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Please tell me I'm not the only person who thought ...

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Misfitless · 23/12/2013 05:34

'Lonely this Christmas' was sung by .....Blush Blush Elvis Presley Blush Blush.

How have I got to the ripe old age of not-quite-but-nearly 40 and not known that Mud, yes Mud, recorded this song?

I am totally shocked [shocked].

Watched TOTP 2013 last night...and there they were...with some bloody puppet..I can not express my confusion, embarrassment, disbelief.

Can anyone else join me....and make me feel less of a....knob?

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Misfitless · 23/12/2013 05:35

Shock not [shocked] Smile

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sporktacular · 23/12/2013 05:56

Huh? Of course it was Elvis. The whole voice wobble thing, it MUST be. goes to look it up but I don't believe you. Surely the Mud version will turn out to have been a cover...

sporktacular · 23/12/2013 05:58

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonely_This_Christmas ...really?! I still don't believe it. Hang on...

youmakemydreams · 23/12/2013 05:59

I never knew either. Heard on the radio the other day that Elvis knocked it back.

sporktacular · 23/12/2013 06:03

I can't find anything to contradict this, just loads of "can this be so?" questions all over the entire internet. Is this really really true? Can't believe it!

TorrieLou · 23/12/2013 06:31

I always thought it was shakin Stevens ?

SqueakyCleanLibertine · 23/12/2013 06:36

Yes,I thought it was shaky!

Slainte · 23/12/2013 06:44

I always thought it was Elvis too, I'm shocked its not!

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Misfitless · 23/12/2013 06:47

Thank everyone.
I'm relieved it's not just me sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
It's amazing isn't it, but in a bad way.
Shaky, eh?
"What are we like?" and all that! Grin

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Misfitless · 23/12/2013 06:52

I've been experiencing a whole range of emotions...I don't even feel embarrassed anymore....now I just feel cheated.

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AnnBryce · 23/12/2013 06:58

It's Les Grey singing ! Very elvis like isn't it.

Bunbaker · 23/12/2013 07:09

It most definitely was Mud. I am old enough to remember it as I was 16 at the time. He does sound like Elvis though.

hootloop · 23/12/2013 09:01

Was he not trying to sound like Elvis because it was written for Elvis and he refused it?

GirlWithTheDirtyShirt · 23/12/2013 09:03

I had no idea. I even argued the toss last night while TOTP2 was on and I could clearly see it wasn't Elvis.

HoHoHopelessAtNamingBabies · 23/12/2013 09:03

I thought so too OP. Wow!

BillyBanter · 23/12/2013 09:05

You've stolen my Christmas. Thanks

EdithWeston · 23/12/2013 09:09

I hate threads like this!

Yes, I knew it was Mud. Because it was 1974 when it was the Christmas No1, and I danced to it. And it's not the earliest Xmas No1 I remember either. Xmas Grin

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Misfitless · 23/12/2013 09:16

GirlWith Me too!

Oh was it, Edith? Thanks! That was the year I was born.

Happy that such a classic was No 1 on my first Christmas!

Going to google what was number 1 when my DCs were born now..!

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LucyLasticKnickers · 23/12/2013 09:23

nope,
I knew it was mud but then i am musical anorak

WhoKnowsWhereTheMistletoes · 23/12/2013 09:26

I remember it from 1974 too and I can honestly say it has never crossed my mind that it sounds like Elvis, but now you mention it, it does doesn't it?

LidlAngel · 23/12/2013 09:28

My husband's world tilted a bit on it's axis when I told him it wasn't Elvis singing, so you were absolutely not alone Smile

Skogkat · 23/12/2013 11:46

Wow. I feel....awkward....now. Because yesterday I had a big argument about exactly this. And I was adamant that it was Elvis.

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Misfitless · 26/12/2013 16:54

Skogkat Smile.

We need a humble pie icon for you! Wink
My mum and dad should remember the song, and must have seen Mud singing it on TOTPs back in the day, but yesterday I asked them who sang it and they both said Elvis!

Even when I told them it was Mud, they insisted it was Elvis????

It like there's been some weird conspiracy...I can understand people who were too young to remember when it was released, but it totally threw me that my parents who were in their mid twenties when it was released could have forgotten about Mud and now think it's Elvis.

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LineRunner · 26/12/2013 16:57

Les Grey was always the working men's club Elvis. Bloody good at it, too, as a homage.

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