Post #9410 by Formikahini on Fri, Sep 27, 2002 4:04 PM

On 2002-09-26 18:42, ob seagull wrote:
i love the previous selections....well most of them....but i would like to add a few that definitely get me in that mai tai mood.

swamp fire - denny
quiet village - denny
yellow bird - lyman
denny's misirlou
and
blue hawaii - elvis not el vez

Hey! I'm a former Elvette (Lisa Maria)! And El Vez ALWAYS got us in the mood :wink:!

A couple of years ago, an Oxford, Miss. professor (one of the guys who put on the Elvis symposium), Robert Lopez (aka El Vez) and I were trying to put together a cruise down to Mexico, in which the academician would give lectures before the showings of Elvis' tropically set movies, and El Vez and I (glammed up movie-star style) would do an entertainment schtick at night. It was kinda The Professor, Ginger, and ...El Vez! It didn't make, though, dangit. How cool would that have been to get PAID to take a cruise down to Mexico, watch Elvis in his beautiful wedding attire in "Blue Hawaii" on board a ship, and sing for my supper! And my school was gonna let me take off the week from teaching, because we'd be going to Tulum, a Mayan site about which I teach but have never seen!!

No tears for me, though. I finally do get to go on a 4 day cruise (my first ever) to Tulum this Thanksgiving, only with my family, not a bunch of fellow fun-seeking Elvis lovers. sigh ("Gramma, where does Aunt Formikahini get all the teeny paper umbrellas from? Why isn't she playing shuffleboard with us? Is she sleeping late again?")

Yeah, I know, kinda off the topic from ideal playlists...