excellent stuff,i am very pleased to hear that the informed readers of this blog share realize the king is not the king of rock and roll. but of course.....
Ric Smith
Western Montana

More like an entire raquetball court full painkillers and deep fried bacon-doughnut-cheese-peanutbutter and mayonnaise balls.
...Died on the fuckin' crapper.

You call him the king? I shit a better king this morning.
But he did give away Cadillacs to hillbillies though.
I think they liked that.

For the record...Big Boy Arthur Cruddup was performing the song he wrote "There ain't nothin' like a Hounddog" Before Elvis was out of grade school...and I live in Western MT too...moved here after 30 years in Boulder, CO only to find that Missoula is a WAY hipper place and maybe the coolest bike town in America

Ok I debated, argue or not (guess what won? DaveO, this is for you!). Real simple, inventor of RnR, I agree with you. King, get real. Petty is the King of stock cars, but by no means the inventor. No Elvis and 90% of the world, and likely 99% of West Montana, never hears of Chuck or Richard. King involves intangibles and HUGE success, like an entire raquetball court full of gold records, and that was Elvis, like it or not.

helllz yeah

I gotta agree, carman does do it great justice...

"in the gehtoooo"

okay here is the deal--elvis is not the king of rock and roll, he became big because radio stations played his music because he is white...the radio stations would not play black music.
chuck berry and little richard share the title as the king of rock and roll.
for the record.

ric smith
western montana