#Ftd dreamy days full#

Has a lovely delicate feel and David Brigg's piano intro is While missing the perfection of the later takes, this version Organ filling in for where the orchestra would be overdubbed. A great single, that made the top ten inĮngland, this version particularly benefits from Charlie McCoy's To compare with Tk.6 on 'AHYFN' where he was just one awayįrom the Master. Slightly unsure as he feels for the correct lyrics. Lost You' Tk1 - The first 'Take One' of the CD. Song sounds so much more poignant and pleading when compared The acoustic guitar is higher in the mix and once again the The first Master recorded on the day and a brilliant version. Showing that almost all of the songs on this CD really benefitįrom the lack of Felton's overladen and syrupy seventies overdubs. To the newly available alternate versions! As usual with theseįTD CDS it is the feel of Elvis and the band unplugged that 'Twenty Days & Twenty Nights' Tk3 - What a fabulous start Instrumental you can hear Elvis singing off-mic and obviously The sessions' very first day this gives us the feeling ofīeing in the studio while Elvis and the band gear up for a Nicely sets the scene with Elvis and the band warming up in The jam at the beginning of 'A Hundred Years From Now' this 'Mystery Train/Tiger Man' - A similar opener to Bottom Row: Producer Felton Jarvis, Chip Young, Charlie McCoy, James Burton. Top Row: David Briggs, Norbert Putnam, Elvis, Al Pachuki, Jerry Carrigan. The absolute beauty of the undubbed raw studio tracks once

Numbers were recorded in single takes or any available alternates (as Ernst explained at the FTD conference) most of the fast Including the sensational 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'. Recordings and Nashville Marathon features eight of those,

Have also always enjoyed listening to 'first takes' of Elvis' Morning' and 'Twenty Days and Twenty Nights' alone are reason

However nine of the tracks have never been releasedĪs alternate takes before and the versions of 'Mary In The Recording sessions have been explored before on the excellent 'A Hundred Years From Now' and this new CD should be viewedĪs a part 2. To 'Back In Memphis' but on the fourth night of recordingĮlvis himself steered the band towards some fascinating country The original plan was just to record a follow up album Stew' of Memphis behind for an obviously lighter country feel.Įven within this very different environment Elvis was stillĮxtremely motivated and recorded an astounding 40 songs inĦ days. Moving back to Nashville Elvis also left the musical 'soulful

#Ftd dreamy days full#

Live concerts with full orchestral backing. Gold in 1970 while he had two sell out seasons of Las Vegas 'Kentucky Rain' & 'The Wonder of You' had already charted More genteel surroundings of Nashville once again in Studioī where he had recorded the majority of his 1960's classic Months since his last sessions Elvis was now back in the far The run-down ghetto area of Memphis and hoping to re-establish At the Memphis SessionsĮlvis was striving at his artistic edge recording in He returned to the studios on June 4th 1970.įallen out with Chips Moman & American studios Elvis Was back at the top of the charts and on a high when 'The Nashville Marathon' - FTD CD review.