To all of you guys/gals that remember 1972. Was Burning Love being played in the clubs at the time? I mean it was a great fast moving track that still is good on the dance floor. Too bad Elvis during this time didnt record more fast moving tracks.
"When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was a hero in the movie. So every dream that I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times. I learned very early in life that without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend; without a song. So I keep singing a song." - Elvis Presley
I could never figure it out, he didn't like Burning Love when he was recording it.
I think RCA really screwed him over so many times that he was turned off by recording and would rebel.
If you listen to the 50's out takes, the 1960 sessions, 1968 comeback and Memphis sessions in 1969, there's a big difference in attitude quality of recordings.
I remember it on the radio. Was too young then to frequent any clubs.
Elvis basically had to be 'forced' into recording "Burning Love" because he had a lot weighing on him during that time of February-March of '72 due to Priscilla leaving him....if that hadn't been going on, I'm sure he would've been more 'into' the song.
It's still a great track, though!!
Not clubs I went to played Burning Love, it was Disco music.
I dream a world where man no other man
will scorn. Where LOVE will bless the earth
and peace its paths adorn...
In St. Louis there were clubs in 1972- but they had live acts.
There weren't many clubs with DJs (at least in the midwest). Around 1977-78they began to become more prevalent with the onset of the Disco craze.
But it was played quite a bit on juke boxes in a few places I frequented, along with "My Ding a Ling" by Chuck Berry.
Originally Posted by KPM
Did you know that "My Ding-A-Ling" was the song that kept "Burning Love" from going to #1???
You are right Ken. Dallas started getting their first DJ disco clubs around 1975. The first 2 songs that I remember from clubs in the mid 70's are Dont Leave Me This Way by Thelma Houston and Nights On Broadway by the Bee-Gees.
Disco was the music of the late 70's early 80s. I was going to university in Houston. I did the disco thing, but mostly it was Gilley's. I stopped dancing at Gilley's after the Travolta movie became popular - too many city folk who didn't know how to dance
I don't remember any Elvis music at that time except for Kentucky Rain and In the Ghetto. If I heard Burning Love, it was only on the radio.
Just pretend, I'm holding you, and whispering things soft and low.
And think of me, how it's gonna be and just pretend I didn't go
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