Previous Page February’s soundtrack recording for the Spinout film certainly didn’t raise his career-confidence. The material recorded for the movie was moderately better than what he laid down for Paradise Hawaiian Style (it would almost have to be), but little of it was notable at all. That’s probably the biggest sin of these songs; they offered nothing remarkably good or bad. It was just…material. It was an album of contractually-obligated filler (not counting the “bonus tracks” that were recorded later in the year). The best of the bunch from the film was “All That I Am,” a ballad that sounded like every other movie-ballad Elvis had been singing for years. The worst on the record was “Beach Shack.” Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Okay, nevermind: “Beach Shack” was terrible. One famous outtake-recording illustrated how Done With It All the singer was with the material he had to work with… Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this time in Elvis’s life is that he hadn’t forgotten how to make good music. He just wasn’t being allowed to make it regularly. At home, with only friends and tape-recorders around, Elvis was making amazing music. As those released candid home recordings show, when he was free from restrictions, deadlines, and corporate-approved lyrics by Hill and Range Publishing, Elvis could belt out hits as good as any chart-topper of the day… Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Thankfully, in a return to a tradition that never should have been abandoned, Elvis stepped into RCA’s Studio B in Nashville, in May of 1966, ready for a marathon recording session to produce a bona fide studio album. In fact he recorded enough material in those four days (plus another three songs recorded in June) for an album and a half. In all, twenty-one studio cuts were finished in May and June, with the bulk of the material meant to comprise a new Gospel album.
