762 - Return To Sender - Elvis Presley - acoustic cover by George Possley

Описание: SOTD for Wednesday, June 13, 2012

"Return to Sender" is a 1962 rock and roll hit single recorded by American singer Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music. The song was written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell.

Recorded on March 27, 1962, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, it is about a man mailing a letter to his girlfriend after an argument. She continually writes "return to sender" and while he keeps receiving the letter with various reasons for returning to sender, including "address unknown" and "no such person". He keeps mailing letters, refusing to believe the relationship is over. Elvis performed "Return to Sender" in the film Girls! Girls! Girls!.

The memorable opening bars and backing on baritone saxophone are often credited to Elvis' regular sax player, Boots Randolph, but were in fact performed by Bobby Keys.
Boots Randolph was booked to do the session,[1] but in his 2012 memoirs, Every Night's A Saturday Night (pages 36--38), Bobby Keys explains the circumstances;
"I happened to be in L.A. with Buddy Knox and, on short notice, got called to the studio by Glen Hardin because "the guy who was booked to play the session couldn't make the gig"". - Wikipedia