Happy Birthday, Elvis!
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Happy Birthday, Elvis!
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Elvis!
Almost [every shade of] Blue. Happy Birthday and thanks for so much happiness over so many years [and upcoming on October 30!].
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Re: Happy Birthday, Elvis!
Happy Birthday!!
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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Happy Birthday!!
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php/?fbid=623281445819792
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Hi Elvis
You know the drill - we wish you Happy Birthday and you pretend not to read the comments on the forum!
Have a great one.
You know the drill - we wish you Happy Birthday and you pretend not to read the comments on the forum!
Have a great one.
Who’s this kid with his mumbo jumbo?
Re: Happy Birthday, Elvis!
Happy Birthday to the great man. In fact he's 68 today.
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68 years young, Elvis is still in diapers. He’s only a couple years ahead of me, but I’m catching up
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Re: Happy Birthday, Elvis!
Happy birthday EC - from a Defend Vinyl customer.
I'm 5 months older than you but perhaps I look more advanced in years? At a book signing you called me 'Sir'. Perhaps I resembled or spoke like one of your teachers?
I'm 5 months older than you but perhaps I look more advanced in years? At a book signing you called me 'Sir'. Perhaps I resembled or spoke like one of your teachers?
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https://www.covermesongs.com/2022/08/th ... -ever.html
The 50 Best Elvis Costello Covers Ever
Aug 25 2022
‘The Best Covers Ever’ series counts down our favorite covers of great artists.
When Elvis Costello first appeared on the scene, the press fell over themselves not only to praise him, but to pigeonhole him. He was a punk. He was a new waver. He was a nerd, what with his glasses and gawky suits (Dave Marsh memorably said that “Elvis Costello looks like Buddy Holly after drinking a can of STP Oil Treatment”). Most commonly, he was lumped in with Graham Parker, Joe Jackson, Billy Joel, and others as an Angry Young Man. “I’m not angry,” Costello protested on My Aim Is True, and everyone nodded and smiled and patted his head.
Costello wasn’t interested in living on that particular cul-de-sac. He began expanding his musical palette, making more complex songs with more complex rhymes. He delved into other genres, starting with country & western (to the dismay of both Costello fans and C&W fans, and to the pleasant surprise of music fans) and moving on to blues, jazz, orchestral, classical pop, and more. As he became a greater student, he became a greater teacher, giving credit in word and action to his influences, penning a well-received autobiography, and hosting the talk/music show Spectacle, where he interviewed and played with his peers. He continues to record – his most recent album, The Boy Named If, was released earlier this year – and has settled into the role of elder statesman that his talent earned him long ago.
Costello turns one year elder today, his 68th birthday. We’re celebrating with a collection of the fifty best Elvis Costello covers we could get our hands on. They reflect his wide range of styles, revel in his literacy, plumb his depths. Most of all, they reveal his heart, showing over and over again how his love of song can lift, wrench, open up the people who listen to him and to his music. We hope you find this list as worthy of celebration as Elvis Costello is.
The 50 Best Elvis Costello Covers Ever
Aug 25 2022
‘The Best Covers Ever’ series counts down our favorite covers of great artists.
When Elvis Costello first appeared on the scene, the press fell over themselves not only to praise him, but to pigeonhole him. He was a punk. He was a new waver. He was a nerd, what with his glasses and gawky suits (Dave Marsh memorably said that “Elvis Costello looks like Buddy Holly after drinking a can of STP Oil Treatment”). Most commonly, he was lumped in with Graham Parker, Joe Jackson, Billy Joel, and others as an Angry Young Man. “I’m not angry,” Costello protested on My Aim Is True, and everyone nodded and smiled and patted his head.
Costello wasn’t interested in living on that particular cul-de-sac. He began expanding his musical palette, making more complex songs with more complex rhymes. He delved into other genres, starting with country & western (to the dismay of both Costello fans and C&W fans, and to the pleasant surprise of music fans) and moving on to blues, jazz, orchestral, classical pop, and more. As he became a greater student, he became a greater teacher, giving credit in word and action to his influences, penning a well-received autobiography, and hosting the talk/music show Spectacle, where he interviewed and played with his peers. He continues to record – his most recent album, The Boy Named If, was released earlier this year – and has settled into the role of elder statesman that his talent earned him long ago.
Costello turns one year elder today, his 68th birthday. We’re celebrating with a collection of the fifty best Elvis Costello covers we could get our hands on. They reflect his wide range of styles, revel in his literacy, plumb his depths. Most of all, they reveal his heart, showing over and over again how his love of song can lift, wrench, open up the people who listen to him and to his music. We hope you find this list as worthy of celebration as Elvis Costello is.
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Happy birthday: https://youtu.be/VgyTHorYvI4
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Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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Happy Birthday, Elvis!!
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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Happy birthday Elvis - still a spring chicken.
There's a phrase that's never appeared in a song ............................yet
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Is it perhaps the last year of his youth?
Can't you see I'm trying to change this water to wine
Re: Happy Birthday, Elvis!
There was a luvly birthday tribute paid on the BBC Radio 3 wireless this morning, delivered by host Petroc Trelawny.
Mention of his mam and dad and playing of O Mistress Mine. A nice surprise. Happy Birthday EC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001pn2g
Occurs at about 0720 (45 mins into above link), or thereabouts.
Mention of his mam and dad and playing of O Mistress Mine. A nice surprise. Happy Birthday EC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001pn2g
Occurs at about 0720 (45 mins into above link), or thereabouts.
"...i feel almost possessed,
so long as i don't lose this glorious distress..."
so long as i don't lose this glorious distress..."
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Happy birthday Elvis - I know you’ll be reading this
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68 years old and he's still kicking ass and taking names Happy Birthday Elvis
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Elvis is 69 today!
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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Wishing Elvis a phenomenal\ birthday and many many more!