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Heartbreak hotel

Postby colonel snow » Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:51 pm

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Re: Heartbreak hotel

Postby Mister Moon » Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:04 pm

The lead vocal was handled by bassman Will "Dub" Jones, who would join The Coasters a couple of years later.



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Re: Heartbreak hotel

Postby Private Presley » Wed Jun 21, 2017 10:42 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ao6J66x3A0

Colonel snow, I do not know when this was recorded but this was released on February, 1956.

mike edwards wrote:Excellent work, guys. So that would be the second time Presley was covered.

Do you consider Marty Robbins recording of That's All Right a cover of Elvis?
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Re: Heartbreak hotel

Postby Mister Moon » Wed Jun 21, 2017 4:27 pm

Another version from 1956, the parody by Stan Freberg.


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Ironically, one of the sit-down shows from the 1968 tv special includes a version of "Heartbreak Hotel" where Scotty Moore plays virtually the same guitar solo we hear on Freberg's record, as opposed to the one he played on the original cut - but it was probably done by accident. Elvis, unexpectedly, asks for a second guitar solo, and Scotty, in order to keep the meter of the song, leaves part of the guitar figure out (3:14). This could well have been the one and only time this song was performed by Elvis with two solos, hence Scotty's surprise :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_x7cVxfKrg


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