He performed the song again on TV the day before the recording session: the performance on the Steve Allen show ( VIDEO) when, wearing a tuexedo, he had to sing the song to a bemused, top-hatted basset hound (Elvis was a good sport about it, at one point even laughing at the absurd set-up. DJ Fontana had already introduced the drum roll between the verses, and Scotty Moore the guitar solo. A month before the recording session, Elvis had performed the song on The Milton Berle Show, more or less the way he was going to record it on 2 July ( Video clip). Stoker and the other puzzled people in the studio obviously did not watch TV. Everybody was aghast: they thought it was horrible, unable to comprehend why Elvis would want to record that, as Gordon Stoker of the vocal backing group The Jordanaires later recalled. Eventually, he settled for take 18 of Hound Dog (some sources say it was number 28).īefore the session, the story goes, RCA had procured the first recording of the Leiber/Stoller composition, Big Mama Thornton”s blues rendition. Elvis listened to them all, narrowed down the choices. In the seven-hour session, 31 takes of Hound Dog were recorded (and 28 of Don”t Be Cruel). Occasionally, when a backing musician would make a mistake, he would sing a note out of key or commit another error, forcing another take. He had decided which songs to record, and would run through as many takes as necessary for the perfect recording. By now, Elvis had become confident enough to take charge of the session, for all intents and purposes acting as the producer. Elvis turned up for his third and final recording session there to lay down the tracks for Hound Dog, Don”t Be Cruel and the ballad Any Way You Want Me. Freddie Bell & the Bellboys ““ Hound Dog.mp3
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