im anschluss an die diskussion ueber elvis (nicht-) identifikation mit seinen songs und dem umstand, dass 'in the ghetto' in der ersten augustwoche '69 es ueberraschenderweise in die top ten der US popcharts schaffte - ein kleiner bericht, auf den ich in der gestrigen ausgabe der 'texarkana gazette' gestossen bin. auch der komponist mac davis kommt zu wort.
now there was a song: ‘In the Ghetto’ a surprise hit in 1969
Friday, August 4, 2006 9:47 AM CDT
By DOUG DAVIS / Texarkana Gazette
This week in 1969, actress Sharon Tate and three houseguests were found murdered in her Beverly Hills home, Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president in 25 years to visit Romania, ex-Green Beret Robert Rheault and seven others were charged with murder in Saigon and an Elvis record about poor folks was topping the record charts.
A lot of Elvis Presley songs were written especially for him, but according to Mac Davis, Presley’s 1969 hit, “In the Ghetto”, was not such a song.
Davis commented, “I never really dreamed of pitching that song to Elvis. I had been working on ‘In the Ghetto’ for several years. I grew up playing with a little boy in Lubbock, Texas, whose family lived in a dirt street ghetto. His dad and my dad worked in construction together. So that little boy and I sort of grew up together. I never understood why his family had to live where they lived while my family lived where we lived. Of course back in those days, the word ‘ghetto’ hadn’t come along yet. But I always wanted to write a song about that situation and title it ‘The Vicious Circle.’ I thought that if you were born in that place and that situation, then you grow up there and one day you die there, and another kid is born there that kind of replaces you. And later I started thinking about the ghetto as a title for the song. In the meantime, Freddy Weller had showed me a guitar lick he had been playing. I liked the lick and went home one night and used that guitar lick and wrote that song."
“I didn’t write the song for anyone in particular, but later while I was working on an album in Memphis, Chips Moman called me and said Elvis was recording and asked me if I had any songs for him. So I sent him a tape with 19 songs on it and Elvis recorded the first three songs on the tape, ‘In the Ghetto,’ ‘Don’t Cry Daddy’ and another song they never released titled ‘Poor Man’s Gold.’ A lot of people have asked me about Elvis talking to me about ‘In the Ghetto.’ I don’t think we ever had a conversation about that song ... either before or after he recorded it.”
“In the Ghetto” made it to No. 3 on the pop music charts and scored in the top 50 on the country charts in 1969.
quelle: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/arti...features07.txt
now there was a song: ‘In the Ghetto’ a surprise hit in 1969
Friday, August 4, 2006 9:47 AM CDT
By DOUG DAVIS / Texarkana Gazette
This week in 1969, actress Sharon Tate and three houseguests were found murdered in her Beverly Hills home, Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president in 25 years to visit Romania, ex-Green Beret Robert Rheault and seven others were charged with murder in Saigon and an Elvis record about poor folks was topping the record charts.
A lot of Elvis Presley songs were written especially for him, but according to Mac Davis, Presley’s 1969 hit, “In the Ghetto”, was not such a song.
Davis commented, “I never really dreamed of pitching that song to Elvis. I had been working on ‘In the Ghetto’ for several years. I grew up playing with a little boy in Lubbock, Texas, whose family lived in a dirt street ghetto. His dad and my dad worked in construction together. So that little boy and I sort of grew up together. I never understood why his family had to live where they lived while my family lived where we lived. Of course back in those days, the word ‘ghetto’ hadn’t come along yet. But I always wanted to write a song about that situation and title it ‘The Vicious Circle.’ I thought that if you were born in that place and that situation, then you grow up there and one day you die there, and another kid is born there that kind of replaces you. And later I started thinking about the ghetto as a title for the song. In the meantime, Freddy Weller had showed me a guitar lick he had been playing. I liked the lick and went home one night and used that guitar lick and wrote that song."
“I didn’t write the song for anyone in particular, but later while I was working on an album in Memphis, Chips Moman called me and said Elvis was recording and asked me if I had any songs for him. So I sent him a tape with 19 songs on it and Elvis recorded the first three songs on the tape, ‘In the Ghetto,’ ‘Don’t Cry Daddy’ and another song they never released titled ‘Poor Man’s Gold.’ A lot of people have asked me about Elvis talking to me about ‘In the Ghetto.’ I don’t think we ever had a conversation about that song ... either before or after he recorded it.”
“In the Ghetto” made it to No. 3 on the pop music charts and scored in the top 50 on the country charts in 1969.
quelle: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/arti...features07.txt
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