Elvis Presley - Don't Cry Daddy - The Live Comparison Series - Volume Sixty Two

Don't Cry Daddy was composed by Mac Davis and recorded by Elvis at American Sound Studios in Memphis on 15 January 1969. It is a song with a powerful narrative, and tells the story from the mind of the protagonist and how he is struggling to cope with the loss of his wife or partner. Whether this loss is through death or divorce is open to interpretation, but it seems only the pleas of his young son are helping him to cope with deep sense of loss .
All Renditions from 1970
All Renditions Except Version Recorded In Las Vegas

00:00 Version One – 26 January, Opening Dhow – The First Live Rendition
Of the fifteen Las Vegas opening nights that Elvis performed in six a half years, it appears that the only one not to have been recorded in any way is perhaps the most significant show - Sunday , 31 July 1969. This was of course his return to live performing after release from the movie contracts.
Despite professional recordings of shows later in the season, specifically for a live 'In person' album, it is still surprising that the earliest soundboard recording is four days into the engagement on 3 August. Even if RCA had no intention of using any material from this opening night, one would have thought that at least it would have been recorded from the mixing board for posterity given the magnitude of this particular show. With that in mind, it is also surprising that any type of audience recording has not surfaced, which would at least give some audio documentation of this historic event.
This would leave any evidence of the opening night's set list purely down to some educated guesswork, with any sort of record only possible by piecing together bits and pieces from reports of the evening. In saying that though, as Elvis' set list remained pretty rigid throughout that engagement, it is pretty safe to assume what the set list might have been.
The first Las Vegas opening night to be recorded, was that of his next engagement on Monday 26 January 1970. The previous August, Elvis' set list had it's emphasis mostly on rock 'n' roll with the odd cover, (Yesterday, Words), and recent hits (In The Ghetto, Suspicious Minds) thrown in for good measure. The January/February 1970 set list would be somewhat different, with a radical shake up in order to prevent the show from becoming stale. Many of the rock 'n' roll numbers would be retained into this new season, as would the recent hits, but there would be an introduction of many new songs and two new singles into the set list.
On opening night alone, Elvis would introduce TEN new songs, two of which were new singles, and another two 50's hits not used in the previous engagement. Later in the season, more new songs would appear including 'Release Me', 'The Wonder of You' and 'See See Rider'.
There was also a couple of personnel changes in the band and backing groups. Glen D. Hardin finally arrived replacing Larry Muhoberac on piano, Ronnie Tutt, having had a previous commitment was missing and his place was taken by Bob Lanning. Additionally, Cissy Houston had left The Sweet Inspirations leaving them without a soprano for this engagement.
Whereas Elvis opened every show during the previous August engagement with 'Blue Suede Shoes', this was now changed to 'All Shook Up', and after that came 'That's All Right'. Elvis would now introduce the first of his new songs......
The very first song introduced that evening was "Proud Mary", but was immediately followed by "Don't Cry Daddy".

02:41 Version Two – 3 February Dinner Show
05:28 Version Three – 5 February Dinner Show
08:14 Version Four – 15 February Midnight Show
11:02 Version Five – 16 February 1970 Dinner Show
13:52 Version Six - 16 February 1970 Midnight Show
16:36 Version Seven – 17 February 1970 Dinner Show
19:11 Version Eight - 17 February 1970 Midnight Show
22:12 Version Nine - 18 February 1970 Dinner Show
24:46 Version Ten - 18 February 1970 Midnight Show
27:29 Version Eleven - 19 February 1970 Dinner Show
30:12 Version Twelve - 19 February 1970 Midnight Show
33:00 Version Thirteen - 20 February 1970 Dinner Show
35:37 Version Fourteen - 20 February 1970 Midnight Show
38:21 Version Fifteen - 21 February 1970 Midnight Show
41:08 Version Sixteen - 22 February 1970 Dinner Show
43:57 Version Seventeen - 22 February 1970 Midnight Show
46:37 Version Eighteen - 23 February 1970 Dinner Show
51:07 Version Nineteen - 23 February 1970 Closing Show
53:56 Version Twenty – 1 March 1970, Evening Show – The Houston Astrodome

56:45 Version Twenty One – 13 August 1970 Dinner Show – The Final Rendition
When the Lost Performances was released on home video in 1992, we all sat with mouths wide open at what we were seeing.
The highlight of these new performances was regarded by many as being the back to back renditions of 'Don't Cry Daddy' and 'In The Ghetto' from the dinner show on 13 August and seamlessly fused together almost as one.

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