Het Einde der Dagen is DAAR & hijkomtnooitklaar?

~*~

The Lively Arts

AS ELVIS PRESLEY
charges to edge of stage
to howl
"You ain't nothin' but a hound dog"
screaming Miami girls
charge the stage and clutch for
his clothes ...

ELVIS -
a Disturbing Kind of Idol:
Presley's impact piles up fans,
fads -
and fears

~*~

Up to a point,
the U.S. can withstand the impact of Elvis Presley
as a familiar and acceptable
phenomenon.

Wherever the lean,
21-year-old singer from Tennessee goes to howl out
his combination of hillbilly and
"rock 'n roll" {1955},
he is beset
by teen-age girls yelling
for him.

They dote
on his sideburns and pegged pants,
covet strands of his hair,
boycott radio station "disk jockeys"
who dislike his records
{which have sold
some six million copies}.

All this
the country has seen before
- with Johnnie Ray, Frank Sinatra and all the way back to the first "crooner," Rudy Vallee.

-

But with Elvis Presley,
the daffiness has been deeply disturbing to civic leaders,
clergymen and some
parents.

He does not
just bounce
to accent his
heavy beat.

He uses
a "bump & grind" routine
usually seen only in the low world
of the burlesque theater.

His audiences,
unexposed to such goings-on, do not just
shout their approval.

They get set off
by shock waves of hysteria, going into frenzies of screeching and wailing, winding up in tears.

In Miami, Florida
one newspaper columnist called Presley's performance
"obscene."

In Jacksonville he was threatened with jail.

His impact
has brought Presley a welcome taste of wealth and fame.
But it has also brought him some unwelcome
attention.

The Breaking Up & The Bumps

When he starts a show
Elvis takes a few swipes at his guitar,
then lurches into one of his scorchers like
I Want You, I Need You
{Ah Wa-ha-hunt Yew-who, Ah Nee-hee-heed Yew-who"}
or his first hit,
Heartbreak Hotel.

The most emotional girls
out front go into their screams and seizures.
From then on most of them do not hear what Elvis sings
as he flings about,
bringing his susceptible audience
to the breaking point.

"HE isn't afraid
to express himself,"
was one 15-year-old's defense
of his free style.
"When he does that on television,
I get down on the floor
and scream."

The rewards
of this fearless expression
are almost unbelievable for the young man who gave up his truck-driving job two years ago to become
a full-time singer.

Since the first of the year,
he has fallen just short of grossing half a million dollars
for over 125 public appearances, record royalties, from television &
more due this fall
for three more
TV appearances ...

-

THAT was in 1958!

Big business,
big industry,
big money,
lots of hormones
& stupid girls,
crazy boys,
mods & rockers,
nozems, Buikhuizen & Piet Grijs,
Jan Wolkers & Harry Mulisch,
Simon Vinkenoog & later provo, kabouters & 'groenen',
maar vooral ook heel veel z.g.
dammers & pleiners,
vetkuiven &
bromfietsers,
hamburgers,
frankfurters,
hot dogs,
mad cats &
abortions ...

The Americanization
of The Whole Wide World
from Slave Auctions to
junk,
punk & funk-food
for the masses ...

The ABC
of economic warfare:
WE ARE THE GREATEST,
THE BEST, THE LOUDEST, THE CRAZIEST &
the Most Powerful:
AND we'll teach The World to Dance to
Our Tunes ...

NOW
JesseGeorge W. BUSHGAMES
& Bonny & Clyde RiceCowboys &
-girls
are chasing
their terrorists from Afghanistan to Babylon & SpecialPrisonIslands
all over the world:
after
The Iron Curtain dropped
The Wild West
Goes
ON
EVERYWHERE
it seems ...

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~#~

Where
& when
{if ever}
will THIS
end up?

~#~

Met
Het Teken Van Het Beest
burned and/or
implanted into everybody's flesh
& MIND?
engel
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