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| Studio Sessions for RCA February 17-22, 1969: American Studios, Memphis Everyone had been working hard, and Elvis's longtime comrade Lamar Fike must have been beaming. Two of his tunes, "My Little Friend" and "Inherit The Wind," had been recorded in January, and another, "Memory Revival," was slated to be cut before the end of these sessions. Newly encouraged, he had gone back to his star songwriter, Eddie Rabbitt, and persuaded him to give up his best new song, a contemporary country ballad called "Kentucky Rain." So he must have been thrilled when at 7:30 on the evening of February 19 Elvis started work on the new number, putting Lamar one song ahead of his boss Freddy Bienstock. "I like that tempo," Chips Moman began, "but one thing is wrong. It needs to feel a little brighter. The tempo is about right, but it needs just to have a little edge to it, you know....I think it'll come naturally, just count it off at the same tempo." It wasn't an easy song for the musicians to grasp, and it took hours to work out the difficulties and arive at a truly accomplished rendition----but it was worth it. This song, everyone agreed, was a potential single. Chips and Felton were united, Chips as producer shouting instructions, Felton as cheerleader offering the kind of support Elvis relied on to spur him onward. Recorded February 19, 1969, First released as Single: Kentucky Rain/My Little Friend, February 1971. On The Charts: Billboard's Hot 100, 9 weeks (peaked at #16, Country Best-Sellers (peaked at #31) One million sales plus. (The Complete Recording Sessions by Ernst Jorgensen) (The Elvis Encyclopedia by David E. Stanley) This is another of Maurice's favorites. So for all you do for Tamara & I, this one is for you. |
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| Seven lonely days And a dozen towns ago I reached out one night And you were gone Don't know why you'd run, What you're running to or from All I know I want to bring you home So I'm walking in the rain, Thumbing for a ride On this lonely Kentucky backroad I've loved you much too long And my love's too strong To let you go, never knowing What went wrong Kentucky rain keeps pouring down And up ahead's another town That I'll go walking thru With the rain in my shoes, Searchin for you In the cold Kentucky rain, In the cold Kentucky rain Showed your photograph To some old gray bearded man Sitting on a bench Outside a gen'ral store They said "Yes, she's been here" But their memory wasn't clear Was it yesterday, No, wait the day before So I fin'ly got a ride With a preacher man who asked "Where you bound on such a cold dark afternoon?" As we drove on thru the rain As he listened I explained And he left me with a prayer That I'd find you Kentucky rain keeps pouring down And up ahead's another town That I'll go walking thru With the rain in my shoes, Searchin for you In the cold Kentucky rain, In the cold Kentucky rain, In the cold Kentucky rain, In the cold Kentucky rain, In the cold Kentucky rain Words & music: Eddie Rabbitt |
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