Talk:Are You Lonesome Tonight?

message: Is it worth mentioning that on one occasion, Elvis performed this song with a female singer doing background vocals, and her high falsetto singing caused Elvis to burst out laughing in mid-song...? I have heard the recording several times, but don't know anything more about it (such as when, where and who was the unfortunate accompanying vocalist.)—Preceding unsigned comment added by Eitheladar (talk • contribs) 11:58, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It isnt her vocal that makes him laugh, its the altered lyrics he gives the song. Listen again. Damiancorrigan 02:58, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Would the parody version in Top Secret! be worth mentioning? I seem to remember Val Kilmer in it singing lines like "is your kitchen a fright, shop at Macey's and love me tonight."--T. Anthony 04:40, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is many versions of that reason why he started to laugh... One is about bald man, another is about man who removed his wig, one is even about two bald girls who removed their wigs and started to dancing and twirling their wigs around their fingers. Also there is a version that there were no bald-headed people, cause Elvis had been elvish already from beginning.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.131.21.56 (talk) 16:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elvis bursting out in laughter 

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message: A version of the song, recorded on August 26 [1968] and documenting Presley altering the words of the narration and laughing through the rest of the bridge...
:That sounds very like his last show, a few weeks before his death in 1977, when he was far gone in drug-addiction. Are you sure you're not confusing two performances? Valetude (talk) 09:24, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Altering the words 

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message: The claim about the song ending with the sound of stapling a contract seems extremely dubious to me.  There's no way someone would be stapling a contract near a microphone at the end of a tender recording session with the King of Pop; it's got to be a joke.  Listening in my music studio on top end equipment, it doesn't sound like a stapler; I'd say based on channel placement it was part of the guitar strum so they couldn't take it out (with the technology of the time).  It seems a silly urban legend.  The footnote isn't linked to an actual website (update:  archive.org confirms no record for that website, "soundhistory.org"), so I think it was a prank.  I am not an experienced wikipedian so I haven't dared remove it myself.  Joseph The New House  —Preceding undated comment added 19:58, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stapling a contract?? 

message: Found in the podcast of Malcom Galdwell: Revisionist History:
http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/30-analysis-parapraxis-elvis
I propose to include this article (22 pages):
Alan C. Elms & Bruce Heller
"Twelve Ways to Say “Lonesome”:
Assessing Error and Control in the Music of Elvis Presley"
[PUBLISHED IN THE HANDBOOK OF PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY,
EDITED BY WILLIAM TODD SCHULTZ, PP. 142-157.
NEW YORK: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005.]
Link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DI8PUbyHg-U8zUYjJD8xdiaglNpn03q5/view?usp=sharing
Wolfgang Maria Michael (talk) 19:22, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Include findings of this article 

message: I believe the words of this song were part of a traditional song (different tune) which was collected by the Carter Family and recorded by them. Perhaps someone could confirm?58.11.188.237 (talk) 05:17, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Both our article, and this site, suggest that the 1936 Carter Family recording simply included some different lyrics to the original 1927 recording - although the writing credit on the Carter Family recording was given to A. P. Carter.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 06:53, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Traditional? 

message: (Are_You_Lonesome_Tonight%3F_(song)#Composition_and_early_versions)
1. I would seperate the content of this chapter into: two chapters:
"Composition" and "Early versions".
2: I would rename the chapter "Early versions" to "Versions before Elvis".
3: Respectively I would rename the chapter "Later versions" to "Versions after Elvis".
4: There are so many versions before Elvis. I'm sure that all these versions would be much more easily to be followed up, if these versions were bulleted.
5: I would also place the date as the first part of each bulllet-section.
6: And sort the versions (and all details about them) strictly by their date.
Ping welcome, Steue (talk) 03:06, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chapter "Composition and early versions" 

message: Are there any good sources for where and when this version was recorded? And for the claim that the soprano backing singer was Cissy Houston? There are multiple informal claims as to why Elvis started laughing, including that he spotted a man in the audience who was completely bald, either before or after the immortal ad lib. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:38, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Laughing version 

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) The Night Watch (talk) 18:08, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 26 March 2023