Recorded by Elvis in just a single take in Nashville on 7 June 1970, “Funny How Time Slips Away” remains one of Elvis’ finest recordings which sees Elvis in a laid back style but with an underlying feeling of menace which surfaces in the final verse and the threatening lyrics “that in time your gonna […] More
And if I stay, I stay because of you, my boy Because you’re all I have, my boy You are my life, my pride, my joy And if I stay, I stay because of you, my boy More
The fifth of the seven songs recorded in Elvis’ short three day session at RCA’s Studio B in Hollywood during late March 1972 was “Fool” as song which would become the opening track of his first studio album of 1973 and the unofficial title track. The album was officially released as “Elvis” with the front […] More
This was the fourth song of Elvis’ legendary afternoon show in The Houston Astrodome, the only venue which saw Elvis perform solely with the TCB band on stage during the seventies. The size of the stage prevented Joe Guercio and his orchestra from being present at both of these shows but the show seemed to […] More
Voted 3rd Position in our vote for FAVOURITE SONG OF THE YEAR: 1961, chosen from Billboard magazine’s Top Hot 100 songs. This song was written in 1926 by the Tin Pan Alley songwriters Roy Turk and Lou Handman. It was a hit in 1927 for a number of artists, including Vaughan Deleath (a female despite […] More
Surely one of Elvis’ most beautiful and touching movie ballads is “Home Is Where The Heart Is” from “Kid Galahad” where the lead character Walter Gulick serenades his new girlfriend Rose Grogan, and the look both on her face and in her eyes, not to mention the way she follows his movements catches the mood […] More
This song is one of the few within Elvis’ vast back catalogue of which a live version was released first, even though the studio master was recorded prior to that live rendition. The live version was contained on his 1972 live album recorded at his third show at New York’s Madison Square Garden in the […] More
The most well known Elvis rendition of this song is undoubtedly that from 14 January 1973 in Hawaii. However, Elvis had been performing the song on stage for well over a year and the RCA live master comes from a Las Vegas dinner show on 17 February 1972. It was a further twenty three years […] More
Elvis’ recorded “For Ol’ Times Sake”, originally recorded in Stax on 23 July 1973. The recipe to this original version of this obscure track is the simple yet unusual arrangement to the song combined with Elvis’ deliberately fragile vocal which portrays the emotion of the protagonists narrative. This is a practice which Elvis had applied […] More
Elvis’ recorded “For Ol’ Times Sake”, originally recorded in Stax on 23 July 1973. The recipe to this original version of this obscure track is the simple yet unusual arrangement to the song combined with Elvis’ deliberately fragile vocal which portrays the emotion of the protagonists narrative. This is a practice which Elvis had applied […] More
Perhaps the most surprising inclusion in Elvis’ new set list for his August 1974 Las Vegas engagement was “Down In The Alley”, a 1966 recording and not a hit of any kind. It lasted just the one show on the set list, opening night 19 August, before being dropped and Elvis never returned to it […] More
Already in the final stretch of the recordings at the iconic American Sound Studios in Memphis and under the production of Chips Moman, on February 19, 1969, Elvis would make this song immortal, by the composers Eddie Rabbit and Dick Heard, who composed it for him.Eddie Rabbit was a great fan of Elvis and he […] More