elvis presley suspicious mind

[Raised on Rock]

Personally I love the undubbed versions of SM, you can hear Elvis' voice up front. It sounds much better than the original!?

You?re right, most Elvis songs from the Memphis Session '69 till the very end, sound much better just as they were played in the studio, best example is the new released rough mixes from Elvis Today compared to the original LP, same with the Jungle Room Sessions, the sound was so fresh and cool, then you hear the overdubbed stuff on F.E.P.B. and Moody Blue Lps and the sound became so ADULT.

What I don?t understand is: if Elvis himself didn?t liked that happening, why he didn?t did anything about it? most recording artists by the late 60's and early 70's didn?t just made some records, but they became involucrated even in the artwork, needles to say, they decided how the music will finally sound in the stores.

Anyhow, the overdubbed mixes of Suspicious Minds, Burning Love, Aways on My Mind are some of the ones that I kind of like them more than the undubbed tracks.

[KPM]

You?re right, most Elvis songs from the Memphis Session '69 till the very end, sound much better just as they were played in the studio, best example is the new released rough mixes from Elvis Today compared to the original LP, same with the Jungle Room Sessions, the sound was so fresh and cool, then you hear the overdubbed stuff on F.E.P.B. and Moody Blue Lps and the sound became so ADULT.

What I don?t understand is: if Elvis himself didn?t liked that happening, why he didn?t did anything about it? most recording artists by the late 60's and early 70's didn?t just made some records, but they became involucrated even in the artwork, needles to say, they decided how the music will finally sound in the stores.

Anyhow, the overdubbed mixes of Suspicious Minds, Burning Love, Aways on My Mind are some of the ones that I kind of like them more than the undubbed tracks.

I have read that he actually thought at times his voice was "too up front"
so perhaps he liked added instruments and the "smoothing" out of his music. I personally like the rough versions best also. I think on some songs- horns and added orchestration was nice but on rock songs I did not think it added anything-it distracted. As far as art work and album concepts which artists came up with in the 60s and 70s-they were the new crop of artists involved like that. Elvis was not from that crop, he let the people who did that type thing do it. Althought Elvis was a rock star-IMO I think his thinking on some things such as art work etc was more on the lines of Sinatra, or Dean Martin-let the people who do that handle it.