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Elvis Presley Always On My Mind
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Elvis Presley - Always on my mind • Album: Elvis (The Fool Album) (Released as a single before added to this album) • Recorded: March 29, 1972 • Released: July 16, 1973 • #elvispresley • #theking • #elvis • #alwaysonmymind • About: • Always on My Mind is a ballad written by Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher, and Mark James, first recorded by Brenda Lee and first released by Gwen McCrae (as You Were Always on My Mind ) in March 1972. Lee's version was released three months later in June 1972. The song has been a crossover hit, charting in both the country and western and pop categories. Elvis Presley's recording was the first commercially successful version of the song. • AllMusic lists more than 300 recorded releases of the song in versions by dozens of performers. While Lee's version reached no. 45 on the US country chart in 1972, other performers reached the Top 20 on the country and/or pop charts in the United States and elsewhere with their own versions: Elvis Presley (1972, US country; UK pop Top Ten); John Wesley Ryles (1979, US country) and Willie Nelson's Grammy Award-winning version (1982, US/Canada country number one; US/Canada pop Top Ten); and the Pet Shop Boys' 1987 hi-NRG/synth-pop interpretation (UK number one; US Top Ten). • Background and composition: • Always on My Mind saw no completion until late 1971. Songwriter-guitarist Wayne Carson had about two verses done with the working title You Were Always on My Mind . He had been occupied in Memphis on a project that required him to stay ten days longer, and he phoned his wife in Springfield, Missouri, to apologize for the delay. • She was angry, and he replied: Well, I know I’ve been gone a lot, but I’ve been thinking about you all the time. This idea struck him as potential song material, and he quickly ended the call so he could capture it on paper. He brought the song back to the recording studio of Chips Moman and worked on it for a few days, but it did not gel. • Carson asked for help from his colleague Johnny Christopher (the two had already written the hit song No Love at All in 1970) and they composed more of it in Moman's office. Feeling stuck, they appealed for assistance from songwriter Mark James who was walking through the studio. James was exhausted from non-stop music projects, but he ran through the song with Carson and Christopher. By the fourth run-through, the song was finished. • Music critic Robert Hilburn said that it was commonly thought in Nashville and Memphis that Elvis Presley's marital troubles were the inspiration of the song, and that it was tailored to fit his musical style. Fueling this conjecture was the fact that James had already written a hit song Suspicious Minds for Presley. • Carson responded that the song was not written for Presley but for every man. He said that it was one long apology. It’s sort of like all guys who screw up and would love nothing better than to pick up the phone and call their wives and say, 'Listen, honey, I could have done better, but I want you to know that you were always on my mind.' • Elvis Presley version: • Elvis Presley recorded Always on My Mind on March 29, 1972, a few weeks after his February separation from his wife, Priscilla. • The song was popular and critically appreciated and is considered one of Presley's standout songs of the 1970s. The song was released as the B-side of the Separate Ways single, which was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales in excess of one million units. It was listed as a double A-side, reaching number 16 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart in November 1972. In the United Kingdom, Always on My Mind (as the A-side) reached the Top Ten in January 1973. In 2013 the recording ranked number one in a poll conducted by ITV, The Nation's Favourite Elvis Songs , just ahead of Suspicious Minds and Can't Help Falling in Love . • • All rights are reserved to respective owners. • This channel owns no rights. • Please visit the official Elvis website
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