EAP Index World: Kissin' Cousins (Single/LP

Title:

Kissin' Cousins

Label:

RCA Victor [LPM 2894]

Format:

Number of tracks:

Running time:

26:15

Type of album:

Soundtrack

Linked to:

Official discography; Kissin' Cousins, 1964

Year:

1964

Recording date:

May 26 - September 30, 1963

Release date:

April 2, 1964

Singles:

"Kissin' Cousins / It Hurts Me" (Feb. 10, 1964)

Kissin' Cousins is Elvis' fourteenth soundtrack album, his 20th LP for RCA and 40th audiophonic work (including singles and EPs). The album features the songs heard in the film of the same name and studio extras from the aborted May 1963 sessions.

Since the sessions for "Viva Las Vegas", which took place before the recording of this soundtrack, were well over budget, the Colonel determined that for the sake of fiscal prudence new songs should be recorded at Studio B in Nashville, far from Hollywood and its distractions, and with a platoon of available musicians.

Furthermore, the new demand for enough songs to fill soundtrack LPs, now a regularity as EPs and singles were becoming less and less salable, caused Elvis' usual songwriters to pull double duty, with the trio Giant / Baum / Kaye signing five of the twelve songs on the album.

Ten songs from the score were recorded by Elvis with members of the Nashville A-Team during two late-night sessions in September, with two distinct versions by different songwriters of the title track, one (titled "Kissin' Cousins") recorded with Presley's normal voice. and another (titled "Kissin' Cousins (no. 2)") with a hillbilly accent. The first version of "Kissin' Cousins" would be issued as a single on February 10, 1964, with "It Hurts Me" on the B-side, and would reach #12 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming a Gold record.

As with the "Fun in Acapulco" soundtrack, two additional tracks, "Echoes of Love" and "(It's a) Long Lonely Highway", the latter of which would later be used on the soundtrack for the 1965 film "Tickle Me", were taken from the aborted May 1963 sessions and added here to bring the running order to twelve tracks. "Anyone (Could Fall in Love with You)", included on the album, was omitted from the film. "Pappy, Won't You Please Come Home?", performed by Glenda Farrell (dubbing the voice of Dolores Edgin), is included in the film, but was omitted from the album.

Kissin' Cousins has been re-released numerous times by RCA over the years. On November 2, 2017, FTD finally released their version of the album, one of the only soundtracks that had not yet been worked on by the label in its 18 years of life. Two years later, Follow That Dream presented Elvis fans with a double LP of the soundtrack.

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RECORDING SESSIONS

Date:

May 26 - September 30, 1963

Studio:

RCA Studio B

Location:

Nashville, Tennessee

Musicians:

Voice: Elvis Presley
Electriic guitar: Scotty Moore, Grady Martin, Jerry Kennedy, Harold Bradley
Bass: Bob Moore
Drums: DJ Fontana, Murray 'Buddy' Harman
Violin: Cecil Brown
Piano: Floyd Cramer
Saxophone: Homer 'Boots' Randolph, Bill Justis
Backing Vocals: The Jordanaires, Millie Kirkham

Sound engineeer / Recording engineer:

Bill Porter

MAY 26, 1963
Echoes Of Love PPA4 0290-10
Please Don't Drag That String Around PPA4 0291-06
(You're The) Devil In Disguise PPA4 0292-06
Never Ending PPA4 0293-03
What Now, What Next, Where To PPA4 0294-01
Witchcraft PPA4 0295-03
Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers PPA4 0296-03
Love Me Tonight PPA4 0297-08

MAY 27, 1963
Memphis, Tennessee PPA4 0302-02
(It's A) Long Lonely Highway (Single Version) PPA4 0303-01
(It's A) Long Lonely Highway (Album Version) PPA4 0303-02
Ask Me PPA4 0304-02
Western Union PPA4 0305-04
Slowly But Surely PPA4 0306-05
Blue River SPA4 6768-02
Blue River SPA4 7357-SP
Ask Me (Alternate Master) PPA4 0304-06

SEPTEMBER 29, 1963
Pappy, Won't You Please Come Home?
There's Gold In The Mountains (Track)
One Boy Two Little Girls (Track)
Once Is Enough (Track)
Tender Feeling (Track)
Kissin' Cousins No. 2 (Track)

SEPTEMBER 30, 1963
Smokey Mountain Boy (Track)
Catchin' On Fast (Track)
Barefoot Ballad (Track)
Anyone (Could Fall In Love with You) (Track)
Kissin' Cousins (Track)
Smokey Mountain Boy (Different Arrangement) (Track)
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SESSION LOGS

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LP AND RELATED SINGLE TRACKS (RCA, 1964)

KISSIN' COUSINS (SINGLE)

February 10, 1964

1. Kissin' Cousins

2. It Hurts Me

KISSIN' COUSINS (LP)

April 2, 1964

1. Kissin' Cousins (Nº 2)

2. Smokey Mountain Boy

3. There's Gold in the Mountains

4. One Boy, Two Little Girls

5. Catchin' On Fast

6. Tender Feeling

7. Anyone (Could Fall in Love with You)

8. Barefoot Ballad

9. Once Is Enough

10. Kissin' Cousins

11. Echoes of Love

12. (It's a) Long Lonely Highway

KISS ME QUICK (SINGLE)

April 14, 1964

1. Kiss Me Quick

2. Suspicion

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FTD VERSIONS

Title:

Kissin' Cousins

Label:

FTD [FTD 169] [506020 975120 7]

Format:

Number of tracks:

Running time:

75:00

Type of album:

Soundtrack / Recording sessions

Linked to:

FTD discography

Year:

2017

Recording date:

May 26 - September 30, 1963

Release date:

November 2, 2017

Singles:

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Belatedly, FTD finally delivers their version of the album. However, the material available shows that the wait was worth it and that once again the record company tried to do its best. Among the 32 tracks, which include the remastered original LP, there are rarities such as the tracks recorded by the band in the studio without Elvis' voice and alternate Masters. Completing the work, FTD includes a 16-page booklet with information, trivia, behind-the-scenes and rare memorabilia.

The CD contains the following tracks:

ORIGINAL ALBUM

1. Kissin' Cousins (Nº 2)

2. Smokey Mountain Boy

3. There's Gold In The Mountains

4. One Boy Two Little Girls

5. Catchin' On Fast

6. Tender Feeling

7. Anyone (Could Fall in Love with You)

8. Barefoot Ballad

9. Once Is Enough

10. Kissin' Cousins

11. Echoes Of Love

12. (It's a) Long Lonely Highway

OUTTATAKES, UNEDITED MASTERS AND ALTERNATE TAKES

13. Kissin' Cousins (Number 2) (Unedited Master)*

14. Catchin' On Fast (Unedited Master)*

15. Anyone (Could Fall in Love with You) (V.O. Take 2 / Alternate Master)*

16. Kissin' Cousins (Hillbilly Vocal)*

17. Kissin' Cousins (Regular Vocal)*

18. Barefoot Ballad (V.O. Take 2 & Pickup Take 4 - Partial)*

19. Barefoot Ballad (Instrumental)*

20. There's Gold In The Mountains (Instrumental)*

21. Pappy, Won't You Please Come Home? (Dolores Edgin Vocal, Take 6 / Master)*

22. There's Gold In The Mountains (Track, Takes 1-2)*

23. One Boy Two Little Girls (Track, Take 2)*

24. Once Is Enough (Track, Take 1)*

25. Tender Feeling (Track, Take 1)*

26. Kissin' Cousins (Number 2) (Track, Take 1)*

27. Smokey Mountain Boy (Track, Take 1- Intro & Take 4 / Master)*

28. Catchin' On Fast (Track, Take 1 & Ending, Take 2)*

29. Barefoot Ballad (Track, Take 2)*

30. Anyone (Could Fall in Love with You) (Track, Take 4)*

31. Kissin' Cousins (Track, Take 1)*

32. Tender Feeling (Vocal Only, Take 1/ Master)*

*previously unreleased

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