I was listening to the classic country station yesterday and I heard a song that I was sure was an Elvis song. Same kind of intro, beat, lyrics, and vocals as a typical Elvis song, but at the end of the play the DJ gave the guys name and to my shock it was not Elvis. I don’t think the DJ made a mistake because something tells me I made this mistake before with the same song.
Anyway, here’s the problem; I don’t remember any of the song, or the artist. I just remember it being a popular song/artist in its day and the shock of it not being Elvis, everything else is a blank.
It’s going to be someone like Conway Twitty, Goerge Jones, etc., a very recognizable name.
Please give me the artist and the song, if you will. I won’t be able to sleep tonite. Thanks in advance.
Can you give us an Elvis song that it sounded like? Was it more “Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear” or more “Can’t Help Falling In Love”?
I don’t really know what kind of songs they would play on a classic country station, but I’ll take a shot in the dark: Was it Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers? (Sound plays when link clicked)
No, no, no…it’s going to be along the lines of the ones I mentioned in the OP. Not too old, probably from the early 70`s.
Kentucky Rain keeps popping into my head. IIRC, it was a love type song.
Ral Donner is the only singer who (IMHO) sounds anything like Elvis. Would your station have played something from the early 60’s?
Not to hijack, but NPR played a snippet of something a few weeks back that sounded very much like a young Johnny Cash. That’s the one keeping me awake.
Only took two hours of web-scouring, but I succeeded. Thanks to those that offered assistance.
Of course, at this point any comments regarding how crazy I must be to mix Twitty with Elvis are welcome, unless you kind of agree that that particular song is Elvis enough to confuse the average music fan.
According to Twitty’s biography, when “It’s Only Make Believe” came out, people thought it sounded so much like Elvis that Twitty’s manager kept him out of the public eye, hoping to fuel rumors that the song actually was by Elvis.
