Lady Madonna

Shame there's not more of this as the released rehearsal run-through treatment of it offers potential for a great cover version.

Perfect song for Elvis to record and he should have tried this in the studio seriously instead of Hey Jude. Even McCartney said he tried to sing this in the Elvis style when The Beatles recorded it. Missed opportunity for a great track.

Nice tune, I love the last line " Are you guys hungry ?" :p

I remember a quotation by Ringo Starr: "Well, it IS Elvis, when he's getting to the high voice part..." ;-) Yeah. Would have loved this as a properly recorded version.

When I bought Walk a mile in my shoes, this was the song that I was most excited about. Obviously a great song from Lennon/McCartney. When I heard I was really dissapointed. Elvis could do fantastic rehearsal versions (like don´t think twice, it´s allright). This is not among them. None of the beatles songs he sang is great. I think he sounds uninspired on all of them

Of all The Beatles songs, this would have been the one to really nail in the studio. A missed opportunity. He never did a Beatles song justice. They were either in medleys, a rehearsal like this, or given a Vegasy big band/background voice arrangement like Something and Yesterday, taking away the simplicity of the songs melody.

Love this informal cover. It's my favourite Elvis cover from a Fab Four tune.

I find it very strange that people tend to compare jams, tryouts and informal recordings to real recordings. Elvis happen to be well known for singing in private, before and during recording sessions. Luckily some of these gems have been caught on tape. Even though some tend to slander his version of Yesterday and Something, I don't! I found Yesterday on the original On Stage album to be a nice and surprising song by Elvis. When I later heard the medley of Yesterday/Hey Jude, I'm glad they didn't include the Hey Jude segment on that album. That's one Beatles song I don't like in the live segment. Still, the tryout which ended up released on the Elvis Now album wasn't that bad. But, I'm sure if that recording had surfaced through FTD in later years I think the opinions would have been different. I don't think it was supposed to be released at all, like many of the other stuff we've been lucky to have. Regarding Lady Madonna, it would sure have come out a real gem if recorded properly! I love to listen to Elvis jams when he's fooling around. Would have loved to have even more of such stuff. That's when he was closest to his own soul in music. I tend to think that it was on occasions like these that That's All Right emerged back then!

it would have really been nice to hear Elvis do a serious studio version of this instead of a throwawy jam. Elvis could have done a nice job on it too. What there is, is still cool to have. Too bad Elvis didn't learn all the words (much like his version of Hey Jude or even Get Back). What is really a shame is of all the Beatles covers Elvis did--officially and not (Yesterday, Hey Jude, Lady Madonna, Something and Get Back), none were John Lennon tracks, but McCartney and Harrison. A shame since I believe John was the biggest fan of the 4.

i really would have been interested in hearing a song specially written by John & Paul for Elvis to record, arround the mid 60's. As for the one's he did record, there not bad, then again not great. My own fav is Get Back / Little Sister.

It's a "Jam-Rehearsal" and nothing more. But, it's a fun listen and Elvis sings it well, and as pointed out, if the song had been, properly rehearsed and recorded in a Studio, it could have been great !

Ah yes, if only he had a pop at a Lennon song. How about twist and shout? Now i'm feeling real sad, it can never happen, or is there a boot out there somewhere?

Elvis " voice here is closest to ow he realy sounded. Pity he dosent know the words too well here but what a beautiful snippet of what could and should have been. If only Elvis had sang from the soul more instead of the diaphram and vocal chords !

I'm still sick to my stomach about the Grammys cheating Elvis out of the "Best Historical Album" award. They obviously don't know the meaning of the word "historical". Then again we all know the Grammys aren't on the up and up and they never were.

I wish Elvis had recorded a full version of this song, because in my opinion, this would have been the "best" of the "BEATLES-song covers that he did.

Another release that would never have seen the light of day if he had lived a lot longer. He exercises his vocal cords on a song he has not bothered to learn or intend singing seriously, and comes out with something quite entertaining, but in this format just a throwaway.

A song with a New Orleans feeling to it. The original is based on a instrumental track called Bad Penny Blues.

Not a proper, serious recording, so i don't blame Elvis for the fact that it is practically unlistenable. But it is. 1 star.

Another off the cuff throw-away and why it's on this web site like a lot of others is beyond me. I agree with a reviewer below that Elvis never did the Beatles songs any justice; he should have left well enough alone.

Yet another Snippet Of The Day. Wasted space. 1 star.