Quote:I'd highly doubt that. 

 

Geoff Tate of Queensryche actually has (or had) that sort of range and Mr monotone Presley sounds like he's nothing close to capable of that.

Henry Pleasants, in his book 'The Great American Popular Singers' (1974)

On his live versions of songs like 'How Great Thou Art' (1975), 'Unchained Melody' (1976) and 'Hurt' (1977), you will be able to hear how high he can go; but, it is essentially on 'What Now My Love' (sang live at his 'Aloha from Hawaii' global telecast, which reached 1 billion viewers when first aired in 1973), where he goes up three octaves at the end of the song, that you can really hear his true vocal power.


Cory Cooper on Presley's vocal range, as published ALLEXPERTS.com, February4, 2005.

Elvis' initial hopes for a music career involved singing in a gospel male quartet. His favourite part was bass baritone, and he himself had an almost 3-octave vocal range... Yet to posterity's surprise, such a superlative and magnetic natural talent always remained humble --perhaps too humble to keep performing forever.

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Lindsay Waters, Executive Editor for the Humanities at Harvard University Press.

From his essay 'Come softly, darling, hear what I say'.

In 1956, even the youngest of his fans knew that the 21-year-old Elvis Presley was unquestionably the whole package; and, obviously, his great three octave tenor voice, with a lower register close to bass, seemed to vibrate on the inner scale of every teenager in America; they loved the high tenor, but when he 'got down' with that lower register, fans exploded; Elvis translated this into his moves on stage.

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