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Even though he was using the iconic studio where Booker T. And after aborting the July sessions because of technical problems, he even imported a mobile recording truck for the second one. Still, with musicians raised in Memphis, Muscle Shoals, Ala. Memphis native Gordon's latest book, Respect Yourself: For other people, they would have been pinnacles of achievement.
For Elvis, they didn't make the mark that his earlier stuff did. But they're very substantial. The sessions produced 28 tracks in all — 11 single sides and 17 album tracks. One major distinction of these recordings is that Presley was calling the shots for the first time. RCA Records' Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Presley's longtime catalog director and the box set's co-producer, notes Presley had a new recording contract and publishing arrangement that gave him control of song selection.
Just a few years prior, his '68 comeback special and '69 American Sound Studio sessions rejuvenated his fledgling career, and the documentary, Elvis On Tour , and early TV special, "Aloha From Hawaii," bolstered his popularity. With his Hollywood film obligations fulfilled and these new deals in tow, Presley was free to sing only what he felt like singing.
He even listened to [opera singers] Mario Lanza and [Enrico] Caruso when he was a kid because his mother had their records. He wanted to blend all that music into his own. Unfortunately, the July sessions were rather choppy. He showed up late. A persistent hum attacked the system. The gear was antiquated. Presley joshed in the studio — in one outtake snippet, he sings "wasted years, wasted years …" while engineer Al Pachucki tries to fix the glitch — but he left, frustrated, ahead of schedule. In the midst of a divorce from his wife, Priscilla, and expecting a visit from daughter Lisa Marie, he wasn't exactly chomping at the bit to work, either.
Her visit was the big reason he wanted to stay at Graceland, his beloved Memphis home. By , American Sound Studio had closed its doors, but Norbert Putnam, who played bass on the more successful December sessions at Stax, says there was another reason Presley wanted a different setup: He would do five, six, seven songs an evening … a lot of times, he got it on the first take.
That emotional intensity is particularly evident in songs such as "My Boy," in which a parent describes the ache of staying in a loveless marriage to his sleeping child. He never did a conservative first take. Interestingly, Gordon points out, Stax and Presley were both heading toward their demises. Stax fractured in ; on Aug. And a whole generation of people changed their attitude about music. A contributing editor to The Ties That Bind: When it comes to Memphis, it's arguably the music that keeps the Tennessee city in the hearts and minds of people all over the world. Whether it's Stax Records, B.
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Since April , Memphis' rich musical legacy has been highlighted at the Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum, an institution that helps tell the story of the birth of rock and soul music. That will change on Nov. The event will pay tribute to the city's musical heritage through video, spoken word and live performances from several of the hall's inaugural inductees, including Bobby "Blue" Bland, Booker T.
Children of late inductees Otis Redding and Rufus Thomas will present musical tributes to their fathers' respective musical careers. With the help of organizations such as the Rock 'n' Soul Museum, Smithsonian Institution, the Blues Foundation, the Center for Southern Folklore, and the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, the idea was born to create a hall of fame that would touch on all genres that were "born or nourished in Memphis.
We'll continue to support the hall by providing content to which we have access, or helping to make connections between like-minded organizations. We have a common mission: Once the project started to gain momentum, a nominating committee was created to draft the names to be included in the inaugural class. According to Parker, the nominations process was laborious. We wanted to keep it as fair as possible and all-inclusive. We stayed with it until everyone was satisfied with the list. I'm a die-hard supporter of Memphis talent … [and] I was gung-ho about recognizing the people that made Memphis a music mecca.
Tributes are in the works for inductees Jimmie Lunceford, Memphis' first high school band director who organized the Chickasaw Syncopators, a student band that eventually performed at the legendary Cotton Club; Dewey Phillips, a DJ at Memphis' WHBQ-FM who was the first person to broadcast a Presley record on air; and Lucie Campbell, a gospel composer who also taught choral singing to future gospel stars such as Marian Anderson.
Juke joints and bars flourished. The yellow fever epidemic of made a lot of whites flee the city, making it more racially diverse and sparked musical cooperation between blacks and whites. The Memphis Music Hall of Fame will begin as an online project that will feature biographical information for all inductees. Everybody knows Sun Records and Graceland, but that's only part of the story.
With an impressive roster of Memphis artists to celebrate, an eventual physical display of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame is certainly on the minds of organizers. Poet lives in San Francisco and writes about Native, folk, country, Americana, and world music for many national and international publications and websites. These cookies allow us, in conjunction with our partners, to analyze how the Services are accessed, used, or performing, and allow us to serve you with content, including advertising, tailored to your preferences or interests, as well as measure the effectiveness of that advertising.
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