![]() yeah right!) and deciding on a new ending ("We just fade this thing out, let's not do that stop ending"). yeah, I like that bass thing") to working out how the female backup singers should sing with him. This really gets you an idea of how Elvis worked with a song, from discussing the intro, ("No man, the drummer was right. ![]() ![]() Elvis runs through 14 takes with his players and singers to record a master to his satisfaction, and ten of the outtakes (four of them complete) are included. One example of a song that stretched the bounds of the strictly sacred is "Seeing Is Believing," written by Red West. (With the exception of the rocking "I've Got Confidence" that Elvis nailed in two takes.) Maybe not that big a surprise, as Elvis was probably already familiar with the traditional gospel songs selected for the album, such as "Bosom Of Abraham" and "I, John." Listening to Elvis and his musicians at work, one gets the feeling that it was the modern Christian material that demanded their attention the most. Recorded in Nashville in March, May and June 1971, the recently released FTD treatment of the album opens the door to RCA's Studio B to let us experience these recording sessions first hand. ![]() Unlike Elvis' first two religious albums, His Hand In Mine and How Great Thou Art, his third and last one, He Touched Me, was a mix of traditional gospel and more contemporary Christian music. ![]()
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