15 January 2016

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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