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I´m not gonna post any Youtube videos or facts about this song. Just listen to it.
What a great song.
That guitar...the piano...and that voice. Just beautiful.



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I will... his best 50's television performance IMO...

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elvis-fan wrote:best 50's television performance
sounds like a new post to start :wink:



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Scarre wrote:I´m not gonna post any Youtube videos or facts about this song. Just listen to it.
What a great song.
That guitar...the piano...and that voice. Just beautiful.
The studio recording is tame, the TV performance more exciting. Which one are you talking about?


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drjohncarpenter wrote:
Scarre wrote:I´m not gonna post any Youtube videos or facts about this song. Just listen to it.
What a great song.
That guitar...the piano...and that voice. Just beautiful.
The studio recording is tame, the TV performance more exciting. Which one are you talking about?
Studio recording, of course.
Tame? Not even close. Rock´n´Roll at it´s best.



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elvis-fan wrote:I will... his best 50's television performance IMO...

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Oh yes, I believe I first saw this on the Great Performances VHS but it didn't really strike me as anything special till I saw Elvis on Tour a few years later, the contrast of the 70's crooner to the Hillbilly Cat hit me like a ton of bricks.


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Scarre wrote:
drjohncarpenter wrote:
Scarre wrote:I´m not gonna post any Youtube videos or facts about this song. Just listen to it.
What a great song.
That guitar...the piano...and that voice. Just beautiful.
The studio recording is tame, the TV performance more exciting. Which one are you talking about?
Studio recording, of course.
Tame? Not even close. Rock´n´Roll at it´s best.
Of course. :roll:

It's indeed a tame recording, given the original's very high bar. Even Elvis would have agreed.


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Little Richard And His Band "Ready Teddy" (Specialty 579, June 9, 1956)
Billboard "Most Played R&B By Jockeys" #8 August 4, 1956
B-side of "Rip It Up"



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Without a doubt, Richard Penniman was perhaps the biggest influence on Elvis in 1956.



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Little Richard, Apollo Theater, New York - Friday, August 24, 1956


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TINML wrote:
elvis-fan wrote:I will... his best 50's television performance IMO...

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Oh yes, I believe I first saw this on the Great Performances VHS but it didn't really strike me as anything special till I saw Elvis on Tour a few years later, the contrast of the 70's crooner to the Hillbilly Cat hit me like a ton of bricks.
Studio version for me...The sound might have a small part in it.




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The studio version was his best Little Richard cover. The live Sullivan version ranks up there as one of his best live covers from 56. I wish he would have done Slippin & Slidin and Lucille at some point.



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r&b wrote:The studio version was his best Little Richard cover. The live Sullivan version ranks up there as one of his best live covers from 56. I wish he would have done Slippin & Slidin and Lucille at some point.
The Tupelo live recording from September 1956, despite the poor quality, is the finest performance we have by Presley.


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drjohncarpenter wrote:
r&b wrote:The studio version was his best Little Richard cover. The live Sullivan version ranks up there as one of his best live covers from 56. I wish he would have done Slippin & Slidin and Lucille at some point.
The Tupelo live recording from September 1956, despite the poor quality, is the finest performance we have by Presley.

Studio version for me. That guitar that sounds like a train whistle...just beautiful.




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On the whole, I'm not terribly wild about Elvis's Little Richard covers. They're not bad, but they don't top the originals, imo. Ready Teddy is an exception; Elvis always made it something special, be it the studio version (a kick-ass highlight of the excellent second album) or the TV versions (I agree with elvis-fan that it's his best 50's TV performance).

I still don't know what Elvis (or Little Richard, for that matter) is singing during most of the verses, but it doesn't matter. The sheer force of the music is all that matters.




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Everybody is right. Elvis' studio version is very entertaining but Little Richard's is even better. That said, I'm a much bigger Elvis fan than Little Richard fan, so I enjoy Elvis more. IMO, the Sullivan show version is very exciting because we get to see Elvis but if we just compare audio, the studio version is better.


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