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Post by philly on Oct 12, 2014 15:19:16 GMT -5
Slide.. wasn't Elvis' favorite female singer, Anne Murray? Although Linda had a string of hit records in the mid 70's..When he died, Linda was on the verge of Super stardom. She wasn't really a household name until after his death.. Linda was on the cover of Time in February of '77, Elvis died in August. I think Linda was a household name by then, Rolling Stone in '78 declared her America's best known female rock star by far. But of course her fame did rise even more over the next decade.
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Post by Dianna on Oct 12, 2014 15:53:59 GMT -5
Slide.. wasn't Elvis' favorite female singer, Anne Murray? Although Linda had a string of hit records in the mid 70's..When he died, Linda was on the verge of Super stardom. She wasn't really a household name until after his death.. Linda was on the cover of Time in February of '77, Elvis died in August. I think Linda was a household name by then, Rolling Stone in '78 declared her America's best known female rock star by far. But of course her fame did rise even more over the next decade. Simple Dreams came out in Sept of 77.. I don't remember her being so hugely popular until then. Everybody had that album.
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Post by Dianna on Oct 12, 2014 16:31:19 GMT -5
Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie, has cited Linda Ronstadt as a major influence and a vocalist that she listened to constantly from the time she was a little girl. So the connection is there. Mom, Priscilla, also once said to People she was listening to the new Ronstadt record. I think it was Living In the USA. I have nothing against ONJ, Anne Murray or singers like Karen Carpenter but they are not vocalists or musicians in the same league with Linda. Their song selections and arrangements ,were for me ,almost always dreadful and in my college years they were shlocky and square - nobody bought those kind of records - but I guess somebody did. Linda much cooler,influential and vocally powerful - an album artist - well apart from just top 40. It kind of surprises me when they are mentioned in the same breath as Ronstadt. To each his own. I've heard that about Lisa Marie too. I've never read anything about Elvis' opinion on LR. I know in concert he sang one of ONJ's hits, "if you love me let me know." I'm not a big fan of ONJ either but she was a huge in the mid 70's probably the biggest female pop star at the time. I hope nobody thinks I am being dismissive of Linda's work prior to Simple Dreams. I'm not . I only mention ONJ because back then she was another successful pop singer with hit songs..who else would I compare her too?.. Queen, Steely Dan, ELO? Donna Summer. I only mentioned Anne because at the time, it was fact she was Elvis' favorite lady singer. she isn't MY favorite singer. this isn't personal. My mom was is a huge Linda fan and I don't recall her having Linda's Heart like a wheel. She did have Simple Dreams..
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Post by simpledream on Oct 12, 2014 18:32:41 GMT -5
Agree with you Charlotte vis comp. ONJ, Anne Murray and Karen Carpenter. Saw Lisa Marie in concert in Oz and recall her citing LR as an influence. I recall Oz radio playing a mash of LR and EP 'Love Me Tender' decades before Barbara Streisand doing it.
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Post by erik on Oct 12, 2014 18:53:43 GMT -5
Quote by charlotte:
Of course one has to take in mind that Karen, Olivia, and Anne were fairly far apart from Linda in terms of musical styles (though both Anne and Olivia were heavy presences on the country charts like Linda; and one of Anne's biggest hits, ironically, was an R&B-style 1974 cover of the Beatles' 1965 Rubber Soul track "You Won't See Me"). They were really different from Linda, and really from each other, which the 1970s not only allowed but encouraged, it seems to me, as opposed to now, where everybody's all but expected to copy everyone else.
Lisa Marie's citing of Linda is fairly well-known among us, but it is revelatory that Priscilla once said she and Lisa Marie had been listening to Linda's Living In The USA--and ironic too, since the last track on the album is "Love Me Tender."
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Post by Dianna on Oct 12, 2014 21:52:45 GMT -5
I think my entire point was missed somehow lol. This thread morphed into an elvis topic..first of all I never questioned who Lisa Marie or Priscilla liked musically or was influenced by. The person in question is Elvis not his daughter or ex.... I'm sure lisa and priscilla loved Michael Jackson's music too but that's irrelevant to how Elvis felt about the Jackson's.. maybe he loved them too.. don't know..?? maybe Slide or Erik might be able to answer that one, as I'm curious too. It is a known fact Elvis' favorite singer was Anne Murray.. regardless.. square or nerdy he liked her. another fact is he sang Olivia's If you love me at concerts. which leads me to believe he liked her too. maybe Elvis was this big closet nerd. dont know lol. Anyway. there isn't anything on record that I know of which shows Elvis to be a Linda fan... maybe he was. it's strange because as I mentioned in an earier post. many of his contemporaries did like her a lot. I know that her big break album was heart like a wheel. with many radio hits from that record.mostly uptempo rock songs. you're no good, when will I be loved and then of course hanks country class. i can't help it. I don't remember the grown ups in my family (parents aunts uncles) owning heart like a wheel. my parents were from the elvis generation so maybe it was too hard core for my mom. however when Simple Dreams came out my mom, aunts ect fell in love with Linda's blue bayou and by coincidence my mom also loves Anne.. my point is had Elvis lived longer to experience Linda's Simple Dreams, Blue Bayou, something tells me she would have a favorite of his probably even covering a few of her songs in concert.
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Post by moon on Oct 12, 2014 22:09:43 GMT -5
Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie, has cited Linda Ronstadt as a major influence and a vocalist that she listened to constantly from the time she was a little girl.  So the connection is there.  Mom, Priscilla,  also once said to People she was listening to the new Ronstadt record.  I think it was Living In the USA.  I have nothing against ONJ, Anne Murray or singers like Karen Carpenter but they are not vocalists or musicians in the same league with Linda.  Their song selections and arrangements ,were  for me ,almost always dreadful and in my college years they were shlocky and square -  nobody bought those kind of records - but I guess somebody did.  Linda much cooler,influential and vocally powerful - an album artist - well apart from just top 40.  It kind of surprises me when they are mentioned in the same breath as Ronstadt.  To each his own.
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Post by moon on Oct 12, 2014 22:16:07 GMT -5
Agree with comments about other performers Except i always thought Karen Carpenter had one of the most lovely voices but yes, covered up by schmaltzy over produced music. No insult to ONJ fans but i think she has the weakest voice of anyone mentioned and that she was one of the best marketing packages ever put together
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Post by sliderocker on Oct 13, 2014 0:45:58 GMT -5
Slide.. wasn't Elvis' favorite female singer, Anne Murray? Although Linda had a string of hit records in the mid 70's..When he died, Linda was on the verge of Super stardom. She wasn't really a household name until after his death.. until then, ONJ held that title. and Linda was a powerhouse, I;m shocked their paths didn't cross or he never mentioned Linda .. . She got lots of respect from Johnny Cash, George Jones and Merle, it seemed logical Elvis would too. They both sang different genres and sang it well.. Elvis was more of a showman.. but Linda is like a walking encyclopedia when it comes to music.. other than some musical style and powerful voice I don't see a connection.. Elvis listened to Anne Murray but I don't know with 100% certainity that she was his favorite singer. Even if she was, that still didn't mean Elvis couldn't have been aware of and listened to Linda. His daughter Lisa has said she listened to Linda as a kid and it's likely Linda's records were at Graceland. Elton John's record were - he was another favorite of Lisa's and it was Elvis who bought her his records and arranged for him to come to Vegas to meet Lisa and himself. Linda's star began to seriously rise in 1973 with "Don't Cry Now" and would explode big time with "Heart Like a Wheel." Elvis was always aware of what was happening on most of the music charts, pop and rock included. And as Linda was scoring several hits in the rock and country genres before he died, he would definitely have been aware of her. He might well have been aware of her going all the way back to 1967 and "Different Drum." As Elvis very rarely did any interviews (especially as he grew older and he neared his death), it's not surprising he never mentioned Linda. He was rarely asked about who he listened to musically. Most of the information about artists he listened to came from his friends and as many of them are approaching 80, their memories may not be totally accurate. I think I once asked Elvis's associate Marty Lacker on the now defunct Elvis newsgroup if Elvis had listened to Linda and I think he said at the time he couldn't remember. But, I "talked" about so many Elvis related things with him over a couple of years, I don't remember when I might have asked that question. As an Elvis fan, I tried to stay away from "Did he listen to this, did he watch that..." type questions as a lot of fans tended to ask those questions, and I don't think he especially liked those questions. He pulled no punches and wasn't afraid to tell you when you were wrong, There were quite a few Elvis fans who thought they knew more about Elvis than he knew about Elvis and they gave him a hard time. Some were trolls and they made the site so miserable everyone left, which was a pity as there were some other Elvis associates there as well who would answer a fan's questions. Elvis was a showman but he was every bit as much of a walking encyclopedia on music as what Linda was. His musical knowledge extended to all genres and to different eras and centuries. He may not have known some of ther terminology Linda uses to describe various theaters but it can't be ruled out that he did know the terms. He would downplay what he did know. He would praise other singers and downplay his own contributions as a singer and musician. (Sound like anyone we know?) There were some differences and there were some similarities between the two of them. Maybe not much but more common than one might believe.
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Post by sliderocker on Oct 13, 2014 1:33:51 GMT -5
I've heard that about Lisa Marie too. I've never read anything about Elvis' opinion on LR. I know in concert he sang one of ONJ's hits, "if you love me let me know." I'm not a big fan of ONJ either but she was a huge in the mid 70's probably the biggest female pop star at the time. I hope nobody thinks I am being dismissive of Linda's work prior to Simple Dreams. I'm not . I only mention ONJ because back then she was another successful pop singer with hit songs..who else would I compare her too?.. Queen, Steely Dan, ELO? Donna Summer. I only mentioned Anne because at the time, it was fact she was Elvis' favorite lady singer. she isn't MY favorite singer. this isn't personal. My mom was is a huge Linda fan and I don't recall her having Linda's Heart like a wheel. She did have Simple Dreams.. Elvis did two of Olivia's biggest hits. He also did "Let Me Be There" but as to why he didn't do any of Linda's hits, the only way he usually covered another artist's song was if he thought he could do it better. They tried to talk him into recording "Drift Away" and he refused because he regarded Dobie Gray's original hit as untouchable. I could've seen Elvis possibly trying out some of Linda's hits, at least for his concerts. His concert rehearsals often included songs that never made it to the stage or to a recording. Getting back on the topic of Linda, she can't be compared to any of the other female icons of the 70s because she eclipsed them all in terms of popularity, sales and talent. And she outsold a lot of male artists too. She was unique. The others may have had the sales but some only had good sales in the US. Linda had good sales throughout a good part of the world. Most artists don't get to 100 million in sales in the US. Look at the RIAA's artist tallies. There's not that many over 100 million in the US. The other artists who are over 100 million had those sales outside the US and Linda was the first female rock-country artist to do that. I can't even begin to guess how far over 100 million she may be - a lot would depend on how long ago she exceeded 100 million and how much she has sold since that time. She could be past 200 million. Of course, she didn't have that many albums but neither did Garth Brooks or Michael Jackson, and both of their sales were said to be in excess of 200 million, although there may be some exaggeration as to their sales. Jackson's sales before his death were placed at 220 million - that figure shot up to 750 million after his death. Figure that one out. But, Linda was the biggest female artist of the 70s and even going into the 80s and my guess would be she still is..
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Post by Dianna on Oct 13, 2014 13:18:47 GMT -5
thanks Slide for the in depth analysis. I know you and Erik are huge Elvis fans too and know a lot about his history. Out of fun and curiosity, I'm gonna answer my own question lol. Musically I don't think Linda Ronstadt was neither here nor there with Elvis, I'm not saying that to be mean...If so somebody would have heard something. if she stood out that much in Elvis' eyes.. that doesn't mean he didn't like her. It has been repeated several times in this thread during the mid 70's the 2 women I mentioned that Elvis liked. anne and olivia were a little on the square and uncool side and Linda's Heart like a wheel was more popular among the hip college crowd... at that point, Elvis was approaching middle age so maybe his tastes were more snowbird / let me be there verses the more rocked out (for the times) you're no good.. I guess we will never know for sure. My question is? Does anyone doubt that had he live to hear Linda's Blue Bayou he would have fallen in love with that song? To me that song was right up Elvis' alley.. taste wise.
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Post by Richard W on Oct 13, 2014 13:45:39 GMT -5
The thing about Murray is that she has such a unique voice. Back in the '70s, I rather loved it. "Snowbird" is a guilty pleasure that I don't feel that guilty about. It's one of those songs that sounds like nothing else and has an indefinable quality to it that I find appealing.
And, based on two of Murray's albums, "Highly Prized Possession" and "Love Song", I was quite a fan—until she gave in to her own worst tendencies toward schmalz from which she never recovered.
Her Beatles covers, "Day Tripper" and "You Won't See Me" are first rate, and her version of "Just One Look" is pretty good, too. Those songs, plus "Another Pot O' Tea" and "Slow Fall" (where Murray actually touches soul), also from those two albums, are great. But from that point on, sheesh!
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Post by charlotte on Oct 13, 2014 14:10:54 GMT -5
Yes, Dianna I agree demographically about Linda's HLAW, Prisoner and Hasten being hugely successful and yet it was Blue Bayou, Simple Dreams and the 1st Greatest Hits, I suppose, that knocked Linda into the stratosphere. Perhaps to the detriment of some of her "hippiest" long time fans. Not only did Simple Dreams knock Rumours off the top of the charts but, as you said, moms and the squares and the supposedly "straight" country crowd devoured Blue Bayou. It took me years to appreciate Blue Bayou for the beauty and range it displayed exactly because as much as I was devoted to Linda's music -it was too popular and square for a Greenwich Village college girl. The rock music scene was changing and truth was Linda was more popular than ever, still the best vocalist, but by Living in the USA she was not This Year's Model. Ironically the past year has restored her cool quotient and separated her voice from the sweet but ordinary sounds of some of her contemporaries. So the Elvis question is an even more interesting one as it questions an even earlier generational divide. I'm no Elvis expert but how could he not have been impressed with Blue Bayou?. He was so sad and pathetic at the end of his life however so who knows what he absorbed musically. Someone was turning little Lisa Marie onto Linda.
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Post by erik on Oct 13, 2014 21:17:51 GMT -5
Quote by charlotte:
This, I think, is one of those "what might have been" moments. One would have hoped that Elvis may have heard something of Linda's sooner rather than before it was almost too late; and if indeed that was the case, then maybe it was he who was getting his daughter interested in Linda, or possibly someone in Elvis' entourage with a toehold in radio (George Klein, possibly?)
As to whether Elvis would have been impressed with "Blue Bayou" (whose writer, Roy Orbison, was someone Elvis respected to the max), well, this too is anyone's guess, since both it and Linda's album Simple Dreams were, to my knowledge, still a week away from being released at the time that Elvis met his untimely demise on August 16, 1977. One would hope, however, that he would have been much more open to someone like Linda, who was, at the very least in terms of vocal power and focus, his female equivalent. You just never knew, though, given what we know about how he felt about the Beatles' invasion of America in 1964, i.e., nervous as Hell (this while his manager was making him do HARUM SCARUM and ROUSTABOUT).
I do recall years ago that Linda did an interview in which she had mentioned that, at age 10 back in 1956, she played hooky from school one time and snuck into the Fox Theater to see Elvis' first film LOVE ME TENDER (and got caught doing it, since the theater was right around the corner from her father's hardware outlet). And we know that Linda added "Love Me Tender" to her concert repertoire following his passing, which made Elvis' musical influence on Linda kind of hard to miss (IMHO).
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Post by Richard W on Oct 13, 2014 22:42:19 GMT -5
It's too bad that Linda's "Love Me Tender" is such a bore, not that Presley's was all that exciting to begin with. I know I'm committing a double blasphemy here, but the song just isn't very exciting to me on any level.
I remember snapping up Living in the USA on release (as usual) and even then thinking that LMT was a drag. It just sounded to me like Linda was sleep-singing to the somnambulent acoustic guitar. I just could never work up any excitement over it and still haven't.
Defenders of the realm, draw your arrows!
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Post by Dianna on Oct 13, 2014 22:58:47 GMT -5
It's too bad that Linda's "Love Me Tender" is such a bore, not that Presley's was all that exciting to begin with. I know I'm committing a double blasphemy here, but the song just isn't very exciting to me on any level. I remember snapping up Living in the USA on release (as usual) and even then thinking that LMT was a drag. It just sounded to me like Linda was sleep-singing to the somnambulent acoustic guitar. I just could never work up any excitement over it and still haven't. Defenders of the realm, draw your arrows! I agree. Would have loved to hear her sing Elvis' "Trouble" she would have slayed it.
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Post by sliderocker on Oct 14, 2014 1:25:02 GMT -5
thanks Slide for the in depth analysis. I know you and Erik are huge Elvis fans too and know a lot about his history. Out of fun and curiosity, I'm gonna answer my own question lol. Musically I don't think Linda Ronstadt was neither here nor there with Elvis, I'm not saying that to be mean...If so somebody would have heard something. if she stood out that much in Elvis' eyes.. that doesn't mean he didn't like her. It has been repeated several times in this thread during the mid 70's the 2 women I mentioned that Elvis liked. anne and olivia were a little on the square and uncool side and Linda's Heart like a wheel was more popular among the hip college crowd... at that point, Elvis was approaching middle age so maybe his tastes were more snowbird / let me be there verses the more rocked out (for the times) you're no good.. I guess we will never know for sure. My question is? Does anyone doubt that had he live to hear Linda's Blue Bayou he would have fallen in love with that song? To me that song was right up Elvis' alley.. taste wise. You're welcome, Dianna. I've always wondered about whether Elvis knew of Linda, think he had to have known but he rarely spoke publicly about who he listened to when he was out of the public eye. Of the all too few interviews he gave, virtually none of the interviewers asked him about the music and artists he listened to. They'd ask him general questions about music but not specifics. It's possible his manager only allowed general questions and didn't allow the interviewers to probe too deep on any given subject As for rocked out, well, he was a fan of the Bachman-Turner Overdrive, so much so that he flew the group into Las Vegas so they could see his show. That was quite different to the Olivia-Anne Murray type of artist it's said he listened to, but his tastes were quite vast. He did prefer soloists to groups. Here's a link to an article from the Elvis Information Network, which is taken from an article on the records found in Elvis's home. No Linda mention, but as the article is about an article published in a magazine that had more to report on the subject, it's possible there could've been a Linda mention in the magazine article. There was more than 2000 records in Elvis's collection, of which the article listed only about half that number, so this article is only a partial list of a partial list ! www.elvisinfonet.com/recordcollector.htmlThere were some things on the list that was available that surprised the hell out of me, and still does when I re-read it. Take a look at the then-contemporary rock artists and pop-artists he listened to. The list is stunning for what information is available. It would be fascinating to know what else was in Elvis's personal record collection. As for whether he would've fallen in love with Linda's version of "Blue Bayou" had he lived, I don't think there's any question. He would have fallen in love, but I think it likely he was already aware of her. (The only question I have is when did Elvis find the time to listen to all this music? Sure, he had lots of free time when he wasn't recording or on tour or making movies but his record collection was huge.
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Post by sliderocker on Oct 14, 2014 1:47:36 GMT -5
It's too bad that Linda's "Love Me Tender" is such a bore, not that Presley's was all that exciting to begin with. I know I'm committing a double blasphemy here, but the song just isn't very exciting to me on any level. I remember snapping up Living in the USA on release (as usual) and even then thinking that LMT was a drag. It just sounded to me like Linda was sleep-singing to the somnambulent acoustic guitar. I just could never work up any excitement over it and still haven't. Defenders of the realm, draw your arrows! Everyone's entitled to their opinion. I didn't find Linda's version to be too bad but I've never been all that crazy about Elvis's original version. Hollywood wouldn't even let him, Scotty, Bill and D.J. record the songs to the "Love Me Tender" movie, and Elvis wasn't happy about that either. Elvis's version from his '68 comeback special was much better though it was a very sad version, imo. Linda's version was in the same key as Elvis's 1956 single and bootleggers mixed the two versions together, sloppily so. But that attracted the interest from both RCA and Asylum in doing a proper sync-ing of the vocals and releasing a genuine single. The snag was both labels wanted to be the only one releasing any single and both dug in their corporate heels and no single ended up being released as a result. It hadn't even been decided what the flip side would've been. It's possible Linda's vocals could've been added to a second Elvis song. The bootleg was a fascinating example of a missed opportunity.
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Post by erik on Oct 14, 2014 9:10:17 GMT -5
Quote by sliderocker re. Elvis/Linda "mash-up" of "Love Me Tender":
And then there's the issue of managers. I don't think Peter Asher would have had too much trouble with such a mash-up being released, whether on Asylum or RCA. But d***ed if they wouldn't have run into the Colonel.
One of the things that I always suspected was true about the influence Elvis had on Linda was not only in his mixture of the very styles that led to rock and roll coming into existence, but the fact that he could go from fierce rock and roll shout-outs to ballads without causing musical whiplash--something I felt Linda did extremely well in her own way, even if she saw herself more as a ballad singer.
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Post by Richard W on Oct 14, 2014 9:51:27 GMT -5
Slide: "I didn't find Linda's version to be too bad..."
That says a lot! Linda covering Elvis should have been dynamite. As it is, LMT is a damp fuse.
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Post by erik on Oct 14, 2014 9:54:28 GMT -5
Quote by Richard W:
To each his own, of course. I can name quite a few other ballads from the King's canon that Linda could have done, including the Bobby Russell-penned "Do You Know Who I Am", which Elvis recorded at American Studios in February 1969.
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Post by sliderocker on Oct 14, 2014 11:52:19 GMT -5
And then there's the issue of managers. I don't think Peter Asher would have had too much trouble with such a mash-up being released, whether on Asylum or RCA. But d***ed if they wouldn't have run into the Colonel. Parker's input into such a mash-up would've been minimal as "Love Me Tender" was part of the 700+ songs Elvis recorded for RCA that was sold back to RCA in 1973 for a little over ten million by the time the dust had cleared. The buyback meant RCA wouldn't had to have paid royalties to Elvis's estate on an Elvis-Linda mashup, just to Linda if RCA had been the label that released the mashup. Where the damage could've been done was if Asylum had released the Elvis-Linda mashup. Parker conceivably could've demanded a royalty from Asylum independent of any RCA involvement, but it's possible he might well have done all he could to have insured that any such mashup was released on Asylum. He was the one who had engineered the 1973 buyback to RCA and one of the first things RCA did was license twenty of Elvis's hits to Bearsville Marketing for a tv album that sold ten million copies. Parker was of the short-sighted opinion Elvis's old stuff didn't sell and it must've smarted like hell when that tv album sold ten million copies and RCA didn't have to pay royalties to Elvis and Parker on the deal. Parker's buyback deal blew up in his face but like a lot of people, he would've blamed everyone but himself for his shortsightedness.
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Post by sliderocker on Oct 14, 2014 12:26:20 GMT -5
Slide: "I didn't find Linda's version to be too bad..." That says a lot! Linda covering Elvis should have been dynamite. As it is, LMT is a damp fuse. There were any number of Elvis songs Linda could've done but perhaps "Love Me Tender" held some very special meaning for her? Such as her memory of going to see Elvis in his first movie, playing hooky to do that, getting caught and getting into trouble. Maybe it was the first song she heard on Elvis and when he passed away, that song took her back to when she was a ten year old girl, who fell in love with the song and with him.
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Post by Richard W on Oct 14, 2014 12:49:03 GMT -5
It's just that she could have done more with that song if she were going to do it. Instead, to my ear, it sounds like she did less. Given that you are right, Erik, about that song perhaps having a special place in her heart (which I don't doubt), that affection doesn't come across in the recording. To me, it's a very distant and impersonal reading which, given that we're talking about Linda, is rather surprising. Her version should reduce you to tears. Instead, all I get is yawns. She gave "Old Paint" more spirit than she did LMT.
Others here may hear and feel more and that's good. I just wish I were one of them!
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Post by Dianna on Oct 14, 2014 12:56:23 GMT -5
That's quite a list Slide. I'm laughing because, aside the gospel music Elvis has the exact same taste in music my mom has. They listen to the same stuff, including oak ridge boys and Della Reese.
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Post by POP80 on Oct 14, 2014 13:16:25 GMT -5
I'm with you that Linda's version of LMT is a snoozefest. It's such a beautiful song and it would have worked out much better as a duet if that was the original intention. Maybe it could be re-edited and re-released someday.
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Post by sliderocker on Oct 14, 2014 13:31:11 GMT -5
That's quite a list Slide. I'm laughing because, aside the gospel music Elvis has the exact same taste in music my mom has. They listen to the same stuff, including oak ridge boys and Della Reese. It stunned me when I read Elvis listened to the Allman Brothers and Mott the Hoople(!), which were totally out of left field and unexpected because they were considered hard rock bands (though the Allmans were steeped in blues). But, I guess that's because we have this false image of Elvis that extended to the music, that we couldn't see him liking a certain artist or a certain kind of music. Much like Linda saying she had listened to AC/DC because her kids had listened to them, something one wouldn't have expected. Because Linda worked in two main genres in the late 60s and 70s, country and rock, I still think it highly possible Elvis heard her and may possibly have had some of her records in his collection. Some of the acts listed in that article may rate a question mark today but some of them were a question mark even back then, and Elvis had them in his record collection! So, Linda, with more of a higher profile than most artists in the 70s, in Elvis's record collection wouldn't seem at all that unusual.
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Post by Dianna on Oct 14, 2014 13:38:43 GMT -5
Slide the only one that shocked me was several worn out David Cassidy LP's.
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Post by sliderocker on Oct 14, 2014 14:23:22 GMT -5
Slide the only one that shocked me was several worn out David Cassidy LP's. That would've rated a "Huh?" from me if not for the fact I'd heard about the David Cassidy/Partridge Family records being at Graceland before that article was published and that Priscilla had been the one who bought them for Lisa. Which I still thought was kind of suspicious as Lisa would've been all of two to four years olds when Cassidy was at the height of his popularity. Still, I couldn't imagine anyone else around Graceland listening to David Cassidy records, except a kid, which was the market Cassidy's records were aimed at.
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Post by Dianna on Oct 14, 2014 14:40:28 GMT -5
yeah but worn out?. we're about the same age and during that time I was listening to Mary Poppins and other little kids records.
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