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Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream-Elvis was very shaken by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. for the obvious reasons but, he also felt it cast a negative light on his adopted hometown of Memphis according to Peter Guralnick's "Careless Love"
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Brown was asked to write a song to replace "I'll Be Home for Christmas" as the grand finale on NBC's "Elvis" (June 20–23, 1968). He wrote "If I Can Dream", and when Presley heard it he proclaimed "I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in."[3]
Steve Binder, who produced Presley’s 1968 television comeback special, has often recalled the origin of Presley’s hit “If I Can Dream.†Presley and Binder were looking for a way to end the show. The two had discussed Elvis’ dismay over the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. Binder was struck by the conversation and ordered W. Earl Brown, a songwriter working on the show, to come up with a song incorporating Presley’s concern to use as the finale to the show. So even though Presley did not write the song, his viewpoint was expressed in its composition. This enabled him to run rough shod over some of the song’s hokier lyrics when he delivered it.[4]
When Colonel Tom Parker heard the song demonstrated by Earl Brown, he said: "This ain't Elvis' kind of song." Elvis was also there, unbeknownst to him, and he said: "I'd like to try it, man." Earl Brown said when Elvis recorded the song, he saw the three back up singershave tears rolling down their cheeks. One of them whispered to him: "Elvis has never sung with so much emotion before. He means every word."[5]“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.â€-F. Scott Fitzgerald last line "The Great Gatsby"Comment
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