AM Radio is also less hearty, as our progressive politics station went away, replaced by a sports station that includes someone with one of the scratchiest, worst voices I've ever heard this side of Danny Bonaduce. Wait! I shouldn't have said that, because DB, the former actor from the Partridge Family TV show, is now a Classic Rock morning host in Seattle. And you thought you had problems.
Occasionally there's something fun on the dial, and the other night, the syndicated "Elvis Only" show reeled off a small fortune of early Presley hits--how about that vocal intro to "I Got Stung": "Holy smoke! Landsakes alive! I never thought this could happen to me." That kind of stuff has me pounding the dashboard in 2013 like I did when I was a teenager (scared my Mom to death then) back in my teen driving days.
Anyway, "Elvis Only" recently played an Elvis live version of Danny O'Keefe's "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues." Great song, and I wondered how Elvis would be rendering the lyric, "I've got my pills to ease the pain."
Can you guess the outcome of this one? I couldn't. Answer: Presley simply eliminated that line entirely. I guess some subjects just cut too close to the bone for him.