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Just came across this today:

http://www.examiner.com/article/this-is-elvis-features-vocal-from-the-late-carl-wilson?CID=examiner_alerts_article

http://www.examiner.com/article/this-is-elvis-features-vocal-from-the-late-carl-wilson?CID=examiner_alerts_article

"The song is on the order of “Heaven,” and it tells who Elvis was…the lyrics and the music. It’s simple, it’s sweet, and it’s deep. It’s emotional to talk about it, because all three of these people – who were so close to me in my life – are all gone. But boy, this is a great piece of all of their music left behind honoring Elvis, and done by Carl and Myrna."

Beat me to it!

Really interesting.

I love that documentary, Elvis was one cool dude.

Thanks Joe :)   Great article.  What a sweet guy Carl was, a gentleman.

When should we expect to be able to buy/hear this recording, do you think? 

>>Billy and I discussed what we should do with this historic reel and felt strongly that this was Myrna and Carl’s music and should be for their fans. I happily offered the tape back to the Wilson family with all proceeds earned to benefit the foundation <<

“Justyn Wilson was particularly moved at hearing the sound of his father's voice.”

Touching  ^-^

Awww. So cool.

This will be a treat to here, particularly because I am a fan of all 3 artists.

Still the best documentary about Elvis. And this comes just now that FTD will re-release the soundtrack to "This is Elvis" as a double disc (see below). This could've been a perfect way to release it.


The famous (uncensored) "buried in a beaver"-scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laszdRd6AJ8




(http://www.elvisclubberlin.de/media/kunena/attachments/766/11423146849.png)

DISC 1

ORIGINAL ALBUM

Side A

01: (Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame (2:06)

(Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman) Original record master

02: Moody Blue (2:49)

(Mark James) Original record master

03: That’s All Right (1:54)

(Arthur Crudup) Original record master

04: Shake, Rattle And Roll / Flip, Flop And Fly (2:42)

(Charles Calhoun) / (Charles Calhoun/Lou Willie Turner)

January 28, 1956. “Stage Show” hosted by the Dorsey Brothers

05: Heartbreak Hotel (2:02)

(Mae Boren Axton/Tommy Durden/Elvis Presley)

March 17, 1956. “Stage Show” hosted by the Dorsey Brothers

06: Hound Dog (2:48)

(Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)

June 5, 1956. “The Milton Berle Show”

07: Excerpt from “Hy Gardner Calling” Interview (1:57)

July 1, 1956

08: My Baby Left Me (2:11)

(Arthur Crudup) Original record master

Side B

09: Merry Christmas Baby (2:49)

(Lou Baxter/Johnny Moore)

Original record master (edited/shortened version)

10: Mean Woman Blues (2:32)

(Claude Demetrius) Movie version

11: Don’t Be Cruel (3:30)

(Otis Blackwell/Elvis Presley)

September 9, 1956. “The Ed Sullivan Show” hosted by Charles Laughton

12: (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear (1:46)

(Kal Mann/Bernie Lowe) Original record master

13: Jailhouse Rock (2:25)

(Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) Original record master

14: Excerpt from Army swearing in (0.28)

March 24, 1958

15: G.I. Blues (2:36)

(Sid Tepper/Roy C. Bennett) Original record master

16: Excerpt from departure for

Germany interview (0:51) September 22, 1958

17: Excerpt from home from Germany

press conference (1:31) March 7, 1960

Side C

18: Too Much Monkey Business (2:09)

(Chuck Berry) Original record master (edited/shortened version)

19: Love Me Tender (2:41)

(Vera Matson/Elvis Presley) Original record master

20: I’ve Got A Thing About You Baby (1:35)

(Tony Joe White)

Original record master (edited/shortened version)

21: I Need Your Love Tonight (2:03)

(Sid Wayne/Bix Reichner) Original record master

22: Blue Suede Shoes (2:31)

(Carl Perkins) “Elvis” NBC TV Special

23: Viva Las Vegas (2:13)

(Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman) Original record master

24: Suspicious Minds (3:12)

(Mark James)

August 12, 1970 midnight show (edited/shortened version).

“That’s The Way It Is”

25: Excerpt from Elvis’ speech at the JC’s Award as one of the 10 most outstanding

Young Men Of The Year (0:19) January 16, 1971

26: Promised Land (1:57)

(Chuck Berry) Original record master (edited/shortened version)

Side D

27: Excerpt from Madison Square Garden

press conference (1:16) June 9, 1972

28: Always On My Mind (3:01)

(Wayne Carson/Johnny Christopher/Mark James)

March 30, 1972. “Elvis On Tour”

29: Are You Lonesome Tonight? (3:40)

(Roy Turk/Lou Handman) June 21, 1977. “Elvis In Concert”

30: My Way (3:44)

(Paul Anka/Jacques Revaux/Claude Francois)

June 21, 1977. “Elvis In Concert”

31: An American Trilogy (4:31)

(Mickey Newbury) April 9, 1972. “Elvis On Tour”

32: Memories (2:18)

(Billy Strange/Scott “Mac” Davis)

Original record master (edited/shortened version)


DISC 2

EXPANDED HOME VIDEO TRACKS

01: I Was The One (2:58)

(Aaron Schroeder/Claude DeMetrius/Hal Blair/Bill Peppers)

February 18, 1956. “Stage Show” hosted by the Dorsey Brothers

02: Hound Dog (2:44)

(Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) July 1, 1956 “The Steve Allen Show”

03: Love Me Tender (1:09)

(Vera Matson/Elvis Presley) (end title version)

04: Trouble (2:19)

(Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) Original record master

05: Ready Teddy (2:26)

(Robert Blackwell/John Marascalco)

September 9, 1956. “The Ed Sullivan Show” hosted by Charles Laughton

06: King Creole (2:09)

(Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) Original record master

07: As Long As I Have You (1:52)

(Fred Wise/Ben Wiseman) Original record master

08: Frankfort Special (2:56)

(Sid Wayne/Sherman Edwards) Original record master

09: Stuck On You (2:27)

(Aaron Schroeder/Leslie McFarland)

March 26, 1960. “The Frank Sinatra Timex Show”

10: Witchcraft/Love Me Tender (without reprise) (1:43)

(Cy Coleman/Carolyn Leigh) / ( Vera Matson/Elvis Presley)

March 26, 1960. “The Frank Sinatra Timex Show” (without reprise)

11: Blue Hawaii (2:37)

(Leo Robin/Ralph Rainger) Original record master

12: Rock-A-Hula Baby (2:01)

(Fred Wise/Ben Weisman/Dolores Fuller) Original record master

13: King Of The Whole Wide World (2:10)

(Ruth Batchelor/Bob Roberts) Original record master

14: I Got Stung (1:52)

(Aaron Schroeder/David Hill) Original record master

15: Trouble/Guitar Man (opening) (2:19)

(Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) / (Jerry “Hubbard” Reed)

Original record master (edited/shortened version)

16: Let Yourself Go (2:37)

(Joy Byers) “Elvis” NBC TV Special

17: If I Can Dream (3:10)

(W. Earl Brown) Original record master

18: A Big Hunk O’ Love (2:09)

(Aaron Schroeder/Sid Wyche)

January 14, 1973. “Aloha From Hawaii”

19: Can’t Help Falling In Love (2:46)

(Hugo Peretti/Luigi Creatore/George Weiss)

January 14, 1973. “Aloha From Hawaii”

20: Love Me (2:36)

(Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) June 19, 1977. “Elvis In Concert”

It's good FTD have gotten around to this soundtrack. The fans have been asking for it for a while now. Did anybody here ever get to see Elvis live? I saw him in 1972 four days after the Madison Square Garden concerts. He was flat out amazing and the audience response was so out of control that it bordered on all out hysteria.

Was it this show?
http://www.elvisconcerts.com/concerts/Concert_expand.php?id=435

Hi Rocker,
Great site you linked to. I'd not seen this one before. It looks like I was a day off, as Elvis was wearing the Blue Nail suit the night I saw him. It was this show:
http://www.elvisconcerts.com/cdr/720615es.htm
I have the tour program and ticket stub, and I bought a poster at the show.

I have no idea how good this song might be (it would no doubt be great to hear Carl’s voice, but sometimes “tribute” songs can be kind of clunky or cloying, at least lyrically), but I’m hoping they actually get around to really releasing this song in some form rather than just talking about it. Neither the Carl estate nor the BB’s seem to be churning out archival product at a quick pace, so I’m worried about how they’ll get this song out unless they just throw a free download up on the interwebs.

There is that apparent Carl biography coming out later this year, and I would hope that was done with some amount of co-operation from Carl’s family and friends (his story is harder to research, so I would imagine the author would have some new sources; otherwise it would be a potentially extremely short book), so perhaps they might get some Carl archival release out there (perhaps Carl’s other solo album CD, or a set with both along with some rarities) to tie in with the book.

Lucky fellow! Must've been quite an experience; Elvis in '72
It's a cool site that gets updated regularly. You can also see old newspaper reviews etc. maybe a review of "your" concert is in there as well.





I agree about tribute songs. And I only remember one Elvis tribute song that was any good imo.
I commented on Billy Hinsche's facebook post that the soundtrack will get re-released soon. Maybe there's a chance to tie in with a release of this song.

Thanks so much!! Intriguing.

It was mentioned on the "For Elvis CD Collectors"-messageboard that George Klein played the song on his radio show. Someone (username:  The Baystar dude) thankfully recorded it. Listen here:

https://soundcloud.com/the-baystar-dude/myrna-smith-carl-wilson-this-is-elvis

Leadvocals by Myrna, harmonies by Carl

Awesome, thanks!  Too bad it doesn't have the whole song.

Nice to hear Carl's voice, but this is a pretty painful track.

Sounds very much like Heaven to my ears, or at least performed in the context of the song Heaven.

Not nearly as good as "Heaven".
I guess it wasn't used for very good reason. Not that it's a particularly bad song but I can't see it as a titletrack for such a movie as "This is Elvis". If it was used, I could see it being played during the end credits. But Presley's own "Memories" was probably a better choice, although it was used the same way already for "Elvis on tour".

Great to hear Carl on an unknown song though.

Disagree. Its actually rather lovely, and very Carl. Imagine it with a full BB arrangement.

would love to have had heard Carl sing it...... and with his overdubbed harmony...

very much 'heaven' meets 'I wish for you'

not sure how it may have fit with the documentary, but as a stand alone track..... could have been nice..

RickB

I'm happy that it is not as cheesy as these kind of songs 8especially about Presley) usually get.


Here's the movie btw:

https://vimeo.com/84610378


EDIT:
Damnit! It's in spanish. I try to find the english version.


EDIT 2:
There you go   http://www.alluc.com/l/This-is-Elvis-1981-mkv-flv/gcqqszaa



Although it's not up-to-date on a few things, it's still the best Elvis documentary we have imo.

Thanks for sharing. I love it, although the chorus probably needed to be developed a bit more. Just lovely hearing those 2 voices together again. Myrna really loved Elvis (no, not romantically), and this comes across in the song.

maybe Brian can take the tape and finish it....

meh
I was expecting something more from this...

Musically and lyrically, that wasn't as bad as I feared it would be. A simple acoustic track, and probably would have worked that way better than a big production.

I was somehow thinking this was kind of a duet or that they traded off on the lead. But this is, performance-wise, pretty much a solo Myrna track with Carl simply singing the harmony on the chorus (sounds like they mixed Carl's voice up a bit louder than I would think a harmony vocal would typically be mixed, which isn't a bad thing for Carl fans of course). It is indeed very comforting to hear Carl's voice. Based on Schilling's description of the time frame it was recorded, I'm guessing this was recorded in 1980 more likely than 1981, not that that particularly matters.

This is essentially a Myrna track, so I'm not sure where the best venue would be to release the track if they were inclined. I suppose some sort of deluxe release of Carl's albums would be a good enough spot, since Myrna is on his albums too. 

I think I heard that he produced an album for her that is unreleased.  I wonder if any of those tracks are co-written by him.  I would like to hear that, but doubt it would ever come out.

I'm down for seeing anything and everything released. I don't find Carl's solo album's to be particularly awesome. A hand full of good tracks, the rest is kind of bland. What I would like to see released is a good-sounding live recording from Carl's 1981 tour. The circulating recording of his 1981 gig at "My Father's Place" (presumably from radio, or a few generations down from a regular soundboard recording) is solid-sounding recording, and the live show breathed a lot of life into the solo album tracks. They sound much less sterile when performed live, especially stuff like "Bright Lights" and "The Grammy."

I have that recording, and I think it might change the opinions of some who find his first solo album bland. I saw Carl with essentially the same band in 1983 and rate it one of the best shows I ever saw. Last I heard, Billy Hinsche was trying to get the first album issued on cd, but that was at least a year ago. It was puzzling that "youngblood" finally came out on a cd a couple years ago, but not the first album.

I agree that there isn't really a better Elvis documentary but I sure do hate those added scenes with actors and the phony narration.

I agree about the narration. Thankfully the german synchronisation was quite good and didn't try the dumb imitation. Really good.
The scenes with actors were quite good imo. And it's the only time you can see Graceland upstairs.

In terms of the soundtrack. When the movie came out a lot of that wasn't available but in the years since rca has put out so many better compilations that it now seems pretty irrelevant except for completists

I liked this song a lot more than I thought I would.  I wish we had more songs of Carl singing to an acoustic guitar like this one.

The track is now available from CD Baby:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/carlwilson1

Amazon and iTunes releases coming soon.

Downloaded!  Will listen at home later.

They have it available in 3 different formats.  MP3 (At 200kbps), MP3-320 (At 320kbps) and a FLAC download as well.  You can download all three for $0.99

Nice vocals from Carl and Myrna, but really..a lame, lame song.   Doesn't do it for me.

I wonder if this was written before, or after "Heaven", because of the similarity.  Is there an exact date on it?

Dogbone

This is on Spotify now...

It is on iTunes now too.