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Topic: Blue Hawaii - Elvis
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Gerald Ross
Member From: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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posted 11 May 2005 04:46 PM
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Oh come on Howard, it's more fun to poke fun at Elvis and feel superior to him than it is to come up with logical explanations.  ------------------
Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'
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HowardR
Member From: N.Y.C.,N.Y.
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posted 11 May 2005 06:52 PM
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Sorry Gerald, you're right. What was I thinking? |
David L. Donald
Member From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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posted 11 May 2005 11:42 PM
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Howard.. you were thinking... HUH!
Musta been a lapse of deconcentration.A Fabian a master of music if ever there was one.
Kookie, kookie lend me your comb. Elvis's movie career was a hodgepodge of ideas meant to excit teenagers,
and not much more,
and a vehicle for middle of the road songs to get instant radio play. Same theme, same general dramatic engine, and the songs and a different location, hipo new cute girl of the moment,
and a cast of B character actors and TV actors movin'up. it certainly was more of a reflection of the innocence of the culture at the time ,
than they probably realized.
No need to be cool with the story or the scenario, Elvis is cool and can carry the load, Not sure why there wasn't more Elvis in Peggy Sue Gets Married, it sure would have fit.
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c c johnson
Member From: killeen,tx usa
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posted 12 May 2005 04:49 AM
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All sound tracks are pre recorded |
Howard Tate
Member From: Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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posted 12 May 2005 06:44 AM
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Hindrix, Hendicks, Smindrex, guess I could look up the correct spelling, if I cared. But I don't. Nyah!!------------------
Howard, 'Les Paul Recording, Zum S12U, Vegas 400, Boss ME-5, Boss DM-3
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Paul Honeycutt
Member From: Colorado, USA
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posted 12 May 2005 09:29 AM
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I want to know how Elvis could be alone with the girl and start singing to her with an acoustic guitar and it sounded like an orchestra. Were we hearing the song of love in the young girl's heart? I like Viva Las Vegas because Ann Margret was in it. Don't you think she looked a lot like Nichole Kidman? |
David L. Donald
Member From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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posted 12 May 2005 09:42 AM
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Movie musicals as an article of faith
requier a total suspenion of disbelief.But some times the producers push even that concept too far... |
Ron Whitfield
Member From: Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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posted 12 May 2005 11:46 AM
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HT, that shoe leather must be delicious! |
Kay Das
Member From: Singapore and Irvine CA
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posted 13 May 2005 02:11 PM
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Amused to read an article in Newsweek recently when the Hawaii Music Awards were included in the Grammy Awards. Hawaiian music was introduced to its readers by referring to Elvis and Blue Hawaii..We have a long way to go... ------------------
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Denny Turner
Member From: Northshore Oahu, Hawaii USA
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posted 13 May 2005 04:51 PM
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The commercial mentality AND SUCCESS behind such things as Blue Hawaii ...played a BIG part in motivating so many people that wanted to preserve real Hawaii, to outright and demonstrably reject & fight "anything" commercially Haole in the 1970's > 1980's ...including the Steel Guitar. There was and still is a VERY real danger of neo-con mentalities that want to exploit Hawaii for commercial gain, all too often at "ANY" expense. Hawaii, our country and the planet will evolve in the manners we $$$$$ feed it and how independently / intelligently thoughtful (not apathetically / acquiescently / conveniently) we are in doing so.Money as a transferable receipt for work is a good thing; But the money socio-political "machinery" has become a cancer to our social / political Being, ...eating it up at an exponentially growing rate. Rejecting such things noticed and mentioned in this discussion chain about B.H.... was / is intelligent, moral, socially therapeudic and even Patriotic; And needed today more than "ever" ...IMHO. Otherwise our Children's experiences in Hawaii 20 years from now will be rather like visiting Hong Kong. 
Blah blah blah.............. .......  Aloha,
DT~
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Bunky Markert
Member From: Baltimore, MD, USA
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posted 18 May 2005 10:17 PM
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I think Hawaii was as much of a star of Blue Hawaii as Elvis was. Most of the Elvis genre could be classified as travelogue. People back then were entertained by exotic locales in an air conditioned theatre in COLOR. Elvis was pretty much the same character in each one, different wardrobe, leading babe, backdrop, etc. They had a formula and they stuck with it. They appealed to teens but I bet he probably drew an older audience too, if they did any demographics back then. I was always impressed that the guys in the band no matter where he was knew his tunes. |
Paul Honeycutt
Member From: Colorado, USA
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posted 18 May 2005 10:22 PM
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I've heard that Elvis was up for the Kris Krisofferson part in "A Star is Born," but Ol' Tom wouldn't let him take the job. Too bad he never got much of a chance to be in a "real' film. |
Kay Das
Member From: Singapore and Irvine CA
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posted 19 May 2005 06:29 AM
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to come full circle, one of elvis' first hits, "love me tender" in the guise of "aura lee", is a beautiful piece for steel guitar.yes, i have to agree that "blue hawaii" did much to inspire hawaii and hawaiian-ness, myself at a tender age included. ------------------
kay |
Bob Stone
Member From: Gainesville, FL, USA
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posted 19 May 2005 08:09 AM
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Tired of the same old Elvis? Try El Vez: http://www.elvez.net/evFrameset.html |
Patrick Newbery
Member From: San Francisco, California, USA
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posted 19 May 2005 01:28 PM
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Talk about Topic Drift....are we still even on SGF? |
Jon Light
Member From: Brooklyn, NY
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posted 19 May 2005 01:34 PM
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Elvis and a Steel Guitar  Happy? |
Jussi Huhtakangas
Member From: Helsinki, Finland
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posted 19 May 2005 10:54 PM
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Note Mr Day's "not so country hep cat look". Too bad he never got to record with Elvis, fortunately there are some live recordings. |
Mike Neer
Member From: NJ
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posted 20 May 2005 08:20 PM
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Elvis was apparently tapped to play in West Side Story but turned it down due to Col. Tom Parker convincing him to make these other movies instead. Maybe that was a blessing--I can't see him in WSS. |
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