Elvis paved the way for these black artists 💯

Two Elvis defense, he actually did give Matt props to all the artist before him, and he never considered himself the king of rock ‘n’ roll. The white media did that!!! it was once said when they spoke about Elvis being the king of rock ‘n’ roll and comparing him to Jackie Wilson, which the media called him the black Elvis but he also said if I’m the king then Jackie Wilson is the white Elvis

Elvis was influenced by his surrounding. His music was just an interpretation of it.

Ray is a 💯 LEGEND

Incredibly beautiful.

He can't sit still

Ray Charles is speaking in terms of America. Elvis made American music famous outside the US - the influence Elvis had in spreading rock & roll worldwide is phenomenal.

is that luke skywalker?

50,000,000 Elvis fans can’t be wrong.

my question is,,, how did he see Elvis dance

They not like US...... 💯

Truthfully, I like Elvis but he stole a lot from BLACK ARTISTS from that time! I agree with Ray Charles he wasn’t the greatest because there were far more WONDERFUL black artists from that time that was GREATER THAN HIM and never got their flowers 💐! Like Little Richard!!!

If he could’ve seen Elvis he’d have got it !

The reason Cole got in trouble was RACISM, Mr Ray Charles, racism.

Elvis was trash. Plain & simple. Only wrote 5 of his songs. Out of 280. Played guitar himself on only 20 of them. & stole rock & roll… Elvis was TRASH

Bitter ol ni$$a wtf you never SAW him move...you know you didn't have that voice and you know you're damn lucky you didn't die in a shitter somewhere when you were a junkie. Yeah you were great Ray, but badmouthing other performers don't look good on nobody. Chuck Berry, James Brown, and Fats Domino had kind words for Elvis. Classy. Unlike you .

Ray Charles ... the King of heroin!!!

Elvis might as well have been a TikTok influencer. Let’s leave it at that 😏

Is racism blind!??? 😮 I dunno

In fairness Elvis was so great not only because he did Black music but as BB King said Elvis had the whole package Voice, could play and the looks. Ray couldn’t see what he looked like.😂

Maybe he never saw mr Elvis, like us.

Who do you think bought your records? Black people was white people bought your records and you spit upon the white people huh once again fuck you.

If you have a lot of balls being a black man and blind, I don’t give a fuck if you’re blind or not to spit down Elvis go fuck yourself

Ray is not educating here. He is misleading people. Elvis never claimed to invent the blues, or any ingredient of R&R. Elvis MERGED AND ARRANGED Gospel, Country and R&B to create A NEW HYBRID SOUND & STAGE PRESENTATION that attracted YOUNG PEOPLE of all races and turned off the OLDER elites in the 1950s. Elvis was a tremendous guitarist and pianist and vocalist. GOSPEL MUSIC: White people were singing Christian music since BEFORE the birth of Jesus Christ. Modern Gospel was influenced in large part by white Christian music. There were black and white practitioners in churches down South in Elvis' growth era (1935-55). Elvis was inspired by BOTH. The first published use of the term "gospel song" appeared in 1874. The original gospel songs were written and composed by authors such as George F. Root, Philip Bliss, Charles H. Gabriel, William Howard Doane, and Fanny Crosby. All of them were white. THE BLUES: The blues were invented by black people. COUNTRY MUSIC: White people invented Country and Rockabilly music. The first recordings of what now is considered traditional country music were "Arkansas Traveler" and "Turkey in the Straw" by fiddlers Henry Gilliland & A.C. (Eck) Robertson on June 30, 1922, for Victor Records. Elvis changed EVERYTHING and opened up NEW BUSINESS MODELS for black songwriters and even fought with VENUE OWNERS to allow black musicians to walk in and out of the SAME ENTRANCES AND EXITS that white people used. Elvis Presley had a VERY UNIQUE STYLE and NOBODY LOOKED OR SOUNDED LIKE HIM. Nobody.

Charles "fathered" a total of 12 children with ten different women -- TEN WOMEN!!! So Ray's credibility is pretty much in shatters, historically.

Within 30 days Ray retracted the comments he made in this video because he said he was MISINFORMED by one of his handlers. So this is a waste of time. The poster is obviously pushing a racial agenda, not a historically accurate one at that.

Ray started in white country music and was a crossover artist. Noone accused Ray ofd Stealing white music. The hypocracy is real with Ray. Elvis also put food on his table, Elvis didn't steal him or any black musician (or any other musician period.). That's just false. Elvis PAID ROYALTIES (something most artists didn't do with black artists BUT ELVIS WAS VERY DIFFERENT), yes Elvis paid royalties to RAY CHARLES for two songs. Elvis moves were original, he didnt steal them from anyone.So Ray is a liar.

He's stated his opinion and justified it, so you can't say f fairer than that 👍👍👍 Any fans he loses because of that are just plain stupid....

WIllem Alexander is playing the drums

Oh lord, there’s so much going on here. First of all, Elvis personally didn’t like being called king. During an interview with Elvis here on KZfaq, when a reporter called him that, he pointed to Fats Domino, who was also in the room, and said no, he’s the king. BB King, a good friend of Elvis’s, takes a 180 view from Charles and said they didn’t make a mistake calling Elvis the King. BB also said that Elvis was the complete package and had it all. BB also doesn’t think that Elvis stole anything. He said that once music is out there, it’s for anyone to take or not take anything from it. That is all viewable on KZfaq. If anyone really wants to hear what other, multiple black contemporaries of Elvis’s from back in the day thought, there’s a KZfaq video called Elvis and The Black Community, which is about 15 min long. At the beginning of the video, there are some from the white establishment from that period discussing what they thought of Elvis, and well, it ain’t pretty, with some really offensive language. Uh, it’s pretty apparent that the white establishment loathed Elvis and tried to cancel him. The youth culture dug him, but not their elders. I’ve gone down the Elvis rabbit hole the last couple months and have come to really appreciate what he did under intense scrutiny snd hate: he was able to integrate music when a time when even music was segregated. He broke segregation laws by hanging with black musicians and attending black cultural events, and he did this after he became a star as well. Plus he did it in the Jim Crow South. Did he take intense heat for it? You bet he did. And he didn’t have to do any of that but chose to anyway. There were calls to ban him from tv and even jailing him…the media was relentless and merciless. I’ve read the press releases. What needs mentioned is that Elvis used white songwriters as well as black songwriters for his music. In fact, Jailhouse Rock, which is shown in this video, was written by 2 Jewish white guys, Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, who incidentally also wrote Hound Dog. I’ve heard it repeated ad nauseam that Elvis stole it from Big Mama Thornton, when he didn’t. He paid to do a cover…remember, she didn’t write it, plus there were other covers made of it as well. The songwriters said specifically that Elvis didn’t steal it and in reality his didn’t sound anything like Big Mama’s. This same white songwriting duo also wrote Love Me, Loving You, Don’t and King Creole for Elvis. His very first record he cut on the RCA label that went gold and made him a worldwide star was called Heartbreak Hotel, written by a white woman and man. And again, he paid for both black and white songwriters, but I needed to point out that many of his big hits weren’t by just black artists. Now, on to Elvis stealing “moves.” That’s truly laughable, especially since Jailhouse Rock, shown in this video, was professionally choreographed for the movie of the same name. Elvis just performed it. When Elvis first started performing on stage, he was nervous, not a little but a lot, as in visibly shaking. He needed to move to sing; I read that in an article from Elvis’s first session at RCA to record Heartbreak Hotel, the studio had a hard time picking up his vocals and guitar because he kept moving around. He simply told them that if he couldn’t move, he couldn’t make the song sound right. They ended up re-micing the whole studio. Elvis then had the idea of doing it in the hallway, giving it a haunting sound (it’s not, uh, a happy song per se; the songwriters got the idea from a suicide note). Mae Boren Axton, one of the two white songwriters, thought Elvis had star power but needed a hit song. She said, “You need a million-seller and I’m going to write it for you.” Indeed she was right, and indeed she did. This was the catapulting song that did it. But I digress…back to moves; in an article by Newsweek, it states that Elvis had no idea why the girls were screaming at him and at first he was actually scared. Once it was explained to him, then he knew he had to use it to his advantage and give the fans what they wanted, much to the loathing by the adults. As for anyone else still thinking that Elvis was racist, refer to the KZfaq video Elvis and The Black Community. He was friends with BB King, Jackie Wilson, Muhammad Ali, James Brown, and Sammy Davis Jr to name a few. He paid for much of Jackie Wilson’s medical bills when he became ill as well as paying for Roy Hamilton’s outstanding medical bills and funeral costs after his widow publicly stated she needed funds. His black cook? He bought her a house. No big deal, right? When told that his black backup singers wouldn’t be allowed to play in the Astrodome for a concert, Elvis said if they don’t come, I don’t come, and if I do come, they’re to be given the star treatment. If anyone still thinks that Elvis is a racist, y’all need to check yourselves. That stupid rumor was laid to rest decades ago, in the 50s, and yet it’s still perpetuated in the black community.

Elvis was not only an auditory experience but a visual experience as well. Unfortunately Ray’s disability deprived him of the ability to take in the full effect of Elvis. BB King, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Jackie Wilson and Little Richard all legends differ from Ray’s opinion. Even the greatest Muhammad Ali called him the King. Another legend Rufus Thomas said it best “music is not black or white, music belongs to everyone”. Elvis was never comfortable with being called the King. In his mind there was only one King. God Almighty. 🙏

Hes talking about what most black performers have been doing for generations, biggest hit P diddy had was a sample of a police song written by a white man, most black artists have taken samples from white artists to have hits with so whats the big deal, Elvis was always respectful about all performers black or white, shame this silly old fool couldnt show him the respect he deserves.

I love elvis i love ray charles rays opinion will not make me love elvises music any less or even his i love them both ❤️

No you don’t. You’re wrong

.. how’s he know what Elvis danced like?

Elvis never said that he was the King of anything, and at one time pointed out that it was Fats Domino who was the King. Hound Dog was written by two Jewish Guys, Lieber and Stoller and they also wrote "Jail House Rock". Ironcially, many of Elvis' early hits was written by a black man "Otis Blackwell".

This has been my opinion of Elvis since I learned about Chuck Berry, Louis Jordan, Jelly Roll Morton, and the great Robert Johnson. Little Richard against Pat Boone, yeah we knew what it was 😏

How did Ray know Elvis was shaking his butt?

As a white man I agree with Ray Charles Elvis has always been overrated Chuck Berry is the real King of Rock n Roll

Yeah and you copied Charles Brown for years

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rspho7uolqrRo3U.htmlsi=AKyFNPEUEhF2bflU

Blues pioneer JOHN LEE HOOKER actually called Elvis "The ROCK AND ROLL KING." in the studio during one of his songs. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mcmqjM-onb67io0.html&t= "One of the greatest entertainers ... He was the King ... One of the greatest people ever been born." -- JOHN LEE HOOKER

Wrong Ray. NOONE did what Elvis did before him. Elvis was a song arranger. He was creating A NEW SOUND, A NEW GENRE and NEW RHYTHMS for YOUNG PEOPLE OF ALL RACES. He was a master guitarist and pianist and baritone vocalist. Elvis was learning his craft in the 1940s LONG BEFORE the likes of RAY CHARLES or CHUCK BERRY hit the airwaves. He came from the Church.

LEGACY. Elvis brought a LOT OF PEOPLE TOGETHER in a very troubled time for many. White, Black, Brown and every shade in between. Straight & Gay. Rich & Poor. One of the greatest music artists in human history. Many of his deepest songs are still and always will be RELEVANT! Ray is the same way! Ray should be ASHAMED OF HIMSELF for this interview.

Wow, he didn’t tap dance? I have even more respect for Ray Charles now!

Elvis Presley is the King

LIAR = RAY CHARLES. A less racist musician, JOHN LEE HOOKER actually called Elvis "The ROCK AND ROLL KING." in the studio during one of his songs. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mcmqjM-onb67io0.html&t= "One of the greatest entertainers ... He was the King ... One of the greatest people ever been born." -- JOHN LEE HOOKER

Elvis was trash.

His argument is pathetic, has anyone accused Ray for stealing white music when he made western and country music? Elvis was one of the best singers and performers to ever exist. Ray cannot deal with that.

Rest in peace Tootie