Mystery Song 045
Tuesday July 8, 2003 – 10:31 amLast week’s Mystery Song was a live outtake of "Are You Lonesome Tonight", attempted by Elvis Presley. I have no idea what was going on there, but he could NOT stop laughing!! It’s from a Swedish compilation; I got it from a member of my old Incredibly Strange Music group on Audiogalaxy.
This week’s song is ready, as usual! Don’t spoil the surprise, now…
July 8th, 2003 at 3:08 pm
i can remember that version of ‘are you lonesome tonight’ as well.. well not remember it because i wasn’t born then i think.
the reason elvis was laughing was that there was a bold man sitting in the audience that caught his eye. then he started to play around with the lyrics and said something like"
"Now the stage is bare and I�m standing there"
and he adds:
"without any hair"
and goes into a laughing fit that he can’t recover from..
July 8th, 2003 at 6:42 pm
Most likely he was under the influence of some controlled substance or another. There’s an album full of Elvy’s rambling between-song patter (“Having Fun With Elvis On Stage”), where he just sounds completely out of his mind. Also, on the album "Moody Blue," he screws up a version of "Little Darlin’" ("…and to hold in mine, your little foot– er, HAND”).