Elvis Presley # '68 Are You Lonesome Tonight

HIGH QUALITY (real video format). Are You Lonesome Tonight # Comeback Special (1968)
"Are You Lonesome To-night?," now often known as "Are You Lonesome Tonight?," is a popular song with music by Lou Handman and lyrics by Roy Turk. It was first published in 1926, and most notably revived by Elvis Presley in 1960. The song was recorded on April 4, 1960, and engineered by Nashville sound pioneer Bill Porter. Colonel Parker (it was one of his wife's favorite songs) persuaded Elvis to record his own rendition of this song. Elvis' version was based on the Blue Barron Orchestra in 1950 and the spoken part of the song (like Al Jolson's) was loosely based on Shakespeare's As You Like it using Jaques' speech on Act II Scene VII: "All the world's a stage, and all men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts." Elvis did not believe he could do the song justice and asked for the tape to be thrown out. Steve Sholes, the RCA producer at the recording session, believed the recording would be a hit and directed its release. It went on to be one of the biggest-selling singles of 1960, peaking at number one on the Billboard pop chart for six weeks and peaking at number three on the R&B charts.
Elvis, occasionally during live performances, would randomly change lyrics to give them humorous connotations. One popular instance was recorded at the International Hotel in Vegas on August 26, 1969. During the performance, instead of singing: "Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there", he sings "Do you gaze at your bald head and wish you had hair". Moments later, he saw a bald man in the audience (as legend has it), and burst into laughter which continued into the next lines. He also used the "the bald head" lyric on June 25th 1968, during the rehearsals, for his upcoming NBC Special. In 1977, Elvis again performed the song for the Elvis in Concert TV special. Similarly to 1969, he also appears to mess up the spoken interlude, ad-libbing jokes throughout. Whether this was intentional or not is unknown; the 1981 documentary film This is Elvis uses footage of this performance to illustrate Elvis's physical deterioration near the end of his life. Darrin Memmer's book "Elvis Presley - The 1977 CBS Television Special," published in 2001 by Morris Publishing, suggests it was intentional.


LYRICS:

Are you lonesome tonight,
Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray to a brighter sunny day,
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?

Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?

I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
You know someone said that the world's a stage
And each must play a part.
Fate had me playing in love with you as my sweetheart.
Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance
You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two, you seemed to change, you acted strange
And why I'll never know.
Honey, you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you.
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than go on living without you.
Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you won't come back to me
Then they can bring the curtain down.

Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?

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[vELVISv]

Thnks for all comments my friends!

ELVIS FOREVER !!!

[asktunes]

How can anyone watch this & not fall in love?

[MelissaLovesMakeup89]

This song makes me cry!

[penshoe404]

nice song from a nice man..

[DVDELLYS2010]

Genial Splendid

[miikeyd]

So nice...



[letish41]

OMG! ELVIS... why did you have to leave us.. Elvis will always be in our memories and heart and will always be THE KING of ROCK & ROLL... Lovely SMILE! Love you Elvis :-) Muuuuah :-)

TFS Hugs...

[PinkieCottonCandy]

@asktunes Exactly!

[KATEBUL69]

@vELVISv HOW MUCH HE'S WONDERFUL!!!!!!!! HIS LOVELY SMILE! MMMMMM!!!!

[xChantalJacksonx]

love that cute laugh at 0:17 ♥