Elvis had a brilliant ability to control the attack and ending of each note. If we listen the 1954 Sun Records recording of "Blue Moon of Kentucky" we can hear Elvis using a technique known as “glottal onset and offset” – in which the vocal folds in the larynx are closed at the start of a note and closed with extra emphasis at the end of the note – to achieve clarity of attack and an amazing rhythmic bounce in his vocal performance. That ability to drive the rhythm is also present in the 1963 hit "Viva Las Vegas" in which Elvis effortlessly accents the melody to give a rhythmic shape to each phrase.

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