edgar - Black Velvet


edgar
Jun 06, 2025 07:26am
<p><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">This song is about Elvis Presley. Some lyric analysis: Jimmie Rodgers on the Victrola up high" - Jimmie Rodgers, a country music pioneer from Elvis' home state of Mississippi, influencing Elvis (the baby) at an early age. The Victrola is the record player, played loudly.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">Mama's dancin' with baby on her shoulder" - Gladys Presley dancing with the infant Elvis.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">"Black velvet and that little boy's smile" - You can buy a black velvet Elvis painting at any respectable yard sale. Early female fans were drawn to his “Little Boy Smile</span></p>