Postby DarylR » Wed Dec 04, 2024 3:56 am
On The Elvis Presley Connection Vol. 4, there are probably a few songs I would substitute and replace with other versions.
I'd remove Don Gibson's version of "Just Call Me Lonesome" and replace it with Eddy Arnold's version.
I would have included Eddy Arnold's version of "You Don't Know Me" along with Ray Charles's version.
I would have scrapped both versions of "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Conway Twitty and Andy Williams) and included Roy Hamilton's version.
I wouldn't have included Fred Mick & the Kingsmen version of "Baby, What You Want Me to Do" and I would have replaced it with Jimmy Reed's original.
I would have included Mac Davis's version of "Memories" from his first album, Song Painter and Nancy Sinatra's 1969 recording.
I would have gotten rid of Jimmy Ellis's version of "Kentucky Rain" and replaced it with Eddie Rabbitt's version from his 1978 album, Variations.
There's a really obscure recording of "Wearin' That Loved on Look" by a group called Lady and the Tramps that I believe dates from 1969.
I remember reading somewhere that at one point songwriter W. Earl Brown put out a recording of "If I Can Dream" that would have been pretty cool to track down and include here.
O. C. Smith's recording of "Clean Up Your Own Back Yard."
There are some recordings of songs from the American Sound sessions such as "Gentle on My Mind" (John Hartford - produced by Felton Jarvis) and Glen Campbell, "True Love Travels on a Gravel Road" (Duane Dee, Percy Sledge), "Long Black Limousine" (Jody Miller, O. C. Smith, etc.), "I'm Movin' On" (Hank Snow), Mac Davis's 1974 recording of "Poor Man's Gold," Billy Vera's demo recording of "Rubberneckin'," Clyde McPhatter and Tom Jones's recordings of "Without Love (There Is Nothing)," Eddy Arnold's recording of "I'll Hold You In My Heart," the Beatles' recording of "Hey Jude," Della Reese's and Eddy Arnold's recordings of "After Loving You," and Bobby Wood's recording of "If I'm a Fool (for Loving You)." There's also snatches of songs that Elvis sang that the popular versions could be included such as Richard Harris's "MacArthur Park," Tiny Tim's "Tip-Toe Thru the Tulips," a couple of different versions of "This Time" (Troy Shondell and Thomas Wayne), Don Gibson and Ray Charles's versions of "I Can't Stop Loving You."
DarylR
