About CJ Expertise I can answer any questions you have regarding music from the 1980`s,including questions about specific artists,lyrics,song titles,etc.
Experience I was born in the early 70's,so my teenage years were spent listening to 80's music. I was and still am a HUGE fan of music from the 80's,and did everything from buying tons of albums to going to concerts to subscribing to music magazines to listening to the Top 40 countdown on the weekends.
DAP wrote at 2008-02-17 02:54:34
This song is about Elvis Presley. Here's some lyric analysis:
"Jimmy Rogers on the Victrola up high" - Jimmy Rogers, an early Blues singer, influencing Elvis (the baby) at an early age. The Victrola is the record player, played loudly.
"Mama's dancin' with baby on her shoulder" - Gladys Presley dancing with the infant Elvis.
"Black velvet and that little boy's smile" - You can buy a black velvet Elvis painting at any respectable yard sale. Early female fans were drawn to his "Little boy smile."
"Black velvet with that slow southern style" - Elvis delivered some of his songs with slow, undulating hips. Check out "Steamroller Blues" live.
"Up in Memphis the music's like a heatwave" - Sun Studios. The epicenter of early Rock music and where Elvis recorded.
"White lightning, bound to drive you wild" - Rock music and booze.
"Mama's baby's in the heart of every school girl" - A reference to the baby in the early part of the song, being loved by all the young girls.
"Love Me Tender leaves 'em cryin' in the aisle" - Love Me Tender was a huge hit for Elvis in 1956.
"The way he moved, it was a sin, so sweet and true" - Elvis' legendary hips swivel, the Pelvis.
"Every word of every song that he sang was for you. In a flash he was gone, it happened so soon, what could you do?"
onsgirl wrote at 2008-03-08 02:31:13
I don't know if u really care, but it is about the King, she sings pretty much about the way she saw him....She's young so only by television, I remember the King, I was young but was just as mesmarized, (i spelled that wrong) by his heat...
Jenny Hui wrote at 2008-06-25 22:41:32
Hello,
Have your friend read all of the lyrics of Black Velvet. I had a run in with a friend of mine just today in fact about the same thing. It wasn't untill I printed out the whole song and she read it that she realized that it was about Elvis. The whole time she thought it was written about a drink.
Black Velvet refers to Elvis or his voice. If you do some research on the internet, just go to google and type in history of Black Velvet several sites will come up explaining that.
Good luck with your friend and if that person reads all of the lyrics and doesn't see how "Love Me Tender leaves them crying..." doesn't refer to Elvis point out the "He knew how to move everything" and "Mama's baby's in the heart of every school gril" and finally "In a flash it was over it happened so soon"
