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Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.
They owe everything to Elvis. He made their brand of music popular and thus created careers for them that would have gond unnoticed in the mainstream. The Presley family has nothing to be ashamed of. Elvis was a very talented guy.
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I disagree sugar foot.
Elvis took most of their potential intergrated audience because white people assumed that Elvis was doing something that was "new" while the black artists in the juke joints were already doing it.
Elvis is unfairly given credit for pioneering a genre that he had no part in innovating nor creating because he was a popular white man during a segregated era.
Elvis's popularity reinforced racial stereotypes and a false assumption.
I think the family could give songwriting Royalities to those African American songwriters Elvis stole credits from. Some of them are still alive and they are not credited for their songs that Elvis sung which is why I said the Presly family should be ashamed.