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| Sound track Sessions for MGM's Live A Little, Love A Little March 7, 1968: Western Recorders, Hollywood. Speedway was the last of the typical, formulaic Elvis films, and MGM was looking for a more successful format for their next contracted release. Stay Away Joe was seen as a lighthearted western comedy, but the press was offended by the film's "quaint and patronizing view of American Indians as brawling, balling, boozing children." Live A Little, Love A Little, based on the novel Kiss Me Firm But Pliant Lips, offered a more contemporary story with just as little music. To record the four new titles Billy Strange was selected as the arranger and producer. Strange, who'd spent some time hanging out with Elvis in LA, had played guitar on other soundtrack sessions; he'd also been responsible for organizing the aborted August '67 sessions. Not exactly a hot producer with a string of hit records, he was still more alert to pop music of the day than most Nashville record folks. Strange liked recording with an orchestra in the studio, and for these sessions he brought with him not only a new group of musicians (except for Hal Blaine), but a totally different approach to recording. With written-out arrangements for the musicians, he treated each song individually, in a way that was foreign to Elvis's informal style. Out of the four songs, Edge Of Reality is the only one that stayed true to it's title, matching its bizarre cryptopsychedelic imagery with an overblown, '60s-LA production. First released as a single opposite If I Can Dream November 1968. ( The Complete Recording Sessions by Ernst Jorgensen) (The Elvis Encyclopedia by David E. Stanley) |
| Edge Of Reality |
| I walk along a thin line darling Dark shadows follow me Here's where life's dream lies disillusioned The edge of reality Oh I can hear strange voices echo Laughing with mockery The border line of doom I'm facing The edge of reality On the edge of reality she sits there tormenting me The girl with the nameless face On the edge of reality where she overpowers me With fears that I can't explain She drove me to the point of madness The brink of misery If she's not real then I'm condemned to The edge of reality On the edge of reality she sits there tormenting me The girl with the nameless face On the edge of reality where she overpowers me With fears that I can't explain She drove me to the point of madness The brink of misery If she's not real then I'm condemned to The edge of reality Reality, reality, reality, reality, Reality, reality, reality, reality Words & music: Giant/ Baum/ Kaye |
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