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Topic: Buddy Emmons plays Organ for Elvis ? |
Alan Brookes
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Posted 18 Apr 2013 5:13 pm |
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Between July 20-25, 1973, Elvis Presley recorded eleven tracks at Stax Studios, Memphis, TN. The tracks were:-
If You Don't Come Back
It's Different Now
Three Corn Patches
Take Good Care of Her
Find Out What's Happening
I've Got a Thing About You Baby
Just a Little Bit
Raised on Rock
For Old Times Sake
Girl of Mine
Sweet Angeline
According to the session log, the musicians were:
James Burton -Guitar
Reggie Young -Guitar
Tommy Cogbill -Bass
Ronnie Tutt -Drums
Charlie Hodge -Acoustic Guitar
Jerry Carrigan -Drums
Bobby Wood -Piano
Buddy Emmons -Organ
JD Sumner & The Stamps -Vocals
Kathy Westmoreland -Vocal
Mary Greene -Vocal
Mary & Ginger Holladay -Vocals
Which suggests three alternatives:-
[1] Buddy Emmons really was on organ.
[2] There's more than one musician named Buddy Emmons.
[3] Buddy Emmons was actually on pedal steel, and the guy who wrote the session notes didn't know the difference between a pedal steel and an organ. 
Anyone know the answer ? |
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Jerry Overstreet
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Posted 18 Apr 2013 5:21 pm
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| My guess is that it was Bobby Emmons. Pianist, organist, songwriter from that era. |
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Brendan Mitchell
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Melbourne Australia
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Posted 18 Apr 2013 11:28 pm
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| what Jerry said |
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Andy Sandoval
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Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 19 Apr 2013 12:32 am
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One more Alternative
[4] Duhhhhh! |
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 19 Apr 2013 1:00 am
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The "Elvis In Memphis" record (Cold Kentucky Rain, In the Ghetto) was recorded at American Studios.
It featured almost the same list of players, including Bobby Emmons.
Here is a track from from the Stax studios, four years later:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzC16InRg0I
I don't think it was released at that time.
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Richard Sinkler
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Posted 19 Apr 2013 7:00 am
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OR, the person writing the liner note thought the psg was an organ like he many thousands we run into at a gig. 
Actually, my vote is for Bobby Emmons also.
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 20 Apr 2013 8:28 am
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Yes, it seems likely to me that it was Bobby Emmons. Anyone working at a professional recording studio and responsible for keeping records is bound to be familiar with the various instruments used.
Looking at the numbers recorded at those sessions, they're not the kind of songs that Elvis usually had a steel guitar on. He had both pedal steel and lap steel on many recordings, but they were always country or Hawaiian styled songs. |
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Pete Finney
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Posted 20 Apr 2013 11:50 am
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So, I 'm curious, what is the source of that session log you quoted?
CD or LP notes, book, internet? |
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Ray Harrison
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Posted 20 Apr 2013 9:15 pm
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Maybe Buddy was on steel, with the Leslie unit, which made it sound like an organ?
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 21 Apr 2013 8:55 am
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| Pete Finney wrote: |
So, I 'm curious, what is the source of that session log you quoted?
CD or LP notes, book, internet? |
The information comes from the magnificent book, "Elvis Presley, A Life in Music, The Complete Recording Sessions, by Ernst Jorgensen", published 1998 by St. Martin's Press, New York. It's a thick book (454 pages) which concentrates on the recording sessions, rather than the life of Elvis, and is one of the most informative books I know of, giving dates of sessions, lists of musicians, and notes as to what happened at the sessions. No Elvis fan should be without the book.
By the way, the subject of Elvis and the steel guitar has been brought up before. See the link below.
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=117837&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=played+steel+elvis&start=0 |
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