Oh, more Elvis, please ... Jailhouse Rock!

Elvis had class but more importantly, he had manners. Always introduced himself as Elvis Presley even though no introduction was necessary.

Charisma on another level!

Elvis Presley was beautiful inside and out. My great aunt was Elvis step mom Dee Presley my great grandma sister. He was the King of kindness.

Only 21 yrs. old. What a talent this man was. He started it all............

Elvis is the GOAT...NO ONE WILL EVER COME CLOSE TO HIM 😊🎤🎼🔥❤..Great reaction 😊❤

I'm a huge Elvis fan and i loved your reaction.thank you

What a perceptive reaction!

Thank you So much for everything you said about Elvis. 💙🙏

You are so right…Elvis was humble…as well as super talented. Love your reaction. Elvis loved his fans.

Easily said there was only one Elvis...never be another.

I love them all. He sings & performs so well. I great entertainer. Polite so polite. Soooooo handsome so much sex appeal. He really had it all.

Goat forever

There's a reason he's called "The King of Rock and Roll", and you just saw a small part of it... There is SO much more.

He did have it all! Please react to Elvis...A Generous Heart the short version and Elvis.. King of Kindness.

Young Elvis was something else!!!! God broke the mold after making Elvis. He was in a class of his own. Check out Elvis King of kindness or 200 Cadillacs to see his good heart From a third generation Elvis fan thank you for keeping Elvis alive.

Girls ALWAYS cheer no matter what Elvis said or did but some are also laughing because of the expression on his face when he said, "This is one of the saddest we ever heard" Elvis could just stand there, do nothing but smile and girls would go crazy screaming

This is so 😎, a superstar 🔥🔥😎😎👍 love it

Amen!!! Elvis was a one off.. people Will remember him for exactly what u said… like he said, he was raised to treat everyone the same.. to be kind and nice … beautiful man… ❤️

You are correct. Elvis never forget where he came from, humble thru and thru. Young people have no idea how absolutely famous Elvis was, he could've been an ass, but he was so generous

React to Elvis "Trying To get To You" from the "68 Comeback Special". Elvis at his best.

Ed Sullivan was reluctant to put him on the stage that night, but we're all glad that he did. We would have waited a lot longer for this talent!

My dad was a mega fan. He took us to Graceland EVERY summer. Now I'm a huge fan. 1954-1958 is my favorite era of Elvis. The energy, the style, most especially his rockabilly songs.

The best version of Elvis performing 'live' in 1956 was the one where he is dancing and singing with Scotty Moore, Bill Black and DJ Fontana on the Milton Berle show. After that was broadcast, that's when Elvis was criticised by the media and later shows were filmed from the waste up. It's on youtube somewhere.

Oh man I loved everything you said at the end. that was great

You said it perfectly. We love him like a family member. My grown grandchildren love him now and I loved him since age 12. Thank you. 🎶💙

I really enjoy your reactions. Your commentaries are very good and they flow easily.

Awesome words and speech, my man. Famous too in France, this song. Thank you 👍👍☀️☀️🎸🎸🔥🔥🔥

Yes.. Even here, he's not really moving as much as he would live.

They were all laughing. They all realized it was funny. Would love to hear them backstage

Elvis Had Class❤

Watch the Forest Gump movie. His dance style was eluded to. Can you imagine leaving this long lasting, beautiful memory of your life!

I love watching these live versions of Elvis back in the early days. Hound Dog is a great song! This was performed on the "Ed Sullivan" show in 1956. Many times you will see the backup quartet singers called "The Jordanaires" with him. They performed with Elvis in live appearances, on his recordings & in his films in the 50's-70's. Elvis' movements were considered scandalous to show on TV. Some shows only filmed him from the waist up.

Elvis was a nice guy. Who says he wasn't is the bad guy.

My mother and her friends saw him perform and met him when he was still a truck driver. She sat on his lap, got a kiss and an autograph. When my mother married at 18, my grandmother got angry and got rid of everything mom left at her house, which included the autograph. I hate to think what it might have been worth. Oh well.

Great reaction. You said some very true things :)))

Great video.

Elvis had god-tier level charisma, you hear the phrase, "light up a room" quite often but you can tell Elvis was just like that. Elvis never wrote his own songs, but he recorded over 700 songs in his 21 year career - which is just amazing. Hound Dog was written in 1952 by the legendary songwriting duo of Lieber and Stoller (seriously look them up - they wrote MOST of the 50s and 60s songs that you've ever heard of, absolute legends), and Hound Dog was first recorded in 1952 by Big Mama Thornton - her version is really good too (it's more blues and less pop) and worth checking out and comparing to Elvis' version. Cheers.

If you're going to delve into Elvis... I think it's important for you to watch "Elvis and the Black Community"... I've seen Black reactors, that had a negative idea about him because of "here-say" that realized what they were told was 💯 wrong. It's ot there as part 1 and 2... but I think you can get the whole documentary in one shot... He was the nicest guy... but BEYOND what you might imagine. After watching the documentary you'll look at him with new eyes and notice more about who he surrounded himself with... Just a thought!

This was part of a string of TV appearances in 1955 & 1956 that launched rock and roll into the cultural stratosphere, and it's why he's called the King of Rock and Roll... and one of his early fans was a very young John Lennon, who idolized him as a teenager in Liverpool

Michael, this live Hound Dog version, from the Ed Sullivan Show, is really a tame, restrained version by Elvis. Please, react to the live Hound Dog version, from the Milton Berle Show. Once you do, you'll understand. Thx !

If you want to see a more loose version of Elvis in this era try the version he he did on the Steve Allen Show, he really pulls out the stops near the end

The next time Elvis was on Ed Sullivan, the bottom half of the tv was blocked out due to parents' horrified responsesl

Great reaction Michael❤ Elvis was a very humble and generous human being! I can't recall the exact details of a story where he purchased Teddy Roosevelts yacht and then gave it to a charity to auction off!!! Maybe some of the subs can expand on this! I saw Elvis in concert Ft. Worth, TX towards the end of his career. Thank you for sharing! Love from Texas!!!

Hey man, I'm glad I caught this reaction. Yeah, just so many things to say but I liked your observations at the end, and I really liked how he just made sure that he let people know as his very final thing after being totally in that performer mode and now he just comes back to being that humble guy you were talking about any points upwards and he says, may God bless you just like he is blessed me and all of us. Ed Sullivan looks like Richard Nixon, wow that is hilarious. Well that was a very common look back then you have to understand, but I have to admit, when I was a little kid and this was airing on television about six years before I was born so but Ed Sullivan was still going when I was a little kid and I watched it with my dad and by then it was in color of course but the funny thing is, this was later in 1956, and can you imagine that he was literally 21 years old at this time. That just blows my mind. But if you ever feel like looking it up on KZfaq, here is an interesting thing, it was on The Ed Sullivan Show that they started filming him only from the waist up during certain bits and performances. And what you see here is really scaled-back well not really but somewhat scaled back from the event on a different television show earlier in that same here which is what set off The Firestorm and started all of that. Just searched on KZfaq for Elvis Presley doing hound dog on the Milton Berle variety show in earlier 1956, I can't remember if it was June or what but it might have been. And be careful because there is an abbreviated version of it that misses the whole historic aspect of that iconic performance. And the whole thing isn't very long but if you see one that is 2 minutes or less that's not the one. And here's the deal, in that performance, just like this one in everything on those television shows back then, they don't do the full length version of the song and even then the songs were really short, but his hit on the radio was longer than even that performance that you just saw on The Ed Sullivan Show. They just do abbreviated performances. And that's what was supposed to happen on the Milton Berle show, but just like here, the audience and the ladies and girls were just screaming and they had never practiced it this way ever. Ever. So they did their short little version of it and then it was supposed to be over, but Elvis has been so unpredictable his entire career, from back in those early days with his early band with Scotty Moore and DJ Fontana and Bill Black and the Jordanaires behind him, but right when it was supposed to be over he just suddenly kept moving and he slowed it down to half speed. And the band was used to watching him because he was so unpredictable both in practice and live, and he did this thing at half Tempo and they immediately started following and adjusted in this allowed him to do those crazy athletic core strength moonwalk type things where he was going up on his tiptoes and so forth, but now because it was half Tempo, then he could just almost turn it more into a burlesque, like the old strip things from the 1920s and 30s, and it was so suggestive for the time, which as you say is absolutely nothing now. Naive as hell it's just it that's what he did because the audience was so into it and the audience just went incredibly crazy when he did that, so even for a very young man, that was instinctually and Incredibly brilliant spontaneous last second decision that he made as a performer. To just totally own the freaking situation. That performance in early 1956 on the Milton Berle variety show, also in black-and-white of course, is what set off The Firestorm, and there was an incredible racist backlash. It was really horrible. And they were throwing the n-word at him and talking about how he was corrupting White Society with his n word behavior, and there was a huge push to try to get his records pulled from the radio stations and from the jukeboxes. I think that's probably difficult to understand now but that's the way it was back then, and like I say, I came along not long after that and when I was a young kid in the sixties, it was still a lot that way, even in my own neighborhood. And I mean you watched dr. Martin Luther King get assassinated and all of that man. Elvis didn't care. And there's an old black-and-white telephone interview that's pretty fascinating after that event that caused this huge backlash and they started filming him from the waist up when they thought he would do those moves, and in fact he had a gig in Florida where it was so conservative at the time and this judge actually issued an order that if Elvis did anything with his hips, he would be arrested on the spot. He was so frustrated by this but in the end, he's Elvis. Even though he thought about canceling the gig because he was so pissed, he didn't and when he went out there he did not swivel his hips at all or do any of that crazy moonwalk rubber legged stuff that he was doing back then, but just like in this video that you just reacted too, you saw it, only has to do is smart at the audience, or roll his eyes, or play with them a little too much, act like he's going to do something and then stop and make it awkward enough to draw pension and yet they always loved it. So what he did was he used his index finger or maybe hold on, no I think it was his pinky finger and he would hold it up and he would swiveled around at the points where he ignore Mele swivel his hips and do his dance moves that were suggestive for the time, and he would do that literally with his pinky and the girls in the women in the audience in general just went crazy with every movement of his pinky finger. That just blows my mind how incredible that is and what an incredible big middle finger to the races and the establishment and the fans loved it. That guy was so brilliant even when he was barely out of his teenage years!

On his 3rd appearance on the Ed Sullivan, he was filmed from the waist up only.

This is his second visit to ED Sullivan, cause in the first he was Not filmed from the waist down.

It was on Ed Sullivan that he was shot the first time from the waist up only.

New subscriber and I couldn’t agree more with everything you say about Elvis. Please consider some interviews or documentary style videos as well, it always amazes me how well he speaks even in early interviews… very impressive

Pretty good stage presence for a hick who was driving a truck a year or so earlier, don't you think?

That is Scotty Moore on guitar, and I believe Bill Blass (or Black) on bass violin. Iconic musicians. Elvis was a decent rhythm guitar player, but his playing rarely made the recordings.

I’m 61 so this was six years and some change before I was born. I’ve seen footage of him singing but I guess mostly I was seeing what we would call music videos today. I don’t remember seeing him in a live performance where he was so playful with the audience. It was fun to watch and you can see why he was so well loved. I’m with you though. I don’t understand why anyone would want to be famous. I guess it depends on the type of fame - admiration or crazed obsession. But then I’m an introvert so it would all be torture for me. Thanks for the reaction. Your positive attitude and enthusiasm are fun to watch.

And now you know why his nickname was ' Elvis the pelvis '.

Lol *subbed*

Funnily enough Elvis performed on the Milton Berle show ( I believe it’s Hound Dog aswell) and they do a skit about how he doesn’t like the girls screaming at him, very funny lol

Listen to Trying To Get to You!

Milton Berle Show, April 56'. Best version 👍 Check it out!!!

Great reaction to my guy! 👏🤩 What’s the ‘best if used by’ date on that jar of mayo? (Just being nosy) 🤨🤣

Great reaction, btw what's up with that mayonnaise jar on the sofa behind your head? 😂

When he first started performing and the girls were screaming, he asked why and when told it was because of the way he moved onstage, he was surprised because he was just moving to let out his energy; he had no idea that he was even moving like that at first. Guess he got used to it. Lol Also, yes, in January 1957 after these performances in 1956, they taped him from the waist up; not that that stopped the effect he had on women worldwide.

This song on the Milto Burel tv show is a bit differen. You will injoy very much. Its a tad bit longer ; but great.

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Don't know if you saw the Elvis movie. I was, and still am a super fan from the 50's. Some say his affect on women was overdone in the movie. I can tell you this, when he finished a show he literally had to run and jump in the car or the women would tear his clothes off. I have seen it. I am almost 80 and no one can explain it to this day. Men were very jealous and would try to beat him up. One thing I wish you would do is show a short video "Elvis Presley King of Kindness" he was so generous to other and never forgot how he grew up in poverty in the Depression. You are a great reactor, thanks and Be Blessed

Sexiest man that’s ever lived. Lol

Your analysis is spot on. When Elvis did the moves and presented this new way on t.v. it was done in fun and innocence, just to enjoy oneself. Today its all about trying to shock and be vulgar as possible. Totally disgusting and sick. We just an example the other night which i only saw "highlights" where they were worshipping the devil now, no longer hiding it with secret hand signs but wearing customs in red with horns.

have you seen the Elvis movie?

what does "HES ELECTRIC" mean?

After this appearance, Elvis had to be shown on tv from the stomach and up to not see his pelvis move. It was considered too sexual and vulgar for back then. People were much more conservative.

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I'm fairly new to the channel, love the reactions, love seeing kids enjoy classics, but I have to ask WTF IS UP WITH THE JAY OF MAYO BEHIND YOU IN EVERY VIDEO!?

Oaky I'll say it Elvis class, today's music trash.

Right after an hour or so that you you'd be begging for anonymity

Yeah long for entertainers like Elvis Tom Jones The Righteous Brothers Fats Domino classy Ultra talented didn't need stupidity and all that goofy stuff and didn't rely on disgusting sexuality Selway supposedly what what what does that have to do with the music whatever gender you are what does that have to do with music I could care less what I mean. But anyway the talent the style the dress just the class in a bubble again none of the people today could do anything that these people could do no computers there's no auto-tune there's no giant Studio this is live