In 1960, Elvis came home from serving in the US Army after being drafted during the height of his career.
Sinatra hosted him on his television show as a "Welcome Home Elvis" special.
The two never seemed to have ever had good relations between them. Especially in later years....
But this performance was a testimonial or at least a very well rehearsed charade....
Either way, it is a rare glimpse of two of the all time best vocalist singing each others songs.
Sinatra doing "Love Me Tender" and Elvis doing "Witchcraft".
A fun historical moment nonetheless.
Considering, according to Wikipedia...
"Sinatra had written an article in a French magazine, Western World, in 1957, describing rock and roll music as 'sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd—in plain fact, dirty—lyrics, and as I said before, it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth … this rancid-smelling aphrodisiac I deplore.'
When asked his reaction to hearing this, Presley responded 'He has a right to his opinion, but I can’t see him knocking it for no good reason. I admire him as a performer and an actor but I think he’s badly mistaken about this. If I remember correctly, he was also part of a trend. I don’t see how he can call the youth of today immoral and delinquent.'
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Elvis looks a little lost and out of his element. Which was sort of the point. It was Sinatra's show and he was setting the rules. But, y'know, it's television.
It would have been interesting to hear Sinatra perform with Elvis with a rock-style band of guitars, keyboards and drums.
Elvis was really a helluva musician though. Underrated, if that's possible. I'm not sure if he's really appreciated for his skills.
As an aside: I expect that "Nelson" was Nelson Riddle, who was the gold standard for big-band arrangements. Elvis and Sinatra singing to a Nelson Riddle orchestra, wow.
He also used to sing "Something" all the time.
not that theres anything wrong with that
Sinatra "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool!"
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Elvis would have put cheese on his linguine & clams.
not that theres anything wrong with that
I don't think the Chairman of the Board would approve though.
Nice find.
baahahahaha...."Steve, kick his ass!"
One of Phil's greatest sketches.
"Swing baby, you're platinum!"
5 costume changes. Runs about 2 hours.
And the chicks still dig him!!! lol