Elvis Presley - There's Always Me - From First Take To The Master (and beyond)

,Elvis' 1960 regular recording sessions had signalled a change of direction for Elvis in his musical style, with much in a smoother pop orientated style, and included some of his finest recordings to date. However, subsequent sessions in did not see Elvis reach such heights until 1966 and the "How Great Thou Art" sessions, which signalled the beginning of his renaissance, and peaked with the 1969 Memphis sessions and culminated in the "Nashville Marathon".
None of this is to suggest that the regular Nashville recording sessions between 1961 and 63 were anything other than excellent because they were, but the material that was produced was in the main just pure pop and radio friendly recordings. All of the songs recorded at these sessions were very professionally recorded and in almost all cases Elvis is in superb voice, but there is almost nothing like the sheer raunchiness of "Fever", the sheer isolation of "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" or the pure raw blues that was "Reconsider Baby", instead everything seems so polished and nice.
Like most of Elvis' recording sessions there are exceptions, and in 1961 there were two such recordings in the magnificent "Anything That's Part of You" and the sublime "There's Always Me". The first of these two showcases the radio friendly aspect of Elvis' 1961-63 studio recordings, in that despite it being the superior recording it was relegated to the 'B' side of "Good Luck Charm" which seemed to be better suited to radio play. The latter however, despite being one of the best recordings to emerge from these sessions, found itself resigned to being just an album filler on "Something For Everybody" before a belated single release in 1967.
The song has finally received some sort of recognition, with it being included it the 2017 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra collaboration "If I Can Dream", with debatable results and it's use as part of a 2018 iphone TV commercial, but unfortunately only the first line was sung by Elvis, with the remainder of what can be heard sung by various Elvis impersonators throughout the world.
Elvis recorded the song at RCA's Studio B in Nashville on 12 March 1961, and after ten takes it was decided that they finally had the RCA master recording, but you can hear from some of the early takes that Elvis is still trying to get the phrasing correct, and isn't quite hitting the difficult notes early on, but as the takes continue this naturally comes and the final result is quite superb!!

As with all of these videos, to get the most out of the re-edited audio, I highly recommend you use ear /headphones and turn the volume up as much as you dare!

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