ELVIS

[I. Spaceman]

Lindsey Lohan.
Prob'ly change it to Priscilla soon.

[matt 1234]

I just like how crazy elvis was. Sure theres some great rock and roll there, but the lessons on fame and overindulgence you learn from watching anything about that guys life is way more valuable than any music he made, and i like the early stuff alot.

[I. Spaceman]

You might want to try the Elvis Country, 68 Special and From Elvis In Memphis albums. Then you may see that his finest work was 1968-1970.
And that his voice and artistry remained strong until his passing.

[Bean Bag]

Amen.  Throughout that period, ballads that most singers would have turned into overblown fluff, Elvis sang them as if they were gospel.  Everything that we know of as encompassing the aura of ELVIS, he created.  The look, the sound, the social revolution that followed in his wake.  It's that simple.  He is such an icon that most people will be unable to appreciate the scope of what he created.

[I. Spaceman]

And an Amen right back to you.
The key point is that Elvis CREATED himself. He was not some dumb country boy. He wasn't intellectual about music either.
He INTUITIVELY crafted his art, through emotion and transcendance of musical labels and genres, races and sexes.
But make no mistake, Elvis did it, not Sam Phillips, not Colonel Parker, not his fans, nobody else but him.
Excellent points, Shaft.

[Jeff Mason]

Not to mention that he was pretty much his own producer from 1957 or so to 1965.  And Felton was hands off during the actual sessions, adding his touches usually in overdubs.  The Memphis sessions were the only "produced" sessions he did (besides his work with Sam Phillips).  He instinctively knew what he wanted in the studio and how to get it/foster it.

And that voice!  Flexible, powerful, subtle, full of emotion.

[Jason]

I think Elvis' 1966 sessions are hideously underrated. There's so much class material, and his cover of I'll Remember You puts the Don Ho version to shame.

I love the Stax Sessions in '73. They produced one of my absolute favorite lesser-known Elvis tracks, Thinking About You. Beautiful song.

[Jeff Mason]

I think you have to blame RCA for that, Jason, or at least whoever was compiling and approving albums.  Had a studio album been released of that 1966 material, it would have been more noticed.  But burying I'll Remember You, Down In the Alley and Tomorrow Is A Long Time on the Spinout soundtrack?

[Sheriff John Stone]

Anybody aware that Lisa Marie Presley just got married for the 4th time?  Anybody care?

[Jason]

I think you have to blame RCA for that, Jason, or at least whoever was compiling and approving albums.  Had a studio album been released of that 1966 material, it would have been more noticed.  But burying I'll Remember You, Down In the Alley and Tomorrow Is A Long Time on the Spinout soundtrack?

If you listen to the 1966 tracks purely on their own on the third disc of the 60s Masters box set, it's a fascinating listen. The beginning of the time when Elvis was singing like his life depended on it. That and the How Great Thou Art album.

[Chance]

Anybody aware that Lisa Marie Presley just got married for the 4th time?  Anybody care?

Hadn't heard. I hope it works out for her. Don't really know her music, but I like her, she strikes me as being pretty down to earth, whereas she could easily have wound up a clueless, pampered brat ala Paris Hilton.

[I. Spaceman]

I am happy for her. I love Lisa Marie.

[Rocker]

Charlie Hodge is dead ! Probably one of the best and truest friends Elvis ever had. Never was a bad word about Elvis heard out of Charlie's mouth.
I'd like to post this snippet from the Jordanaires as a tribute to Charlie Hodge. May he rest in peace!  http://www.jordanaires.net/audios/The%20Jordanaires%20-%20Dig%20a%20Little%20Deeper.mp3

[mark goddard]

This new FTD looks Great !!

Elvis Made In Memphis FTD CD
Style: EP-130-7035CD
Price: $29.98

Made in Memphis is a single-disc regular Follow That Dream release featuring outtakes from Elvis’s sessions in Memphis in 1969 (American Sound Studio), 1973 (Stax Recording Studio) and 1976 (the den at Graceland). There is an additional 5-song set of home recordings made at Sam Thompson’s place in November 1973. (Sam was a member of Elvis’s entourage and the brother of Linda Thompson, Elvis’s steady girlfriend from 1972 to 1976.)

Enjoy this classic CD, “Made in Memphis” and enjoy the sound of one of the best artists of all time.

Recorded January & February 1969, at American Sound, Memphis:
1) IN THE GHETTO - take 13 (Mac Davis)
2) YOU’LL THINK OF ME - take 8 (Mort Shuman)
3) DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM - take 4 (Bobby Russell)


Recorded July 1973, at Stax, Memphis:
4) IF YOU DON’T COME BACK - take 5 (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)
5) THREE CORN PATCHES - takes 5 & 6 (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)
6) FIND OUT WHAT’S HAPPENING - take 7 (Jerry Crutchfield)
7) IT’S MIDNIGHT - take 11 (Billy Edd Wheeler/Jerry Chesnut)
THINKING ABOUT YOU - take 3 (Tim Baty)
9) YOU ASKED ME TO - take 1 (Waylon Jennings/Billy Joe Shaver)

Recorded February 1976, at Graceland, Memphis:

10) SOLITAIRE - take 7 + talk from 6 & 7 (Neil Sedaka/Phil Cody)
11) SHE THINKS I STILL CARE - take 3 & 4 (Dickey Lee)
12) MOODY BLUE - take 6 (Mark James)
13) BITTER THEY ARE, HARDER THEY FALL - take 1 (Larry Gatlin)
14) LOVE COMING DOWN - take 4 (Jerry Chesnut)
15) FOR THE HEART - take 5 (Dennis Linde)


Recorded early November 1973, at Sam Thompson’s House, Memphis:
16) BABY WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO (Jimmy Reed)
17) I’M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY (Hank Williams)
18) SPANISH EYES (Kaempfert/Singleton/Snyder)
19) SEE SEE RIDER Trad. Arr. by Elvis Presley)
20) THAT’S ALL RIGHT (Arthur Crudup)

[Rocker]

Yeah, everything Elvis recorded in Memphis is interesting to hear!

BTW here's my very favorite Elvis-live-performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3rezXX_w9o&search=elvis%20presley

[Rocker]

Does anybody have the "That's the way it is"-outtakes and could upload them on youtube ? "Yesterday" as  a studi rehearsal is already up there. From what I've heard there's really great stuff in these outtakes...

[Rocker]

WOW!!!!! Look at this :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxiGtr8QwXY&search=elvis%20presley



 

[I. Spaceman]

I've got 6 hours on DVD from those outtakes. Great stuff.

[Jeff Mason]

If only THAT could go in Elvis Complete....

[I. Spaceman]

I'll see what I can do!