You just named my favorite songs!!! Kentucky Rain, In The Ghetto And Suspicious Minds!!!!! It hurts me to see these buildings gone....😢

dang!! people stop tearing down history!! great video Spa Guy...thanks

Poor Otis!!!! I could see Elvis telling him to come stay out at the house and Otis really coming up with more personal songs!!!!! 😀

I'm Brazilian and I was in Memphis in 1996 and there was no technology today... I appreciate all your videos my friend... Next year I'll come back to the states and visit all the places you've shown. Thank you very much... It's a great job you do to Elvis fans.

Spa guy. So glad you filmed at this historic location. Greatest music of Elvis career. Your the best spaguy

History at its finest, thank you Billy. T.C.B.

Elvis was brilliant in his Comeback In 1969 at American Sound Studio was brilliant he sang lots of new great songs Thank You! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Elvis had a very American Sound

I can't believe Elvis recorded those huge hits in that rinky dink place!!!!! Amazing!!

Spa Guy.....Thank you so much for the videos on Elvis.....I watch everyone you put up and enjoy everyone of them......Tighten Up and God Bless

Excellent, Presley history at my fingertips. You rock.....

@SpaGuy

6 жыл бұрын

Thank You Much for watching.. It is my pleasure to make these videos for you.. Spa Guy

Wow I am just think this video is so historic!! . . . The American sound studio sessions were my favorite recordings! . . . To see where it was has me fixated! . . . This is showing such iconic history in American music!!

Spa Guy, thank you for all your hard work in giving us a little more information about Elvis. You're awesome.....!

Kentucky Rain is an amazing song. Not only is it "my" favorite, but I've met dozens of Elvis fans (and several tribute artists) who share it as their #1 spot. I've always thought it would be a great catalyst for a movie script (maybe it has?). It's a rich story and a very visual song. Love it.

@SpaGuy

7 жыл бұрын

One of my favs too.. I also like Any Day Now and a few others.. This was a monumental group of sessions that are still relevant today...

Keep up the good work. Love the stories.

Thanks ! Great Elvis trivia. The songs done at American Sound Studio are some of my favorite Elvis songs. Just to think after his Aloha From Hawaii concert that he would end up dead. So sad that American Sound Studio was torn down. Great music came from there. Love Mr. Eddie Rabbit.

Elvis also recorded in New York City at RCA Victor Studio A (also referred to as Studio 1). "Don't Be Cruel" was among the titles recorded there on July 2, 1956. He also recorded there in January and February of 1956.

Thank you so much for making this, the American sessions are my favorite ones. I love listening to the outtakes from these sessions. I enjoy the outtakes more then the polished masters, mainly because Elvis is in top form and his voice is excellent. I even read at one of these sessions he had a cold, and still sounded good! With all the great songs recorded by Elvis and many other legends, I could never understand why they would tear that building down. Love how they bumped Neil Diamond, read somewhere that Neil was perfectly ok with it! If you get a chance please find more pictures of the studio from the back too, i love the then and now comparisons you do. Again thanks for all your work on these videos.

I love all Elvis's songs but Suspicious Minds is my favorite . Thanks for sharing this Spy Guy !! I love it !!

Thank you Spa Guy for all your stories on Elvis. Awesome story and background info on American Sound Studios and the great music created there by Chips, all the musicians, Elvis and others.

always look forward to your videos bud. loving the history. keep them coming.

Great history lesson again. Thank you very much. I too love Kentucky Rain.

All classic tunes, elvis should of just kept recording in memphis and the classic memphis sound !!

I'd like to add something about his look.. those glasses are a spin off of Fonda.. I think the son. Plus when Elvis played his '56 concert in Tupelo... I notice he is doing some break dancing!!!!! Has Anyone else noticed that????? He was stunning on that stage in Tupelo. One fan, was so close she had her arm on the stage and Elvis accidentally stepped on her hand..!!!😀 I wonder if she got a kiss for that, lol

Wow great history lesson Spa guy!! Such a shame that studio was torn down but thank God we got some amazing music from there! TCB!!!

nice video,i remember going on a tour there back in 1979,before the family dollar was built,there was a auto parts store there then a day care.

Wow, the place looks a little old for those song to be recorded there, amazing

Another great piece of history, thanx Spa Guy❤ I love to hear Elvis took control and not listening to the colonel when recording these songs, I love Neil Diamond too, such a special voice. He told that he lived next door to Elvis.

Thanks for the new clip. I really enjoy your Memphis/Elvis clips.

I am a native memphian and still live here and there's a lot of recording history in the early days here in Memphis with stax and American sound

Lieutenant Columbo would be proud of you Spa Guy as would Elvis for remembering him. Kudos to you Sir.

Dude!!! This is big!

I always tell people that Kentucky Rain to me is one of the best love songs ever written !

We love ur very little tidbit of info u give us! Thx Spa Guy!

Awesome as always Spa Guy. Be safe in those sketchy areas around Memphis. Keep up the good work, it's much appreciated.. :)

I'm a Kentucky girl so Kentucky Rain is my favorite with several close seconds!

cool video billy keep cool video my friend Elvis Presley American Sound Studio Memphis TCB forever

Power of My Love, Don't Cry Daddy, Momma liked The Roses, Gentle On My Mind.....

Thanks Spa Guy for another informative & interesting video. I love the pictures you show too. You're appreciated for all of your time spent to share these! I'm really looking forward to seeing the ones from the week of 8/16/17. Stay safe, enjoy yourself! :-)

Wow great stories Billy , love your channel , i cant get enough of the history

Thank you for more pieces to the puzzle !❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Those phone poles sure have lasted a long time.

I love the then and now comparison pictures. It's very sad the building is gone now... but at least they have an historical marker placed there. Wasn't it American Studio that the band could actually hear rats running in the walls? I was glad that Elvis FINALLY stood up to Colonel Parker so the songwriters could be recognized and compensated for their talent! Great video!

@JAFanClubPrez

7 жыл бұрын

Yes me too....then and now is fascinating to me

Another great one Spa Guy. I'm a little sad the studio was torn down and replaced by Family Dollar but at least a historic marker was placed there. Funny yet cool to see the same poles still standing in the same spots 45+ years later.

@SpaGuy

7 жыл бұрын

I wonder how long telephone poles last evidently a long time.. I was shocked to see they are the same..

Another very good video! Some of my favorite Elvis songs came out of this studio!

@SpaGuy

7 жыл бұрын

Me too Steven..

I nominate SpaGuy ETA Of The Year!...................Great Singing.............

Wanna hear Elvis like voice,Jim Straiton, Come Back,45, Clyde Masters and the Downbeats. Jim was my Uncle 1936-1972

SpaGuy, wonderful you are showing videos of historic places associated with Elvis, each means very much. The studio was not a beautiful one, but the beautiful music recorded by Elvis and other artists, and historical. I love the recordings of Elvis,' "Kentucky Rain" and "Supious Minds." I have heard, Lisa Marie's favorite song her father recorded is "In the Ghetto." I love the songs "Raindrops Falling On My Head" and "Sweet Caroline," did not know recorded there and in Tennessee. It is a shame the historical places torn down but definitely a historical marker should be there.

@patgrimes298

3 жыл бұрын

I misspelled, "Suspicious Minds."

I read George Klein's book about Elvis and apparently he was the one who convinced Elvis to go to American Sound Studios.

@wyattmccann7693

6 жыл бұрын

dennydeckerful I read his book and he seemed like a humble guy, didn’t take credit for much just talked about his friendship with Elvis. A very detailed story is told in the introduction/prologue of his book where he describes a discussion that was had at the Graceland dinner table when he supposedly convinced Elvis that American Sound Studios would be the perfect place for him to go to record new, better songs. Who am I to say that George is a liar? I just read the book.

Another great video Spaguy!

I will add, I have not been to Memphis in a long time. A former co-worker and her two daughters and I did in the 1970s. We could only go to Elvis' Graceland gate then. I have pics, do not know if Elvis was home. I am glad we did, his passing in 1977. I hope to go back some day, visit Graceland, Humes High School (still call it), where the Presleys lived, the first home Elvis bought, maybe where the studio was located, and other places you have mentioned and in the future.

Thank you its amazing

Thanks for the Footage J Jerry Moman

@SpaGuy

Жыл бұрын

Jerry Email me billy@thesgnetwork.com

Memphis needs to preserve what Elvis history is left.

Spa Guy I love watching your videos on Elvis they are true . I want to think you for taking your time to do them for us the Elvis Fans ... Thanks again. Dottie

Thank you again I learned alot

So, LOL, is this where we're supposed to start arguing about "that ain't Elvis"? Great job, Spa Guy. I love the music from those sessions. I wish Elvis had been able to continue getting music like that, but it wasn't to be. Thanks a bunch!

@SpaGuy

7 жыл бұрын

LOl, You are right Jim.. I am surprised that hasn't started.. There is still time.. Thanks for watching, Spa Guy

Sing it Spa Guy !!! 😆

Great .Very interesting indeed.

Not bad your covers of Elvis songs. 😁 I saw the holladay’s sisters in France in 1974 , with a french rock singer in 1974 ( the Jordanaires too) Thanks 🙏

All of this was going ON around me in Memphis .........and I didn't know it.hahahaha

Hi, I really enjoy your KZread vids on Elvis... if possible I'd like to give you a challenge... you covered American Sound Studios where Elvis did most of his 1969 recordings... 1969 for me is when elvis was at his best! Vocally and performance!! Challenge: Two days after elvis' death in '77 a tv station paid tribute to elvis' 1969 return to Vegas... unlike 'that's the way it is' where it was several takes put together, this concert was start to finish wearing a two piece white suit with dash to the side... I had the album of this concert named "elvis in person " for some reason that concert has never been repeated! A few years ago I had elvis pianist Glen Harden do a show with us and I mentioned this to him, he said it's possible it could be lost in archives but he himself didn't remember as he came to play with elvis a year later.... I would be so greatful if you would research this.. there has to be something on it!! It's the only period I liked elvis in and it is the actual concert I first seen elvis as a performer outside his movies and it just blew me away!! Please see what you can do!! Keep going with the videos they are great!!!

It`s a damn shame that they destroyed this studio.. Elvis recorded some of his greatest hits in this studio..

spaguy you are the best,keep the information coming👍

Elvis wanted so badly to record Dolly's "I Will Always Love You", but Dolly wouldnt give them any of the publishing. So theres no telling how many iconic songs Parker deprived us the opportunity of hearing Elvis perform. Darn Carny!!! 😡

@SpaGuy

7 жыл бұрын

This is true.. The only way these got cut was Elvis simply went around the system and cut them without The Colonel approving.. Glad he did..

@dgtwo3724

3 жыл бұрын

Dolly, understandably, wasn't about to give up half of the publishing and that turned out to be a great move on her part. She made out big when Whitney Houston recorded it.

Another great video. Very informative.

Great Video 🎶

There's a fantastic story about Elvis at the time he was recording at American Sound. Elvis was recording during afternoon and during the day Elvis's great idol Roy Hamilton was recording his last songs. Elvis asked permission if he could watch Roy recording. They met and Elvis gave him a song called "Angelica". You can hear the song and watch the photos here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKSamJaKepSrkag.html Spa Guy congratulations for your amazing research work!

I always enjoy your videos! :)

in a book about these recordings at American sound, Elvis was so impress with the musicians, he ask them if they would be interested in backing him out in Vegas, Colonel Parker upset with how he had lost control of Elvis during these sessions, gave them such a low ball figure on purpose, knowing they would decline

the greatest thing ever is to see what happened in that spot a long time ago. wish that the people and places could stay the same.......

Wow spa guy u r sooooo very good with alllll your info 🎤( Keep up the Grrrreat Wrk xxx from Uk 🇬🇧

Amazing

The pole markers you point out in this video and the the Dave wells football field where Elvis played, man, if trees could talk what stories they could tell

Great stuff

Thank you for your great video's!! I am a great Evis fan from my 11th year and i am now 54. I v been two times in Graceland and hope to see the new graceland area. Regards, Ed from the Netherlands.

@SpaGuy

6 жыл бұрын

Ed I will be in the Netherlands in April or May on Tour with Arjan Deelen's Elvis our.. Hope to see you there.. Spa Guy

Nice video Spa guy.

Good stuff thanks for the videos!

Chain stores & parking lots destroying our historical landmarks. And this is "progress"? Thanks again. I wished you would sing entire "Kentucky Rain"...you have a great voice!

Thanks Bobby!

Awesome work buddy 👍

Great videos David. I truly enjoy them. Always on point. Dave, how videos on some of Elvis' other love, like Sheila. Never really heard anything about her. Also, history on Bill Black, Scotty and DJ, especially Bill, who died so early. Thanks for the videos. Keep them coming. Peace✌(from NYC).

@SpaGuy

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nelson I'll Tell David when I see him..

Forked up lol its a fighting weapon similar to like you would use brass knuckles , used to see them all the time , Great video billly "

love the Spa Guy!

How about a video on chips moman and stax records ..

@SpaGuy

7 жыл бұрын

David I will work on that I drove by Stax the other day but haven't started any stories from there yet.. But I will..

Your the man drother 👍👍

I sure do enjoy your insights! Thank you. My wife and I took a trip to Memphis in early July and looked up many of the places you are investigating. :-)

@SpaGuy

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Kevin... I really enjoy using my Starsky like Investigating skills to find these stories.. Can't wait to make more.. I have about 15 more in the can working on editing and plan on shooting many more during Elvis week..

@kevinharrington295

7 жыл бұрын

That's great! Going to Elvis Week is on my bucket list. We stayed at the new hotel just after you must have been there. The pool was closed. I hope they have things ironed out for Elvis week.

hey spa guy just want to tell you that I thouroughly enjoy watching your videos ! I am a vinyl collector and have learned alot from you ! I live in Champaign Illininois best known for REO Speed Wagon and Head East its a mini music city if you will . 😊

@dianakraft1417

7 жыл бұрын

I was actually in Memphis 3 years ago for the first time and LOVED IT ! While there however I was totally unaware of all the historic sites that you have pointed out in your videos . I feel a vaction coming soon ! I too felt the presence of Elvis and I dont think Priscilla makes a very good liar .

Your the best spa guy

Wow😍

I don't mean to be picayune...I love all your videos and watch them religiously here in LA

I dig the ray bans. 😎 I need to find them

My doctor is in the old Crosstown Sears building, and i had to go see him Monday. When i left, i thought i would type in Humes and see how far it was away. It was only 1 mile. So i drove by and stopped to take a couple pics. If you havent done it already, I thought of another good place for you to film the location of. That would be where Crown Electric was. I dont know where it was, and was wonderimg how far it was from Humes? Thanks again for making these videos bid. I enjoy them so much. If you ever want some company on a trip to Memphis to do some exploring, I sure would like to go with you to see these places. I'm only about 30 miles from Jackson (Home of the One and Only Hillbilly Cat, Mr. Carl Perkins), and could meet up with you there. I always look forward to your videos bud. Have a good one, and thanks again!

@travispayne4365

7 жыл бұрын

Bryan Wayne Elvis used to shop in the basement of the Sears building where your doctor is.

@SpaGuy

7 жыл бұрын

I have been to Crown and am working on a story but after researching I don't think this part of his story actually happened as it has been told.. It will come out soon.. Thanks for watching, Spa Guy

Great video hate seeing them old buildings gone. How about crown electric!!

How about a video on O K Houck Piano Co. in Memphis. Elvis bought some of his early guitars from that store.

I really like Charlie Hodge!!!! 😀

@1980bwc

7 жыл бұрын

Gussy Gatlin So do I. He was such a kind man. Elvis depended on Charlie alot. I know those two, along with all the other Memphis Mafia Boys who have passed on, are making beautiful music right now in Heaven.

@SpaGuy

7 жыл бұрын

Gussy I was in Business with Charlie Hodge as well as Scotty.. He was a very nice man...

You are good

He just meant to much to me I wish everything could have been preserved. Oh well sadly it wasn’t

That's a shame they tore that down for a dollar store. That is crazy. Them 4 GREAT songs recorded there. Just CRAZY!!!!! I see they gave daily tours..wonder why it didn't work out. Probably too far away maybe? Well just think if it wasn't for Elvis them songs wouldn't be around by Elvis. Dead ???? We will probably never know. Thanks for the info, interesting.

Elvis heard about Chip Moman at Sound Studios from George Klein just after the 68 special at a meal with Tom Diskin et al. Moman stood up to the Colonel who wanted a cut of writers royalties.... but with Elvis' agreement Moman got his way... Elvis never recorded there again because of issues with Colonel and Moman's studio.

Sing it Spa Guy 🙂