Elvis is so NAUGHTY here. I love the pelvic thrusts, and the girls’ squeals of delight. The instrumentation is an interesting half electric/half acoustic trio: drums, upright bass, and a hollow-bodied archtop [thanks PK] electric guitar with F-holes. Elvis is solo. HE was a no-effects music video all by himself, without any direction. (”Music video” in the sense that some people often prefer music videos to video-less songs — seeing the music, rather than only hearing it.)
This song is less than 2 minutes long and is an excellent example of the 12-bar blues.
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Some folk REALLY got it! I think he never got the credit he deserved as a dance performer. Still, Big Mama put some kind o’ grease into it that the Big E somehow misses.
By the by, probably the most commonly named attribute to that kind of guitar is the “archtop” (like a string instrument rather then flat like a Martin). These are, of course, mostly seen used by jazz players. As the volume levels crept up in R & R, the naturally resonant body made them prone to acoustic feedback. Outside of some peoples stuffing of their guitars and various other schemes to try and thwart this, they disappeared in favor of the solid body guitars.
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