ELVIS PRESLEY DISCOGRAPHY

1965

DO THE CLAM – YOU’LL BE GONE

EDITED 08-FEB-1965

SINGLE, RADIO RECORDERS

1. DO THE CLAM

2. YOU’LL BE GONE

Reference: 47-8500

Side A: Do The Clam

Recording: June 12 and 15, 1964, Radio Recorders studios in Hollywood, California

Author: Sid Wayne, Ben Weisman and Dee Fuller

Side B: You’ll Be Gone

Recording: March 18, 1962, RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee

Author: Red West, Elvis Presley and Charlie Hodge

Publication date: February 9, 1965

Information

Do The Clam is one of the songs included in the soundtrack of Girl Happy (1965). Elvis records the themes of his seventeenth film at Radio Recorders studios accompanied by musicians such as Scotty Moore, Hilmer J. “Tiny” Timbrell and Tommy Tedesco on guitars, Bob Moore on bass, Murrey “Buddy” Harman, DJ Fontana and Frank Carlson on drums, Floyd Cramer on piano, Homer “Boots” Randolph on saxophone, The Jordanaire Gordon Stoker, Hoyt Hawkins, Neal Matthews and Ray Walker and specifically for the recording of this Do The Clam, the voices of The Jubilee Four with Bill Johnson , George McFadden, Jimmy Adams and Ted Brooks; and The Carol Lombard Trio with Carol Lombard, Gwen Johnson, Jackie Ward and BJ Baker. The theme obtained number twenty-one as the best position on the Hot 100. The master was taken from take number five recorded on June 12. The voices belong to day 15.

You’ll Be Gone, side B, is a theme recorded in the recording sessions that would result in the LP Pot Luck. This theme, composed by Red West in collaboration with Elvis himself and with obvious influences from that Italian melodic music that gave Elvis such good results in the first half of the 60s, was finally left off the album. In this single he saw the light for the first time although he would not manage to enter the Top 100 on Billboard. Take three was chosen for the master.