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[REX]

The 41st Anniversary of SUSPICIOUS MINDS

Is with us NOW !

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Recorded in the Early Morning hours of the 23rd January 1969 (during the 4am to 7 am Sesson)
At AMERICAN SOUND STUDIOS - Memphis.

"Suspicious Minds" is a song about being trapped in a mistrusting and dysfunctional relationship.

Originally, and most notably, a Big Hit for Elvis in 1969.

"Suspicious Minds" was widely regarded as the Single that jump-started his career after his successful '68 Comeback Special.

It was his eighteenth and last number-one single in the United States.

Rolling Stone later ranked it #91 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

[SweetCaroline]

WOWZA!!!!!!! Absolutely FABULOUS screen grabs!!!!! and amazing information as always. You keep out doing yourself, Rex, which doesn't seem possible. ELVIS really seemed to truly enjoy performing this number!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/00000407.gif)

[REX]

WOWZA!!!!!!! Absolutely FABULOUS screen grabs!!!!! and amazing information as always. You keep out doing yourself, Rex, which doesn't seem possible. ELVIS really seemed to truly enjoy performing this number!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/00000407.gif)

Thankyou Carole.... just trying to get it altogether........

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MARK JAMES ~ Talking about “Suspicious Minds”

First coming to prominence as the writer of B.J. Thomas’s Top 5 smash, “Hooked On A Feeling,” Mark James crafted one of Elvis’s most enduring and lasting songs, the No. 1 hit “Suspicious Minds.” Elvis cut an additional four songs penned by James (”It’s Only Love,” “Raised on Rock,” “Moody Blue” and “Always on My Mind”).

“The idea for ‘Suspicious Minds’ came to me one night.

First the title came…I thought about it and lived with it a while.

Then the lyric came to me: ‘Caught in a trap, I can’t walk out because I love you too much baby.’ What I was trying to say is we can’t live together, attain our dreams or build on anything if we don’t trust one another.

That’s what I mean by suspicious minds. If there’s distrust in a relationship or you’re wondering if your partner wants to be with somebody else, you can’t go forward. The chorus, which says, ‘We can’t go on together with suspicious minds,’ is what I was trying to get across with the song. I was lucky to start the song in an abstract way…

“‘Suspicious Minds’ captured a lot of soul. In Houston, I grew up on a lot of soulful artists and I learned a lot from them. I put ‘Suspicious Minds’ together in about a week-a week and a half. I was a writer trying to write a great song, a hit song, and it came off just right.

“The single came out on Scepter Records in ‘68, and Elvis didn’t come into American Studios until ‘69. He booked American Studios for two weeks.

Chips Moman and Don Cruise were partners. Chips was more the creator, and Don was a good businessman who had a lot of heart and soul. He kept the studio goin’ through a lot of lean years. American Studios was like Motown. A lot of hit records came out of there.

Don came up to me one day and said, ‘You know Elvis is coming in?’ I replied, ‘I know, I’m trying to come up with something great for him.’ I analyzed it a little bit. Elvis was in his early 30s. I thought, ‘How can you be a rock star and be in your mid-30s and still be viable?’

“That same year Tom Jones had taken it over. Elvis had released a lot of songs from his movies, and his musical career had really gone down as far as controlling the national charts. Tom Jones was the sex symbol at the time.

I believed in Elvis and knew something great was in the air to bring him back.

Every time I’d walk into the studio, Don would grab me and say, ‘You come up with anything for Elvis?’ I was still writing and bumping my head against the wall.