Reply With QuoteClyde McPhatter & The Drifters: Fools Fall in Love, a favourite from 1957 that was still around in Elvis mind in '66.
Clyde McPhatter, Elvis did had some taste in music, didn't he?
So what did Elvis used to play on the jukebox for his own pleasure? Which artists/bands became a huge and constant influence on his singing and performance style? So what 45rpm's and L.P.'s are in that legendary record collection he kept in Graceland, same record collection he started as a teenager hanging around in record shops in 50's Memphis?
So most of the songs I'll post here, and I do invite you all to post, is the stuff we do know Elvis loved, artist he admired and tributed, songs that latter he recorded, most for his own pleasure, either in the studio, live, or as informal recordings at home.
I think Elvis will enjoy for sure this thread as a play list!
So I'll start with this '63 R&B piece, this is Percy Mayfield's "Stranger in My Own Home Town". Song Elvis must have get since day 1 he lisen to that record.
Elvis recorded this song, out of a jam at the American Sound Studios in February '69, and released (dubbed and edited) in the Elvis Back in Memphis L.P. November same year. A favourite of his, we got evidence of him jaming again on this number with the TCB Band while rehearsing for his August '70 concerts.
unedited and undubbed jam
edited and dubbed jam (With THE MEMPHIS HORNS! Hell YEah!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed1rz9Ay9rk
'70 Jam
Last edited by Raised on Rock; 09-29-2010 at 12:06 AM.
Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters: Fools Fall in Love, a favourite from 1957 that was still around in Elvis mind in '66.
Clyde McPhatter, Elvis did had some taste in music, didn't he?
Last edited by Raised on Rock; 09-29-2010 at 12:49 AM.
Roy Hamilton, probalby to Elvis what Elvis is to many of us, period.
Either Hamilton or Lanza, this is Graceland livingroom at midnight, some Elvis at the piano trying to emulate his musical heroes.
Or this is Elvis in '52, catching the radio shows of the day, dreaming about being a singer like that guy.
When you see Elvis doing those songs, it was clear that it was not just about the song, but as we know, because of our relation with certain Elvis songs, about all our memories and feelings, all the way from childhood, glued to the song.
An Elvis home recording
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CtIlcUlNnw
Last edited by Raised on Rock; 09-29-2010 at 01:18 AM.
Another Elvis favourite:
great stuff, thanks
Glad to know you're enjoying!Originally Posted by rickb
Jimmy Reed, a guy our man surely had on his top 10 list.
So how about this, Elvis must have been around 12 years old when Eddie Arnold recorded this song. Elvis remember it well at 34, as he started to play it at the piano out of nowhere. That jam became one of the highlights of his '69 Amercian Sessions.
Another Eddie Arnold tune he obviously liked:
Last edited by Raised on Rock; 10-01-2010 at 01:01 AM.
On October 3, 1945, Presley at age ten sang "Old Shep" for his first public performance, a singing contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. Dressed as a cowboy, he stood on a chair to reach the microphone. He came in fifth place, winning $5 and a free ticket to the fair rides.
This is the song he choosed to cover back then as a kid.
He loved the song deep enough, as he did it on the piano and recorded it in '56
From wikipedia:
The Golden Gate Quartet (aka The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet) is the most successful of all of the African-American gospel music groups who sang in the jubilee quartet style.[citation needed] Founded as the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet in Norfolk, Virginia in 1934 by Robert Ford, A.C. Griffin, Willie Johnson, William Langford, Henry Owens and Orlandus Wilson. They began as a traditional jubilee quartet, combining the clever arrangements associated with barbershop quartets with rhythms borrowed from the blues and jazz like scat singing...
...During his stint in the US Army, in Germany, Elvis Presley, who was a huge admirer of their work since his early childhood, visited them backstage at "Le Lido", in Paris, and stayed to watch their entire show, staying also with them at the hotel "Prince de Galles".
From his R&B stuff:
Last edited by Raised on Rock; 10-01-2010 at 01:59 AM.
Enjoying this..good idea!
You do kind-of notice that most of the songs are more to do with rhythm and sound rather than lyrics. Great to see/hear the influences that made up Elvis though.
I need to buy me some Jimmy Reed!
this is awesome Raised on Rock thanks!!!!
Play it James!
Cool stuff right? That Elvis sure had a nice ear for R&B.
Glad you like it, but Im not choosing the material, Elvis did!
Wouldn't be great, if he was still around, that he more openly talks to us for hours, via a long interview or even better a series of radio show, about his favourite music and artists?
No need to say a thing about the next songs
And from his last sessions, still in touch with his early roots.
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