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Was "Cryin Time" scheduled to be recorded?

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I know this was a song that was goofed about with during the filming of TTWII and there is also an audience tape of a fairly good live version sung straight. Not a song I was ever familiar with in the UK but I have always wondered if it was scheduled to be recorded in the studio in 1970. Could it have featured on the Country or Love Letters album ? He obviously knew it well and was comfortable with it enough.



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charroman wrote:I know this was a song that was goofed about with during the filming of TTWII and there is also an audience tape of a fairly good live version sung straight. Not a song I was ever familiar with in the UK but I have always wondered if it was scheduled to be recorded in the studio in 1970. Could it have featured on the Country or Love Letters album ? He obviously knew it well and was comfortable with it enough.
There's no evidence it was slated for the June 1970 sessions. But, of course, a lot of the country material that got waxed came from Elvis just introducing the music into the evening's session. Presley must have been in a bit of a country mood at the time, he also fooled around with Eddy Arnold's "Cattle Call" when rehearsing for the MGM cameras in July 1970. One downside to "Crying Time" is that it'd been recorded by at least two dozen artists since 1964, with Ray Charles serving up a timeless hit version in 1965.


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...there is a couple later live versions available...but on the short side if I remember correctly...




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Too bad. Would have been better than some of the songs that were recorded. Cryin Time was right in his wheelhouse vocally.




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It is one of those songs along with "When The Snow Falls On The Roses" that he knew and is known to have sung that had potential to be recorded. "Cryin Time" being particularly frustrating in that to date we only have audience tapes to turn to for full versions where he is not fooling around i believe. There are a few other notable performances like this that deserve to be better known and to investigate deeper if soundboards or rehearsals exist or if any improvement can be made on existing tapes. Off the top of my head I can think of the following from the 70-72 era that are more than "one liners" and a couple of these actually do have fairly reasonable audio albeit audience taped. Are there others?

Folsom Prison /I Walk The Line
Oh Happy Day
Sweet Inspiration
Tiger Man
Cryin Time
When The Snow Falls On The Roses
I Need Your Lovin Every Day



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sweetangeline wrote:...there is a couple later live versions available...but on the short side if I remember correctly...
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thanks for posting John...re-fresh my memory what CD`s are they on??



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charroman wrote:It is one of those songs along with "When The Snow Falls On The Roses" that he knew and is known to have sung that had potential to be recorded. "Cryin Time" being particularly frustrating in that to date we only have audience tapes to turn to for full versions where he is not fooling around i believe. There are a few other notable performances like this that deserve to be better known and to investigate deeper if soundboards or rehearsals exist or if any improvement can be made on existing tapes. Off the top of my head I can think of the following from the 70-72 era that are more than "one liners" and a couple of these actually do have fairly reasonable audio albeit audience taped. Are there others?

Folsom Prison /I Walk The Line
Oh Happy Day
Sweet Inspiration
Tiger Man
Cryin Time
When The Snow Falls On The Roses
I Need Your Lovin Every Day
Speaking of questions, just curious, did you see my reply to your OP?


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Yes thanks Doc and was not aware it was a well covered or known song but you are right in that a good proportion of the songs i listed are country . Maybe he was running a mental list on his country favourites



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sweetangeline wrote:thanks for posting John...re-fresh my memory what CD`s are they on??
http://www.elvisoncd.com/frame.htm?http://www.elvisoncd.com/EIGENECD_a-z/import/C/cryingtime.htm


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sweetangeline wrote:...re-fresh my memory what CD`s are they on??
Folsom Prison /I Walk The Line
Oh Happy Day
http://www.elvisoncd.com/EIGENECD_a-z/import/T/themaninwhite3.htm

Sweet Inspiration
Tiger Man
http://www.elvisoncd.com/EIGENECD_a-z/import/memory/abrightmidnight.htm

Cryin Time
http://www.elvisoncd.com/EIGENECD_a-z/import/C/cryingtime.htm

When The Snow Falls On The Roses
http://www.elvisoncd.com/eigenecd/CD/l/liveinlasvegas.htm (CD2)

I Need Your Lovin Every Day
http://www.elvisoncd.com/EIGENECD_a-z/import/0-9/71summer2.htm


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Appreciate the update Cisco That Midnight show from Aug 14th sure would be an interesting one if it exists on soundboard. I presume that the Man In White import was accurate in the time and date of the show?
A great setlist with some real rarities



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charroman wrote:Appreciate the update Cisco That Midnight show from Aug 14th sure would be an interesting one if it exists on soundboard. I presume that the Man In White import was accurate in the time and date of the show?
A great setlist with some real rarities
...and what everyone is wondering about: the tapes. Bruce recorded every show he did with Elvis. It's a fact.
http://www.elvis-collectors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=96908

Too bad Bruce Jackson hadn't start working for Presley in 1970 8)


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charroman wrote:Appreciate the update Cisco That Midnight show from Aug 14th sure would be an interesting one if it exists on soundboard. I presume that the Man In White import was accurate in the time and date of the show?
A great setlist with some real rarities
The date is correct, yep !


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