In early 1969, Elvis Presley recorded a cover of the song “Suspicious Minds.” It became a hit for him, his final song to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. According to musical arranger, Glen Spreen, it shouldn’t have been such a success. When Spreen and the other people who worked on the song first heard the finished version, they could hardly believe how bad it sounded.
Elvis Presley’s ‘Suspicious Minds’ didn’t sound the way his musical arranger planned
In 1969, Spreen, the musical arranger for the second to last version of “Suspicious Minds,” listened to the finished version. He could hardly believe what he was hearing. In this version, the volume faded out in a false ending before returning in a lengthy coda.
“I mean, we laughed at it — let’s put it that way — when we heard the fade,” Spreen said in the book Careless Love: The Unmaking...
Elvis Presley’s ‘Suspicious Minds’ didn’t sound the way his musical arranger planned
In 1969, Spreen, the musical arranger for the second to last version of “Suspicious Minds,” listened to the finished version. He could hardly believe what he was hearing. In this version, the volume faded out in a false ending before returning in a lengthy coda.
“I mean, we laughed at it — let’s put it that way — when we heard the fade,” Spreen said in the book Careless Love: The Unmaking...
- 12/16/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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