Elvis Presley - Milk Cow Blues - Studio Version

[@WoodsWoman822]

This was in 1954 when Elvis was 19. ❤ Rock-a-Billy Blues !!

[@marion_R]

Love this song, that i know as Milcow Blues Boogie! So much fun! Thank you and Belinda!💚

[@jimmcdonald4087]

The music Elvis recorded at Sun has as good a claim as anything to being the birth of rock and roll.

[@CarolynLuvsElvisForever0910]

Do you hear the influence he had on Led Zeppelin?! He is the first and only.

[@terrywright8731]

This is fabulous!

[@CynthiaBianchi-f4q]

His very first albums sound like this....GREAT !!!

[@TheKopyKatz]

Fire 🔥🔥🔥

[@sosufyan]

Like most rock n roll pioneers, Elvis played in school playgrounds for example, as in the photo at the end of the video; He drove all over the southern United States, singing where he could. Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Cochrane Ritchie Valens, etc. a great time!

[@williamquinlan6153]

This was pre RCA Elvis. Big E and his mates formulated a style some called rockabilly which was embryonic rock n roll. His vocals in these records were very stylized and the lyrics sexily metaphoric; he wasn't really singing about a milk cow. This song was heavy on the blues and light on the country. Elvis often liked to sing blues faster than customary. Considered important historically.

[@LMTino]

Free and easy. Simple. Filled with the joy of it. Before it got to be more of an exaggeration of what he really seemed to be.

[@dailydose821]

Recorded at Sun Records in December 1954

[@jennyjorgensen9935]

I think this was a Sun record. So fun!! Definitely recorded in the 50's.

[@delilahmorrow4606]

He changed his voice so much. Loved it❤

[@labird1994]

I hadn't seen Elvis' images so young with this kind of rock-blues background. He was amazing and it's pleasant to see his performances. He was very complete as an artist. Thanks for reacting to Elvis' songs which are not known for us👌👏🎸👍

[@thymeout4rosemary446]

This was before he was famous and was recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis. Those early Sun Records were heard on stations in the Deep South.

[@paulhuggett7503]

Well he was famous, but not outside of the USA. He'd toured the whole Southern States of America by the time this was recorded.😀

[@debbyschultz1729]

Milk Cow Blues Boogie!! Love It and Elvis' Voice is perfection!! ❤❤❤❤❤!! This is very early in Elvis" career! Recorded in the Early 50's!! Actually, I have heard quite a few imitators, and after just a few seconds, I can tell that it's not Elvis singing!!

[@mimi-422]

❤👑👑👑👑👑❤️ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@sallycook]

Elvis’ guitarist, Scotty Moore and slap bass, Bill Black said, when they recorded some of these early tracks at Sun “They will run us outta town”. Sam was renowned for getting the best out of his recording equipment and he used a delay technique to create echo, not to mention the open door to a narrow stairway for great effect.

[@samhugh4965]

How fun was this! I recently listened to this song by a rock band from ‘78 as a tribute to Elvis after he died, but now I’m spacing which one. Anyone know which band?

[@sosufyan]

look this vidéo AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie ( BBC Sight And Sound In Concert 1977 Stereo Edition )

[@sallycook]

Milkcow Blues Boogie was written and first recorded by Kokomo Arnold in 1934. Here is a link kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGqXZZ2Dqdpph8U. I have to say Elvis’ lyrics are quite different to the original. However, the version by Jimmy Wakely from 1948 that uses thecsame lyrics Elvis does. Here is the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqKtgXilmJJjnLM

[@sallycook]

“It may be that the A-side sounded too “black” for the majority of Elvis’s white audience, but it’s just as likely that the opposite problem was what doomed it: Bob Wills, the “King of Western Swing,” had been playing it in his own hopped-up version, “Brain Cloudy Blues,” since 1946.” and “From a rhythmic point of view, the double-time gimmick worked better here, coming off Elvis’s slow-talking intro,” Here is a link to Bob WillS’ version kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6akZql_pcmGoLM