Elvis Impersonating Others...

[ColinB]

The thread on Elvis 'doing' Johnny Cash got me thinking.....

How many singers did Elvis ever 'do' ?

Johnny Cash
Jackie Wilson [a member of Billy Ward's Dominoes]
Hank Snow [I'm With the Crowd, But Oh, So Alone]
Roy Orbison [brief snatch of Running Scared]
Fats Domino [Blueberry Hill]
Tiny Tim [snatch of Tiptoe Thru The Tulips]

(He did covers of other artists [like Little Richard & Chuck Berry] but without actually 'doing' their voices.)

Any more ?

[Liverbobs]

Inspector Clouseau

[Guest]

Glen Campbell?

[Guest]

Richard Harris(68 Special) Cookie( just before he sang shopping around)

[MB280E]

Humperdinck


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[Ciscoking]

The thread on Elvis 'doing' Johnny Cash got me thinking.....

How many singers did Elvis ever 'do' ?

Roy Orbison [brief snatch of Running Scared]

Any more ?

And Only The Lonely..

Holy Holly when introducing Neil Diamond August 1970.

[Spellbinder]

Bill Kenny on "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" during the $Million Quartet.

[joshferrell]

bill cosby,wayne newton, rudolph valentino (harem scarem)

[EagleUSA]

Colin wrote:

How many singers did Elvis ever 'do' ?

I recall reading that he wanted to "do" Petula Clark & Karen Carpenter at the same time, but that's never been substantiated.

[drjohncarpenter]

On the hoary studio master of "Girl Of Mine" he sounds a lot like his pal Tom Jones, but not in a good way.

However, some of the balls-to-the-wall blues power in his June 1968 TV Special voice may also be traced to catching the Welshman's act in Las Vegas two months prior, and in a good way.

[KingOfTheJungle]

His "Little Cabin Home On The Hill" from MDQ is a Bill Monroe impression

Also, I wouldn't call these "impressions", but heavy influence of other artists can be heard on-

Good Luck Charm- Dean Martin
I Want To Be Free- Clyde McPhatter

[sam]

How many singers did Elvis ever 'do' ?

I think someone posted here a while back that he tried to do Karen Carpenter!!!!

[joshferrell]

funny how time slips away-willie nelson on one of his live concerts,although I forgot which one....lol

[drjohncarpenter]

On the studio master of "Girl Of Mine" he sounds a lot like his pal Tom Jones, but not in a good way.

I'd say he sounds more like Humperdinck.

A truly awful thought to contemplate, but I believe you may well be correct.

[GIRL HAPPY BOY]

RETURN TO SENDER 1962 - JACKEY WILSON
lior

[chris c]

There's even a Vegas show where Bobbie Gentry is in the audience and Elvis does a line of Tallahatchee Bridge (sp?) which sounds astonishingly like Bobbie, especially considering she is a woman.

[ColinB]

There's even a Vegas show where Bobbie Gentry is in the audience and Elvis does a line of Tallahatchee Bridge (sp?) which sounds astonishingly like Bobbie, especially considering she is a woman.

The song is 'Ode To Billie Joe'.

[Scott Haigh 781990EP]

I hear a touch of him impersonating Bob Dylan in the snippet of 'I shall be released'. He does'nt sound like himself, more like he is trying to sound like Bob, seeing as he really did'nt like Dylan's voice

'Sounds like Bob Dylan slept in my mouth all night'

[Erhan]

Elvis Impersonating himself after 1975...

The thread on Elvis 'doing' Johnny Cash got me thinking.....

How many singers did Elvis ever 'do' ?

Johnny Cash
Jackie Wilson [a member of Billy Ward's Dominoes]
Hank Snow [I'm With the Crowd, But Oh, So Alone]
Roy Orbison [brief snatch of Running Scared]
Fats Domino [Blueberry Hill]
Tiny Tim [snatch of Tiptoe Thru The Tulips]

(He did covers of other artists [like Little Richard & Chuck Berry] but without actually 'doing' their voices.)

Any more ?

[Walter Hale 4]

it's impossible - Perry como/Andy williams

[Erhan]

The thread on Elvis 'doing' Johnny Cash got me thinking.....

How many singers did Elvis ever 'do' ?

Johnny Cash
Jackie Wilson [a member of Billy Ward's Dominoes]
Hank Snow [I'm With the Crowd, But Oh, So Alone]
Roy Orbison [brief snatch of Running Scared]
Fats Domino [Blueberry Hill]
Tiny Tim [snatch of Tiptoe Thru The Tulips]

(He did covers of other artists [like Little Richard & Chuck Berry] but without actually 'doing' their voices.)

Any more ?

Bo Diddley
Glen Campbell
Liberace
Paul Anka
Sammy Davis
Tom Jones
Wayne Newton

[BIA]

I always thought E sounded a lot like Dino on Teddy Bear.

And the idea that he is imitating Clyde McPhatter on White Christmas is beyond doubt.

On Without Love or You'll Never Walk Alone, i think he sounds like GOD.

[ColinB]

On Without Love or You'll Never Walk Alone, i think he sounds like GOD.

Oh, didn't know He had done those two............

Of course, He could be doing 'Elvis'..................

[Thomas]

His favourite "victim" was definately Glen Campbell ("hotdamn").

[Cryogenic]

Erm....?

Bobbie Gentry ("Ode To Billie Joe") ("I was out chopping wood and my brother was bailing hay..." -- during the recording of "Hi Heel Sneakers")

Bing Crosby (heavy emphasis on lower register in several "Blue Hawaii" songs sounds like he was emulating him or other crooners of old)

Dean Martin (allegedly sang the first lines of "That's Amore" during a Vegas concert?)

The Beatles ("Hey Jude") (Badly)