This alternate version of "Hurt" is from the FTD CD called "The Jungleroom Sessions." This is what came out of RCA going to Graceland and making a temporary studio out of the infamous "jungleroom." Elvis sings with so much emotion on this collection of songs. Enjoy!
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WARNING: Elvis uses the "MF" word at the end of this! This is take #1 from "Love Letters From Elvis"...an FTD CD of the same name. Enjoy! (Words & music by Kaye - Weisman - Fuller) Wish I was an apple dangling from a tree Every time you'd pass me by you'd take a bite of me I wish I was a bluebird I'd never fly away I'd sit up on your shoulder baby and sing to you all dayCome on home Cindy Cindy, Come on home Cindy Cindy Come on home Cindy Cindy, Come on home to me I wrote it in a letter ...
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This is from the FTD CD "The Jungleroom Sessions", the infamous recording session where RCA had to go to Graceland to get him to record. They turned "the jungleroom" into a temporary recording studio. There were some beautiful, but sad songs when they were finished.
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This is take #10 from the FTD "Love Letters From Elvis." This song was originally found on the 1971 RCA album of the same name. (words & music by Milete) Somewhere out in empty space, long before the human race, Something stirred, A vast and timeless source began, Intelligence was born and then, there was the world, Powers filled the universe, matter formed and broke the curse, Of nothingness, Love became an ageless soul, nature reached her highest goal, And breathed the breath of life ...
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The girl next door went a'walking She found the boy she likes She wanted to get married Settle down for life The girl next door went a'walking She knew it wasn't right She came home at half past ten Late every night The girl next door went a'walking She found the boy she likes She wanted to get married Settle down for life She didn't know love was so grand She never took love second hand But to my surprise She thought that love was paradise The girl next door went a'walking She found the boy ...
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(words & music by Darrell Glenn) Our friends all ask me The last time I saw you And I smile and tell them It's been a day or two There's no way to explain it The way that I miss you And my love, you have left me Indescribably blue I talk to your picture My fav'rite one of you I wish that you were here with me But what good will it do Having no way to tell you The pain that I've been through Oh, my love, you have left me Indescribably blue Yes, my love, you have left me Indescribably blue ...
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"(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame" is a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman for Elvis Presley, who was the first to perform it. It is one of 25 songs Pomus and Shuman wrote for Presley. The relatively intense tune, featuring a Bo Diddley beat, performed well on both pop and easy listening stations, reaching #4 on the Billboard Top 100, and #2 on the Easy Listening chart, based (at the time) on the Top 100, but deleting "teen beat" singles. The single (a double A-side with "Little ...
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Swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home Swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home I looked over Jordan and what did I see Coming for to carry me home A band of angels coming after me Coming for to carry me home (chorus) Sometimes I'm up and sometimes I'm down Coming for to carry me home But still my soul feels heavenly bound Coming for to carry me home (chorus) The brightest day that I can say Coming for to carry me home When Jesus washed my sins away, Coming for to ...
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