Saturday 9: "Moody Blue" by Elvis

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Moody Blue

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Saturday 9: Moody Blue (1977)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

 

1) This song was recorded in the special studio Elvis had built in the Jungle Room of Graceland. During the pandemic, have you made like Elvis and worked from home?  No, I have not. Formerly, when I was selling crafts, I worked AT home but not now, and not a current job.

2) Elvis sings that his girl is completely unpredictable. Which quality to you find more attractive: spontaneity or dependability?  Dependability.

3) He only performed the song once in concert. In February 1977, shortly after the record was released, Elvis sang "Moody Blue" live in Charlotte, NC, but had to rely on lyric sheet. Crazy Sam can sympathize because she seems to forget passwords as soon as she sets them. Do you often struggle with your memory?  If I've used it enough, I can remember pretty complicated passwords.  As a singer, I had to remember long complicated songs.  That may have helped me.

4) "Moody Blue" was the final hit of Elvis' lifetime, only getting to #31 in the US but reaching #3 in the UK. What's your favorite Elvis song?  This one: "Suspicious Minds".

 

Though I do like the one from the recording studio best. Except of course, where he does that world famous maneuver of the side leg stretch and sings, "soto voce", "Sure Hope this suit don't tear out".  LOL!  Love the King! 

5) We're focusing on Elvis this week because January 8 would be his 87th birthday. He enjoyed celebrating his birthday by renting the Memphis movie theater and watching the latest movie with an invited group of friends. What's your favorite way to celebrate your birthday?  With my family, going out to get a meal at an Italian Restaurant.

6) For his 11th birthday, young Elvis asked for a rifle or a bicycle. His mother deemed the gun too dangerous and the bike too expensive and instead gave her son his first guitar. Tell us about a memorable birthday from your youth. Mother always baked a cake for us, and one year she bought me a "Moss Rose" tea set when I was maybe 14.  How she did these things was amazing.  She must have saved a long time for it.

7) Elvis loved horses and kept them in the stable at Graceland. His favorite was a palomino named Rising Sun. To honor both horse and rider, Elvis' daughter has always kept a palomino in the stable whose name includes "sun." The current resident is Tuscan Sun. Known as "Tucky," he's lived at Graceland for more than 20 years now and is a favorite of Alene Alexander, who maintains the stable and reports he has "attitude and knows he's prettier than everybody else." Tell us about an animal who holds a place in your heart.  Taffy was a little, golden short haired dog that I got as a puppy from a neighbor. I had her about two or three years before she just disappeared one day.  She will always be in my heart. I still wonder what happened to her but I'm pretty sure I know what did. 

8) Throughout his life, Elvis had trouble sleeping. As a preteen, he was a sleepwalker. As an adult, he battled insomnia. Is sleep an issue for you?  I had trouble sleeping as well.  I think it was because of stress.  Now I take naps.  Then and throughout a busy life as a mom, I just went with the sleep I could get, which was six hours usually. I am fine with that amount now, except, as I said, now I take naps.

9) Random question: Do you wear your shoes in the house?  We have tile floors, and yes, I wear my shoes in the house. I used to go bare footed EVERYwhere, but now not so much. If we had wooden floors, or carpets, we would have "house Shoes". 

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