For his 27th death anniversary: Favorite ELVIS tune on SUN RECORDS?

[NightTrain]

Poll question: For his 27th death anniversary: Favorite ELVIS tune on SUN RECORDS?

[Radical Activist]

1. Mystery Train

I'm not a huge Elvis fan but I like his Sun Records stuff a lot. Mystery Train is my favorite even if it is a cover.

[liberalhistorian]

2. I vividly remember where I was when I heard

about his death. I was on vacation in the Black Hills in South Dakota (of course, where else, lol!) with my mom, stepdad, and stepsister, and we were in line in the cafeteria at the Visitor's Center that overlooked the mountain. People seemed stunned and one of the girls working in the cafeteria was crying; when we asked what was happening we were told Elvis Presley had died earlier that day (that area of South Dakota is on mountain time).

"Oh, is that all?", my stepdad very seriously commented, to his everlasting regret as we have teased him about it ever since. All the rest of the vacation and all the way home, that's all we heard about on the radio, in the papers, people around us, etc. Thank God there were no TV's in the resort cabins (at least, at that time there weren't, now they've ruined the cabins by putting TV with cable in them), and there was no cable or we'd have been inundated 24/7 with no break from it at all.

[NightTrain]

3. Truth be told, Presley's death didn't affect me all that much.

I was 11 at the time and hadn't yet gotten into collecting and studying popular music. The first rock-star death that truly meant something to me was John Lennon's murder in 1980.

[liberalhistorian]

4. Same here, Dean!

Lennon affected me far more than Presley, I really didn't care about Elvis all that much and I was only twelve when he died. But I was, and am, a HUGE Beatles fan and I was fifteen when Lennon was murdered so it meant a lot more to me than Presley's death did or ever will, for that matter.

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. "Let's get REAL gone!"

Okay, "Blue Moon of Kentucky" is my second-favorite. I hate to vote with my heart:

Train I ride...
Fifteen coaches long.
Train I ride...
Fifteen coaches long.
That long black train
Took my baby and gone.