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TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast

Dec 28, 2021

Just in time for your New Year's celebration, Gurdip, Bec & Justin join forces to explore the histories behind six all-new submitted Songs of the Week from this year's Patreon polls, including:

-Let Yourself Go from Speedway
-Hey Hey Hey from Clambake
-What'd I Say from Viva Las Vegas
-It's Now or Never, from 1960,...


Dec 22, 2021

Ryan Droste returns to TCBCast for a holiday-appropriate look at "His Hand In Mine," Elvis's first full-length gospel album from 1960. Ryan & Justin dip a little into where the songs originated, and touch on the lengthy overnight marathon session that delivered two single A-sides and the full album of spirituals.

For...


Dec 14, 2021

Justin is joined this week by Tony Plews, author of Walk a Lonely Street: Elvis Presley, Country Music and the True Story of Heartbreak Hotel, to explore Elvis's impact on the United Kingdom: on the charts, in culture, and on future generations of British acts.

Then, Justin forgoes a Song of the Week to let Tony tell...


Dec 7, 2021

Justin is joined by special guest Rabia for a broad discussion and re-assessment of Elvis's time in Hollywood. They cover some of Elvis's best and most underwhelming performances, memorable costars, scenes and songs, insights on history and cultural changes be mined from the films and their crews, and how to contend...


Nov 30, 2021

For this month's Patreon-picked topic, Justin ropes Bec back in for a relaxed, loosely chronological listen to Elvis's progression as a vocal performer in his first decade of making recordings: from the thin-voiced teenager whose only real training consisted of timidly singing along with pop records, to the...