Girl of Mine

[Kylan]

After reading the thread discussing the merits of FTD Raised on Rock I decided to give it a spin after a long absence. Wow I forgot how dreadful Girl of Mine sounds. Geesh I thought something was wrong with my sound system. Lol all this because someone took his prized mic???

[brian]

Agreed the song was horrible he never should have recorded it. Sounds like a Tom Jones reject and it probably was.Yeah sometimes Elvis' recordings sounded poor. He should have left RCA at some point and worked with better engineers or sound systems or whatever.

[stevelecher]

Yeah...uh, it was the mic and RCA's sound systems.

[brian]

It's true at times throughout Elvis' career his recordings sounded like he was singing in the bathroom or through a tin can or something. If you are implying it was drugs that's certainly wasn't true all the time. Unless Al Patucki was high or Bill Porter was high. Which may have been the case I don't know.

[fn2drive]

He had clearly packed down the downers before doing this one. Having said that this is one of my guilty pleasures. Utter crap but I enjoy.

[jeanno]

Everything that i avoid in the later Elvis is present there: terrible country song, uninspired bland performance, awful singing and bad sound.

[Jokerlola]

Agreed the song was horrible he never should have recorded it. Sounds like a Tom Jones reject and it probably was.Yeah sometimes Elvis' recordings sounded poor. He should have left RCA at some point and worked with better engineers or sound systems or whatever.

Actually it was a Engelbert Humperdinck non reject from 1972:

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[r&b]

Everything that i avoid in the later Elvis is present there: terrible country song, uninspired bland performance, awful singing and bad sound.

Agree - As Marty once stated, the sh*t material was really coming his way by this time.

[minkahed]

He had clearly packed down the downers before doing this one. Having said that this is one of my guilty pleasures. Utter crap but I enjoy.

We know it ...

[Steve Morse]

He had clearly packed down the downers before doing this one. Having said that this is one of my guilty pleasures. Utter crap but I enjoy.

That made me laugh !

I like the lyrics of the song - fitted my life back in 1974. The sound, however, is abysmal.

[EPA4368]

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[ForeverElvis]

He had clearly packed down the downers before doing this one. Having said that this is one of my guilty pleasures. Utter crap but I enjoy.

That made me laugh !

I like the lyrics of the song - fitted my life back in 1974. The sound, however, is abysmal.

I’ve often wondered why the sound on this song was so bad, anyone know why it sounded so different from everything else on ROR, different here means worse than anything else recorded at this session in terms of sound.


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[jurasic1968]

The sound is bad and the song also.

[fn2drive]

He had clearly packed down the downers before doing this one. Having said that this is one of my guilty pleasures. Utter crap but I enjoy.

That made me laugh !

I like the lyrics of the song - fitted my life back in 1974. The sound, however, is abysmal.

I’ve often wondered why the sound on this song was so bad, anyone know why it sounded so different from everything else on ROR, different here means worse than anything else recorded at this session in terms of sound.


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On Keith Flynn’s site, it is noted that this was the night Elvis mike couldn’t be located and another was used. Elvis didn’t like the sound and left. I suspect his behavior and the sound had more to do with his state and the serious abuse of downers which are present throughout Stax 1 but really obvious on this track.

[jurasic1968]

The July 1973 Stax recording session was bad and Elvis was in a poor form, physically and vocally.

[Tmorelli01]

Agreed the song was horrible he never should have recorded it. Sounds like a Tom Jones reject and it probably was.Yeah sometimes Elvis' recordings sounded poor. He should have left RCA at some point and worked with better engineers or sound systems or whatever.

Actually it was a Engelbert Humperdinck non reject from 1972:

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Great find! The fact that Elvis was covering Engelbert Humperdinck in 1973, and doing a very poor job of it at that, shows just how far he had fallen since the summer of 1972 and the Aloha event just a few months earlier. For RCA to commit it to vinyl and push it out so quickly shows how desperate they were for new Elvis material.

[r&b]

Agreed the song was horrible he never should have recorded it. Sounds like a Tom Jones reject and it probably was.Yeah sometimes Elvis' recordings sounded poor. He should have left RCA at some point and worked with better engineers or sound systems or whatever.

Actually it was a Engelbert Humperdinck non reject from 1972:

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Great find! The fact that Elvis was covering Engelbert Humperdinck in 1973, and doing a very poor job of it at that, shows just how far he had fallen since the summer of 1972 and the Aloha event just a few months earlier. For RCA to commit it to vinyl and push it out so quickly shows how desperate they were for new Elvis material.

Yes the fall was quite obvious from less than a year before , but it seemed like he fell from MT Everest when compared to 1969.

[KwimperBoy73]

I think "Girl of Mine" is a fair song at best, and probably would have sounded much better if Elvis did it at the December Stax sessions when his voice was much improved. The stolen microphone story is strange. One would think Al Pachucki would have spoken up about the mic before they started recording that night. Or, at the very least, went out to get a suitable replacement instead of accepting the crap mic that the Stax crew offered. Perhaps Elvis wouldn't have walked out on the session and the song would have sounded better (maybe). Can't say that I blame RCA for wanting to get rid of Pachucki. Listening to his work with Elvis, Al Pachucki was hit or miss. Sometimes his work was excellent, and others, you had results like this plus the mic distortion issues at the 1971 sessions.

[fn2drive]

Agreed the song was horrible he never should have recorded it. Sounds like a Tom Jones reject and it probably was.Yeah sometimes Elvis' recordings sounded poor. He should have left RCA at some point and worked with better engineers or sound systems or whatever.

Actually it was a Engelbert Humperdinck non reject from 1972:

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Great find! The fact that Elvis was covering Engelbert Humperdinck in 1973, and doing a very poor job of it at that, shows just how far he had fallen since the summer of 1972 and the Aloha event just a few months earlier. For RCA to commit it to vinyl and push it out so quickly shows how desperate they were for new Elvis material.

Indeed it is a great find. Despite the arguments to contrary by the 70s-philes, after American, Elvis began his long journey, indeed descent, to become the King Of the MOR vesting himself in the songs of Englebert and the vocalizing of Tom Jones. He did neither very well as the decade marched on. And after his pivot to the loves lost funeral dirges, it was lights out. Having said that, even in Elvis’ obviously heavily medicated state, his GOM sounds better than this Humperdinck monstrosity. Elvis tries to make something of it ( perhaps why it is a guilty pleasure of mine), but with his voice ruined and his spirit wrecked, falls short of the mark. In earlier years, he could take dreck like this and make it sound like pop perfection. If only Elvis had been surrounded by people who could have inspired him-whether ballads, rock, pop or r&b, we could have been treated to decades more of really great music. Could we have expect much more from him though about a month after a nearly fatal OD?

You note the summer of 72 as a key milestone. I have always considered the Aug 72 Vegas session as the one that snuffed out the remaining bit of his soul. Yes he managed to get up for Aloha and turned in a few great performances in Honolulu but that was like the last few miles of your beloved car before the engine seizes up and is at last beyond repair.

[ForeverElvis]

He had clearly packed down the downers before doing this one. Having said that this is one of my guilty pleasures. Utter crap but I enjoy.

That made me laugh !

I like the lyrics of the song - fitted my life back in 1974. The sound, however, is abysmal.

I’ve often wondered why the sound on this song was so bad, anyone know why it sounded so different from everything else on ROR, different here means worse than anything else recorded at this session in terms of sound.


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On Keith Flynn’s site, it is noted that this was the night Elvis mike couldn’t be located and another was used. Elvis didn’t like the sound and left. I suspect his behavior and the sound had more to do with his state and the serious abuse of downers which are present throughout Stax 1 but really obvious on this track.

I’m no sound expert but I think it’s a stretch that it could only be a lousy microphone that caused the sound to be so poor on GOM.
Could that be it a microphone, or did the engineer do something else?
It’s sound is so bad, I’m surprised it was deemed release-able.


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