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Topic: anyone play any ELVIS |
Calvin Walley
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colorado city colorado, USA
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Posted 11 May 2006 3:46 pm |
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as most of you know i am a die hard country player , but i just learned one of Elvis's tune " I Can't Help Falling In Love With You " i could'nt beleive how pretty it sounds on the steel
calvin
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 11 May 2006 4:07 pm
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| I'm sure it sounded better than Katharine McPhee the other nite. |
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 11 May 2006 5:12 pm
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Yes-the young lady is sparkly and gorgeous, has a fine instrument of a singing voice - but has absolutely NO clue how to interpret Elvis!
Actually Calvin, I haven't played an Elvis songs lately.
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 11 May 2006 5:37 pm
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Between 1992 and 1996 (when I still lived in England) I did several tours of Europe with a New York-based show named 'Elvis - The Legend'.
I was principally called to play electric guitar, but the MD who contacted me knew I played steel a bit, so he asked me to bring it. I'm happy to say that it became an integral part of the orchestrations and I felt it worked very well. The show featured three 'Elvii' ('50s, '60s, then the 'Vegas' edition), nine back-up singers and the ten-piece band. It was one of the most enjoyable gigs I've ever had.
Tunes I recall playing steel on were 'Wonder Of You', 'If I Can Dream', 'Can't Help Falling...' and maybe a couple more.
By the way, 'Can't Help Falling In Love' was recorded in Hollywood and, although several of Elvis' regular studio players from Nashville were present, Alvino Rey was called for those 'Blue Hawaii' sessions.
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Clyde Lane
From:
Glasgow, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 11 May 2006 5:42 pm
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Didn't Bobbe Seymour do some recording with Elvis?
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 11 May 2006 5:43 pm
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| I do a version of "Don't" as a solo steel/vocal thing. I really like that song! |
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 11 May 2006 5:59 pm
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I'll be going to a friend's daughter's wedding July 8th, and we all go way back, especially when they [sister, too] were just little tykes.
So they want me to come and play the steel, and not just guitar.
I've been working on some songs I know she likes, that me and her dad have played over the years, like "She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune" by the Dillards ["Wheatstraw Suite"], but as I'm thinking about some more "wedding-type" songs, "LOVE ME TENDER" popped into my widdle bwain.
It plays real well on the steel. The chorus "love me tender, love me true...." has great chord changes. The melody is from a Civil War era tune, where I think many great melodies, in the vaudville/ragtime vein, have come from.
In the key of C, it would be: C-E7-Am-C7-F-Fm-C-A7-D7-G7-C.
I know it's simple, but it plays well on the steel, especially if you let the pedals/knees
do their thing and ring out.
Elvis, and a classic hit, and a beautiful love song; for a wedding, no?[This message was edited by CHIP FOSSA on 11 May 2006 at 07:04 PM.] [This message was edited by CHIP FOSSA on 11 May 2006 at 07:05 PM.] |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 11 May 2006 6:08 pm
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To your original question - absolutely yes. I had a rockabilly band for many years, for which I mainly played lead guitar - Mike Swavely and the Chrome Magnatones. I departed when those guys decided they really weren't into cohabitating with steel guitar, but I did play some steel with them. 
Anyway, I have played dozens of Elvis tunes over the years, including many on steel. Can't Help Falling in Love is a great steel tune. Love Me Tender, Return to Sender, The Wonder of You, Don't Be Cruel, It's Now or Never, His Latest Flame, I Was the One, and Tryin' to Get to You are some of the nice slower-to-medium tempo tunes. But some of the more rockin' tunes work for steel as well - Hound Dog, All Shook Up, Little Sister, and so on. When I can get Mystery Train up to speed like I normally do on guitar, I'll be a happy camper. 
Elvis also did a lot of gospel music over the years. Much of that, done Elvis style, works great on steel. |
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Bob Knight
From:
Bowling Green KY
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Gary Spaeth
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 11 May 2006 8:12 pm
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| weldon myrick has. on an elvis recording of faded love. i know because my friend asked me to figure it out for him. man that was hard! there's also some hawaiian steel in the blue hawaii soundtrack but i don't know who. |
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Calvin Walley
From:
colorado city colorado, USA
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Posted 11 May 2006 8:59 pm
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we really did have a recording of " can't help falling in love " played at our wedding , that was one reason i wanted to learn it . in the key of F it sounds beautiful
calvin
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 11 May 2006 9:14 pm
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| Not to sidetrack the thread but, several years ago, someone told me that Jimmy Day recorded Falling in Love with Elvis. A search here http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum15/HTML/004667.html on the forum appears to disprove that but still leaves me wondering. Or was there more than one recording with different players? Anyone know for sure? [This message was edited by Jerry Overstreet on 11 May 2006 at 10:25 PM.] |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Chuck S. Lettes
From:
Denver, Colorado
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Posted 12 May 2006 4:49 am
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A few years ago my friend, Jack Burnside, sent me a gospel recording of Elvis singing "Who Am I." I worked it up on the steel, and it's one of my favorites.
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Bill Mayville
From:
Las Vegas Nevada * R.I.P.
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Posted 12 May 2006 6:10 am
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Hi Basilh
I was stationed with scotty Moore in
Panama.When I first met him ,he looked familiar, then heard him Play ,and I knew.
Looking out the window, and down at the cars,he had a Nash convertible,with really large holes in the soft top. And it rains every day there.
But he sure could play.!!
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Terry Wood
From:
Lebanon, MO
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Posted 12 May 2006 9:14 am
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Heres my two centavos!
I always liked Elvis and still do! We were at Elvis' birthplace this winter at Tupelo, MS. If you are ever through there, stop and see the museum and home of a real American Legend. The little boy born in that 2 room shack grew up to Rock the World. He never forgot where he came from, his humble beginnings and he helped others. He also acknowledged his love for The Lord and his Country.
Next, I learned and recorded "Crying In The Chapel," after I heard Julian Tharpe do it. I learned Julian's version and it took some time to learn Julian's version. In the studio it took several takes to get it right. I think it is probably the third or fourth hardest arrangement of any steeler I ever learned.
Elvis played or recorded with several steel players over the years including: Jimmy Day, Pete Drake, Alvino Rey (mentioned in movies), John Hughey that I know of.
GOD bless!
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Terry Wood
From:
Lebanon, MO
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Posted 12 May 2006 9:18 am
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I think it should also be mentioned here that Elvis loved Country Music too! Few people realize that, but it's true. He wanted to be a Country singer and Ernest Tubb suggested he record whatever he could to get started and then after he was successful he could choose and record what he wanted. He also loved Gospel music and he sang that well! My grandmother dead mamy years now loved Elvis' Gospel recordings from the early 1960's.
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 12 May 2006 9:38 am
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In addition to Alvino Rey's contribution to the 'Blue Hawaii' sessions, there was also steel guitar on the 'Paradise, Hawaiian Style' sound track - that was Bernie Lewis.
In the mid '60s ('66 - '69) Pete Drake played on a bunch of stuff with Elvis.
John Hughey can be heard on the excellent Chips Moman-produced sessions in Memphis in 1969.
Weldon Myrick played on the 1970 album: 'Elvis Country: I Was Born 10,000 years Ago'. Elvis did some dates at RCA Hollywood in '75, and Weldon Myrick (along with other Nashville players) was called to overdub the tracks in Nashville. He did the same on some tracks that were recorded in Elvis' home in 1975. Just Elvis' rhythm section and singers were on the originals, and it was getting difficult to get Presley into a real studio by that stage.
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Russ Hicks
From:
Pegram, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 13 May 2006 4:01 am
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I hope to have a new CD ready for St.Louis that's different in that I have a girl singer,(GUESS WHO) sing the intros, turnarounds and tags....sort of a role reversal thing....we have all the tracks done....just have to finish the keeper steel and vocals...anyway, one of the songs is Are You Lonesome Tonight.
If anyone has any catchy titles (such as 'Changing Places'or the like)to call the CD, post them here, so far I haven't come up with anything.
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Ron Kirby
From:
Nashville TN
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Posted 13 May 2006 4:09 am
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| Russ, How bout "Star Steel". Or RUSS HICKS "Starring his Steel Guitar" [This message was edited by Ron Kirby on 13 May 2006 at 08:47 AM.] |
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