Video: Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender

Elvis would have been 75 today. See that album cover over there on the left? That's the first record I ever owned. It was picked out by me and purchased by my grandmother at the Mongtomery Ward/Jefferson's department store which was located on 8th Avenue (now a Kmart ) in North Miami Beach, FL. I still own this and my little kid handwriting of "Gordon Lamb" scrawled in the yellow box on the cover is still visible. I listened to this record hundreds of times and still have it all memorized. Even the in-between-song chatter. I got [...]

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