Elvis records "Burning Love" this day in 1972

[RockabillyNBlues]

Elvis records "Burning Love" this day in 1972.  Hear a couple versions by Elvis, Arthur Alexander and songwriter Dennis Linde here- http://rockabillynblues.blogspot.com/2012/03/elvis-records-burning-love-this-day-in.html

[Rocker]

Thanks. Elvis' version sounds the strongest to me. Much more hit potentia than the others

[stack-o-tracks]

Thanks. Elvis' version sounds the strongest to me. Much more hit potentia than the others

Elvis' version rocks. I first heard it in the Lilo & Stitch movie.

[PhilSpectre]

The day Elvis entered the building and recorded this track was a good day indeed.

I have read that he apparently did not particularly like the song and performed it live after 1973-ish relatively rarely, I believe. Perhaps a symptom of his general preference for ballads in his late career.

[Rocker]

I have read that he apparently did not particularly like the song and performed it live after 1973-ish relatively rarely, I believe. Perhaps a symptom of his general preference for ballads in his late career.

He did it quite regularly in '75 and '76. In fact, in '73 he didn't play it as much as you'd expect a recent hit record to be.
It wasn't so much that he didn't like the song but that he wasn't in the mood to record it at the session in '72, just during the breakup of his marriage. You'll find that the other songs he recorded at that sessions were all broken-hearted love-gone-wrong tunes like "Always on my mind" and "Separate ways" a.o. So it took some convincing from his buddies and Felton Jarvis to make him record this.

[Ron]

This song is a good example of how a great singer can sing anything and make it great.  If a lesser singer would have done this song, it would have sucked, period.  Elvis does it and there ain't a fucking thing anybody can say bad about it.  We lost such a huge talent when he died, one of the most naturally talented artists that ever lived. 

[Rocker]

This song is a good example of how a great singer can sing anything and make it great.  If a lesser singer would have done this song, it would have sucked, period.  Elvis does it and there ain't a f*cking thing anybody can say bad about it.  We lost such a huge talent when he died, one of the most naturally talented artists that ever lived. 

Absolutely.
I think he did it live even better in '75 than in '72 or '73:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KeMc29rIEw