John's tribute to Joe Clay started me thinking how much I like this. That mad combination of youthful enthusiasm, amphetamines, alcohol, deranged lust and that inimitable American can-do spirit - all brought to bear on a brand new music. It's exhilarating stuff, folks.
I think my all time favourite is this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQMtin7p-X0
And this one is rightfully legendary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zgsIdMa8qA
(Apparently Pat Boone was responsible for the existence of that record, which redeems him completely in my view.)
And the closest The King got to the genre that owed so much to him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92iwC-xI3mE
John Lennon famously stole the viciously misogynistic lyrics but I must admit I prefer the lines:
"You may go to college, you may go to school
You may have a pink cadillac but don't you be nobody's fool".
Sage advice.
Any more for any more?