Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congressmen hear about fish, corn and hound dogs...
...that Bell had "harassed" Gravitt until he committed suicide. Ashley claims that a Bell vice president at Gravitt's funeral warned him not to join the dead man's family in a suit against the company, saying "You file that suit and the Bell employees will hound you to death. That son of a bitch [Gravitt] lies in the grave-you're next...
...killed when a drunken driver plowed into the crowd. After the funeral at Graceland, a cortege of 16 white Cadillacs led a slow procession down Elvis Presley Boulevard to the cemetery. There the lawn was banked with some 2,200 floral tributes - an imperial crown of golden mums, hortisculptured hound-dogs and guitars, sunflowers in wine bottles. Memphis ran out of flowers; reinforcements were sent in from California and Colorado...
Those early Sun sides, typified by the wonderfully spooky, smoky Mystery Train, were arguably the best music Elvis ever made. The more familiar songs, like Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog and Don't Be Cruel are great tunes, joyful and sassy. They have become cultural artifacts, but no amount of historical respectability can fully dim their raucous vitality. They also represent a high point. Only four or five years after they came out, Presley's music had virtually become a patented mixture of heavy breathing and hokum...
...full of intentional self-parody; he took to telling audiences "this lip used to curl easier." Of late he made his entrance at concerts to the thundering strains of Thus Spake Zarathustra. He could still rock out when he wanted to cut loose with a fine, jagged version of Hound Dog, but he seemed increasingly bored with his music and more absorbed in the lavish trappings of his own celebrity...