Elvis Voice With Other Sounds

a Remastered Presley accompanied by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
some new classic instrumental parts and choirs

IF I CAN DREAM, 2015


First step Burning Love feels unbeleivably fresh and exciting, but then they seem to be stuck in romantic atmospheres, pompously soft and a bit boring, with neither really transforming intention nor true genre representation. This big brave attempt and great opportunity could've reveal so much more?! But except for some tracks they choose to play it cosy and safe.


http://americansongwriter.com/2015/10/song-premiere-elvis-presley-the-royal-philharmonic-orchestra-burning-love/


most Soulful song: BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER

most Imaginative song: AND THE GRASS WON'T PAY NO MIND

most Amusing song: FEVER [as Duet with Bublé]

most Beautiful song: THERE'S ALWAYS ME

most Strong song: YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING

most Sexy song: BURNING LOVE

most Grounded song: STEAMROLLER BLUES



Whole Album

(7) compositions

(3) instrumentations

(6) singin' /playin' feelin'

(5) lyrics (incl titles)

(2) variation

(4) synchronization

(2) cover /concept

(5) historical importance

= 34


I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 8 x 7 = 56 never exist(?)



fifth Record Review since I turned 40


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my ELVIS Elevator : Lawdy Miss Clawdy

Fourth Floor



This nicely stomping, waggling song of course didn't start with Elvis. Just discovered the original R&B-piece by Price. How fast they make Presleys version in comparision! Interesting also the solo has changed both place between the verses and instrument from saxophone to guitar!!

Piano however remains the very bone of this song. Fats Domino actually plays on the original, and I feel how the blues goes some steps closer to boogie.... or if it's boogie trying to reach blues? Some rhytms had began to knock on the door of rock'n'roll, but in Elvis case of Clawdy they are still less wild than what he makes of I Got a Woman and others.


Rhymin' a bit naive but unique, the title has always sound thrilling. Lawdy can mean Lord, though more in the sense of "God!". Before now I've never tried who figure out who that Clawdy might be.... A princess or daughter of a rich lord? But why then the poor boy gave her all his money? Rather a real whore? Well, could Price have written such a theme when he was eighteen? Just a little woman who looked luxurous?

Anyway, "Down the road I go"....



Written and recorded by Lloyd Price 1952

Elvis version from  1956


Reminds me most of : Stuck On You



and in a another exciting version, slightly different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udMXYZx-WQ8



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16 Music Pieces Recently (Re)Discovered

my First Human of 2016, experienced through Body Parts (or so imagined)




Gloria, Hat


IF I SHOULD DIE AND YOU SHOULD LIVE

with Sofie Livebrant
lyrics by Emily Dickinson
music by Sofie Livebrant

from Emily And I, 2012




Brain


WORD ON A WING (Sweet Angel)

with David Bowie
by David Bowie

from Station to Station, 1976




Eyes


NO SHADE IN THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS

with Sufjan Stevens
by Sufjan Stevens

from Carrie & Lowell, 2015




Mouth


ALAN'S PSYCHEDELIC BREAKFAST

with Pink Floyd
by Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright

from Atom Heart Mother, 1970



Ears


VIVALDI'S CONCERTO FOR VIOLA D'AMORE and LUTE and orchestra
RV 540

with Monica Huggett, Jacob Lindberg & Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
by Antonio Vivaldi, 1740




Hair


COUNTRY HOUSE [like an animal farm
...watching afternoon repeats]

with Blur
by Damon Albarn & co

from The Great Escape 1995




Shoulder(blade)s


SNOW BIRD

with Elvis Presley
or Anne Murray
by Gene MacLellan

from Elvis Country, 1970
or Snow Bird, 1970




Arms and Hands


OLSSON

with Jim Jidhed
by Jim Jidhed

from Tankar i Vinternatten, 2015




Skin or Clothes


SOUVENIR DE FLORENCE for STRING SEXTET

with Franz Schubert Quartett, 1994
by TCHAIKOVSKY, 1892




Boobs


I GOTTA KNOW

with Svenne Hedlund
by Paul Evans & Matt Williams

from Svenne Sings Elvis in Memphis, 2009




Heart with Lungs


I LOVE YOU HONEYBEAR

with Father John Misty
by Josh Tillman

from I Love You, Honeybear, 2015




Stomach incl. Bowels


BROWN SUGAR

with Rolling Stones
by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards

from Sticky Fingers, 1971




Sexual Organ


I THINK I'M PARANOID

with Garbage
by Shirley Manson & co

from Version 2.0, 1998




Buttocks


MONEY HONEY

with Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
by Jess Stone

made 3 years before their 1956 album




Legs


THE FAT MAN

with Fats Domino
by Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew

from Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino, 1956




Feet


NER MOT TERMINALEN

with Joakim Thåström
by Joakim Thåström

from Den Morronen, 2015







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my ELVIS Elevator : She's Not You

Third Floor


With one of the most fascinating titles, She's Not You lies as an elegant, sweet single - between the fresh Good Luck Charm and funny Return To Sender.

This piece seems really charming with vibrating piano and some special sighs. The Jordanaires makes a good acccompany job as ever. And I love the paus before Elvis again declares how the delicate problem is breaking his heart.


Short and clever are the lyrics, though may well spin away in reflections : How alike each other can two humans be without being the same?! Or why is a man doomed to see one woman as his mistress and another as his soulmate?! Maybe She's not getting rock energy from him since he rather dwells in a flamboyant kind of restrainment?!


Also like the B-side "Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello"! Could almost have been a comment to the A-side woman - made by a typewriter with its plinging sound :-) Feels consciously shy in a similar mode. Even if many Elvis' songs around -62 works fine in the middle field, not too wild but not too slow. A softness with spiritual sharpness in it!



Written by Leiber & Stoller with Doc Pomus

Recorded in March 1962


Reminds me most of : A Fool Such As I


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Animated Movies I Still Love Most

1

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

via Walt Disney
by William Cottrell and more
based on Grimm Brothers
USA 1937


2

SPIRITED AWAY

by Hayao Miyazaki
Japan 2001


3

LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE

by Sylvain Chomet
France 2003


4

THE FANTASTIC MR FOX

by Wes Anderson
based on Roald Dahl
USA 2009


5

CORALINE

by Henry Selick
based on Neil Gaiman
USA 2009


6

DOCTOR SNUGGLES : THE REMARKABLE FIDGETY RIVER

by Jeffrey O'Kelley
this part written by Douglas Adams
Netherlands 1979-81


7

LA PLANÈTE SAUVAGE

by René Laloux
based on Stefan Wul
France 1973


8

YELLOW SUBMARINE

"with The Beatles"
by George Dunning, Lee Minoff
UK 1968


9

RANGO

by Gore Verbinski, John Logan
USA 2011


10

LORAX

by Renaud, Balda
based on Dr. Seuss
USA /France 2012


11

PAPRIKA

by Satoshi Kon
Japan 2006


12

MONSTERS, INC.

by Pete Docter and more
USA 2001


13

THE KING AND THE MOCKINGBIRD = LE ROI ET L'OISEAU

by Paul Grimaux
France 1980


14

DOCTOR SNUGGLES : THE SPECTACULAR RESCUE OF MISS NETTLES

by Jeffrey O'Kelley
this part written by Richard Carpenter
Netherlands 1979-81


15

MATULDA & MEGASEN

by Gilbert Elfström
Sweden 1967


16

MARY & MAX

by Adam Elliot
Australia 2009


17

PINOCCHIO

via Walt Disney
by Norman Ferguson and more
USA 1940


18

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS

by Sarah Smith and more
UK /USA 2011


19

CHARLOTTE'S WEB = "FANTASTIC WILBUR"

by Charles Nichols, Iwao Takamoto
USA 1973


20

WALL-E

by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter
USA 2008


21

WAKING LIFE

[Rotoscope]
by Richard Linklater
USA 2001


22

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN : DESTINATION MOON

by Stéphane Bernasconi
based on Hergé
France /Canada 1992


23

["CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY"]
WILLY WONKA OCH CHOKLAD-FABRIKEN

based on Roald Dahl
read by Ernst-Hugo Järegård
illustrations by Bengt Arne Runnerström
Sweden 1983


24

THE LEGO MOVIE

by Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
Denmark /USA 2014


25

FRANKENWEENIE

by Tim Burton
USA 2012


26

A WALK THROUGH H : THE REINCARNATION OF AN ORNITHOLOGIST

by Peter Greenaway
UK 1978


27

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE

by Hayao Miyazaki
Japan 2004


28

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

by Mark Hall, Chris Taylor
based on Kenneth Graham
UK 1983


29

WATERSHIP DOWN

by Martin Rosen
based on Richard Adams
UK 1978


30

DUMBO

via Walt Disney
by Samuel Armstrong and more
USA 1941


31

DUNDERKLUMPEN

by Per Åhlin
based on Beppe Wolgers
Sweden 1974


32

ARTHUR AND THE MINIMOYS

by Luc Besson
France 2006


33

THE SMURFS AND THE MAGIC FLUTE

by Peyo
France /Belgium 1976


34

WRECK-IT RALPH

by Rich Moore
USA 2012


35

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

by Spike Jonze
Germany /USA 2009


36

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

by Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
USA 2010


37

THE ILLUSIONIST

by Sylvain Chomet
France 2010


38

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

by Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
USA 1991


39

9

by Shane Acker
USA 2009


40

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS : THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE

by Zack Snyder, John Orloff and more
Australia /USA 2010


41

ARRIETTY

by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Japan 2010


42

SHAUN THE SHEEP (the movie)

by Mark Burton, Richard Starzak
UK /France 2015





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my ELVIS Elevator : Tryin' to Get to You

Second Floor


I never realised this is such an early tune - even if it were released over a year after the actual recording. First times I heard it was as last track on an EP from my mothers home.

Strong how the song begins with just Elvis voice : "I've been travellin' over mountains"! Followed by sharp, spiritual guitar and sweeping drums, rolling out the valleys too... Can picture a bear [no, not a teddy bear] walking through that landscape.

The heavy, bluesy feeling seemed a bit boring before, but now I really dig it. Cause simultanously it's even more wild, alive and well-performed than much else. The ending were a small drum stick sound completes the last big cry, leaves a tremendous impression.

The Eagles' original is a fresh experience for me, partly sung as soulful, though overall a bit lame and laid-back compared to Presleys interpretation.


Written by Charles Singleton and Rose Marie McCoy

Recorded in July 1955


Reminds me most of : One Night (With You)


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my ELVIS Elevator : Soldier Boy

Today as Elvis would've turned 81 is a perfect day of starting my personal elevator through his songs.



First Floor

One of the most earthly grounded pieces, calm and soothing! Still spiritually soft with the piano dancing around like snow flakes.... His grown-up voice along with humming choir of captains?!

That's what I love about this song (more than it's reasurring message of the girl's true love returning to the boy after some war - more or less real). Maybe inspired by Presley's own military time in Germany...?

Already as a boy I was able to hear Soldier Boy on a neighbor's big collection, then almost forgot it exists. Until this very christmas as the song comes slowly marching again, direct from album ELVIS IS BACK!

Believe the best line is : "it's written in the blue" [instead of the book or the stars or the sand]. Because the color feels extra blue here! And when he goes up a bit twisted to "O'er see or land" becomes a detail hard to forget.



Written by David Jones and Theodore Williams Jr.

Recorded in March to April 1960


Reminds me most of : Crying in The Chapel


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Two Movies by Nicolas Roeg

a british director most prominent in the 70's
who made a bit mysterious and beautifully chocking portraits
which naturally weaves together fictional with sexual elements




THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH

by Nicolas Roeg 1976
based on a story by Walter Tevis

to music by John Phillips, Stomu Yamashta a.o.



"- Where exactly do you come from?
- Well, I'm not an astronomer, but... somewhere down there! [points]
... ...
My own planet has evidence of visitors too. You must have seen them here?
- No, I don't think so."


most Peculiar Role : THOMAS JEROME NEWTON (David Bowie)

most Adorable Role : MARY-LOU (Candy Clark)

most Frustrating Role : OLIVER FARNSWORTH (Buck Henry)



I give stars from 1 to 7

3 Characters
7 Scenery
5 Camerawork

4 Thrill
3 Conflict
3 Humour

2 Psychology
4 Philosophy
6 Fantasy

2 Composition
7 Music
5 Concept

5 Total Experience During
6 Expectation Before
4 After Reflection


66 /15

= 4.4




and before that I saw




WALKABOUT

shot in Australian desert

by Nicolas Roeg 1971
based on a story by James Vance Marshall

to music by John Barry



most Peculiar Role : BOY, SMALL BROTHER (Luc Roeg)

most Adorable Role : GIRL, BIG SISTER (Jenny Agutter)

most Frustrating Role : FATHER (John Meillon)


and many animals in sudden close-ups



I give stars from 1 to 7

5 Characters
6 Scenery
7 Camerawork

4 Thrill
3 Conflict
2 Humour

4 Psychology
3 Philosophy
5 Fantasy

5 Composition
7 Music
6 Concept

6 Total Experience During
4 Expectation Before
5 After Reflection


72 /15

= 4.8



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