The Late Movies: Six Really Strange Elvis Covers (Including Dolph Lundgren and Rod Blagojevich)

The Late Movies: Six Really Strange Elvis Covers (Including Dolph Lundgren and Rod Blagojevich)

Happy Birthday, Elvis!

And God said, "Let there be Elvis," and there was much rejoicing among the people. Well, among the teenagers at least. My parents were a long time coming around to the point of view that E. was The King. Oddly enough, my grandmother (on my mother's side) was a big Elvis fan. In the early '60s, radio station KTON in the Temple/Belton area ran a 15-minute Elvis show around 5:00 every afternoon, and my grandmother and I would listen together. Those were the days.

Todd Mason reminds me that this is also the birthday of Jesse Garon Presley, Elvis' twin brother, who, unlike Elvis, is actually dead.