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STUDIO SESSION FOR JERRY DYCKE
FOR SUN RECORDS 1968/1972
SAM PHILLIPS RECORDING STUDIO
639 MADISON
AVENUE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
SUN SESSION: UNKNOWN DATE 1968-1972
SESSION HOURS: UNKNOWN
PRODUCER
AND RECORDING ENGINEER - KNOX PHILLIPS
ASSISTAND ENGINEER - BYRD
Gerald C. Dyche was Manager of the Holiday Inn in Topeka, Kansas in 1968 when he sent a demo tape to Sam Phillips in Memphis. As Jerry Dyke, he was also resident entertainer at the Inn, specialising in an uptown form of country music. His show was based on the music of Elvis Presley and Glen Campbelll.
''I think the most dramatic moment in my career was Sam Phillips calling me on the phone and asking me to record for him. To me, it was like hearing from Cecil B. DeMillie if I'd been trying to get into movies'', recalled Dycke.
Phillips had telephoned in his capacity as President of Holiday Inn Records at a time when the company had the idea of promoting selected Holiday Inn cabaret artists as recording stars. The experiment did not come off, but Dycke made two singles for Holiday Inn, ''Come In Mr. Lonely'' and ''Habit I Can't Break''. Having been with the label two years, he transferred to Sun International in 1970.
Although a songwriter of some ability, Dycke most memorable record was the old country gospel tune ''Will The Circle Be Unbroken'' produced by Knox Phillis for Sun. Dycke's strong voice carries the theme plaintively, gaining power as the minimal backing builds towards the end and the record takes on a church choir effect.
YOU
WENT OUT OF YOUR WAY (TO WALK ON ME)
Composer: - Paul Craft
Publisher: - B.M.I. - DeCapo Music
Matrix
number : None - Master (2:12)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1968/1972
Released: - 1972
First
appearance: -Aries Records (LP) 33rpm ALP-1001-A/1 stereo
JERRY DYCKE - MEMPHIS COUNTRY
SITTIN' AND THINKIN'
Composer: - Charlie Rich
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Knox Music Incorporated
Matrix number : None - Master
(3:01)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1968/1962
Released: - 1972
First appearance: -Aries
Records (LP) 33rpm ALP-1001-A/2 stereo
JERRY DYCKE - MEMPHIS COUNTRY
BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX
Composer: - Jimmy Webb
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Johnny Rivers Music
Matrix number : None - Master (2:37)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1968/1972
Released: - 1972
First appearance: -Aries Records (LP) 33rpm ALP-1001-A/3
stereo
JERRY DYCKE - MEMPHIS COUNTRY
A TIME FOR YOU AND ME
Composer: - Allen Reynolds
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Screen Gems
Matrix
number : None - Master (1:47)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1968/1972
Released: - 1972
First appearance: -Aries Records (LP) 33rpm ALP-1001-A/4 stereo
JERRY DYCKE - MEMPHIS COUNTRY
> HOW COME EVERY TIME I ITCH (I
WIND UP SCRATCHING YOU) <
Composer: - Glen Campbell-Jereme Slate
Publisher: B.M.I. - Peer
Music Publishing
Matrix number : None - Master (1:5)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1968/1972
Released: - 1972
First appearance: -Aries Records (LP) 33rpm ALP-1001-A/5 stereo
JERRY DYCKE - MEMPHIS COUNTRY
> WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN <
Composer: - Traditional-Jerry Dycke-Sam Phillips
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Hi-Lo Music Incorporated
Matrix number: - 7-519 - Master (3:48)
Recorded:
- Unknown Date 1968
Released: - 1970
First appearance: - Sun International (S) 45rpm standard single SI
1109-A stereo
WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN / A LITTLE MORE, A LITTLE LESS
Reissued: - April 1989 Charly
Records (LP) 33rpm Sun Box 109-16/1 mono
SUN RECORDS INTO THE 1960S - SUN INTERNATIONAL
> COME IN MR. LONELY <
Composer:
- Larry Habluetzel-Jerry Dycke- Arranged by Charles Chalmers
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Holiday Inn Music
Matrix
number: - HIR-509 - Master (2:16)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1968
Released: - May 1968
First appearance: - Sun International (S) 45rpm standard single Holiday Inn 2203-A mono
COME IN MR. LONELY / THINGS
Reissued: - 1971 Sun International (S) 45rpm standard single SI-1123 mono
COME IN MR. LONELY - SCHOOL CHILDREN
> THINGS <
Composer: - Bobbie Darin-Arranged by Charles Chalmers
Publisher: - B.M.I. - TM Music
Matrix number:
- HIR-510 - Master (2:22)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1968
Released: - May 1968
First
appearance: - Sun International (S) 45rpm standard single Holiday Inn 2203-B mono
THINGS / COME IN MR. LONELY
Reissued: - 1972 Aries Records
(LP) 33rpm ALP-1001-B/6 stereo
JERRY DYCKE - MEMPHIS COUNTRY
> THE TRAIN NEVER STOPS (IN OUR TOWN) <
Composer: - Dallas Frazier
Publisher: B.M.I. - Blue Crest
Music
Matrix number : None - Master (2:21)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1968/1972
Released:
- 1972
First appearance: -Aries Records (LP) 33rpm ALP-1001-B/1 stereo
JERRY DYCKE - MEMPHIS COUNTRY
GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME
Composer: - Curley Putman
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Tree Publishing
Matrix number : None - Master (2:25)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1968/1972
Released: - 1972
First appearance: -Aries Records (LP) 33rpm ALP-1001-B/2 stereo
JERRY DYCKE - MEMPHIS COUNTRY
HABIT I CAN'T BREAK
Composer: -Butrum-Herston
Publisher: - B.M.I.
- Be-Are Publishing
Matrix number: - HIR-525 - Master (2:10)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1968
Released: - December 1968
First appearance: - Sun International (S) 45rpm standard single Holiday Inn 2211-A mono
HABIT I CAN'T BREAK / I FORGOT TO REMEMBER TO FORGET
Reissued: - 1972 Aries Records (LP) 33rpm ALP-1001-B/3 stereo
JERRY DYCKE - MEMPHIS COUNTRY
> BILLY LEE'S COUNTRY BAND <
Composer: - John Phillips
Publisher:
- B.M.I. - Coby Music
Matrix number : None - Master (3:28)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1968/1972
Released: - 1972
First appearance: -Aries Records (LP) 33rpm ALP-1001-B/4 stereo
JERRY DYCKE - MEMPHIS COUNTRY
> A LITTLE MORE, A LITTLE LESS <
Composer: - Jerry Dycke-Larry Habluezel
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Knox Music Incorporated
Matrix number : - 7-520 - Master (2:07)
Recorded:
- Unknown Date 1968/1972
Released: - 1970
First appearance: - Sun International (S) 45rpm standard single
SI 1109-B stereo
A LITTLE MORE, A LITTLE LESS / WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN
Reissued: - 1972 Aries Records
(LP) 33rpm ALP-1001-B/5 stereo
JERRY DYCKE - MEMPHIS COUNTRY
I FORGOT TO REMEMBER TO FORGET
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Hi-Lo Music Incorporated
Matrix number: - HIR-526 - Master (2:13)
Recorded:
- Unknown Date 1968
Released: - December 1968
First appearance: - Sun International (S) 45rpm standard single Holiday Inn 2211-B mono
I FORGOT TO REMEMBER TO FORGET / HABIT I CAN'T BREAK
> SCHOOL CHILDREN <
Composer: - Lee R. Barnett
Publisher:
- B.M.I. - Knox Music Incorporated
Matrix number: - 7-1463 - Master (2:57)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1968/1972
Released: - 1971
First appearance: - Sun International (S) 45rpm standard single SI-1123 mono
SCHOOL CHILDREN / COME IN MR. LONELY
Name (Or. No. Of Instruments)
Jerry Dycke - Vocal
Sandra Rhodes - Guitar
Paul Craft - Guitar
Byrd - Dobro
Sylvester Samples, Lizard, Jim Haines - Bass
John
Monasco, Bobby Wood - Piano
Leo LeBlanc - Steel Guitar
The Joint Venture - Background Voices
The Memphis Horns - Horns
The Memphis Strings - Strings
Arrangements - Knox Phillips & Charles Chalmers
A Bachelor's degree in biology is one of the more unlikely qualifications for a spot on Sun Records, but Dycke had been dabbling in the record business since his school days. Born in 1941 in Auburn, Kansas, he signed with Rev Records in Phoenix in the late 1950s. A week later, the label went out of business and Dycke had to wait until 1962 for his recording debut. Nugget Records issued ''Tennessee'' and ''When Mu Heart Speaks''. Then Dycke had several records on the Aries label in 1967, followed by Holiday Inn in 1968. These were all rather low key affairs until Shelby Singleton picked up Dycke's Memphis recording of ''Will The Circle Be Unbroken'' and promoted it heavely in the country market.
By the time, Dycke had appeared in minor parts in a couple of movies and graduated from Holiday Inn lounges to Las Vegas. He was driving a Mercedes and seemed set for some degree of recording success. Filling in a press blurb for Singleton in 1971, Dycke gave his ambition as a million selling record to start with. ''Then I'll go from there''. He added, sensibly, ''If that doesn't happen I'll probably play clubs till I get tired of it''.
Ultimately, it didn't happen on Sun for Jerry Dycke despite the good recordings and several well-written songs he had to offer. So... if you've ever in a Holiday Inn lounge bar in Kansas, you might look out for Gerald C. Dyche.
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Unlike many previous films which involved "location scenes" shot against a backdrop, Presley was able to do more scenes on location than usual. Scenes were filmed in and around Hollywood, along the Malibu coast, at Marineland, and at the Los Angeles Music Center.
The film co-starred Michele Carey, Don Porter, Rudy Vallee, and Dick Sargent, and featured Presley's father, Vernon, in an uncredited cameo. Several of Presley's Memphis Mafia friends, such as Red West and Joe Esposito, also appeared.
Released on October 23, 1968, the film failed to impress most critics. Due to a very poor performance on US release, the film was not released at all in many regions, including the UK.
The second of Presley's five final movies during the 1960s made with just a handful of musical numbers, the recording session of the four songs written for the film took place at Western Recorders in Hollywood, California on March 7, 1968. The producer in nominal charge of the session, Billy Strange, had worked with both Frank and Nancy Sinatra, and attuned to current trends in popular music brought in a group of musicians outside of Presley's usual stable and written arrangements that went afield from Presley's usual sound. "Almost in Love" was given a late-night cocktail-jazz quality, "Edge of Reality" was a piece of pseudo-acid rock, and "A Little Less Conversation''written by Strange and his new discovery who would write several more songs for Presley, Mac Davis, bordered on funk.
"A Little Less Conversation" was released as a single with "Almost in Love" on the b-side on September 3, 1968, RCA catalog 47-9610. It peaked at number 69, while its b-side scraped into the Billboard Hot 100 at number 95 independently. Over three decades later, a remix of "A Little Less Conversation" became a global #1 hit record, although the version sourced for the remix was actually a later re-recording Elvis did for the soundtrack of his 1968 NBC "Comeback Special", and not the movie version. "Edge of Reality" appeared on November 5, 1968, as the b-side to RCA single 47-9670 "If A Can Dream," the song Presley used to close out his 1968 Christmas Special. "Wonderful World," which played over the opening credits to the film, appeared on the compilation Elvis Sings Flaming Star. All three tracks released on singles also appear on Command Performances: The Essential 60s Masters II.
MAY 9, 1968 THURSDAY
This would be the final "formula" musical film of Presley's career. His remaining films would be less musical and more adult in tone. Although the film was completed in the early summer of 1967, it was not released in theaters until the spring of 1968. It was a box-office flop, placing at number 40 on the Variety weekly national box office list.
The only guitar to be featured in the film is during one of the film's closing scenes, during the performance of "There Ain't Nothing Like A Song", where a sunburst Fender Coronado is used.
Although the song is not technically gospel music, Presley performed the song with the intensity and intonations of southern gospel. It has since appeared on various Presley gospel and/or inspirational compilations.
JUNE 23, 1968 MONDAY
Elvis Presley recorded ''Memories'' at Western Recorders in Los Angeles.
His grave is near the graves of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash at Hendersonville Memorial Park in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Luther Perkins was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
In 1980, Perkins's daughters from his first marriage filed suit against Johnny Cash for embezzling funds that were to have provided retirement income for Perkins. This lawsuit was filed coincidentally with actions taken by the other founding Tennessee Three member, Marshall Grant, against Cash for wrongfully firing Grant and embezzlement of Grant's retirement funds. Both lawsuits were eventually settled out-of-court.
AUGUST 4, 1968 SUNDAY
Host Glen Campbell welcomes special guests Joan Collins on CBS-TV's ''The Summer Brothers Smothers Show''.
AUGUST 5, 1968 MONDAY
Terri Clark is born in Montreal, Quebec. raised in Calgary, she emerges in 1995 as a feisty, confident vocalist, netting successes such as ''Better Things To Do'', ''Poor Poor Pitful Me'', ''When Boy Meets Girl'' and Girls Lie Too''.
Although the song is not technically gospel music, Presley performed the song with the intensity and intonations of southern gospel. It has since appeared on various Presley gospel and/or inspirational compilations.
Brown was asked to write a song to replace "I'll Be Home for Christmas" as the grand finale on NBC's "Elvis" (June 20–23, 1968). He wrote "If I Can Dream", and when Presley heard it he proclaimed "I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in''.
Steve Binder, who produced Presley’s 1968 television comeback special, has often recalled the origin of Presley’s hit “If I Can Dream.” Presley and Binder were looking for a way to end the show. The two had discussed Elvis’ dismay over the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. Binder was struck by the conversation and ordered W. Earl Brown, a songwriter working on the show, to come up with a song incorporating Presley’s concern to use as the finale to the show. So even though Presley did not write the song, his viewpoint was expressed in its composition. This enabled him to run rough shod over some of the song’s hokier lyrics when he delivered it.
When Colonel Tom Parker heard the song demonstrated by Earl Brown, he said: "This ain't Elvis' kind of song''. Elvis was also there, unbeknownst to him, and he said: "I'd like to try it, man." Earl Brown said that when Elvis recorded the song, Brown saw tears rolling down the cheeks of the three back up singers. One of them whispered to him: "Elvis has never sung with so much emotion before. He means every word''.
In 1941, Johnnie Lee Wills (younger brother of Bob Wills) recorded a version which was released the same year by Decca Records as "Milkcow Blues" by Johnny Lee Wills & His Boys. It was sung by Cotton Thompson. Bob Wills also recorded it on the Tiffany Transcriptions with a vocal by Tommy Duncan. The Wills/Duncan release "Brain Cloudy Blues" is heavily influenced by "Milk cow blues" too.
Elvis Presley, accompanied by Scotty Moore on guitar and Bill Black on bass, recorded a rockabilly-blues version retitled "Milkcow Blues Boogie" at Sun Studios at 706 Union Avenue on December 20, 1954. The arrangement was closer to Wills' version than to the Arnold original. The single was released on December 28, 1954 with "You're A Heartbreaker" as the B-side, but would not be released on LP until 1959, when it was included on the RCA Victor LP ''A Date With Elvis''. The tune was also released as a 45 rpm single, along with "You're A Heartbreaker" on RCA Victor records (47-6382). It is listed as 2:34 minutes long, with the publisher Leeds Music ASCAP. It has catalog number F2WW-8044.
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