"Elvis Presley - 'In the Ghetto' | Reaction & Analysis"
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elvis was dirt poor and grew up in that type of environment, living in a predominently black neighbourhood - that's why he had gospel and soul running through his veins, never had a racist bone in his body and felt all should be equal.
He was born into the life , he was born in a black ghetto in Mississippi in the heart of the depression in 1935. His stillborn twin was buried in a shoebox in an unmarked grave. Elvis friend Sam Bell his black neighbor said that if the black neighbors hadn't brought him vegetables and fruit they would have starved. He and his mother were considered poor by the black people in that area. Sam said his grandma loved Elvis when he said "yes Mam' and "No Sir" they were use to white children saying that to black people. Elvis was truly a promoter of black artists. Thanks for your reaction, "Elvis sang like he truly meant it"......BB King.
Everyting is true, except not "born in a black getto". He grew up in the pore white parts of Tupelo, where they moved around a lot after loosing their first home. They ended up living at the edge of the black neighbourhoods. As a result Elvis unlike most white kids of that time grew up having both black and white friends. It was not a black getto, it was a well organized black community. Sam Bell's family and most of their neighbours were better off than the Presley's.
See the interview with next door neighbor Sam Bell with Baz Luhrman. His black friend said Elvis was poorer than the blacks and they gave he and his mother vegetables and what ever a had in their garden. He was in one of 4 white houses in a black neighborhood.@@monasrum4321
@@monasrum4321 don't break her dream.
As was pointed out, the late Mac Davis, an Amazing song writer and singer, wrote this song. I watched a couple of interviews with Mac Davis a few yrs before he passed and he was talking about a few of his songs that Elvis sang, inc. "In The Ghetto".. Mac said he originally had his friend Sammy Davis Jr. in mind to sing it and when he asked Sammy if he would be the one to sing it Sammy replied that while he really loved the lyrics he just didn't feel that he would be the best one to sing such a powerful, emotional song and do it justice. Sammy said that he had never lived this way, " but I'll tell you who did: Elvis Presley." He strongly suggested that Mac reach out to Elvis, and the rest is history.
Elvis was also very close with his own mama and did everything he could to give her a better life, make her proud and he did, on both counts!💖
Sammy said the song was to political and it would ruin his career
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Elvis added the words, “and his mama cries” to the original song 🎶
Elvis did grow up in a mixed racial community. Elvis went to black churches to listen to the Gospel music. A black piano player showed Elvis how to play the piano. Elvis hung around with B. B. King and many other black entertainers. Elvis had records by Roy Hamilton and many, many more black singers. Elvis was totally color blind when it came to race. The King Forever❤❤❤
Elvis actually did live in a very poor Black community in Tupelo, Mississippi. His parents were one of four very poor white families living in that community, & Elvis’ friends were the Black children living around him. He didn’t leave that community until he was 14, when his parents moved to Memphis, & Elvis was an outsider at High School, because he was so different. He refused to conform to wearing the crew cut that all the boys were sporting, growing his hair in the longer swept back style he later became famous for as an older teenager when he shot to fame. And wearing what the other boys thought of as ‘weird’ clothes. Right back then, he wanted to be an individual & that made him an outsider & a loner. That’s why Elvis was able to perform this song with such conviction.
"In The Ghetto" was a big hit for Elvis in 1969. It was written by the late great Mac Davis. It deals with the poverty & sadness of life growing up in the ghetto.
Mac got lost one day and ended up in the ghetto and that's how he came up with the song
Elvis said” I will never earn enough money to forget what it feels like to be dirt poor”🙏👌💕🕺
God bless this man ... he is missed ! ,TCB forever !
…Elvis was the FIRST and BEST! ... No one is as known/famous worldwide as Elvis and has been for almost 70 years! ...His charisma is still unsurpassed to this day!! ✨💎✨🕺🏻🕯 Thank you
And he was raised in the ghetto.
Thank you..he is the best ever..love Elvis so so much❤greetings from the Netherlands
I was only 7 when Elvis died, but I am a huge fan. He was my first musical passion. I feels so sad he died way too young 😢
It takes a special kind of person to p*ss off both sides but Elvis managed it. Lol. He was far from perfect but the man was kind, giving and empathetic. He never complained. He would always say "i'm just an entertainer." He would never take a public, political stance but his actions spoke volumes and you know that actions speak louder than words 😂 BTW don't worry about taking a lot of time, it shows that you're genuinely thinking about what you're seeing and hearing. I'm enjoying your reactions because of that. ❤
He lived in the ghetto as a child.
I think you are the first reactor to say how he emphasised certain words n slowed it down.❤
Love Elvis Presley, he is the best, loved all people, generous, kind, beautiful. Talented. Grow up very poor and give back all his life.
Elvis is, was and always will be the King. He sings this so well, because he knows to well what it is like. Love your reaction!
Elvis is still the Goat
I truly believe that many times during his life he felt very alone. Especially in his last few years. Fame isnt ALL good. Can you imagine never being able to just go out and have a hamburger, see a movie, go shopping... but you would never see it in the way he treated those that loved him.. he loved his fans, those he worked with, his family and friends. Losing him at such a young age was such a loss to all of us. I would have loved to see the changes he would have made in the world.
Amazing unmatched talent and the most beautiful, generous person. 💕💐
Please react to If I Can Dream in white suit. Elvis...King of Kindness and Elvis....A Generous Heart the short version. ❤
and Baz Luhrmann's interview with Sam Bell Elvis's Childhood Friend from Tupelo MS.
Elvis,was born dirt poor in tupelo Mississippi so he sang what he feel.love your reaction young man God bless you, 🙌 😢RIP Elvis,The G.O.A.T. ☝👍🕺TCB TLC.💋🎸🎤🥁🎼💐🌹❤🙏
Elvis Presley was born in the ghetto dirt poor . In Tupelo, Mississippi. He lived the ghetto he wasn't always wealthy.
Sammy Davis Junior was asked to do this song but he recommended Elvis because he said Elvis knew what it was like to be in a ghetto. 👌💕🕺
This was true to Elvis... he grew up in black communities as a child... it's just fact... he felt his music because he lived some of it.
not his music. it belongs to the composer
. . 🕊 the ascending harmonies by the back up vocalists, The Sweet Inspiration, are soulful chords swept in angel tears . . ✨
I think you and Elvis were, and are, ahead of your time. Come down to having non-contingent love in your heart 🧡
Elvis grew up very poor. the shotgunshak he and his parents lived in was built by his dad. they had only outsidetoilet and i m not sure if they even had hot water . when Elvis was a kid ,maybe 7 years or a bit more he gave away all his toys and comics to the poor people in the neighborhood. you should watch “Elvis the king of kindness”😊 as kids Elvis and his friend, a black kid who lived beside Elvis , would ho to the cinema. seperate entrances and a separate seats for black and white people. but once the movie started they would meet and sit on the corridor in between
His first home in Tupelo, MS did not have hot water inside. Had a well outside and an outhouse. Water had to be heated on the stove. That home is now restored (just 2 rooms) & is visited as a tourist attraction just like Graceland. The original wood burning stove is still there. There are videos on FB if you want to see the home. And as mentioned by someone else, he added (with permission by the song's writer Mac Davis) the words "and his mama cried."
I love your reactions - so thoughtful and intelligent. Elvis deserves our utmost respect for treading his own path regardless of the backlash which was there from the first day he became famous and was still there at the end (and continues even today!). Elvis forever ❤
This song did as much as anything I ever read and heard to explain the cyclical nature of poverty and racial inequality. Thank you for sharing your insights.
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the goat
Always enjoy your comments!
Your sound balance comes close to perfect.
In the ghetto is a song that sadly is relevant to this day. Hunger, violence, crime, no go areas, neglection... vicious cycle.
Elvis manager and record company didn't whant him to sing it, but he insisted to. He also added the 'and his mama cries' part, which Mac Davis ( the writer) liked.
Thank you so much for delving into his legacy!💚
The documentarie "king of kindness" is good watch.
Great from the greateast! I think he rouhged up in the end just to get rid of the sad deep feel of the song so that consert can move on. Professional move to go on!♥️🇫🇮
He lived the life..dirt poor...he was raised with gospel music, loved everyone, hated prejudice, was a fan of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, and was devastated over his assassination...Check out his tribute to MLK, a song written for Elvis to sing shortly after MLKs death.
One of my many-many favorites from EP.....poignant and still relevant song today.
Thank you for your reaction and appreciation 🙏🏼💯⚡❤
What can you say but just perfection Elvis had it all he's the Goat 🐐 thank you love your reactions 😊
Elvis never forgot where he was from, Tupelo, Missisippi? Folk who live there still have family resemblance to him. He moved later, still a kid, the ghetto kids were sorry for him, he was so poor. His parents both had native indian blood, he wanted folk to know that, but his manager told him no strongly. He knew the truth of the ghetto, he lived it, and recorded this song against strong objections. The message was too important to him.
Col Parker didn't want Elvis to sing this song. I am glad he did
Song also known as the vicious circle!
You GET Elvis!! One important thing about this song Mac Davis wrote it but it was ELVIS who added the HAUNTING words "and his momma cried" to the lyrics. Mac loved the addition and so did we all. It was a big hit!
Mac didn't like how Elvis sang the word ghetto
@@terrygarcia897 You say Mac didn't like the way Elvis sang the "word" "Ghetto". Well luckily for Mac the world did Terry, the world love it and I'm sure Mac was estatic about that!
I saw a interview with Mac and he said he didn't like how Elvis said the word ghetto. He dragged ghettooo out
This song was first offered to sammy davis junior.
Sammy said, ‘In all authenticity, I can’t do this song because I never lived this way, but I will tell you who did: Elvis Presley.'”
This song resonated with elvis because he lived it.
Every country has its own 'ghetto'. Poverty is not a one skin colour problem.
Wow! Heart, Soul, and unconditional genuine Love.. Now I get why this man is so Beloved around the World!
I appreciate that you took the time to learn about Elvis the man.
I am a huge fan of his and his music.
I grew up in a trailer park (California) that had a drive in theater against our backyard. My sister would climb over and turn the sound up on the speakers! We would sit in the backyard and dance to his movie song's. ✌❤
Bless your heart. Elvis grew up in the slums of Tupelo Mississippi. I saw him in Tampa Florida when I was 12. Just months before he passed. He was a True Human Being. He knew what he was talking about my friend ❤️
Elvis lived in poverty dirt poor so he understood.
This song was written by Mack Davis who was a good friend of Elvis.
When his singing this song you could see his sadnass deep inside love n miss him all this year's,thank you for very nice reactions to our king😍🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇵🇭
The ghetto Elvis lived in was only 2 blocks away from his home Graceland.
Elvis lived that type of life. He grew up in abject poverty in a ghetto predominantly black, but they were all friends and many have been interviewed. So, he did know the poverty etc. That’s why he worked so hard when he initially became famous to make money so his mom didn’t have to pick cotton anymore or his father couldn’t make money because of his back. So from a young age he made money. After he finally became famous and had enough money to buy Graceland, his beloved mother died and he had done it all for her. He was devastated. They were so against him they were going to put him in jail. Instead he was drafted and had to go in the Army. Friends of him heard him sobbing in his bunk at night after the loss of his mom. Even after he got out from Germany two yrs later, he was so sad going back to Graceland because his mom wasn’t there. His story is very interesting and if you watch the Elvis movie by Baz Lurmann 2022 which is now on every streaming service to rent or buy, you will follow his journey which in many ways is like a Shakespearean tragedy. It’s excellent acting though. Thank you for being so open minded about your videos. Enjoy them immensely. 😊❤❤🎸🕺🏻🎸🎤
I love how you enjoy Elvis, but also your insight into the man he was ♥️
Fabulous song 💕
A fun fact is that Whitney Houston’s mother was one of his backup singers at one time.
Elvis’s manager said he could not record that. He rarely ignored that man when he needed ignoring or firing. Many say he doesn’t have the right but he does, that was his life and all he knew. If his Mother could have afforded a Doctor his twin brother Jesse may have lived but he was caught for four more days after Elvis was born. Elvis had every right and I believe that move he makes at the end is out of anger. Not enough people listened. Thank you.
Loved your perception and words on this one. 💞
Thank you, 🙏
I love the intelligent well worded way you express your views. You have the best channel I have heard to date. I really enjoy tuning into your podcast.
Man, I love your ability to grasp the depth of a situation and to express your insights so beautifully. I just had to hit that "Subscribe" button. I am so looking forward to more from you.
Wonderful reaction...and when enough of us see through that divide and conquer trap, and see the insanity of it, maybe we can turn things around, so there won't even be any ghettos, or babies put into the position you and Elvis describe.
went #1 no one wanted him to do this song one of the few message songs he did and this was the only time he did it live because it just came out and was being filmed now 55 odd years later and nothing has changed inthe ghetto
Great reaction. I love when you listen to Elvis and watch him perform. I have a hard time hearing your comments. Maybe turn your microphone up a little. What I could hear was very profound and sincere.❤❤❤
LOVE YOUR COMMENTS and your personality !
You should watch the Elvis movie about the ghetto - ‘A Change of Habit’
Your video reactions are "spot on" and not too long. You are my favorite reactor. MY name is Emma. Sorry that I invited myself to co-react with you and feed you information information as I can remember being an Elvis fan since I was about 5years old. I was the 5th child out of five. I had much older sisters playing Elvis in the household on any given day!... that's why I became an Elvis fan and know so much as a mature adult woman. Back to the song... it was written by Mac Davis who grew up in Texas where his father was the manager of an apartment complex. Mac was not really poor but played with the poor children in the complex and struggled to understand their lifestyle as opposed to his and wanted to write a song when he became an adult that would be poignant. He wrote for Elvis to record. It is just as relevant today as it was in the late 60's. I did not realize until reading the above comments that Sammy Davis Jr. was the first choice for the song. Elvis' manager did not want him to record that controversial song.Thank God that Elvis hit the override button and did it anyway. There is a version where his daughter sings harmony with him as an adult.It is beautiful.
Yes, YES, you nailed it! ❤
Elvis lived in a ghetto. 😢
I like the conservation
I WANT TO SAY TO YOU THAT YOU HAVE MADE MY DAY ❤ I HAVE LEFT MANY COMMENTS ABOUT ELVIS DOING THIS SONG..EVERYTHING YOU SAID IS ALL THAT I TRY TO HAVE PEOPLE NOTICE
HE WAS SINGING TO A PROMINENT WHITE AUDIENCE.. NO SMILE AND WHEN GETS TO THE PART AS THE WORLD TURNS HE BOWS HIS HEAD STARING AT THE PEOPLE. YES HIS FIRST 13YRS HE WAS GROWING UP IN A BLACK COMMUNITY. I'M WHITE AND I GREW UP IN POVERTY AND THERE WHERE ALL RACES... BUT WE HAD EACH OTHER, WE KNEW THERE HAD TO BE US OR WE WOULDN'T SURVIVE. I WISH THAT FOR ALL. TAKE CARE , JUST AN OLD LADY THAT LOVES
ELVIS AND ALOT OF MUSIC❤
Have you seen his tribute to MLK? Really good. Fantastic really. Thanks for your review. Nice Guy. 👍 Oh i forgot to say what song it was, Ha It's called, IF I CAN DREAM. White suit version.
God's voice
Great Reaction 👍🙏
I think he could identify if not completely understand. He grew up poor, basically to a sharecropper family, and watched his brother die due to the lack of care.
Great comments and insight. You were making my allergies act up there for a minute.
I thought the balance between your microphone and the audio and the quality of both was really good. This is something that a lot of reactors just don't seem to understand how to do or don't even seem aware that sometimes the music is really quiet and they're microphone is deafening, and so forth.
As you can tell Elvis is did not choose his backup singers for the color it was for thier talent. You can tell He loved his gospel❤ the sweet inspirations. And the girl with the highest voice in His group was Caucasian. Opera trained singer Kathy West Moreland. Nothing but the best of the best!!!
Great reaction!❤😊
Thank you 🙏
No, it's wonderful that your videos are long inasmuch as, and though I love the music by Elvis that you present, I very much enjoy your take and reaction to what he does as that's what reaction videos are all about, after all. While Elvis was very much an anomaly given that you would expect almost any white person raised up in that southern environment to most likely be racist at that time. But then again, and because I know Elvis' whole history, it's not surprising, as the gang he grew up with in Tupelo, Mississippi were largely black and Sam Bell, a black gentleman, was Elvis' best friend until Elvis left for Memphis.
So, Elvis never saw color and that's a beautiful thing about his story when some really do try to bastardize it. When I love the stories of how Elvis and Sam would sneak into the segregated movie theater and then one, and/or the other, would climb over the black/white divide, so they could sit with each other. The innocence of children and/or young teens is beautiful and if they are left alone to grow up that way, wonderful things happen!
Mr. Bell, has sadly died, but you can also find some videos of him still, talking about his relationship with Elvis. As Mr. Bell's grandparent's home backed up to Elvis' backyard and his grandparent's also had a farm, of sorts, with various vegetables and fruits that the kids loved. Mr. Bell's grandparents also loved Elvis, dearly and Elvis would actually go, on his own (as I believe Sam said he would not go with him), about a mile or two south to a black town called Shake Rag to sit and listen to those there who would be sitting on their front porch playing.
The town totally accepted Elvis, and it is rumored, but we still have no way to know if it is 100% true, that Elvis sat there learning from Muddy Waters. May be true, but even if not, we know that Elvis had a wonderful ear for music and certainly soaked up all that he heard!
Wonderful commentary. Your voice is amazing. Have you thought about doing guided sleep meditations? Your voice is soothing af.
The sad thing is, this song was sung in 1968 and 56 years later, what has changed? Nothing...
If you would like to hear someone with a voice that's a close 2nd to Elvis, do a video on Deep Purple's Child In Time, the BBC recording.
It's as perfect as In The Ghetto.
BRO, I'm finally deciding to Subscribe to your Channel. Taking note how you are trying to give the best sound you can to your music reactions; and that in fact you have. Still most of the time your microphone needs much more volume, as I do miss out on what your saying.
So for a request please, "How Great Thou Art", Live in Concert, 1972 & 1977, just weeks before his voice was stilled, lost to history.
THANK YOU, from your biggest ELVIS fan in Minnesota!
Thank you. I appreciate your feedback. I will work on the recommendations and get them out as soon as possible. Best wishes 🙏
@@Kings-003 THANK YOU! 🤗
Elvis was definitely born in the Ghetto! I mean it can get any worse than that.
Please react to Elvis and the black community; Part2
I have just seen it, I should have that one up tomorrow or before the end of the week. Just working on it at the moment.
Check out some Elvis gospel!
my buddy, turn your mic up :)
This song had so much more impact because it was Elvis, a famous white singer. It was written by a black man but during that time a black man wouldn't be sitting in a Vegas theatre filled with a white audience singing a song like this. Also, if you listen, the song never mentions race. It was about poverty. Elvis knew poverty.
Mac Davis, who wrote this song, was white.
@@kathifielder1110 Sorry... I was thinking of Sammy Davis - he was originally offered the song.
@@sharis9095 I totally get it. I have a tendency to get things mixed up now and then too. Don't we all?
You are dead wrong. Mac Davis wrote the song
@@terrygarcia897 If you read further I already acknowledged that.... I was thinking of Sammy Davis Jr. who was originally asked to sing the song... but thanks.
He's singing to a bunch of rich White folf who shelled out a lot of money in Vegas.
MAMAS MUST QUIT HAVING BABIES THEY CANT AFFORD!
As Elvis lived in a ghetto in hie childhood he saw it, than he travedand saw it more, yet please notice that he never said "black".. child, mother or hungry, angry.. Young man. It's about the ghetto, which is not exclusively black
Not once is race mentioned. There are white, red, brown, yellow, and black, people in the ghetto. Elvis was very very poor. Lived in a 2 room shack that his father built. His twin brother was still born. Had no money for a casket, he was buried in a show box.
How about get a job and show every day and don't have children out of wedlock, oh and don't be a drug addict. Also read books and become smart!
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