Question about track #7 on "Jungle Room Sessions"

[howardrobardhughes]

Would someone please help identify the song that Elvis is mumbling at the beginning of track # 7 "For The Heart"..on the FTD "Jungle Room Sessions" CD ??....
He is singing the first few lines of a song as the intro starts..

TCB
Wade

[Lonniebealestreet]

Good question.

"Give The World A Smile" is the answer. The Stamps recorded it a long time ago, a couple generations before J.D. and the boys' tenure.

The Blackwood Brothers recorded it as well. Here's a clip of a recording from them.

http://www.mp3.com/tracks/2168189/dl_streams.html

And here are the lyrics (not sure who penned them)--Elvis is heard singing the chorus:

Are you giving to the world a smile (sunny smile)
Helping lessen someone's dreary mile (dreary mile)
Do you greet the world with song as through life you pass along
Cheering those you may meet along life's way

Chorus:
Give the world a smile each day (give the world a bright smile every day)
Helping someone on life's way (helping someone on life's dreary way)
From the paths of sin (paths of sin) oh bring the wonderer's in (bring them in)
To the master's fold to stay (to His fold, His forever to stay)
Help to cheer the lone and sad (help cheer the sad, the lonely and sad)
Help to make some pilgrim glad (help make pilgrim, make somebody glad)
Let your life so be that (life so be that) all the world might see
The joy of serving Jesus with a smile (a bright sunny smile)

Give the world a happy song today (song today)
That will help some pilgrim on His way (on His way)
You can tell him of the Lord and His heavenly reward
If you'll only follow Jesus day by day

Repeat Chorus

I'd never heard of the song before...I actually just figured this out.

[Captain Elwood David]

Lonnie -

Cool. (h)

Good stuff.


- Capt. "EL."

[Albert]

It's one of my favourite JD Sumner tracks.

Here's the track:

[howardrobardhughes]

Good question.

"Give The World A Smile" is the answer. The Stamps recorded it a long time ago, a couple generations before J.D. and the boys' tenure.

Chorus:
Give the world a smile each day (give the world a bright smile every day)
Helping someone on life's way (helping someone on life's dreary way)
From the paths of sin (paths of sin) oh bring the wonderer's in (bring them in)
To the master's fold to stay (to His fold, His forever to stay)

I'd never heard of the song before...I actually just figured this out.

You guys are great...how in the hell did you figure it out???

TCB
Wade

[Lonniebealestreet]

Thanks, guys.

So Albert, you've known that all this time and kept it to yourself? I don't recall seeing the song identified before.

Wade, I put on my Elvis ears, listened to the thing about 15 times, and discovered a few words were different than I had previously thought. The rest is Google history.

The thing I always thought was funny about that is how Elvis continued to sing for a second or two after the band started playing FTH. If anyone but Elvis had done that, the take would have been stopped--probably by Elvis.