Elvis Presley: Songs Written About Elvis 2

"(619) 239-KING" and “Elvis is Everywhere” by Mojo Nixon

Hello again, dear Readers.  I am back with your 2nd instalment of the songs written about Elvis.  If you remember from my first post in this series, was it just yesterday? Yes indeed it was. Anyway, I discovered while reading yet another biography about Elvis that there are over 232 songs written and recorded about Elvis.  I was enchanted to know this because who else can you name that has had that many songs written about them besides God, Jesus, Mother Mary and several other religious figures? 

I promised you that I would research these songs and present them to you. My first post included probably the most famous tune ever written and recorded about Elvis, “Black Velvet”. Today I thought I’d cover two more songs that really should put a smile on your face and I’m pretty sure even Elvis would have gotten a kick out of them. 

Mojo Nixon was born exactly 20 days before me on August 2, 1957 in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was originally named Neill Kirby McMillan, Jr. and I can’t seem to find an explanation for the name change but no matter, Mojo suits him much better as you’ll soon see.

Mojo is an irreverent artist taking shots at just about anybody he wants to. Some of his song titles include “Don Henley Must Die”, “Jesus at McDonalds” and “Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child”.  You get the idea?  However with the two songs he recorded about Elvis, it seems that Mojo actually really loves Elvis and for that, I will forgive him for using so many really ugly and bad Elvis impersonators in his videos.  Of note: in the “619-239-KING” video there is actually one impersonator that shows up early in the video who actually does resemble Elvis as he looked in the mid-70’s. Mojo is quoted as saying that his personal religious trinity was Presley, Foghorn Leghorn and Otis Campbell.

If you’re interested in reading more about Mojo Nixon, click here.  Meanwhile, enjoy these two videos:

(619) 239-KING Embedding is disabled for this one but you should be able to watch it at YouTube by clicking on the link