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| Studio Sessions for RCA June 4-8, 1970: RCA's Studio B, Nashville |
| June 7, After an unpromising start with one more forgettable Shirl Milete song "Life," a new idea began taking shape. The original plan to cut just eighteen songs could not have included any thought of a second album, but on the fourth night, all of a sudden, a country album began to emerge. They'd already cut a handful of solid tunes; now they began the project in earnest with a cover of Eddy Arnold's 1954 hit "I Really Don't Want To Know," cowritten by frequent Elvis balladeer Don Robertson. All at once Elvis seemed inspired, singing with a passion and soulfulness that recalled Memphis. The band fell in with equal feeling, their confidence and expressiveness growing along with his. Both singer and band were performing out of genre, improvising their own rhythms and phrasing on the spot, challenging each other. First released as Single side A: "I Really Don't Want To Know/There Goes My Everything." On The Charts: Billboard's Hot 100 (9 weeks-peaked at #12), Country (peaked at #9.) *The Complete Recording Sessions by Ernst Jorgensen* “When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: ‘Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song.' So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.” -From his acceptance speech for the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award. Given at a ceremony on January 16, 1971. (Elvis quotes from copyrighted material with lines from the song “Without a Song”.) |
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| Oh how many arms have held you And hated to let you go How many, oh how many, I wonder But I really don't want, I don't wanna know Oh how many lips have kissed you And set, set your soul aglow, yes they did How many, oh how many, I wonder, yes I do But I really don't want to know So always make, make me wonder And always make, make me guess And even, you know even if I ask you Oh darling oh don't you, don't confess Just let it, let it remain your secret Oh for darling, darling I love you so No wonder, yeah no wonder, I wonder Mmm, 'cause I really don't want, I don't wanna know Words & music: Barnes/ Robertson |
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