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like the one above, the elvis album was kind of a "family record" that only the kids were still listening to. this was the first double album i came across and its size, when unfolded, impressed me quite a lot bc it was as big as i was then. 15 songs have a pencil tag bc when i listened to the record first i couldnt read, let alone in english, so i marked all the songs that i liked, to be able to find them later.
this one mustve left an impression:
the slow ballads like "love me tender" and "in the ghetto" were of no interest to me. i remember it took a few more years to develop a taste for them.
i also marked "wooden heart" bc whenever it was played, it sure would initiate, in routine repetition, parental comments on elvis' years as a gi in south germany. he had been deployed close to where my grandparents lived, and rumour had it that elvis mustve left his genetic imprint on the regions gene pool while staying there, everything else wouldve been unnatural. i liked the song so-so but my grandmother used to sway to it to and fro which was a real honor bc for her all the "american shit" like coca cola, chewing gum and the music her children were listening to wasnt of any value anyway.
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2morrow elvis must go.
Those albums remind me of by best mate whose parents probably had the entire collection. They really produced some stunning albums and I remember this black one which looked like a real work of art with the cover and inside and everything.