TCBCast 086: American "Kings" - Michael & Elvis feat. Daniel Taylor
TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast
Release Date: 10/14/2019
TCBCast 421: Was Dolly Wrong About Elvis and "I Will Always Love You"? (feat. John Michael Heath)
TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast
In this special two-part episode of TCBCast featuring John Heath, Justin and John reflect on the life and music of Dolly Parton, yet their main focus is on the discrepancies between the legendary story of Elvis seeking to record "I Will Always Love You"... and history. Source interviews, articles and books, as well as verifiable facts about how Colonel Parker's music publishing involvement was handled - and subsequently ignored - during the relevant time periods before and after the critical July 1973 Stax sessions, provide corroborating evidence (including from Dolly herself as well as...
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TCBCast 420: Separate Ways (1972) Camden Review + Remembering Shelley Fabares & Dolly Parton
TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast
Gurdip and Bec open the episode reflecting on the passing of actress and singer Shelley Fabares, who starred in three films with Elvis - Girl Happy, Spinout and Clambake - and sadly passed away on August 22, 2026. They also take time to remember beloved country singer-songwriter-actress Dolly Parton, who also passed away on August 25. For the main topic, they're looking back on the final official US Camden LP, 1972's "Separate Ways" which both of them owned in various formats over the years. Meant to emulate the success of "Burning Love and Hits From His Movies Volume 2" which paired a...
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TCBCast 419: The History Behind "What Now My Love" and "Cindy, Cindy"
TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast
On this episode, Bec has been hard at work compiling information, sources and versions of songs in order to tell the history behind one of her all-time favorite Elvis songs: "What Now My Love." Originally written by French musician Gilbert Bécaud and lyricist Pierre Delanoë, "Et Maintenant" became beloved around the world both in its original language, and with its localized English lyrics by Carl Sigman. With research assistance from friend of the show Helene de Roux, Bec explores what nuances are lost in translation and what strengths are found in Elvis' interpretation to match the power...
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TCBCast 418: Elvis' Generational Rock Influence (feat. John Humphrey of Seether)
TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast
Justin and Olivia are joined for our special Elvis Week episode by John Humphrey, drummer for alt-rock/post-grunge/metal band Seether ("Broken," "Remedy," "Fine Again," and more) as well as The Nixons (most famous for their 1996 hit "Sister"), who turns out to be a massive, nearly life-long Elvis fan with just as much enthusiasm and appreciation for digging deep on Elvis' music to match any TCBCast guest we've had before. The duo naturally pick John's brain all about his love of collecting Elvis albums, his thoughts on recent projects like EPiC and the 2022 film, Elvis' impact on rock music...
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TCBCast 417: The Ups & Downs Of Elvis Fandom + Our Favorite Elvis Movie Lists
TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast
Gurdip joins Justin this week for a more unusually meta conversion, pondering how their Elvis fandom has waxed and waned over the years, how doing TCBCast has sustained and grown their interest in Elvis' life and career, how the internet has changed the way fans interact with each other, challenges that can make fandoms (of all types, of any interest) frustrating, and how to get back into the groove and nourish your appreciation and curiosity for learning about the subjects you love most. Plus, the guys catch up on a bunch of wonderful listener emails prompting interesting discussions about...
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TCBCast 416: Our Favorite Doo-Wop-Inspired Elvis Recordings
TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast
TCBCast's resident doo-wop king, Gurdip Ladhar, has been lured from hiding with the promise of getting to discuss Elvis' finest doo-wop-inspired records, as Gurdip, Bec and Justin discuss their top 5 each and ponder whether or not Elvis' cross-genre habits can be neatly put inside the boundaries of what was less of a genre and more a retrospective label applied to describe common fads in songwriting and arrangements for vocal groups within rhythm & blues and pop music that converged most prominently and popularly in the 1950s-1960s. For Song of the Week, Bec builds a "House of Sand,"...
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TCBCast 415: Revisiting "Live A Little, Love A Little" Part 2
TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast
Olivia, Ryan, Bec & Justin continue their exploration of 1968's "Live A Little, Love A Little" discussing the final act or so of the film, including the musical sequences "A Little Less Conversation" and "Almost in Love," as well as digging more into the major differences between the novel it as based on, "Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips." Where in the film we see Elvis' juggling two jobs as photographer, in the novel, the equivalent protagonist is trying to juggle two jobs and two women, and the gang weighs the climax of the novel where it all comes to a head with the adaptation's more...
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TCBCast 414: Revisiting Live A Little, Love A Little (1968), Part 1
TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast
As selected by TCBCast's patrons as the next movie starring Elvis to review, the gang is gathered to talk about what is, coincidentally, Olivia's favorite Elvis movie: "Live A Little, Love A Little." While Justin and Gurdip had previously done an episode all the way back in 2018 about the film, this time around we've got Ryan, Bec, Olivia and Justin all on board to talk about re-experiencing the film in 2026, with added context as Olivia has also picked up a copy of the Dan Greenburg novel the film is adapted from, "Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips." We discuss co-star Michele Carey, the stacked...
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TCBCast 413: Elvis' 1976 Bicentennial Show
TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast
Justin is joined for this episode by Ryan Droste, who, hearing the call of duty as TCBCast's American-history-teacher-in-chief, swung by to discuss Elvis' Independence Day concerts; briefly the 1955 and 1956 performances early in his career, but primarily the July 4, 1976, show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, celebrating America's 200th anniversary. Fifty years later, on America's semi-quincentennial, the guys revisit the soundboard recording, as heard on FTD's 2017 release The Bicentennial Show. Staying on theme, the duo's Songs of the Week highlight America as well: Ryan's pick of "Hawaiian Sunset" from...
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TCBCast 412: Was '61-'64 Elvis Stagnant? A Spirited Debate (feat. John Heath)
TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast
Inspired by a listener email, Justin and John Heath (of EAP Society and Atomic Wax) got into a vigorous debate over whether Elvis's musical output in the years following his return from the US Army were creatively stagnant, or a different sort of ambition, with Elvis intentionally exploring new sounds and styles, finally trying to marry the country, blues and rock and roll he had already mastered with traditional pop stylings he had aspirations toward but not perfected during the 1950s. Across hit singles and albums like "Something for Everybody," "Pot Luck," and the "lost" album from the 1963...
info_outlineThis week, Justin & Gurdip are visited by 20-year-old Elvis fan Daniel, and after a discussion about discovering & learning about Elvis as a young fan today, the guys get down to business with a lengthy dive into the similarities and differences between the careers of Elvis and Michael Jackson.
Professor Ladhar gives Daniel some Elvis homework, and then for Song of the Week, Daniel selects the truly epic background behind the sweeping "An American Trilogy," and the three historic songs that comprise it, while Gurdip rescues the peppy movie tune "One Broken Heart for Sale" from its place on an earlier "lost" episode of TCBCast.
Finally, Justin takes a listener request to explore the haunting, longing folk song "500 Miles" with a surprise "new" restoration by Elvis and the Kingston Trio, created by an Elvis fan. This is an episode of TCBCast you do not want to miss!
Featured Songs of the Week
Gurdip: One Broken Heart for Sale
Justin: 500 Miles
Daniel: An American Trilogy