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Elvis: Songwriter who gave Elvis In The Ghetto wished The King had sung it differently

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SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH MAC DAVIS TALK ABOUT WRITING THE SONG AND HIS REACTION TO ELVIS' RECORDINGIn a fascinating filmed interview, Davis described how he got the inspiration for the song and his mixed reaction the first time he heard it sung by Elvis on the radio.

Davis said: "I grew up with a little kid whose daddy worked with my daddy, and he was a black kid. We were good buddies, 5 or 6 years old.

I remember him being one of my best buddies. "But he lived in a part of town, and I couldn't figure out why they had to live where they lived, and we got to live where we lived.

We didn't have a lot of money, but we didn't have broken bottles every six inches. It was a dirt street ghetto where he lived. "DON'T MISSElvis: Linda Thomson's.

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