http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:58:28 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/07/11/171645.php#comment-732273 The song "Viva Las Vegas" was recorded on Wednesday, July 6, 1963, after 7 takes, five of them being false starts. What history records is that the "Viva Las Vegas" sequence, when Elvis sings the song at mid-point during the movie, was shot in one take, and with the use of a single camera. Amazingly, Presley sings the song whilst simultaneously moving around the stage with at least four different women, pausing to sing to each one of them, never losing the focus, the positioning and the sequencing, inspite of delivering what are definitively four different set of moves and using both his arms and hands to reflect the lyrics. Rumour had it that Parker, Presley's manager, was pretty upset that a classic, professional delivery such as the one Presley puts up, for this song, would have taken MGM less than 3 minutes to assemble, as well as its having been so economical, because of the aforementioned single camera used. 732273@blogcritics.org Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:58:28 EDT