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Other tidbits: The version of "Lip Service" on ''Honky Tonk Demos'' is also known as "Cheap Reward." Honky Tonk itself takes its name from UK DJ Charlie Gilett's Radio London show, for which Elvis recorded the EP in his lean and hungry days. It was also slated to be a prize in a ''New Musical Express'' contest, but Elvis and Jake Riviera [[New Musical Express, January 26, 1980|nixed]] the idea. | Other tidbits: The version of "Lip Service" on ''Honky Tonk Demos'' is also known as "Cheap Reward." Honky Tonk itself takes its name from UK DJ Charlie Gilett's Radio London show, for which Elvis recorded the EP in his lean and hungry days. It was also slated to be a prize in a ''New Musical Express'' contest, but Elvis and Jake Riviera [[New Musical Express, January 26, 1980|nixed]] the idea. | ||
A few letters contained possible additions to ''The Great Lost Elvis Costello Album'', though some are ineligible based on our rule that all material must be written by the artist. Dutch reader Edwin Blanker has a bootleg EP called ''Cowboy Discs'', credited to Tex and the Attractions, that contains "Honky Tonkin' and "Honky Tonk Blues," the latter written by Hank Williams. He also has a song, "Really Mystified," recorded during a BBC session, on a bootleg | A few letters contained possible additions to ''The Great Lost Elvis Costello Album'', though some are ineligible based on our rule that all material must be written by the artist. Dutch reader Edwin Blanker has a bootleg EP called ''Cowboy Discs'', credited to Tex and the Attractions, that contains "Honky Tonkin' and "Honky Tonk Blues," the latter written by Hank Williams. He also has a song, "Really Mystified," recorded during a BBC session, on a bootleg EP entitled ''Cornered on Plastic''. Alfonso "watching the defectives" Cardenas of Providence, Rhode Island has heard the following titles during various concerts: "Idle Hands" ("Elvis was doing this song with different lyrics from the eventual version which became 'Temptation' on ''Get Happy!!''), "Black Sails in the Sunset," and "Human Hands." Except where noted, we cannot confirm or deny whether Elvis wrote any of these songs. | ||
By the way, if you're interested in covers, Erskine Wood says "there's enough for a 20-song ''Elvis Sings Others'' LP." He counts the three covers (actually four and possibly five) on our original track roster for ''The Great Lost Elvis Costello Album'', Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" from ''Our Aim Is True'', six commercially released covers, and 10 more. "One More Heartache" (Marvin Gaye), "(You Got to Walk and) Don't Look Back" (Temptations), and "Help Me" (author unknown — is it a cover?) are available on the bootleg LP ''Something New'', a pressing of a 1980 KBFH radio broadcast. "Really Mystifying" is a Merseybeats song that exists only on tapes of John Peel sessions from 1978; whether it's the same song as Blanker's "Really Mystified" will remain a mystery (though it sounds probable). "Psycho" (author unknown — but it's "''not'' the Sonics song"), "(If I Put Them All Together) I'd Have You" (George Jones), and "He'll Have to Go" (Patsy Cline) appear on the bootleg LP ''Live at the Palomino Club 1979''. Finally, Elvis performed "Little Sister" (Elvis Presley — !), "Need Your Love So Bad" (Little Willie John), and "He's Got You" (author unknown) at the Palladium in New York earlier this year. | |||
I recently acquired a new bootleg LP, ''This Years Superstar'' (apostrophe missing), with two songs I'd never heard before — "I Can't Do It All By Myself," a hard-driving blues number (author unknown), and "Girls Go Home." The latter turns out to be a mislabeled "Secondary Modern." | |||
I'd like to thank everyone who wrote in to offer the information above. I usually didn't attribute information except in cases where only one reader knew a given thing, but every response was carefully read and much appreciated, especially the ones that hastened to reassure me that I am not an idiot. I expected a few sparks to fly, but I never imagined that kindness would be one of your most common reactions. Thank to: Fred Mills, Durham, North Carolina; Bill Baldwin, Syracuse, New York; Andrew Elias of Facts on File, Rego Park, New York; Jeff Lemlich, Miami, Florida; Scott McCaughey, Seattle, Washington; Stan W. Twist, Portland, Oregon; Rick Shear, Union, New Jersey; J.D. Henker, West Covina, California; Tom Jefferson (if I read | |||
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