Elvis Presley - The Albums and Singles Thread pt2 The Sixties

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  1. RSteven

    RSteven Forum Resident

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    You and I are on the same page on this list. Oh, I would have to stick One Night in there somewhere as well.
     
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  2. EPA4368

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    Agreed, Guitar Man should have been released on a proper lp, and Elvis needed to go out and promote it as well.
     
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  3. PepiJean

    PepiJean Forum Resident

    So many great R&B numbers by Elvis: what about Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Trying To Get To You, Money Honey, Like A Baby and of course, One Night With You.
    (And also One Night from the TV Special that combined both versions.)
     
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  4. Pelvis Ressley

    Pelvis Ressley Down in the Jungle Room

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    Yes, he did, as well as guide vocals for "I'll Remember You" and "Indescribably Blue". The guide vocal for "I'll Remember You" is audible in spots on Elvis's overdub take 2.

     
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  5. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    I totally agree.
    FTD rectified these missing albums somewhat with
    Elvis Plays Guitar Man
    01) Guitar Man 2:22 (Jerry Reed)
    02) Tomorrow Is A Long Time 5:24 (Bob Dylan)
    03) Big Boss Man 2:54 (Al Smith/Luther Dixon)
    04) Love Letters 2:52 (Edward Heyman/Victor Young)
    05) Indescribably Blue 2:50 (Darrell Glenn)
    06) Fools Fall In Love 2:08 (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller
    07) Hi-Heel Sneakers 2:48 (Robert Higginbotham)
    08) Down In The Alley 2:54 (Jesse Stone and The Clovers)
    09) Come What May 2:03 (Frank Tableporter)
    10) Mine 2:39 (Sid Tepper/Roy C) Bennett)
    11) Just Call Me Lonesome 2:08 (Rex Griffin)
    12) You Don't Know Me 2:32 (Cindy Walker/Eddy Arnold)
    13) Singing Tree 2:22 (Arthur L) Owens/Archie Solberg)
    14) I'll Remember You 2:48 (Kuiokalaani Lee)

    and the earlier missing For The Asking
    Elvis Plays Memphis Tennessee
    01 Witchcraft 2:24 -
    02 Please Don't Drag That String Around 1:57 -
    03 Love Me Tonight 2:03 -
    04 Slowly But Surely 2:15 -
    05 It Hurts Me 2:30 -
    06 Echoes Of Love 2:42 -
    07 (It's A) Long Lonely Highway 2:23 -
    08 (You're The) Devil In Disguise 2:22 -
    09 Never Ending 2:02 -
    10 Ask Me 2:09 -
    11 Memphis, Tennessee 2:11 -
    12 Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers 1:53 -
    13 Western Union 2:14 -
    14 Blue River 2:11 -
    15 What Now, What Next , Where To 2:01

    and also So High the Nashville outtakes 66-68
    Run On -take 6 2:27;
    Stand By Me - take 2 2:41;
    Down In The Alley - take 6 2:48 ;
    Tomorrow Is A Long Time - take 2 5:50 ;
    Love Letters - take 8 3:12 ;
    So High - take 1 2:12 ;
    By And By - take 9 2:01;
    Somebody Bigger Than You And I - take 11 2:36 ;
    Without Him - take 1 2:55 ;
    If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side - take 6 1:39 ;
    Come What May - take 2 1:53 ;
    I'll Remember You - take 2 4:10 ;
    Guitar Man – take 9 2:31 ;
    Mine - take 4 3:03 ;
    Singing Tree - take 1 3:04 ;
    Just Call Me Lonesome - takes 3,4 2:19 ;
    Hi-Heel Sneakers - take 5 4:54 ;
    You Don't Know Me - take 2 2:48 ;
    We Call On Him - take 2 2:36 ;
    You'll Never Walk Alone - take 1 5:26 ;
    Jam 0:26 ;
    Stay Away - take 6 2:22 ;
    U.S. Male - take 11 3:00 ;
    Too Much Monkey Business - takes 4, 10 4:20 ;
    Going Home - take 29 2:28.

    Much to my bank accounts chagrin, I had to get them lol
     
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  6. czeskleba

    czeskleba Senior Member

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    I love a good Christmas song, and that's exactly what If Every Day Was Like Christmas is... a good Christmas song. Not a great one, but really good, and made better by Elvis' fine vocal.

    Just as he was too lazy to record a full Christmas album in 1957, Elvis doesn't bother to record a b-side here, and they recycle a 3-year-old movie track. This is a puzzling choice. If they were going to use an old track anyway, why not pick an actual Christmas song from 1957 for the b? Or why not use Beyond the Reef, another song from the same sessions that was not even released in Elvis' lifetime?
     
  7. SKATTERBRANE

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  8. No please! Keep Just Call Me Lonesome and add US Male.
     
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  9. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    Imagine how different the Elvis catalog looks with
    Elvis Sings Memphis Tennessee/For The Asking in 1964
    and Elvis Sings Guitar Man in 1966
     
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  10. EPA4368

    EPA4368 Forum Resident

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    U.S.Male was played a lot over the airwaves in my home town, The Windy City. It peaked in US at 28 on BB and Elvis was on a roll.
     
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  11. Spencer R

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    Guitar Man wasn’t recorded until September 1967. If, in 1967, RCA had released a non-soundtrack Elvis album with Guitar Man, Down In The Alley, Tomorrow Is A Long Time, etc., I’m not sure it would have cut through the Sgt. Pepper/Summer of Love hype and registered with the rock audience, although it couldn’t have hurt his image. But, at the height of psychedelia, would Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone have been impressed by such an album? I doubt it. However, by December 1968, and the Comeback Special, rock had begun to shift away from psychedelia and back towards rootsier sounds, such as Music From Big Pink and Sweetheart of the Rodeo, that perhaps paved the way for the black leather unplugged bits of the special to be taken more seriously, but, in the bigger picture, I think that the broad exposure of a network TV special allowed Elvis to get his new look and new attitude across to the masses better than just another album would have done during this era.
     
  12. SKATTERBRANE

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    I do not recall hearing ANY new Elvis song on the radio between Devil In Disguise and US Male (I did not listen to Country stations, never will). But I do remember US Male being played quite often back in 1968.
     
  13. Spencer R

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    If Crying In The Chapel was a #3 hit, or whatever it was, I would assume it got played on pop radio.
     
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  14. SKATTERBRANE

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    I am sure it was. I must have missed it whenever someone played the radio.
     
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  15. It would have just pre-dated Dylan's John Wesley Harding, which itself was a return to more basic rock. Would have been awesome to see Elvis get there first.
     
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  16. stereoguy

    stereoguy Its Gotta Be True Stereo!

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    I actually love the "thrown together" LPS RCA put out from tracks they had lying around, like "Lets Be Friends" , "Elvis For Everyone" , "I Got Lucky", etc. They are a great way to get some harder to find material, like "Charro" which is actually a pretty good song and should have been a hit.
     
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  17. I've always appreciated those early Camden albums and they're an important part of the LP release story.
     
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  18. SKATTERBRANE

    SKATTERBRANE Forum Resident

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    Yes, I like them too. But a more comprehensive release and packaging strategy would have gone a long way to elevate Elvis artistically in the critics' and general public's perception.
     
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  19. PepiJean

    PepiJean Forum Resident

    RSteven, here's what I've been listening to in my car for the last weeks. (One single CD, BTW.)

    "Full of Rhythm & Blues" (1955 / 1971)
    [​IMG]
     
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  20. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    Nice Compile
     
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  21. SKATTERBRANE

    SKATTERBRANE Forum Resident

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    Except I do not want Christmas songs on non-Christmas compilations. But on the other hand I always say any Elvis CD that includes both My Baby Left Me and Mystery Train can't be bad.
     
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  22. czeskleba

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    As I noted earlier, there was 16 months between the 1966 session with Tomorrow is a Long Time and the 1967 Guitar Man session. I can't imagine a realistic scenario where RCA would have sat on the earlier tracks for over 16 months in order to eventually compile an album in late 1967. Elvis was recording some great non-movie tracks in 1966-67, but not with an album in mind and never enough at one time to make an album. It's fun in retrospect to compile a "lost" album out of those 1966-67 (and 1968, if you throw in US Male) sessions, but it's not something that would have realistically happened at the time. No one was thinking "album" or pressing Elvis to record enough for an album.
     
  23. czeskleba

    czeskleba Senior Member

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    I don't recall him getting much of any country airplay either in the latter half of the 60s, prior to 1969.
     
  24. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product Thread Starter

    When Looking at the Soundtrack albums and Ep's, it sort of looks like they were just really squeezing out the last lot of them in 67-68 ...
    Was that intentional to get the movies over and done with (from a contract perspective)? was it merely coincidence?
    It seems to someone like me, who isn't fully fluent in the whole history, that the plate was being cleaned so the restart could begin.
     
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  25. czeskleba

    czeskleba Senior Member

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    It's just coincidence it worked that way. No one had things planned in advance, and a lot of what happened was mere happenstance. When the Colonel signed the contract for the TV special, it was not intended to be any big event.
     
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