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Wise Men Say: Elvis Presley

Simon Frith, Aspects of Elvis, 1994

"I DON'T THINK EL WILL EVER RATE WITH the more serious students of popular song – his syrupy crooning with vibrato went out with Rudy Valee." Arthur Jackson ‘Light Side’, Audio and Record, August 1962

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