ARF: Notes and Comments: BROADWAY THE HARD WAY: Elvis Has Just Left The Building

BROADWAY THE HARD WAY

Elvis Has Just Left The Building

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From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller) :-) Yes indeedy. [ Is it Kenealy who parodying Presley vocal here and in Rhymin' Man?]
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	He gave away Cadillacs once in a while;
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	Had sex in his underpants, Yes, he had style!
From: Mr_Gigabyte@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) Elvis Presley was famous for being very generous to certain people. He did give away cars and other expensive presents. Dunno about sex in his underpants, though.
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller) I wouldn't be surprised if he did all of these things. Elvis grew up to be a very quirky, reclusive super-star.
From: kerryy@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski) He was too shy to remove his white cotton briefs.
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	Bell-bottom jump-suits? That's them in a pile,
From: Mr_Gigabyte@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) Bell-bottoms are pants which are very wide at the bottom of the legs. Presley used to wear these when he was performing on stage towards the end of his life.
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller) A jump suit is a one piece outfit. The name comes from parachuting. Bell bottoms were popular in the 70's and had the end of the leg flared out resembling a bell. Some of Elvis' most memorable costumes were Bell-bottomed jump-suits (the white one with all the glitter on the oversized collar).
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	So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?
From: Mr_Gigabyte@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) Just an ugly fat pig. I think someone once did a cartoon which made Presley's face like a pig.

	So take down the foil From his hotel retreat,
From: Mr_Gigabyte@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) In some hot places in North America, like Las Vegas, people put aluminum foil in the windows to keep the sun out.
From: rickhall@aol.com (Rick Hall) Howard Hughes had the walls of the rooms of his residences covered in aluminum foil. (Because he was NUTS!) Either Elvis did something similar or its a HH reference.
From: markp@ksgrsch.harvard.edu (Mark Parisi) Elvis did the same thing, primarily because he slept during the daytime, and wanted complete darkness in his suite. His advance men always made sure the windows were done before Elvis arrived.
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	Elvis has just left the building -- Those are his footprints, right there
From: steed@utkvx.utk.edu (Todd M Steed) ... check out [ movies] ELVIS ON TOUR or ELVIS THAT'S THE WAY IT IS. Whenever ELIVS finished a show he would split asap and then some old Memphis Mafia guy would say
ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BLD. (except he wouldn't abbrv.)
This was his sig, so to speak...and they always said it. This was so all the hicks and dumb rednecks in the audience would know not to wait around and thusly would return to their pickup trucks and get stuck in traffic for 2 hours.
In other words EHLTB means GO HOME YOU IDIOTS, THERE AIN'T NO ENCORE. It has become somewhat of an idiomatic expression these days. So be it. You will hear it a lot if you listen. SHHHHH..listen,
From: JSULLIVA@fhcrc.org (John Sullivan) The line comes from Elvis's Vegas shows. The show's over, the audience is going nuts, and the MC announces: "Ladies and Gentlemen, Elvis has left the building!"
Translation: "He's zooming away in the limo with a drink in his hand, show's over." Thanks largely to David Letterman, it's becoming common slang for, well, something being over.
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	Elvis has just left the building -- To climb up that heavenly stair He's up there with Jesus, in a big purple chair
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From: Vladimir Sovetov <sova@kpbank.ru> Seems to be a piece from well-known God's livin' room fat maroonish OSFA suite.
From: mdryden@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Martyn Dryden") Zappa owned a big purple chair, in which he sat while being interviewed for the recently televised BBC2/A&E documentary, to name but one. Whether it's double-knit or not, I couldn't determine.

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