About "Reconsider baby" song... (need info please)

[Wendy56]

Hi everybody! If you have information about this sexy song, please, let me know. "Reconsider baby" (Elvis is back! album) is one of my favorites songs, that sax sounds so good that it's hard to resist. I know there is ahother version from the 50s I guess... but I really need more information about it. Please, you great Elvis Presley FANS, help me. Where else (CD's, DVD's...) can I find this song???, Other versions???, Other takes???

Thank you very much.

[Andy_M]

Reconsider Baby, Recorded (April Session) 4.4.1960; Take 1 is unreleased. Master Take is Nr.2. No other Take exist.
1st released on the Elvis is Back Vinyl LP 1960.
There exist NO other Version from the 50's.

You can find this Master Take 2 also on these CD's. Elvis is Back; 60's Masters 5 Cd Box; or the NEW and great RCA BMG CD ELVIS IS BACK. This is an 2 CD set in 7" Foldout Digipack Format with many many Outtakes of other tracks from this great 1960 March / April Session.

[Sonny]

Hi Wendy,

That sax sure is terrific!

The first version that comes to mind is the live version from the benefite show, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 25, 1961.
This can be found on the 4cd boxset Elvis Aron Presley and on some import cd's.
And there's an early studio jam:

Sun Studio, December 4, 1956 - Complete 50's Masters

Then there are several live versions from the Seventies available.

Las Vegas, August 23, 1969 - Collectors Gold & Elvis At The International (FTD)
New York, June 10, 1972as - An Afternoon In The Garden
Charlotte, february 21, 1977 - Moody Blue & Other Great Performances & Cajun Tornado (Import cd's)

Hope this helps,
Sonny

[Wendy56]

Thank you very much. I do have the alternative take but I didn't know which number is. I'll check the other CD's too, seems to be great!.

Thanks one more time for your help.

[Andy_M]

I totally forgot the Dec. 56 SUN Session Version of Reconsider Baby
Thanks Sonny for the Infos
The 70's Live Versions + the Live 61 Hawaii Version are also great

[Wendy56]

Hi Wendy,

That sax sure is terrific!

The first version that comes to mind is the live version from the benefite show, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 25, 1961.
This can be found on the 4cd boxset Elvis Aron Presley and on some import cd's.

Then there are several live versions from the Seventies available.

Sun Studios, December 4, 1956 - Complete 50's Masters
Las Vegas, August 23, 1969 - Collectors Gold & Elvis At The International (FTD)
New York, June 10, 1972as - An Afternoon In The Garden
Charlotte, february 21, 1977 - Moody Blue & Other Great Performances & Cajun Tornado (Import cd's)

Hope this helps,
Sonny

Hi Sonny,

Thanks for your help too... I feel so happy!!! I didn't know about live versions, except for that one from the An Afternoon in The Garden CD... Really, thank you!!!

[Andy_M]

Hi Wendy,
what do you mean with alternate Take? This can only be Take 1 as take 2 is the Master Take. Don't know any CD wich incl. the Outtake 1.
Can you inform us on wich CD this is incl.?

[jbgude]

There is also one version apparently on the " Million Dollar Quartet" ?

[Sonny]

Yes, JB, that's the one I mentioned: Sun Studios, December 4, 1956. It came out on the Complete 50's Masters 4cd set.

[Andy_M]

Hi jbgude,
the Version from the MDQ SUN Session is incl. in the 50's Masters Box Set.
Thats the one Sonny mentioned.

[Wendy56]

Hi Andy_M

I wrote "alternative take" because I don't really know how to call this "take". A friend of mine gave me a CD that he "made" with my favorites songs... didn't tell me more about them. So I can't really answer your question. I guess I have to find out all versions and finally know which is the one I have.

[Andy_M]

Hi Wendy,
I understand. If you speak only about Studio Versions, than there exist ONLY the MDQ Dec. 56 SUN Session Version + the Original Master Take 2 from the April 1960 Session. Take 1 is NOT released on any CD as far as I know.
Also there exist NO other Studio Versions from Reconsider Baby.
See also the great Master & Session Website www.elvisrecordings.com

Live Versions exist from var. years see Sonnys posting.

[Sonny]

I also would like to add, that the fabulous sax solo only can be heard on the master take and the 1961 Hawaii version.

In all live versions the sax is replaced by James Burton's guitar.

Sonny

[Wendy56]

Thanks for the link Andy_M, really useful. And Sonny, thanks for that comment... So, I guess that 50s version don't have any sax sound.

Both, thank you so much. I'm happy!

[Sonny]

No Wendy, that Sun version just has guitars, piano and drums...

Sonny

[Lonniebealestreet]

Speaking of that killer sax, I was debating with myself whether Boots Randolph was still alive (no, that's not why I used the word 'killer'). For some reason I was thinking he had just died in the last couple of years, but then I found this handy site:

http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead....Randolph+Boots

Good to know. I saw Boots sitting in with the CBS Orchestra on David Letterman just a few years ago, and he still sounded fantastic.

Apparently Elvis had him improvise on those solos on Reconsider Baby. What a classic performance.

[karlos]

THERE IS THE DIFFRERENT VERSIONS FROM THE 1960S , ALSO ON ELVIS - AN AFTERNOON IN THE GARDEN , 1972 - BUT ANOTHER GOOD VERSION IS FROM PITTSBURGH - DATED - 31. 12. 76 AND KANSAS - DURING THE JUNE 77 TOURS . - . U CAN HEAR THE PITTSBURGH VERSION ON THE FTD LABEL.
I HOPE THIS HELPS U JUST A LITTLE BIT ./-
ENJOY -

[Andy_M]

Hi Karlos,
what do you mean with diff Version from the 60's?
Diff STUDIO Versions? Or the 61 Live Version and the 60 Master Take??

[Redroo]

Thanks for the link Andy_M, really useful. And Sonny, thanks for that comment... So, I guess that 50s version don't have any sax sound.

Both, thank you so much. I'm happy!

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A guy by the name of Lowell Fulsom wrote the song and he did the original version of it, it is an old blues number, but his version is no patch on E's...it can be found on a box set called "Cookin The Blues" if you like the sax on that number you should here other trax that
Boots played on right through the 60's...
"You said you once had loved me
But now i guess you've changed your mind
Why don't you Reconsider Baby
Give yourself just a little more time
Oh yeh"

[karlos]

[QUOTE=Andy_M]Hi Karlos,
what do you mean with diff Version from the 60's?
Diff STUDIO Versions? Or the 61 Live Version and the 60 Master Take??[/QUOTE

i meant the 61 live version .