STEVE MORSE wrote:By Tony Perkins !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gek-O0VYZA
Almost incongruous, given his most famous persona, but quite pleasant.
Mister Moon wrote:STEVE MORSE wrote:By Tony Perkins !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gek-O0VYZA
Almost incongruous, given his most famous persona, but quite pleasant.
This was done for RCA Victor in 1957. It features a girlie chorus, like the 1961 Elvis version. Oddly, the 45 label read "Moon-Light Swim".
I have a soft spot for this song, even though Elvis' recording is not the one I like the most. The 1957 original by Nick Noble on Mercury is a classic, sung at a faster tempo than Elvis' recording, and featuring an ultracool, twangy, guitar solo that's absent from the Presley and Perkins versions. Elvis sings it slower, and that girlie chorus does no favours to him. But I still like the track, especially that spot during the second bridge where he sings second vocal. Very unusual, maybe unique :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X476_OqTgY
John wrote:Mister Moon wrote:STEVE MORSE wrote:By Tony Perkins !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gek-O0VYZA
Almost incongruous, given his most famous persona, but quite pleasant.
This was done for RCA Victor in 1957. It features a girlie chorus, like the 1961 Elvis version. Oddly, the 45 label read "Moon-Light Swim".
I have a soft spot for this song, even though Elvis' recording is not the one I like the most. The 1957 original by Nick Noble on Mercury is a classic, sung at a faster tempo than Elvis' recording, and featuring an ultracool, twangy, guitar solo that's absent from the Presley and Perkins versions. Elvis sings it slower, and that girlie chorus does no favours to him. But I still like the track, especially that spot during the second bridge where he sings second vocal. Very unusual, maybe unique :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X476_OqTgY
Ah yes, you posted that a couple of years ago. I believe we also featured the Perkins version on TMMB way back when.
Also your thoughts here on the Perkins version from 4 years ago.
https://www.theelvisforum-phoenix.com/v ... ins#p89992
Mister Moon wrote:John wrote:Mister Moon wrote:STEVE MORSE wrote:By Tony Perkins !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gek-O0VYZA
Almost incongruous, given his most famous persona, but quite pleasant.
This was done for RCA Victor in 1957. It features a girlie chorus, like the 1961 Elvis version. Oddly, the 45 label read "Moon-Light Swim".
I have a soft spot for this song, even though Elvis' recording is not the one I like the most. The 1957 original by Nick Noble on Mercury is a classic, sung at a faster tempo than Elvis' recording, and featuring an ultracool, twangy, guitar solo that's absent from the Presley and Perkins versions. Elvis sings it slower, and that girlie chorus does no favours to him. But I still like the track, especially that spot during the second bridge where he sings second vocal. Very unusual, maybe unique :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X476_OqTgY
Ah yes, you posted that a couple of years ago. I believe we also featured the Perkins version on TMMB way back when.
Also your thoughts here on the Perkins version from 4 years ago.
https://www.theelvisforum-phoenix.com/v ... ins#p89992
Thanks, John.
The Elvis version is no doubt patterned after the Perkins one - it was after all a previous RCA Victor production.
Indeed, I posted the Noble original in the First In Line section a while back, and I was going to post a link to the pertaining thread, but now the whole section looks kinda incomplete as colonel snow has erased all his posts there. That's a real shame.
Mister Moon wrote:Another thing I like about the Noble original are those water sounds at the beginning and end of the song. Really cool and evocative.
John wrote:Mister Moon wrote:Another thing I like about the Noble original are those water sounds at the beginning and end of the song. Really cool and evocative.
Make some older people want to pee (not me, I might add).
Mister Moon wrote:Another thing I like about the Noble original are those water sounds at the beginning and end of the song.
Really cool and evocative.
John wrote:Make some older people want to pee (not me, I might add).
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