Tuesday 31 May 2022

You Do All The Living While I Do All The Giving

Time for a pelvis workout with Elvis Presley...or at least, you would if the camera operator hadn't deliberately gone for a close up. This is Presley performing Too Much on The Ed Sullivan Show in the USA on 6th January 1957, whilst broadcaster CBS tries to protect the nation from the smouldering, bequiffed sex symbol. 
 
Things get particularly frenzied around the 1:25 mark, when Elvis is swinging those hips (out of shot, natch) and the gallery decides that it can only defuse the situation for TV Land's impressionable youth by cutting to a close up of the guitar player. 
 
Elvis is backed by The Jordanaires, including Hugh Jarrett on the far left of the screen. Poor old Hugh is very quickly cropped from the remainder of the clip, apparently for alleged scene stealing as you can hear his increasingly prominent "Ba Doo" vocal throughout. 

Accordingly to my Apple Music collection, I last played this song on 12th November 2013. Long overdue for another airing then!
 

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