People don’t seem to appreciate exactly how big it actually was to record this back then , it was very risky, and it’s horrifying to hear how relevant it still is🥺I’m incredibly privileged, no doubt about it!

Born in. The slums of Mississippi. To everlasting fame. Nobody could match Elvis Presley. Nobody

Elvis was born into poverty and he never forgot where he came from. Great reaction thank you. Please react to You Gave Me A Mountain live in honolulu 1973.

Elvis’s manager and record label said if he released this song it would ruin his career .. Elvis grew up in the ghetto going across the tracks .. he wanted to shine a light on it so people would wake up !! He said release it or I will find another label that will .. honey they had to release it .. he was the biggest star in the world .. and yes Elvis was swagged out and pimp’in way before we knew anything about it .. thank u 🙏 Elvis !!

Elvis oozed charisma and was born with the voice, talent and looks to go with it.

My first crush was Mac Davis who wrote this. Plenty of folks turned this song down but not Elvis ❤️ I'm from Tennessee and remember being at school when our principal came over the PA system and told us he had passed away. We were inconsolable!

Please react to "If I can Dream", which was Elvis' tribute to MLK - thank you

Elvis' manager told him recording and performing this song would ruin his career because back in the '60s the civil rights movement was in full force. Here's another song that Elvis went against his manager's advice to perform: Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream ('68 Comeback Special) (3:12). I hope you'll also react to this one.

I am a 65 year old woman from the same section of Tupelo, Mississippi where ELVIS is from! I am very proud of him! I Love him! He had B B BLING and he was B B BAD! Please play for me "I CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU" and "CRYING IN THE CHAPEL"! I could rattle off 500 songs for you now but the fun is discovering him by yourself! Thanks so much for your wonderful reaction and for bringing his genius to the younger generations!!! Your discovery will be your reward but I do have a documentary that you should watch. It is "ELVIS and THE BLACK COMMUNITY". IT IS SPECTACULAR. THERE ARE 2 PARTS. GOOD LUCK AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY!!!

Bringing attention to poverty with his magnificent voice.

Keep playing the king The best performers in the world

How about a fun one..Suspicious Minds Vegas 1970..thanks✌️

If I Can Dream...was the closing song on the '68 Comeback Special...this was a tribute to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Elvis was devastated by the news of Dr Martin Luther King's assassinated. Dr King was murdered just 9 miles from Elvis's home in Memphis Tennessee. Mr Earl Brown knowing about Elvis's love for Dr King wrote this song with Elvis and mine. Using Dr King's I have a Dream speech, as inspiration. Elvis was originally going to close his special with a Christmas song. He fought with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker and insisted on performing this song. Mr. Brown noticed during rehearsal that one of the background singers had tears running down her cheeks. He asked if she was okay and her response was that she had never seen Elvis sing a song with so much passion. She said it was so obvious to her, that he met every word. You should also check out the mini documentary Elvis & the Black Community.

I could listen to that song and those lyrics over and over and I still have tears. It really hits!

This song hits you all in the feels. Now you know WHY he's the king of rock and roll

Get cold chills every time I listen to this song

Love seeing people reaction to Elvis. He was so amazing. My grandma and mom was HUGE Elvis fans. My grandma told me stories of standing outside the record stores in 1956 waiting to buy his records. I went down the Elvis rabbit hole in 1996 I was 12. So so glad his music still lives. Thank you for a great reaction

Love love love. From South Africa 🇿🇦

if i can dream 68 comeback special

Cool seeing this page!!! Great music selection! Elvis definitely had the IT factor like no one else. He's the King.

Put In the Ghetto, with Walk a mile in my shoes and the audience he had during his Vegas shows. He was giving them a message. I could be wrong. Sammy Davis Jnr did a good Spoken Word bersion of In the Ghetto. He had a Youth Center built in East Tupelo.

Superb reaction man, thank you for sharing.

Fabulous performance

The Elvis Rabbit hole is very deep! Especially his death! You go down that hole, you'll get lost!

Great reaction, can you please check out If I Can Dream (white suit) and a short doc. Elvis and the Black Community pts 1 and 2. Thanks

Elvis never turned his head away.

Elvis was the voice back in the days. Listen to his song Hurt very good one .

Elvis was ahead of the times for a White guy. I'm Southern and I remember our principal coming across the PA system and telling us he had died. It just seemed like the world stopped. Our Mama's came and picked us up crying too. Our school was half Black and White too. He was a good man ❤️

New sub. Loved the reaction.

This is the first Drill Song!!!!!!!!@

So real so.true . Elvis covers it all !play Polk salad

He dedecated one of his concert to martin Luther king n Robert Kennedy✌️😍good rections✌️

Munroe, please listen to "Don't Cry Daddy" by Elvis Presley.

American Trilogy, is a great song, also Bee Gees Staying Alive, Tragedy, Fanny Be Tender With My Heart and Meatloaf 2out of 3 Ain’t Bad and I’d Do Any Thing For Love. Love you reactions

You are on to something different! Thanks bro. New sub

Munro's Corner. Subbed immediately, love your reaction to this song!

I agree that with artists like Elvis, there is so much out there that makes him look cartoonish that the diamonds can be difficult to find. Roy Clark would be another, although he was more of a comedic performer. But his tenure on Hee-Haw kind of makes a person forget he was a virtuoso on multiple stringed instruments.

Can't resist storytime... in the ghetto. Elvis is one of a kind. That's for sure.

Here is a funny story about Elvis. When he was in music class in middle school; his music teacher gave him a C- and told him that he wouldn't go anywhere with his singing and the music he played on the guitar. I guess that teacher didn't know anything when it came to different genres of music. Long live the King of Rock and Roll!

Beyond the show, the song, the lyrics...analyze his gestures blaming the (high) society and guess where sir...in Las Vegas!!! Rip King.

Elvis grew up dirt poor in the ghetto in Mississippi. He also went to jail. When he made it big he gave to many many charities. He knows about what he is singing.

Love the Elvis reaction.. Also, react to Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan (also with BB King. ) Very popular blues reaction that you will dig…

I love how Elvis bows his head at moments he feels need respect. Thank you for letting me sit in with you again today! Great reaction!

Is was a good soul

Elvis was born and raised in a Mississippi getto, this song is from experience of being poor with no money. His father borrowed 200 dollars to build a bungalow and couldn't pay it back He went to jail for a couple of years.

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Whitney Houston’s mother was one of his back up singers

Whitney Houston mom sang back up sweet inspirations

By this point he could pretty much say anything he wanted but it's great that he brought some of this awareness to mostly white audiences although a lot of black people liked him at that point. As others have said he was born into poverty. He grew up in a black community that was actually better off than his family because it family was never very well off to start with and then his dad went to jail for some stuff and so the black community actually helped him. He went to Black Pentecostal church and so forth. Where he got his moves in his attitude. It's such a shame. Hits bloated by a rage 19 and there was a lot of positive reception but there was so much racist backlash and they used the n-word all the time to describe what he was doing. But I remember seeing an interview where he was quite shy but always honest and respectful. And they said why do you think it's okay to do this kind of thing? And he said, I honestly don't think I'm doing anything wrong. He was just a very young man expressing himself and he changed the face of music and pop culture.

The infinity King The hamble man no one come close

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At this point in time Elvis put him self on the line..I'm sure a lot of racists people wanted him dead..for this song..and at that time that kind of shit was going down

Elvis is the king , but Bob Dylan is the Joker who steals the kings crown.

Check out if I could dream by Elvis it's a tribute to MLK Jr 🙏 and check out trying to get to you ty👍👍☘️

😥 song.......i made it out of the ghetto thank God

Poverty is not a race

That wasn't a reaction. That was you watching and saying what you thought would appease people in the shortest time possible. You didn't say a damned thing about the song.