Saturday, September 12, 2009

Elvis Has Left the Shoppe

As part of yet another free concert held at our North County showroom we were proud to host San Diego’s finest Elvis Presley Tribute band, called Graceland.

In case you didn’t make it the show… all we can say is that Elvis totaly rocked Wave Shoppe Hawaiian Shirts.

Songs played were as follows:

(Set 1) All Shook Up, American Trilogy, Blue Christmas, Blueberry Hill, Burning Love, Can't help Falling in Love, Don't Be Cruel, Fever, Get Back, Guitar Man, Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog, I Can’t Stop Loving You, I Don’t Have A Wooden Heart, I Got a Woman,In The Ghetto, Jailhouse Rock.

(Set 2) Johnny B. Goode, Little Less Conversation, Little Sister, Love Me, Love Me Tender, My Way, Mystery Train, Patch it Up, Polk Salad Annie, Promised Land, Proud Mary, See See Rider, Suspicious Minds, Teddy Bear, That's All Right Mama, Trying to Get To You, Viva Las Vegas, Walk A Mile In My Shoes, You Gave Me A Mountain

The Elvis show ran a full 2 1/2 hours and went well into the evening. As you can see from the picture below, darkness was not a deterrent for the crowd.


I still recall watching the real Elvis Presley when I was a child and I still love listening to his wonderful musical arrangements. Without a doubt my favorite Elvis tune is Suspicious Minds.

But this wasn’t just another beautiful day in Aloha Land, it was also 9/11 and there was no way that we were not going to pay tribute to all of the people that lost their lives that tragic day.

The band felt it was fitting to do something special so they sang Elvis’s rendition of America the Beautiful, written by Katherine Lee Bates. Elvis recorded this version on December 13, 1975 at the Las Vegas Hilton. Elvis has left the shoppe, mahalo!

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