I’VE GOT A THING ABOUT YOU BABY – TAKE GOOD CARE OF HER
EDITED 10-JAN-1974. SINGLE, STAX STUDIOS MEMPHIS
- TAKE GOOD CARE OF HER
- I’VE GOT A THING ABOUT YOU BABY
Reference: APBO-0196
A-Side: I’ve Got A Thing About You Baby
Grabación: 22 de Julio de 1973 Stax Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
Autor: Tony Joe White
B-Side: Take Good Care Of Her
Recording: July 21, 1973 Stax Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
Author: Ed Warren & Arthur Kent
Publication date: January 11, 1974
INFORMATION
Released in January 1974, the single “I’ve Got Thing About You Baby / Take Good Care Of Her” was the pre-release single for the Good Times LP. Both songs came from the recording sessions in July 1973.
I’ve Got A Thing About Your Baby was recorded on July 22, 1973, and was one of two songs contributed by Tony Joe White (Polk Salad Annie) to the recording session. It was a great song, with all the ingredients to become a hit. In fact, everyone believed so, both Elvis himself and RCA executives. Elvis’ version is very similar to the one previously performed by Tony Joe White. Despite the great work done by both the studio band and Elvis himself, it seems that under other circumstances, even more work could have been done, given the potential of the song.
For the B-side they chose the song Take Good Care Of Her, recorded on July 21, 1973, it was an old composition that had been a hit in 1961 by the singer Adam Wade. The song had been Elvis’ own choice, and it again reflected the singer’s emotional state, where the lyrics revived a recent page of his life. The composition moves between two genres, country and pop, and the singer’s voice is feeling every note of the song. As usual, the song was arranged in a way that did not favor the way the song was conceived.
Commercially the single reached number 39 on the Billboard charts (it did better on the country charts, reaching number 4) and sales did not reach 500,000 copies. It was very evident that a large part of the blame for the poor success of these Elvis releases was due to the failure to advertise these releases in the appropriate media, which made their diffusion difficult and consequently their poor positioning in the charts.
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