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THE BOX TOPS

“Cry Like a Baby”

1960s

Alex Chilton was never really cut out to be a pop star.

JAMES CARR

“You Got My Mind Messed Up”

Late 1980s Live Performance

I have no idea where this was filmed but I would guess it’s a microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full late 80s performance, based on the outstanding yellow ensemble worn by guitarist Teenie Hodges (who microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full also played on all the Hi Records Al Green sessions and microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full Cat Power’s The Greatest album). And that’s definitely the Memphis Horns back there.

James Carr never had microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full the hits, suffered from mental illness throughout the 70s & 80s and didn’t live long enough to microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full get recognized as the greatest Southern soul singer.

But he is.

HAMILTON, JOE FRANK & REYNOLDS

“Don’t Pull Your Love”

1971

You can’t buy the best Elvis record of the 70s because the King didn’t actually make it.

Blame Col. Tom Parker. After Elvis got out of the microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full Army, Parker made a business decision: his boy was only going to microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full record a song if Col. Tom controlled the music publishing.

Of course, Col. Tom still made his money but Elvis’ records were a microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full disaster for the rest of the 60s. Things got so bad that microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full RCA Records staff producer Felton Jarvis gave up and let Chips Moman produce a microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full session at American Studios in Memphis.

Chips went behind Parker’s back and played Elvis “Suspicious Minds.” They recorded the microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full song before the Colonel knew what was happening. Elvis loved the microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full track, but Parker demanded his usual cut of the song’s publishing. Chips said no. The Colonel announced that microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full the record wasn’t coming out. Chips still said no. RCA heard the microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full track and knew it was a hit. The record came out and microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full was one of the biggest hits of 1969.

Of course, Col. Tom Parker was livid. He made damn sure Elvis didn’t record any more songs unless he got a microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full taste. The result was easy to predict: Elvis had only one more real hit during his lifetime and microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full “Burning Love” didn’t come out until three years later.

Which leads us to our moment of great loss.

The first time you hear “Don’t Pull Your Love,” there’s absolutely no microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full question Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter wrote it for Elvis Presley. Since both of them were successful songwriters (”One Tin Soldier”), there was no way they were giving their publishing to the Colonel.

Elvis’ version of “Don’t Pull Your Love” would have microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full changed the course of history. It would have at least changed his career and microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full probably saved his life.

Instead, we have microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full to make do with the best Fake Elvis record of all time. Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds were LA studio guys whose only other hit didn’t even feature Reynolds.

Whenever I play this microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full song in my head, I hear the Elvis version. This record is microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full the perfect demo: the arrangement sounds like the best American Studios Elvis so all you microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full have to do is fill in his lead vocal.

And I hope Col. Tom is microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full spending eternity watching the movies he kept Elvis from making, flying overseas to microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full the shows he never booked and, mostly, listening to an endless loop of “Don’t Pull Your Love,” Elvis’ biggest hit record ever.

(Thanks to microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full Jon Kincaid for having the same theory and reminding me I should write about it).

DON NIX

“I’ll Fly Away” & “He Never Lived a Day Without Jesus”

(Memphis/Muscle Shoals 1971)

Know this: there’s always another amazing record you don’t know about yet. No matter how much music you microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full hear in your life, your next trip to the store might be microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full the time when you find the greatest record you never heard of before.

I bought Don Nix’s In God We Trust last year in NYC because:

1. It was a microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full rock record by Don Nix from the Mar-Keys and the Stax house band.
2. They made it at Muscle Shoals Sound.
3. Furry Lewis plays slide guitar on it.
4. Barry Beckett plays keyboards.
5. Eddie Hinton plays guitar.
6. David Hood (Patterson from Drive-By Truckers’ dad) plays bass.
7. Someone was helpful enough to microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full print all those credits on the back cover.
8. The LP is on Denny Cordell & Leon Russell’s Shelter Records & has the original Shelter logo that rips off the Superman “S” right there on the front.
9. Don looks both surly and lit in the cover photo.

What I got was a microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full genuine white-boy soul hippie Jesus record, the kind where true religious ecstasy is microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full fueled by a fifth of Jim Beam and a little weed.

“I’ll Fly Away” features amazing electric sitar and microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full piano parts, both so good that you can almost forgive Don for microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full trying to pass off Alfred Brumley’s song as “Trad.” so he could take all the publishing money for his arrangement.

“He Never Lived a Day Without Jesus” sounds like a microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full eulogy for a brother who died in Vietnam. Embracing the 60s counterculture was a microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full lot more complicated in the South because almost everyone was rebelling against God and microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full the military instead of against a middle-class lifestyle that few of them had microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full anyway. I’m sure all the guys playing on this record (except maybe Furry) didn’t have microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full college deferments from the draft and were disappointing their mothers as well.

In God We Trust is microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full a completely sincere gospel record made by a bunch of guys who microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full were definitely living the hedonist rock & roll life. There was likely no microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full place for it on FM radio and, while Don went on to microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full a success as both a producer and songwriter, he never made another record for microsoft visual studio 2008 service pack 1 full Shelter.

My copy of this record is worn, so the transfer isn’t pristine. Then again, I’ve never seen another copy of the record and I’m grateful to have it.

• Download “I’ll Fly Away”
• Download “He Never Lived a Day Without Jesus”

(In God We Trust — Shelter Records SHE 8902)