Elvis Presley: Second to None - Tracklist - Unreleased Track (Merged)

Listen to never before heard Elvis song

RCA hasn't posted it yet to their promotional website; but it's been leaked and is available here:

http://www.rtl.nl/(/actueel/rtlnieu...08_augustus/15/buitenland/0815_Elvis_2030.xml

then click on media file that says: "Nieuw liedje van The King"

Apparently the master tape doesn't exist. The song was acquired from the original writer, Winfield Scott, now in his 80s. He was given an acetate back in 1964.

It's a sort of funky uptempo track. Pretty cool as far as movie material goes. Anyway, this track smokes the different version of Roustabout that ending up being released.

According to Scott, the producer of the film rejected his version because the lyrics were to aggressive, including a line about telling his boss to "stick it in your ear."

 

here's an alternate download source; http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~pag/ImARoustabout-rtl.mp3

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RCA Press Release


LOST ELVIS PRESLEY SONG DISCOVERED!
Found Track, I'm A Roustabout, To Be Added To BMG/RCA Records Release ELVIS 2ND TO NONE Due Out On October 7th
New York, NY (August 15, 2003) - Nearly 26 years after the death of Elvis Presley, his longtime musical home, BMG/RCA, has unearthed a never-before-heard, entirely new song - I'm A Roustabout. This unprecedented discovery will be added to BMG/RCA's upcoming release ELVIS 2ND TO NONE due out on October 7th.

I'm A Roustabout was originally commissioned and written for the film Roustabout (1964) by longtime Presley collaborators Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell, but was never used. Rather, a completely different song written by the team Giant/Baum/Kaye was recorded for the film and eventually became the title song for both the movie and the # 1 album. An off hand remark from songwriter Winfield Scott to a journalist in New Jersey in 2003, started the ball rolling on discovering this lost track. When the same journalist interviewed BMG/RCA's producer/researcher Ernst Mikael Jorgensen he mentioned that he'd talked to a songwriter who had an unreleased Elvis song. As soon as the journalist mentioned Winfield's name, Jorgensen instantly recognized he was referring to the long lost Roustabout, originally rejected by movie producer Hal Wallis. Winfield Scott had found the original acetate in the basement of his New Jersey home, and was quite happy to play it over the phone to Jorgensen and subsequently grant BMG/RCA access to the recording.

Now, BMG/RCA will add I'm A Roustabout to ELVIS 2ND TO NONE, the highly anticipated new Presley release. ELVIS 2ND TO NONE is a compilation of #1 singles, fan favorites and career milestones representing a broader range of Elvis' talents and featuring multiple musical genres including R & B, rock 'n roll, pop, country, dance and rockabilly. The album features a Rubberneckin' produced by DJ Paul Oakenfold - one of the most acclaimed remixers in music history, and has been mixed and mastered from the original master tapes for optimum sound quality.

I'm A Roustabout is an up-tempo, tongue-in-cheek, R&B style pop song and has all the sparkle of a 1964 hit single and it remains a great track to this day. With its inclusion on ELVIS 2ND TO NONE, I'm A Roustabout will finally have a chance to become the hit it could have been back in 1964.

"I'm A Roustabout is truly one of the most incredible discoveries of modern music," said Joe DiMuro, Executive Vice President, BMG Strategic Marketing Group. "Rarely do we find any unreleased material for an artist of Elvis's caliber, and to have a complete track is even more unique. We are thrilled to be able to share this gift with music lovers throughout the world through ELVIS 2ND TO NONE."

"It's very gratifying for me to finally have this song be released," said Winfield Scott. "I hope that it brings Elvis fans as much joy as it did for me and Otis when we originally wrote it. Enjoy!"

ELVIS 2ND TO NONE is the follow up to the highly successful 2002 release, ELV1S 30 #1 HITS, which reached No. 1 in 26 territories worldwide, including the U.S. where it was a chart topper for three weeks. Over nine million albums were sold worldwide with 3.5 million in the U.S. Among the hits was the No. 1 remix of A Little Less Conversation produced by DJ JXL, which went to No. 1 in 26 countries including the US and Great Britain. That feat pushed Elvis past the Beatles for most No. 1 hits in the UK. Following the album's release, a television special, Elvis Lives aired on NBC Thanksgiving night and the special claimed the all important 18-34 demographic for the hour. Furthermore, the ELV1S 30 #1 HITS DVD audio debuted at No. 1 in the sales charts upon its release.



Q & A With Winfield Scott About I'm a Roustabout

Following is the Q & A with Winfield Scott BMG/RCA has distributed to the media:

Q: How did you start in the business?

I started in a vocal group called The Cues and we worked for Ahmet Ertegun on some sessions with LaVern Baker.

Q: What was the first successful song you wrote?

I wrote Tweedle Dee for LaVern. I presented parts of it to Ertegun during a rehearsal, and he played it for LaVern. She liked it and I brought in the whole song the next day. (After finishing writing it that night.) It was a huge success, and much to my surprise it turned out that a very young 19-year-old Elvis liked the song and performed it live on his shows. Unfortunately he never made a studio version of it.

Q: How did you end up writing for Elvis?

Songwriter Otis Blackwell was a good friend of mine and convinced me to start writing for pop artists as opposed to just R&B performers. Otis had written several songs for Elvis including classics like Don't Be Cruel and All Shook Up, and he had learned just how much more rewarding it was to write for a star like Elvis.

Q: What were the songs you wrote for Elvis?

In early 1962 we struck gold and had three songs recorded in just a few weeks. Return To Sender and We're Comin' In Loaded for the film Girls! Girls! Girls! and Easy Question for the Pot Luck album. We wrote One Broken Heart For Sale which became the hit single for the next movie, and Please Don't Drag That String Around which ended up on the b-side of (You're The) Devil In Disguise. A few years later I wrote Long Legged Girl with Leslie McFarland and in 1970 Elvis recorded Stranger In The Crowd which I had written on my own.

Q: What is the biggest success of them all?

As I understand it Return To Sender has sold about 14 million copies in the U.S. alone.

Q: What's the story behind Roustabout?

When Elvis made a movie, many writers were asked to submit songs for his films. Elvis would choose the ones he liked and then record them. Otis and I wrote a song for the 1964 movie Roustabout and Elvis recorded it. Movie producer Hal Wallis listened to the song but he objected to the lyrics because they had Elvis saying he wanted to tell his boss to "stick it in his ear." Mr. Wallis demanded that a new song called Roustabout be commissioned from other writers so our version never made it into the movie.

Q: So what happened to the song?

I had a copy of it on acetate and forgot all about it. This happened almost 40 years ago.

Q: When did you realize that you had something unique?

Well, I didn't really think about it all these years. Then recently during an interview with a New Jersey newspaper reporter, I mentioned having a copy of a song I wrote that Elvis recorded for a movie but was never used. A few days later I got a call from BMG's Elvis Presley producer Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, who had done an interview with the same newspaper. Through his conversation with the reporter, he realized that the song I had made reference to had to be my version of Roustabout. He came to my home and listened to my record, and subsequently we made a deal. The original story he and I were interviewed for was never printed and the journalist left the paper.

Q: How do you feel about the song getting released so many years later on the ELVIS 2ND TO NONE CD?

I'm surprised, happy and curious to see what kind of impact it will have.

Q: How would you describe the song?

It's an up tempo, fun, rock 'n roll song.

 

Thanks! Very interesting story behind the Otis Blackwell tune. This one should have been in the movie and soundtrack.

 

i agree, the one they ended up releasing sounds tame and impotent by comparison.

elvis records something funky, and it gets vetoed by Hal Wallis. ha!

 

Elvis Presley: 2nd to None Tracklist

Tracklist:
That's All Right, Mama - I Forgot to Remember to Forget - Blue Suede Shoes - I Want You, I Need You, I Love You - Love Me - Mean Woman Blues - Loving You - Treat Me Nice - Wear My Ring around Your Neck - King Creole - Trouble - I Got Stung - I Need Your Love Tonight - A Mess of Blues - I Feel So Bad - Little Sister - Rock-a-hula Baby - Bossa Nova, Baby - Viva Las Vegas - If I Can Dream - Memories - Don't Cry Daddy - Kentucky Rain - You Don't Have to Say You Love Me - An American Trilogy - Always on My Mind - Promised Land - Moody Blue - Rubberneckin' (Oakenfold remix) - I'm A Roustabout

 

Bob, where did you find the tracklist? As of this morning, the Second to None web site said the tracklist would be posted soon.

 

This is a great find and a fantastic addition to the new Elvis cd. It's interesting though how the song would end up getting "lost" for 40 years with only this acetate being the only source. I guess the original session tapes got wiped. It would be interesting to hear some speculation from Jorgensen as to what happened to the original tapes.

 

yeah, the probably wiped it. if they had the master session reel of this, you'd think it would have surfaced by now.

 

I found it on www.elvisnews.com. It will be interesting to see if RCA changes any of the tracks.

 

Viva Lost Elvis!

Courtesy of yahoonews.com...

Viva Lost Elvis!
Fri Aug 15, 8:40 PM ET Add Entertainment - E! Online to My Yahoo!


By David Jenison

Looks like Elvis left something behind on his way out the building.


Nearly 40 years after its recording, a never-before-released Elvis Presley track is set to appear on the forthcoming collection Elvis 2nd to None. The King, who died on August 16, 1977, recorded the song "I'm a Roustabout" for his 1964 circus-themed film Roustabout with Barbara Stanwyck (news) and Raquel Welch (news), but the producers ultimately opted for a different song to be used as the film and album's title track.


For decades, the shelved original remained stashed away in the private collection of songwriter Winfield Scott, who penned the track with partner Otis Blackwell (also a collaborator on "All Shook Up" and "Don't Be Cruel"). As the track collected dust, Scott happened to mention it to a reporter, who in turn tipped off a producer at RCA Records. The label, upon hearing the unreleased track, made the arrangements to make the song available.


Along with the unearthed track, Elvis 2nd to None, a sequel to last year's monstrously huge Elv1s 30 #1 Hits anthology, will include 30 more of the King's songs digitally polished from the original master tapes, including "That's All Right," "Viva Las Vegas," "Blue Suede Shoes," "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You," "Always on My Mind" and "Don't Cry Daddy."


Like its predecessor, which contained the chart-topping "A Little Less Conversation" remix by JXL, the new anthology will feature a Paul Oakenfold redo of the 1969 track "Rubberneckin'." Oakenfold, widely considered the world's top deejay, previously remixed songs for U2, Bjrk and the Rolling Stones, and scored his own commercial hit last year with "Starry Eyed Surprise."


"My hope is that the remix of 'Rubberneckin' ' will introduce Elvis' music to millions of new, young listeners and help create a new generation of fans," says Oakenfold in a statement. "I was drawn to this project primarily due to the influence of my father, who was a dedicated Elvis fan, and, with his passing, it is a tribute to him."


This new collection, due October 7, comes exactly one year after the monstrously huge Elv1s 30 #1 Hits, which topped the Billboard charts for three weeks and sold 9 million copies worldwide. While the 2002 collection featured the King's top radio hits and the popular JXL remix, Elvis 2nd to None will feature lesser known classics that cover the breadth of his range, including Elvis takes on R&B, rock, pop, country, dance and rockabilly.


The news also comes as upwards of 30,000 fans descend on Graceland to mark the 26th anniversary of Presley's passing, which culminates with a candlelight vigil at his grave Friday night.


Leading up to the album's street date, RCA Records will release the "Rubberneckin'" remix to radio on August 25 with a music video set to premiere about the same time. The commercial single for "Rubberneckin'" will be available September 9.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=795&ncid=689&e=11&u=/eo/20030816/en_music_eo/12331

 

The BMG press release....

Lost Elvis Presley Song Discovered!

Found Track, I’m A Roustabout, To Be Added To BMG/RCA Records Release ELVIS 2ND TO NONE Due Out On October 7th.
New York, NY (August 15, 2003) - Nearly 26 years after the death of Elvis Presley, his longtime musical home, BMG/RCA, has unearthed a never-before-heard, entirely new song - I’m A Roustabout. This unprecedented discovery will be added to BMG/RCA’s upcoming release ELVIS 2ND TO NONE due out on October 7th.


I’m A Roustabout was originally commissioned and written for the film Roustabout (1964) by longtime Presley collaborators Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell, but was never used. Rather, a completely different song written by the team Giant/Baum/Kaye was recorded for the film and eventually became the title song for both the movie and the # 1 album. An off hand remark from songwriter Winfield Scott to a journalist in New Jersey in 2003, started the ball rolling on discovering this lost track. When the same journalist interviewed BMG/RCA’s producer/researcher Ernst Mikael Jørgensen he mentioned that he’d talked to a songwriter who had an unreleased Elvis song. As soon as the journalist mentioned Winfield’s name, Jørgensen instantly recognized he was referring to the long lost Roustabout, originally rejected by movie producer Hal Wallis. Winfield Scott had found the original acetate in the basement of his New Jersey home, and was quite happy to play it over the phone to Jørgensen and subsequently grant BMG/RCA access to the recording.

Now, BMG/RCA will add I’m A Roustabout to ELVIS 2ND TO NONE, the highly anticipated new Presley release. ELVIS 2ND TO NONE is a compilation of #1 singles, fan favorites and career milestones representing a broader range of Elvis’ talents and featuring multiple musical genres including R & B, rock ‘n roll, pop, country, dance and rockabilly. The album features a Rubberneckin’ produced by DJ Paul Oakenfold – one of the most acclaimed remixers in music history, and has been mixed and mastered from the original master tapes for optimum sound quality.

I’m A Roustabout is an up-tempo, tongue-in-cheek, R&B style pop song and has all the sparkle of a 1964 hit single and it remains a great track to this day. With its inclusion on ELVIS 2ND TO NONE, I’m A Roustabout will finally have a chance to become the hit it could have been back in 1964.

“I’m A Roustabout is truly one of the most incredible discoveries of modern music,” said Joe DiMuro, Executive Vice President, BMG Strategic Marketing Group. “Rarely do we find any unreleased material for an artist of Elvis’s caliber, and to have a complete track is even more unique. We are thrilled to be able to share this gift with music lovers throughout the world through ELVIS 2ND TO NONE.”

“It’s very gratifying for me to finally have this song be released,” said Winfield Scott. “I hope that it brings Elvis fans as much joy as it did for me and Otis when we originally wrote it. Enjoy!”

ELVIS 2ND TO NONE is the follow up to the highly successful 2002 release, ELV1S 30 #1 HITS, which reached No. 1 in 26 territories worldwide, including the U.S. where it was a chart topper for three weeks. Over nine million albums were sold worldwide with 3.5 million in the U.S. Among the hits was the No. 1 remix of A Little Less Conversation produced by DJ JXL, which went to No. 1 in 26 countries including the US and Great Britain. That feat pushed Elvis past the Beatles for most No. 1 hits in the UK. Following the album’s release, a television special, Elvis Lives aired on NBC Thanksgiving night and the special claimed the all important 18-34 demographic for the hour. Furthermore, the ELV1S 30 #1 HITS DVD audio debuted at No. 1 in the sales charts upon its release.

Q & A With Winfield Scott About I’m a Roustabout

Following is the Q & A with Winfield Scott BMG/RCA has distributed to the media:

How did you start in the business?

I started in a vocal group called The Cues and we worked for Ahmet Ertegun on some sessions with LaVern Baker.

What was the first successful song you wrote?

I wrote Tweedle Dee for LaVern. I presented parts of it to Ertegun during a rehearsal, and he played it for LaVern. She liked it and I brought in the whole song the next day. (After finishing writing it that night.) It was a huge success, and much to my surprise it turned out that a very young 19-year-old Elvis liked the song and performed it live on his shows. Unfortunately he never made a studio version of it.

How did you end up writing for Elvis?

Songwriter Otis Blackwell was a good friend of mine and convinced me to start writing for pop artists as opposed to just R&B performers. Otis had written several songs for Elvis including classics like Don’t Be Cruel and All Shook Up, and he had learned just how much more rewarding it was to write for a star like Elvis.

What were the songs you wrote for Elvis?

In early 1962 we struck gold and had three songs recorded in just a few weeks. Return To Sender and We’re Comin’ In Loaded for the film Girls! Girls! Girls! and Easy Question for the Pot Luck album. We wrote One Broken Heart For Sale which became the hit single for the next movie, and Please Don’t Drag That String Around which ended up on the b-side of (You’re The) Devil In Disguise. A few years later I wrote Long Legged Girl with Leslie McFarland and in 1970 Elvis recorded Stranger In The Crowd which I had written on my own.

Q: What is the biggest success of them all?

As I understand it Return To Sender has sold about 14 million copies in the U.S. alone.

What’s the story behind Roustabout?

When Elvis made a movie, many writers were asked to submit songs for his films. Elvis would choose the ones he liked and then record them. Otis and I wrote a song for the 1964 movie Roustabout and Elvis recorded it. Movie producer Hal Wallis listened to the song but he objected to the lyrics because they had Elvis saying he wanted to tell his boss to “stick it in his ear.” Mr. Wallis demanded that a new song called Roustabout be commissioned from other writers so our version never made it into the movie.

Q: So what happened to the song?

I had a copy of it on acetate and forgot all about it. This happened almost 40 years ago.

When did you realize that you had something unique?

Well, I didn’t really think about it all these years. Then recently during an interview with a New Jersey newspaper reporter, I mentioned having a copy of a song I wrote that Elvis recorded for a movie but was never used. A few days later I got a call from BMG’s Elvis Presley producer Ernst Mikael Jørgensen, who had done an interview with the same newspaper. Through his conversation with the reporter, he realized that the song I had made reference to had to be my version of Roustabout. He came to my home and listened to my record, and subsequently we made a deal. The original story he and I were interviewed for was never printed and the journalist left the paper.

How do you feel about the song getting released so many years later on the ELVIS 2ND TO NONE CD?

I’m surprised, happy and curious to see what kind of impact it will have.

How would you describe the song?

It’s an up tempo, fun, rock ‘n roll song.

source : EPE/ BMG Press release

http://www.elvis-collectors.com/

 

here's the official site: http://www.elvissecondtonone.com/index2.php

really, a brilliant marketing strategy by BMG--saving the bonus track for "2nd to none" to spur sales. now the general public, plus the die-hards will pick it up.

 

I merged three Elvis threads to make life easier. However, there was a fourth created by KeithH that got gobbled up by the system.

Keith, sorry buddy.

mud-