough of 'em, particularly Blue Hawaii. And I am also working on my collection of Elvis music--HEY, has anyone heard that ever so cool remix of "A Little Less Conversation"? It's pretty new on the radio/VH1 a lot, it's by "Elvis vs. JXL" (I guess that's the DJ who remixed it, JXL)...anyway it's cool!

phoenix

Best R&B- hahahahahahaha that is a joke. Elvis may have been a cap but he sure as hell was no king of R&B. He simply emulated the originals of R&B(and it worked) if you really know anything about him he openlly admitted to that. He made it acceptable for a white man to break into R&B. But I will give him some credit on that Blue Suede Shoes Doo-Op he did and props for being the freaky cap I always thought he was.

Not an Elvis fan- but he was fine!

I went to Graceland this year and loved it! I too missed the "Elvis days" but boy am I making up for it now! He wasn't a typical Cappie but I think it was because he wasn't ever truly comfortable with his popularity. Cappies are usually very subdued and private people and he couldn't be and still be the "King." Very sad life in alot of ways.

198, I guess it's a matter of opinion as to whether he was the King of R&B. One thing you can't argue with however, is that he was (and is still considered to be) one of (if not THE) most successful artists of all time.

4 198=105. You are so right. Elvis was not the king for R&B! As a matter of fact he was not even a thought in the cosmos when RnB was created! RnB was around a LOOOONG time before Elvis even came on to the scene. And you're so right he more than admitted to the fact the he WAS NOT the orignator of R&B. I think IMO that he's given credit for it is the fact that due to the fact that R&B actually belongs to the African American musician (and no one can dispute this BTW) at that point in history it WAS NOT acceptable to give credit for ANYTHING to an African-American person let alone music. So therefore Elvis got credit for R&B which rightfully didn't belong to him but even he knew this but there was nothing he could do about it but he in turn did give credit where it rightfully did belong. He would definitely not have gotten where he had gotten to if not for the other cultures before him! I'm just sorry that they did not have the "ways and means" the Elvis did to get them to the same place like him! If the R&B singers had been white it would have been a whole different music world IMO, and perhaps music would definitely hold a different history??

Right on 12.94; you got that right!!!!

I don't know, rasicm definitely is an unfortunately dark, powerful factor when we go back in time (pre-Elvis). But at the same time, there were black musicians who were very successful. Maybe people just really liked Elvis's style and it didn't have as much to do with race (especially after the 60's) as it seems. Elvis WAS an original performer--you can't point to people before him who had his same sense of performance and style . He WAS a trailblazer in many ways. I believe he was far less a follower than a leader.

And look at how successful R&B and Rap are today. Maybe rather than looking at Elvis being white as a setback to black music, we can see the fact that he broadened the audience for traditional black music.

Maybe, when it comes right down to it, people just liked his music!