Absolutely... levels! When Elvis started I felt a smile come in my face and I couldn't stop it! The rhythm of that version too...it just moved you right in at your core. Then he suddenly did that amazing thing where he throws his voice into an octave above and I felt tingles shoot down my legs! No one else ever does that to me!
ELVIS LOVED SINGING THIS SONG! HIS MUSICIANS... OUTSTANDING.. HIS BACKUP SINGERS....THE BEST!! (IN MY HUMBLE OPINION).. like Elvis said " Hit It Baby.... play the blues !"No contest here..
Its not his song and you saying that makes you look clueless. The original version...whether good or bad is forever with the guy that first played or wrote the song.
Taylor did that on purpose. He wrote the song as a parody to blues songs. Do some research before responding. Elvis took the song and drove more blues into it and sang it as a serious song.
Really enjoy your dialogue! Delivery is great! Please listen to Elvis’ Reconsider Baby from 1956. Been listening to Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Slim Harpo, Roy Hamilton. etc., since 1954. Could only get one am channel that played the blues in Gary, Ind. When Elvis “popped“ on the tv screen singing black music, it was as if, in Dylan’s words; “hearing Elvis for the first time was like busting out of jail”! After Elvis sang Baby Let’s Play House, how could an earthquake not happen? Also, give Don’t Let Go by Roy Hamilton a listen. One of my favorites. Have you heard Muddy’s I’m a man, the 5’22” version with Johnny Winter yelling in the background. That’s the song I would have loved to hear Elvis sing. Am an 83 yr. old YOUNG , white girl, as if you couldn’t tell! EAP FOREVER.
Uh oh....looks like trouble ahead....is it Neil Diamond package time or are we going to the back of the building with the shovel?????? ELVIS......HELP!!!!!
SUSIE Q GOGGLE BSCK TO THE 70"S. WHEN NEIL WAS YOUGER SND VOICE WAS STRONGER.THESE SONGS YOU ARE PLAYING HE WAS IN 60'S OR OLDER. .WE DONT KNOE WHST THE KINGS VOICE WOULD LIKE IN HIS 60'S OR 70"S GOGGLE NEIL I AM I SAID YOU SEND NO FOWERS ANYMORE DUET WITH BARBRA STREISAND. SHE WOULDN'T JUST SANG EITH ANYONE. DID A DUET WITH BARRY GIBB BEE GEES. A.K.A ELVIS JUNKIE
Elvis' live on stage rendition of "Steamroller Blues" from March 20, 1974 in Memphis, Tennessee is so much better than Elvis' live on stage rendition from January 12, 1973 in Honolulu, Hawaii (the Elvis version of "Steamroller Blues" that was actually reviewed in this video). "Steamroller Blues" is such a fabulous, unique, fun, bluesy and funky song.
When he started singing , he already won! You don't know who? Well, take a look at q's arm movement! 😆 P.S. Do it like E. you can't go wrong! But there is a problem, most of them can't do it like him!
Elvis definitely..there's another performance from this same concert that is even better.. Elvis did 3 takes of this concert..I've seen the one I really like that is better but, he rocked this one too!
@Vintage Reactions II - I brought up James Taylor's version in the live chat the other night because I wanted you to see there is more than one Neil Diamond. Taylor's version was straight up garbage
@ CLARK GO BACK TO THE YOUNG DAYS OF NEIL DIAMOND. ELVIS AND NEIL WERE FRIENDS LISTEN TO I AM I SAID DUET WITH BARBRA YOU DONT SEND NO FLOWERS. HR DIDNT GET POPULAR BECAUSE NO ONE NOUGHT HIS MUSOC. ELVIS THE KING BUT OTHER PEOPLE DOWN WHO WERE GOOD IN THIER DAY. WHAT MAYBE WOULD ELVIS SOUNDED LIKE BY HIS 60'S OR 70"S. A.K.A ELVIS JUNKIE
@ CLARK GO BACK TO THE YOUNG DAYS OF NEIL DIAMOND. ELVIS AND NEIL WERE FRIENDS LISTEN TO I AM I SAID DUET WITH BARBRA YOU DONT SEND NO FLOWERS. HR DIDNT GET POPULAR BECAUSE NO ONE NOUGHT HIS MUSOC. ELVIS THE KING BUT OTHER PEOPLE DOWN WHO WERE GOOD IN THIER DAY. WHAT MAYBE WOULD ELVIS SOUNDED LIKE BY HIS 60'S OR 70"S. A.K.A ELVIS JUNKIE THE vocal cords change with age. Even the opera SINGERS HAVE a life span with their voices
@@laurabexley9114 - I couldn't understand your comment, but I'm assuming you're defending JT and ND, which is fine. You're entitled to your opinion. I think ND is garbage and JT's version of Steamroller Blues is hot garbage. My opinion and I'm entitled to it. Period.
@@Bionic_Fonzie WHAT COMMENT DID I MAKE ON JT AND ELVIS. DON'T SEE IT WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. IF VINTAGE 11 RATHER I DIDNT PARTICIPATE JUST TELL ME. I OFTEN FIND COMMENTS BEIG DELETED. A.K.A ELVIS JUNKIE
@@kckirkify Well to me anyway. The song needed a different style voice and energy injected into it to make it come alive. He did a good jobs writing the lyrics though and of course Elvis knew what to do with them. Sexy 😊
Best part of James song.... was the band rock in it! Sorry...not sorry..hahaha! Elvis, oh my, his voice...so strong...I can tell he could ...yes roll over...enough said....hahaha! He gives it so much power....yah! By the way his band is kicking it! 😍
Love You Great Minds Think Alike BRAVO SIT THE £¢€¥ DOWN MR. James Taylor- (lol, the SONGWRITER) ✓✓ Elvis Done Took Your SONG but I'm sure the %royalties of Elvis Presley album sales made you cry less hahaha)!!!!! Love You Vintage!!!! ❤️
James' version was poor but James Taylor is a genius songwriter. His lyrics are really poignant. His songs with Carol King and Carly Simon are special too. Don't write JT off because of one performance because you will be wrong.
Mother fucking fried chicken.... haha best part of the song haha. Elvis was the master he could get the same sound on stage exactly like he was in the studio! Boy my, my boy the king of music Elvis said it best himself “I sing all kinds of music” and he mastered all of them!
Personally love Elvis but this song belongs to James, he wrote it, I believe he sings with more soul and and ownership. But Elvis fans will always disagree, so be it.
Well, I give credit to James Taylor for writing this song. He was making fun of some of what he considered the "inauthentic" blues songs that groups were doing at the time. He included it on his 1970 album. But Elvis later definitely took it in 1973 and made it his own as he always does.
All that, all that unnecessary production by Taylor....Elvis broke it down and owned it like he did countless times. You can't touch this man, not biased just Facts. Peace!
They did it more as the blues, Elvis did it more as rock blues. A lot of blues songs have that jam in the middle which can feel like they go on forever. It can get lost quick.
That James Taylor was horrible. K was falling asleep. I have heard Elvis's perfect version so many I can't even imagine somebody else doing it better. An I could be open. But no way Elvis all the way.
Elvis is only a hack to pricks like you because you just dont get it. Elvis had plenty of songs he was the original singer of. BTW....the hack thing......its getting old asshole.....Elvis was one of the founders of rock and roll. Hate to break it to you but he was, not matter what asshats like you say. Thing is, Elvis sang what he liked and didnt care if nothings like you called him a hack. He was a lover of music...if he liked a song, he did it and usually did it better than anyone else. This song for example, he took to another level.
yeas this is a beautiful blues song of james taylor he wished to sing that like a black blues communoty but elvis is white and he can sing like a black without problem thats the best verssion is elvis ..sorry james ...
James Taylor wrote this early on in his career on a lark as a spoof to all the other "white kids" who got electric guitars and amps for Christmas and tried be blues singers and were simply not very good at it. Listen to the James Taylor at the BBC where it was just him and an acoustic guitar. He makes fun of the song right down to encouraging himself to play the solo rifs and so on. Clearly this style of music was better suited for Elvis and that's OK.
The James Taylor version was just hippy nonsense played to his hippy audience. There was no sense of R&b blues or anything else. And those stupid guitar and saxophone solos were just annoying! On the other hand Elvis yet again proves why he is so great! You feel the rhythm and blues and soul and all of his influences when he performs. Taylor wrote this song but Elvis rearranged it and made it better than it ever would have been just left in his hippy hands.
I guess it's really a matter of taste ( ie; what you personally like) but I prefer James Taylor's version I'm NOT swayed just becuz it's Elvis and he's way better looking lol although I definitely am an Elvis fan but it's James Taylor for me no Neil- Diamond's- too- old- to- be- singin' &- shouldn't- be award & no ya can't have my address haaa!
JT wrote this song as a joke to mock all the ridiculous rich kids in Greenwich Village trying to sing the blues as though they knew anything about that. Became wildly popular much to his surprise. So he's clowning thru the song.
You're right. Comparing James Taylor as a performer against the consummate master, Elvis, is like comparing a child's finger painting to da Vinci's Mona Lisa. A joke. But don't feel bad, James. It's kind of like that for everybody.
Seriously. James Taylor is one of the best vocals of all time, I loved Elvis too, but Sweet Baby James blew him out of the water on this one.. Sorry, your reaction was Biased, and clearly you had listened to them before... Credibility?????
If we go to that bridge I'll play you a version where he's actually singing it instead of clowning. That's by far the worst version I've heard of both artists.
Absolutely... levels! When Elvis started I felt a smile come in my face and I couldn't stop it! The rhythm of that version too...it just moved you right in at your core. Then he suddenly did that amazing thing where he throws his voice into an octave above and I felt tingles shoot down my legs! No one else ever does that to me!
There is no competition! Elvis is on another level!
No competition, Elvis all day.
Elvis is the only artist who ALL his covers are better than the originals.
Man just bring every song to a whole other level 💯
Hey Jude isnt better than the original. So you are wrong there.
@@johnclaba1457 You're entitle to your stupid opinion xD
I love to watch black elvis when he starts shaking his head. He knows his boy is going to kill it. thank you
Elvis steamrolled over james on this. He got Neil Diamonded.
Elvis...he bad...the best, hands down !!!! 🔥🎤❤🔥❤
King gave a knockout punch as usual.
ELVIS LOVED SINGING THIS SONG! HIS MUSICIANS...
OUTSTANDING..
HIS BACKUP SINGERS....THE BEST!! (IN MY HUMBLE OPINION).. like Elvis said " Hit It Baby.... play the blues !"No contest here..
Like you always say, a whole different level. The King is the King for a reason. God made him one. Thanks man.
Elvis wins all the way(thank you thank you very much)⚡️👑
Indeed.....😍
I like james Taylor.hes a folk singer. But elvis blows our mind.king q
Elvis Rocked it so good it still traveling through space!
I love this rehearsal day version best! Levels, indeed.
اعظم فنان على مر العصور لم ولن يتكرر الملك بدون منازع
Elvis all the way!! Loved your take, funny as hell...
It's Elvis' confidence that makes his song ( yes i said HIS song) 🔥! If E sang it it was his! MY BOY! MY BOY!! 👑
Its not his song and you saying that makes you look clueless. The original version...whether good or bad is forever with the guy that first played or wrote the song.
@@johnclaba1457 you are dumb!! Happy Easter! Lol
John claba..don't get so up tight
I love them both 💃❤️💃
The first song didn’t know if it was country funk R&B jazz or rock!! Never heard a worse arrangement! Terrible! You are hysterical with this reaction!
Taylor did that on purpose. He wrote the song as a parody to blues songs. Do some research before responding. Elvis took the song and drove more blues into it and sang it as a serious song.
Agree 💯 per cent. Elvis is King
Really enjoy your dialogue! Delivery is great! Please listen to Elvis’ Reconsider Baby from 1956. Been listening to Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Slim Harpo, Roy Hamilton. etc., since 1954. Could only get one am channel that played the blues in Gary, Ind. When Elvis “popped“ on the tv screen singing black music, it was as if, in Dylan’s words; “hearing Elvis for the first time was like busting out of jail”! After Elvis sang Baby Let’s Play House, how could an earthquake not happen? Also, give Don’t Let Go by Roy Hamilton a listen. One of my favorites. Have you heard Muddy’s I’m a man, the 5’22” version with Johnny Winter yelling in the background. That’s the song I would have loved to hear Elvis sing. Am an 83 yr. old YOUNG , white girl, as if you couldn’t tell! EAP FOREVER.
My man you are spot on and hilarious with your comments!! Love it!!
Uh oh....looks like trouble ahead....is it Neil Diamond package time or are we going to the back of the building with the shovel?????? ELVIS......HELP!!!!!
SUSIE Q GOGGLE BSCK TO THE 70"S. WHEN NEIL WAS YOUGER SND VOICE WAS STRONGER.THESE SONGS YOU ARE PLAYING HE WAS IN 60'S OR OLDER. .WE DONT KNOE WHST THE KINGS VOICE WOULD LIKE IN HIS 60'S OR 70"S GOGGLE NEIL
I AM I SAID
YOU SEND NO FOWERS ANYMORE DUET WITH BARBRA STREISAND. SHE WOULDN'T JUST SANG EITH ANYONE. DID A DUET WITH BARRY GIBB BEE GEES.
A.K.A ELVIS JUNKIE
Elvis could roll over me anytime I loved the backing girls voices the first one was terrible
Stemroller ELVIS....
Buena las 2 versiones , por supuesto la voz de elvis es insuperable❤
Absolutely Wonderful!!
Elvis Elvis Elvis...
THE KING OF COURSE ALWAYS.
A.K.A ELVIS JUNKIE
Lol, I fell down laughing
ELVIS, ELVIS,ELVIS É ELVIS!!!!!!!!!!
Your face said it all! No comparison; Elvis of course.
What the hell is this first version crap. And that is exactly what it is. Now you know why Elvis is King 🤴. I wanted to fast forward!!!
The King The best The only
🔥❤👑❤️🔥
Elvis' live on stage rendition of "Steamroller Blues" from March 20, 1974 in Memphis, Tennessee
is so much better than Elvis' live on stage rendition from January 12, 1973 in Honolulu, Hawaii
(the Elvis version of "Steamroller Blues" that was actually reviewed in this video).
"Steamroller Blues" is such a fabulous, unique, fun, bluesy and funky song.
NOT Even CLOSE Vinch ! ELVIS Kicked his f..king a.s..LOVE THE CHANNEL MAN !
When he started singing , he already won! You don't know who?
Well, take a look at q's arm movement! 😆
P.S. Do it like E. you can't go wrong! But there is a problem, most of them can't do it like him!
Elvis definitely..there's another performance from this same concert that is even better.. Elvis did 3 takes of this concert..I've seen the one I really like that is better but, he rocked this one too!
Elvis did the kid Galahad on him Elvis own this song
Elvis has hands down got this man BEAT
@Vintage Reactions II - I brought up James Taylor's version in the live chat the other night because I wanted you to see there is more than one Neil Diamond. Taylor's version was straight up garbage
@ CLARK GO BACK TO THE YOUNG DAYS OF NEIL DIAMOND.
ELVIS AND NEIL WERE FRIENDS
LISTEN TO I AM I SAID DUET WITH BARBRA YOU DONT SEND NO FLOWERS. HR DIDNT GET POPULAR BECAUSE NO ONE NOUGHT HIS MUSOC. ELVIS THE KING BUT OTHER PEOPLE DOWN WHO WERE GOOD IN THIER DAY. WHAT MAYBE WOULD ELVIS SOUNDED LIKE BY HIS 60'S OR 70"S.
A.K.A ELVIS JUNKIE
@ CLARK GO BACK TO THE YOUNG DAYS OF NEIL DIAMOND.
ELVIS AND NEIL WERE FRIENDS
LISTEN TO I AM I SAID DUET WITH BARBRA YOU DONT SEND NO FLOWERS. HR DIDNT GET POPULAR BECAUSE NO ONE NOUGHT HIS MUSOC. ELVIS THE KING BUT OTHER PEOPLE DOWN WHO WERE GOOD IN THIER DAY. WHAT MAYBE WOULD ELVIS SOUNDED LIKE BY HIS 60'S OR 70"S.
A.K.A ELVIS JUNKIE
THE vocal cords change with age.
Even the opera SINGERS HAVE a life span with their voices
@@laurabexley9114 - I couldn't understand your comment, but I'm assuming you're defending JT and ND, which is fine. You're entitled to your opinion. I think ND is garbage and JT's version of Steamroller Blues is hot garbage. My opinion and I'm entitled to it. Period.
@@Bionic_Fonzie ELVIS IS THE KING DIDNT LIKE JT VERSION.
A.K.A. ELVIS JUNKIE
@@Bionic_Fonzie WHAT COMMENT DID I MAKE ON JT AND ELVIS. DON'T SEE IT WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. IF VINTAGE 11 RATHER I DIDNT PARTICIPATE JUST TELL ME. I OFTEN FIND COMMENTS BEIG DELETED.
A.K.A ELVIS JUNKIE
The Neil Diamond package. That is great.
No comparison Elvis. James Taylor wasn't made for this type of song.
Sad.
Richard Eidemiller even though he wrote it.
Norma Vandever oh I totally agree. He’d never match Elvis in this. Or anything else.
@@kckirkify Well to me anyway. The song needed a different
style voice and energy injected into it to make it come alive.
He did a good jobs writing the lyrics though and of course Elvis
knew what to do with them. Sexy 😊
No competition Elvis wins hands down. He was so sexy. He could roll all over me! Best looking man ever born.
The music is better with Elvis.
James Taylor's isn't suited to this style of music. I like his softer styles of songs though. Elvis of course. No competition.
James taylor wrote the song
FOR THE ONES THAT FONT KNOW JAMES TAYLOR WROTE STEAM ROLLER BLUES ...
@@lisacarroll9051 He wrote it but should have left Elvis to do the singing.
No Doubt, Elvis' version! Hands down!
Best part of James song.... was the band rock in it! Sorry...not sorry..hahaha! Elvis, oh my, his voice...so strong...I can tell he could ...yes roll over...enough said....hahaha! He gives it so much power....yah! By the way his band is kicking it! 😍
Love You
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BRAVO
SIT THE £¢€¥ DOWN MR. James Taylor-
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Elvis Done Took Your SONG
but
I'm sure the %royalties of Elvis Presley album sales made you cry less
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Love You Vintage!!!! ❤️
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no comparision...the King every time. He had far superior vocals and the best guitarist in the history of the world James Burton.
Notice that the best part of the first version was the part where JT did not sing? Topo Gigio could have sung the song better.
this is like an unbeaten heavyweight vs an amateur boxer...TKO....ans the winner is..
You face jajaja jajaja i i love reaction 🙏
James' version was poor but James Taylor is a genius songwriter. His lyrics are really poignant.
His songs with Carol King and Carly
Simon are special too.
Don't write JT off because of one performance because you will be wrong.
Elvis definitely
No competition on here: Elvis steamrolles over Taylor and blows his mind.
Checc out my blacc elvis channel
Right on
Mother fucking fried chicken.... haha best part of the song haha. Elvis was the master he could get the same sound on stage exactly like he was in the studio!
Boy my, my boy the king of music
Elvis said it best himself “I sing all kinds of music” and he mastered all of them!
You are too funny q. No contest here.
In the first one, i was hoping it to end soon. But it didn't, it just went on and on and on. TERRIBLE. Thank god for elvis
Except the fact that JT wrote the song........
Personally love Elvis but this song belongs to James, he wrote it, I believe he sings with more soul and and ownership.
But Elvis fans will always disagree, so be it.
Just don't like anything about James Taylor. Looks like a crazy neighbor who drives a Ford Ranchero always yelling at kids for stepping on the grass!!
Good characterisation😂😂😂
Wow that's some imagination...
I was born in 1959. James Taylor was best to me. I know. The Elvis crowd. Taylor did it better
se impone la voz de elvis , elvis blue
Well, I give credit to James Taylor for writing this song. He was making fun of some of what he considered the "inauthentic" blues songs that groups were doing at the time. He included it on his 1970 album. But Elvis later definitely took it in 1973 and made it his own as he always does.
All that, all that unnecessary production by Taylor....Elvis broke it down and owned it like he did countless times. You can't touch this man, not biased just Facts. Peace!
James taylor wrote the song but elvis made the song! NO one can own a song like Elvis
What Can I Say The King.
ELVIS THE KING
Elvis of course powerfull voice
James did a great job and Athens others played their hearts out! But please, give me Elvis at all times! Thank you again.😘⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍
They did it more as the blues, Elvis did it more as rock blues. A lot of blues songs have that jam in the middle which can feel like they go on forever. It can get lost quick.
Still sucked
Vintage Reactions II Haha. I agree!
Vintage Reactions II bro, can you do reaction to Elvis milk cow blues boogie
That James Taylor was horrible. K was falling asleep. I have heard Elvis's perfect version so many I can't even imagine somebody else doing it better. An I could be open. But no way
Elvis all the way.
JT all the way. Elvis is a hack. James wrote it, he owns it.
Elvis is only a hack to pricks like you because you just dont get it. Elvis had plenty of songs he was the original singer of. BTW....the hack thing......its getting old asshole.....Elvis was one of the founders of rock and roll. Hate to break it to you but he was, not matter what asshats like you say. Thing is, Elvis sang what he liked and didnt care if nothings like you called him a hack. He was a lover of music...if he liked a song, he did it and usually did it better than anyone else. This song for example, he took to another level.
James taylor wrote that song ..
True
@@VintageReactionsII listen to bartender blues
yeas this is a beautiful blues song of james taylor he wished to sing that like a black blues communoty but elvis is white and he can sing like a black without problem thats the best verssion is elvis ..sorry james ...
James Taylor wrote this early on in his career on a lark as a spoof to all the other "white kids" who got electric guitars and amps for Christmas and tried be blues singers and were simply not very good at it. Listen to the James Taylor at the BBC where it was just him and an acoustic guitar. He makes fun of the song right down to encouraging himself to play the solo rifs and so on. Clearly this style of music was better suited for Elvis and that's OK.
Sorry Elvis....Clearly not any musicians commenting here.
Lice it
Should be love lol
The James Taylor version was just hippy nonsense played to his hippy audience. There was no sense of R&b blues or anything else. And those stupid guitar and saxophone solos were just annoying!
On the other hand Elvis yet again proves why he is so great! You feel the rhythm and blues and soul and all of his influences when he performs. Taylor wrote this song but Elvis rearranged it and made it better than it ever would have been just left in his hippy hands.
Sorry no contest, Elvis wins it hands down. James Taylor may have written the song, but sure as hell cannot sing it!!!!!
I guess it's really a matter of taste ( ie; what you personally like) but I prefer James Taylor's version I'm NOT swayed just becuz it's Elvis and he's way better looking lol although I definitely am an Elvis fan but it's James Taylor for me no Neil- Diamond's- too- old- to- be- singin' &- shouldn't- be award & no ya can't have my address haaa!
I totally agree. Elvis took that song and brought it up to the stratosphere. Give kudos to Taylor though. He wrote a great song.
James Taylor isn't good. Not going to lie. ELVIS KNOCKED HIM OUT FASTER THAN ANY OF MIKE TYSON'S FIGHTS.
JT
JT wrote this song as a joke to mock all the ridiculous rich kids in Greenwich Village trying to sing the blues as though they knew anything about that. Became wildly popular much to his surprise. So he's clowning thru the song.
You have to be drunk and high to think elvis was a better artist than James !!!!!
You're right. Comparing James Taylor as a performer against the consummate master, Elvis, is like comparing a child's finger painting to da Vinci's Mona Lisa. A joke. But don't feel bad, James. It's kind of like that for everybody.
Many of the comments here are sooooo uneducated.
Not that important...
Seriously. James Taylor is one of the best vocals of all time, I loved Elvis too, but Sweet Baby James blew him out of the water on this one..
Sorry, your reaction was Biased, and clearly you had listened to them before...
Credibility?????
Stop it its James Taylor song original from 1970 ,he is great aswelll .yes sure elvis have other type of blues style
If we go to that bridge I'll play you a version where he's actually singing it instead of clowning. That's by far the worst version I've heard of both artists.
Can't you please talk without cussing. Rise above that please.