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Artist: Glen Campbell Title: Glen Campbell Sings For The King Label:   UMe Country: Canada Date: 2018 Catalogue: B002822302 Barcode: 602567491439 Format: CD Album Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	Glen Campbell And Elvis Presley	We Call On Him	Fred Karger, Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
02	Glen Campbell	Easy Come, Easy Go	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
03	Glen Campbell	Any Old Time	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
04	Glen Campbell	Anyone Can Play	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
05	Glen Campbell	I Got Love	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
06	Glen Campbell	I'll Never Know	Fred Karger, Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
07	Glen Campbell	All I Needed Was The Rain	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
08	Glen Campbell	How Can You Lose What You Never Had	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
09	Glen Campbell	Spinout	Sid Wayne, Ben Weisman, Dolores Fuller	Rate
10	Glen Campbell	Magic Fire	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
11	Glen Campbell	I'll Be Back	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
12	Glen Campbell	Love On The Rocks	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
13	Glen Campbell	Stay Away, Joe	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
14	Glen Campbell	Cross My Heart And Hope To Die	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
15	Glen Campbell	Clambake	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
16	Glen Campbell	There's So Much World To See	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate
17	Glen Campbell	Do The Clam	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne, Dolores Fuller	Rate
18	Glen Campbell	Restless	Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne	Rate

Notes

Second label credited on inlay: Capitol. Compilation of demo recordings Campbell made two of Elvis Presley's regular songwriters in the 1960s before Campbell became star. Track 1 is a remix that combines Campbell's demo with Presley's version. Tracks 9 and 17 erroneously credited to Darrell Fuller.

Comments and Reviews

23skidoo 18th Jul 2022		Review Glen Campbell was one of a number of artists who, aside from their solo work, also recorded demo recordings on behalf of various songwriters to present to Elvis for consideration for use on future albums or movie soundtracks. Campbell, who actually played for Elvis on the Viva Las Vegas soundtrack, was recruited by the Weisman-Wayne songwriting team to do some of their demos that were at the time almost exclusively intended for film soundtracks as Elvis pretty much was only focusing on that kind of work in the mid-60s. This album is a revelation. It may be a hot take to say this, but most of Campbell's versions are far superior to what Elvis ended up recording. That's not necessarily a knock on Elvis, but it does show that clearly something happened between, for example, Campbell recording "Clambake" which has extra verses and a completely different "middle eight" than what Elvis pretty much sleepwalked through on the Clambake soundtrack. "Easy Come, Easy Go" is a very strong rocker with surprisingly risque lyrics for the time and amazing guitar work by Campbell; none of this is reflected in what Elvis recorded (he is famously quoted as referring to the ECEG soundtrack music as "s*it"). Even the infamous "Do the Clam" from Girl Happy (described by some biographers as the nadir of his career) comes off much the better in the demo version. (Trivia note: although the CD spells her name wrong, "Do the Clam" was one of several songs Weisman and Wayne wrote with Dolores Fuller who is also remembered as the girlfriend of director Edward D. Wood Jr and appeared in several of his infamous films such as Plan 9 from Outer Space). The strongest tracks on the album are the Bobbie Gentry-influenced "All I Needed Was the Rain" (it has the same feel as Gentry's "Nicky Hoeky" from around the same time) and a remix of what appears to have been the only non-movie-intended demo of the bunch, the spiritual "We Call on Him" which was recorded by Elvis for a single as he started to pull out of just doing the soundtracks, and the CD effectively combines his vocals with Campbell's demo to make an effective duet (though I do wish they'd included the unedited Campbell demo for comparison). The CD also lets listeners play a game of "what if" as several songs that were rejected by Elvis (or the filmmakers) are also included. Some of them are quite good (and on a few of them Campbell really does sound like Elvis) and it's fun to guess what movies the unused songs were intended for (for example, "Magic Fire" sounds like it might have been intended for Harum Scarum). Campbell, of course, wasn't the only talented performer to record demos for Elvis (others include PJ Proby, as well as the songwriters themselves in a few cases). It would be interesting to see more such releases compiling these demos. 1 person found this review helpful.   ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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