-definetly !-

Absolutely! It brings me such joy watching this young couple react to all this classic music. ✌️

And all the music I would have forgotten about.

Elvis recorded Always on My Mind on March 29, 1972 & released on October 31, 1972. Willie recorded & released this song in 1982. I was blessed to have gone to 2 of Elvis concerts in 1974 & 1975. Elvis’ voice was better live that recorded. He was awesome! ❤❤

Willie Nelson said he liked Elvis version better than his own!

It's all about Priscilla

No he was dating his new fiancé before he went into the restroom and passed away. But yes, he did write that song about Priscilla P.

She obviously didn't fully love him. Otherwise she wouldn't have taken his kid away and broke his heart. The b!tch is last one standing anyhow.. Hope shes enjoying it....

They definitely need to listen to the Pet Shop Boys take - it's awesome.

Originally written by Mark James who also wrote "Suspicious Minds" for Elvis and "Hooked on a Feeling".

Pet Shop Boys had the bigger hit.

The Pogues 'Fairytale of New York' was denied the 1987 UK Christmas #1 by the Pet Shop Boys version of this song.

Covered by Fantasia in the late 1990s.

Talking about covers. Try UB40 doing this song

@@hals.1844 That is a wonderful story!

​@@hals.1844Congrats on 50 years with your beautiful bride.

Agree. And the cut from Kacey Musgraves for the Elvis movie is amazing. Would like to see a reaction on it. The video is so well done.

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

I agree, there will never be another Elvis! But we have the Dutch Elvis, search for “Bouke and the Elvis Matters band”, he is amazing! Saw him live yesterday.

😓

Especially the 1970 version from ttwii

Amen!

Willie

@@RobertoSantana61 not even Willie. This was Elvis's life

James, I agree! Blessings. 🙏

SAME!!! Hard to get through it - I keep thinkin': it'll be over in a minute.... ❤

Pet shop boys did a good rendition too

Fantasia has a beautiful cover of this song.

Elvis, obviously, is the one of a king, I mean kind, but, and this is quite exceptional for me, but I would go with the Willie Nelson version on this one.

Respect to Willie Nelson but there can be only one King!

agreed!

Elvis, obviously, is the one of a king, I mean kind, but, and this is quite exceptional for me, but I would go with the Willie Nelson version on this one.

No question of that. Elvis did it best

A real sweetheart.

I love watching these not only for music but this really great couple (lovin' Amber!)

I almost always get tears seeing Amber's emotions

Its such a true song for Elvis and Priscilla. He never stopped sleeping with other women even when they were married. He didn't do her right but apparently he did love her very much.

Beaulieu knew what she was getting into when she first met Elvis at age 14. After all, Elvis had a longtime girlfriend back home in the US, Anita Wood (1957-1962), yet spent time with several German frauleins in spite of that. Little "innocent" Beaulieu did not mind being another girl he cheated on his girlfriend with. Elvis returned to the US on March 1, 1960, while Beaulieu and her family remained in Germany. There she terrorized her mother and stepfather because she had only recently found out he was not her biological father. She went on a hunger strike, skipped school, and pretty much played Elvis and Mr. and Mrs. Beaulieu against each other. She told untruths about her home situation begging Elvis to save her by letting her come over and she made family life in Germany for her parents and half-siblings hell. It was little “innocent” Beaulieu who pursued Elvis, sending him risqué photos of herself (condoned/facilitated by her parents!). In a 1973 interview with Ladies Home Journal, Beaulieu is quoted saying that her mother, Ann Iversen, said that knowing Elvis was “an opportunity of a lifetime”. Her mother and stepfather played a questionable role in the development of Beaulieu's long-distance "affair" with Elvis that reeks of ulterior motives. If they'd really been worried or incensed and believed that all the initiative came from Presley, they could have stopped it right then and there. Yet, they didn't; they played along. They first allowed her to visit Elvis in the US when she was 16. More than a year passed until her next visit at 17. Beaulieu did not move to Memphis until she was close to 18 when she moved in with Elvis' father Vernon and stepmother Dee. It is total nonsense that many claim that she "lived with Elvis since she was 14". BEAULIEU AND ELVIS WEREN'T EVEN ON THE SAME CONTINENT FOR THE BETTER PART OF 3 YEARS. During the years before their marriage, Elvis was away from Memphis a lot, making 3 movies a year in Hollywood or locations such as Hawaii. And during all these years he was also having multiple affairs with co-stars. Beaulieu knew this and could have left then, since they were not married yet, but of course, she stayed because the goal was to become Mrs. Presley. According to Beaulieu, Elvis had promised to marry her when she was 21. But as her birthday had come and gone and her 22nd birthday was approaching and Elvis still had not kept his word, Beaulieu, her parents, and the colonel (Tom Parker) visited Elvis on a movie set. The most logical thing that happened is that a threat was made that they would go public about Elvis "dating" a minor while in his twenties if he would not keep his promise to marry her. After all: Jerry Lee Lewis had gone through a scandal that people might be reminded of if the Beaulieus had gone public: Jerry Lee Lewis had married his 13-year-old cousin! After the visit of the Beaulieus and Parker to the movie set, everything escalated and a quick wedding ceremony was arranged on May 1, 1967 (23 days before Beaulieu's 22nd birthday) in Las Vegas. The whole ceremony took just 8 minutes and afterward, followed by a press conference (listen to what the Memphis mafia guys say about them getting married at the 24:33 mark of kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pp6Sn7KisJ-UgIE.html). You can hear what Elvis told about the wedding in the recording of the last phone conversation Red West had with him before he died "That wedding thing, that wedding thing. It was in there over and done with so quick. I didn't realize I was married." (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pp6Sn7KisJ-UgIE.html). Beaulieu soon became pregnant, but soon Elvis already wanted to divorce her. 9 months after the wedding, daughter Lisa Marie was born. Beaulieu and Elvis effectively lived their lives apart as early as 6 weeks after Lisa was born when Beaulieu began an affair with her dance instructor. During the taping of the 1968 Singer Special (later redubbed the 1968 Comeback Special) Elvis had an affair with Susan Henning, while Beaulieu attended some of the tapings with her lover (the dance instructor). By 1969, after Elvis had finished his movie contracts and had begun not only his residency at The International Hotel in Las Vegas, but also his touring around the USA, he was away from Memphis an average of 150 - 200 days a year. Elvis bought a new mansion for his family, at 144 Monovale Drive in Holmby Hills/California which became Beaulieu's residence while Elvis - in between tours - preferred to stay at his Hillcrest Rd, Beverly Hills house. Effectively their marriage was over in 1969 and they increasingly lived separate lives. They did try to get back closer together in 1970, for the sake of Lisa Marie, but that failed. Christmas 1970 was all but peaceful and festive and ended with Elvis angrily leaving Graceland for several days. By then, Beaulieu had already started taking karate lessons at Ed Parker's karate studio and subsequently met Mike Stone, whom she'd first seen during a karate tournament in 1968, and soon began an affair with him. By late 1971, Beaulieu and Stone (who had left his wife, pregnant with their second child) shared an apartment together in Belmont Shore and gossip rags were beginning to pick up on the break-up between Beaulieu and Elvis. The separation really was effective as of shortly before Elvis' 37th birthday, January 8, 1972. Elvis was livid and he moved on: started dating Linda Thompson in the summer of 1972. In August of 1972 a property settlement agreement was filed and he filed for divorce ON HIS 38TH BIRTHDAY, Jan. 8, 1973. The divorce was finalized on Oct. 9, 1973, FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS YEAR. Elvis had his attorneys add a special clause to their divorce decree stating she was not to use the name Presley for a career. In interviews between the divorce and Elvis' death, Beaulieu described him pretty much as a has-been loser, absent/bad father and husband and adamantly stated she wanted to be known as Priscilla Beaulieu, to be her own person and that she was not Elvis Presley's property. In a 1973 interview with Ladies Home Journal she literally stated that there was "no possibility of a reconciliation with Elvis". After his death she claimed that they had agreed to get back together when he was 50 and she was 40 and that he was the love of her life. She also started claiming that she and Elvis remained friends until his death. That was another lie; just listen to what his cousin Billy Smith tells about that, or what his dad, Vernon, wrote about that in a letter that has been made public. Elvis did not mention this opportunist in his will AT ALL. Not as his ex-spouse, not as the mother/guardian of his only child Lisa Marie and certainly not by name. After the divorce, and after Mike Stone, Beaulieu had (live-in) relationships with Mike Edwards, Robert Kardashian, Terry O'Neill, Elie Ezerzer and Kirk Kerkorian. In 1984 she met Marco Garibaldi with whom she had a relationship for 21 years. They separated in 2006. Together they had a son, Navarone, in 1987. She never married Garibaldi, although she had a much longer relationship with him than she'd had with Elvis. It is extremely unfortunate that people believe all the fantasy tales Beaulieu tells. They gloss over the tons of inconsistencies that have arisen as time moved on and Beaulieu started changing her narrative, often contradicting supposed facts she told earlier. She's as glib as a used car salesperson because she can spin yarns like nobody, making those gullible people even believe her excuses for those contradictions. If you really believe Beaulieu and her family would have acted the same way and would have been equally tolerant of his behavior (extramarital affairs etc) if Elvis had remained a truck driver learning to be an electrician, you are beyond naive. The Beaulieus had dollar signs in their eyes when they pimped out their rebellious (step)daughter.

Priscilla says he sang this to here when they agreed to divorce

​@@mellycookAnother fairytale story by Pricilla

They had been together a long time, from when she was 14. The dirty fecker!

Have you heard Fantasia's version? Considering her young age when she recorded it, I'm blown away by the soul she brings to it.

@@blackblake3658 I have not heard it. Although Elvis is my all-time favorite singer the Pet Shop Boys do my favorite version of the ones I have heard.

The best for you. I prefer Fantasia and Willie's versions.

LOVE THEM ALL.... BUT ELVIS WAS THE EMOTIONS WHERE IN IT AND VOCALS❤

@@blackblake3658ewww

The original recorded version was BJ Tomas then Brenda Lee!

BJ released his version two years earlier in 1970. Gwen McCrea released her version in 1972 followed by Brenda Lee a few months later, although Brenda recorded hers earlier. Elvis released his version later in 72.

Yes, but the live versions!!

Bridge over troubled waters is my favorite by Elvis. So good. Live 74

The King did alot of covers and most are the bomb!

I agree. I think he may have sung more ballads than R&R and R&B.

Sherrill Nielsen does the lion's share of the singing except at the very end when they combine their voices, Elvis speaks throughout the thing,

Gwen McCray released her version March 28, 1972, Elvis recorded his version the day after and released it in October.

Brenda Lee released her version in June. So Elvis was actually the third to release the song that year. Mark Janes who wrote Elvis’s final no. 1 song Suspicious Minds, co-wrote this song.

Brenda Lee was the first to record the song, but Gwen McCrae released it first (as "You Were Always On My Mind") in March 1972. Brenda's "Always On My Mind" was released in June, and then Elvis in October. This story reminds me of the song "How Do I Live" uproar with LeAnn Rimes and Trisha Yearwood. The song was part of the "Con Air" movie soundtrack. LeAnn version was turned down, Trisha's was selected and released in May 23, 1997. LeAnn's label released it on the same day.

@@Devila103 B.J. Thomas was the first to record the song in 1970 but it was not released until 1996.

@@Noel-ji8nmBJ was not first to record, this was hard to remove internet misinformation with circular sourcing. I tracked the “source” down to a question someone posed, someone else repeated the question without the question mark, and voila, misinformation.

Still and always !!!!!

What? Bette Midler singing my favorite TLC song. Thank you so much for this golden nugget. I have to rush off and find it

Earth Wind and Fire's Got to Get You Into My Life is the only Beatles' cover better than the original.