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September 07, 1957
There was another session at the Radio Recorders from noon till 8.00 p.m. However there was still one song for the new Christmas album missing, so Leiber and Stoller wrote a new one. This was the bluesy song: Santa Claus Is Back In Town, which Elvis liked very much.
There were plans made for recording some instrumental tracks by Scotty, Bill and D.J. at the end of the session. Elvis even suggested he would join them as a piano man. However at the end of the session there was not enough time left and Elvis said or did nothing for Scotty, Bill and D.J. This made Scotty and Bill write a letter of resignation and they expressed their long-held feelings of resentment towards Elvis. D.J. declined to go along with them. This all gave some bitterness on both sides.
Song of the day
Fountain of Love
I was all set to write a comment about this song really nothing special and dismiss it, but it turned out this is one of the 547 Elvis songs on my ipod, so I am listening to it this very second and it is far better than I remembered it. Elvis' voice is so smooth moving from the depths of the opening note to all the high notes throughout the song. The range of the song reminds me of Johnny Mathis and the style makes me think of Dean Martin. I can see how this wouldn't suit everyone's tastes--and in the end, it is a "slight" song, much like "Never Ending"--but taken on its own, out of all context (not compared to Elvis' other work, or what was going on in the 60's) it stands up well as a nice-enough song performed by an unmatched vocalist.
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