TRYIN´ TO GET YOU - quick poll + video

#270523

While editing TRYIN´ TO GET TO YOU footage from the 1976 Pittsburgh show, i was wondering what is the best version of that great Country Blues tune. I couldn´t make my choice between the original 1955 sun studio master and the 68 sit down#1 version. I finally chose the comeback one : man, that night he was on FIRE!
As a bonus, here is a link to the 1976 live rendition :
http://www.elvicities.com/~jeanno/ttgty.html

#270525

I would have actually voted for 1977 EIC Album if it was listed. That LP was actually my first experience with Elvis. I used to really dig that version, and got used to that so when I finally heard the original, it didn't sound original to my ears. The first time I heard EIC-LP was probably 1979. I was 8.

#270526

This is one of my favorite Elvis songs. I've heard probably a few dozen different versions, all good to great, but the '68 performance can't be beat.

#270530

Jeanno....one more time.......you are makin' and increadible job!!!

take care, Ale

#270535

Don't know what's my favorite version. I love them ALL.

(Original, 68 Comeback, Mid 70's, Late 70's)
Though I prefer E's vocals on the later versions.
But ofcourse I don't know if it's allowed to prefer a 75/76/77 version to the earlier versions.

#270536

Denman
I think that Tryin´ To Get To You was one of the few songs that ELVIS always enjoyed performing. Even the version from "Elvis in Concert" sounds pretty good.

Ale
Thanks!

#270554

Forgot to watch the video.
Very cool job, Jeanno

#270559

Thanks, Denman.

#270561

'68,thanks for the video

#270571

I voted 1974 Memphis concert. What a voice!

68 Comeback special comes closer.

I gotta mention the great performance that Elvis did during the Rapid City concert filmed for CBS TV Special.

THanks for the clip.

#270572

Great video work there Jeanno! I would love to see more. You seem to have some good source video.

This is one of the oldies that Elvis did good all the way. I love all the versions. The early version is perhaps the delicate, the -68 version the rawest and the 75-77 versions the most powerful. There are not many oldies that Elvis treated this good in his later years. However, Lawdy miss clawdy is another one them.

#270577

I agree with Jon on this one.... the Rapid City '77 version is the best

But, of course, I like them all

#270628

Elvis always pulled it out for this song and I love all versions of it.

It is a little dispiriting to see the '55 Sun side fairing so poorly. (It got my vote.)

But we all love it, no doubt.

Great video from the New Year's Eve concert, Jeanno!!!

#270694

I too would have preferred voting for June 21, 1977
Rick

#270695

And great work on the video!
rick

#270707

I am just watching the NYE 76 version now, and it is great to watch in synch. My personal fave is the Rapid city 77 version, but i have a soft spot for the 68 versions. Great to watch, and listen to as well. Na, i think i'll have to go with the 68 versions

#270710

OK. Now we need a new poll with Rapid City 77?

#270725

The '68 version might as well on another planet. The '55 version doesn't even hint at the depths that Elvis plummed in this song in 1968. Any other performance pales in comparison. As Greil Marcus said it was the finest music of his life.

#270736

Gregory

It is a little dispiriting to see the '55 Sun side fairing so poorly. (It got my vote.)

It´s still the second most voted!... after the 68 version.

Likethebike

The '68 version might as well on another planet. The '55 version doesn't even hint at the depths that Elvis plummed in this song in 1968. Any other performance pales in comparison. As Greil Marcus said it was the finest music of his life.

Completely agree.

#270958

Well, Jeanno, at the time of my post, the Sun version was flagging....

LTB, it's just apples and oranges to me. As much as I like the '68 (versions), there's an undeniable freshness and smooth but tough sound in the Sun version. He wouldn't be on stage on '68 had that not happened.

And I do love the '77 version. If you have to boil down the highlights, he brought a new "oomph" to it in later years, even beyond '68. I love the rawness of tthe '68 version, but some of it sounds like a man who needs to rest his vocal chords, as cool as it sounded...

All of it was outrageously good.

#270966

I'm rather partial to the version from the Dallas '76 show, during that great December tour.

It's not a million miles away from the 68 Special version either.

(Jeanno - nice work on the footage, my friend.)

YouTube · #271003

june 21, 1977 gets a vote from me.

Juan Luis · #271022

I voted for original version because Scotty is brilliant also, and that is what made those records legendary. The group... Not just Elvis by himself.

#271030

Most versions are GREAT, but nuttin' comes close to June 1968

#271089

Well, I would vote for the 'Elvis In Concert' version from Rapid City in 1977, but as you don't have it as a voting option I won't vote at all

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