Too creepy for me

[Barry Blackwood]

Some of Country's queens are getting the chance to sing with the King on an upcoming album of Christmas tracks.

"Elvis Presley Christmas Duets" pairs the voice of Presley with the likes of Carrie Underwood and LeAnn Rimes – both of whom were born after the musical legend had died. Martina McBride, Sara Evans, and Wynonna Judd also lend their voices to the tunes. Underwood 'duets' with Presley on "I'll be Home for Christmas," while Rimes takes on "Here Comes Santa Claus" and McBride croons with the King on the Presley favorite "Blue Christmas."

Additional tracks include: "Silent Night" with Evans; "Santa Claus is Back In Town" with Judd; "Merry Christmas Baby" with Gretchen Wilson; "Silver Bells" with Anne Murray; "White Christmas" with Amy Grant; and "O Little Town" with Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town.

The songs are being recorded in Nashville's RCA Studio B–the same studio where Elvis recorded his original 1971 Christmas sessions. "We are so pleased that these accomplished artists are collaborating with Elvis in this unique way to make exciting new versions of his Christmas songs," Priscilla Presley said in a press release. "I am sure Elvis would be proud to have worked with them."

Tracks from the album will be previewed Aug. 14 during the 2008 Elvis Week in Memphis.

[Marc Jenkins]

I hate this.

[Richard Sevigny]

[Dave Biller]

to me this no different than using his exhumed skeleton in a remake of King Creole.

[Stephen Gambrell]

'Bout as bad as Natalie Cole recording with her late father, or Hank Jr. recording, and making a video, with HIS dead daddy.

[Barry Blackwood]

Yep, I agree with all of you. I suppose his heirs will scrape his bones 'til they're all gone, but then what?

[Michael Johnstone]

I'll give Natalie and Hank Jr a pass. I think they get to do that and plus it was done so well. But the Elvis thing - I dunno.....

[Dave Mudgett]

I'm OK with Natalie and Hank Jr. too. If my dad died tragically young, and there was footage like that that I could sing along with tastefully, I'd do it too.

On Elvis - this is simply yet another chapter in a long-running soap that will never end. [Why would you expect it would - how many decades has "As the Stomach Churns" been running?] Those bones will never scrape clean - there seems to be an infinite supply of raw meat, and good taste is in very short supply these days.

At least this isn't Kenny G. desecrating Louis Armstrong.

[Bill Hatcher]

Or Larry Coryell playing along with Wes Montgomery.

[Mike Perlowin RIP]

Didn't Linda Ronstadt do this with Love Me Tender some years back?

[Barry Blackwood]

Or Kenny G with Louis Armstrong. C'mon Mike, stop editing your post! It would have been funny the way it was.

[Mike Perlowin RIP]

Or Kenny G with Louis Armstrong. C'mon Mike, stop editing your post! It would have been funny the way it was.

It would have bee but after I posed it, I saw Dave M had already posted about Louis Armstrong being raped.

[Barry Blackwood]

Mike, that was the point - to drive it home by repeating it over and over. (It's getting embarrassing to have to explain these gags, c'mon!)

[David Mason]

Our musical culture has been thriving on necrophilia for decades now, I date it back to Sha Na Na. You know "the look" - greasy ducktail, shades, leather jacket. Or the other look - headband, jeans, flannel shirt. Or the other look - chains, black leather, makeup, nose ring... Or the other look - boots, hat, trucker wallet, truck.

Musicians today can pick out a prepackaged set of clothing, licks, guitar mag quotes about old tubes, and song lyric content, with no though content required - and we love them for it! Actually recording over a dead guy is just the next logical step, after so many people have been feasting on his package all these years.

Quentin Tarantino is doing the same thing in movies, gee are hemlines up or down this year? Disco keeps resurfacing, like a rotting corpse clawing it's way up through the graveyard soil - buy a lava lamp! It's called "classicism", when a culture has passed it's peak and has nothing left to offer but recycled bits of the past. The same thing happened to ancient Egypt, classical Greece and Rome, just before the fall.

It's convenient & easiest to blame the "barbarians" who overran them, but the culture has to rot from the inside first. Heck, there are still a few living British geezers who think their Empire would have been just fine if they'd have just snuffed that upstart Mahatma Gandhi before he got the wogs all agitated. I hope I die before YOU get old....

[Ray Minich]

I've been gonna throw out my wide neckties for a long time, maybe there's still a chance...

[chris ivey]

i think a little dance number with the exhumed body and his first son in law, michael jackson, would be nice!

[John Steele (deceased)]

Chris, I think Barry was really hoping for was Garth Brooks, dancing with a vacuum cleaner.
-John

[David L. Donald]

I'll give Natalie and Hank Jr a pass. I think they get to do that and plus it was done so well. But the Elvis thing - I dunno.....

I agree on this one too.
Especially Natalie Cole with her dad,
it was class act all the way and introduced
her dad to another generation.

The song was perfect for the idea also.
Nat deserved to not be forgotten,
and Natalie deserved to do the duets with her dad
she WOULD have done for sure had he lived.


This Elvis exumation... HAH! fo gida aboud it.

[Matthew Walton]

Maybe I'm just weird (a very good possibility), but when I see that the first thing I think is "Grateful Dead Meets Elvis"
Anyone else feel that?

[Bo Legg]

Is Elvis dead?

[chris ivey]

matt...i can see it!!

[Tamara James]

Is Elvis dead?

Nah, he's working in a 7-11 in Branson.

[David L. Donald]

Is Elvis dead?

Nah, he's working in a 7-11 in Branson.

If that's all he's doing at his age,
might as well be. Certainly isn't with the living.