You`re back, denglish4!  
Pat Boone`s stuff was appropriation, but not Elvis`s because--by somebody`s definition-- Boone did it wrong (I might admit to ``badly``--I mean, have you heard his version of Tutti Frutti? It belongs on a CD compilation of vintage``novelty`` records) and Elvis did it ``right``? 

The guy who produced Elvis` early stuff could have kissed his feet when he walked into Sun studio because he was looking for a white singer to ``appropriate`` black music styles.  A white guy: Sam Phillips.  Bad Sam, but good Elvis?

And what guys had big hits on the ``rhythm and blues`` charts that reflected BLACK record sales throughout the 50s? Two guys who didn`t think twice about ``appropriating``black slang, situations, lifestyles (and other cultural ``touchstones``) in songs such as Kansas City, Hound Dog, and hits by the black group, the Coasters?  Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller.  Double bad!  Not only white guys, but Jewish, yet.  Oy Vey!  Oops...there I go! Sorry.

More to come