Elvis Presley - For Ol' Times Sake - From First Take to the Master

Описание: Elvis' recorded "For Ol' Times Sake", originally recorded in Stax on 23 July 1973. The recipe to this original version of this obscure track is the simple yet unusual arrangement to the song combined with Elvis' deliberately fragile vocal which portrays the emotion of the protagonists narrative.
This is a practice which Elvis had applied to great effect to many of his best recordings through the years. Songs such as “Anything That’s Part Of You”, “It Hurts Me”, “Do You Know Who I Am” and “I’m Leavin’” are just some examples of songs performed in that way.
Like many of the songs from the Stax sessions, this is one recording which definetly deserves to be better known.
In 1980, Felton Jarvis oversaw the re-recordings of some of Elvis’ back catalogue, the result of which was the 1981 album "Guitar Man". In a project which began on 15 January 1980 and concluded on 11 November the original backing was removed and new drums, guitars,bass, piano and in some cases Sax an/or harmonicas were added. In some cases new backing vocals were added but ties to Elvis was retained in using musicians which had previously played with Elvis including David Briggs, Larrie Londin, Jerry Carrigan, Mike Leech and Chip Young. The result was almost a universal modern country feel to the tracks which apart from a few of the original is surely at odds with the original aim when the tracks were first recorded by Elvis.
This song was one of the “casualties” of these sessions at the “Young ‘Uns” studio but fortunately never saw an official release. The re-recording of this track seems to shatter the fragility of the origianl and is too heavy to convincingly carry the emotion within this song.

As with all of these videos, to get the most out of the re-edited audio, I highly recommend you use ear /headphones and turn the volume up as much as you dare!