I tried to make records down there but I could never get anything that I was happy about. His producer Felton Jarvis was excited about it and he was partnering with Chips Moman who ran American Studios down in Memphis. To know that Elvis had decided to come back to Memphis and record. I played grand piano on 'Kentucky Rain' while Elvis was cutting his vocal live. I played on that record and sang on that record, too. Chips Moman who was running that studio and producing the Elvis sessions said, 'Ronnie Milsap's here in the building, bring him in'. It came about because there was nobody else there at American Studios that night to do it. That session with Elvis for 'Kentucky Rain' came about because there was no one else there to play piano. Ronnie Milsap: I got to sing and play on those records and got to be around Elvis for an evening. GM: You also played keyboards on Elvis' 1970 smash hit, ' Kentucky Rain', what are your memories of those sessions? It was a wonderful experience singing along to Elvis.
Ronnie Milsap: I did that as an overdub Elvis wasn't in the studio for that session. GM: Speaking of duets, you snag harmony vocals on Elvis' smash 1969 hit, ' Don't Cry Daddy'. the voice in my radio speakers', Milsap said. It's this attention to detail and thirst for musical perfection that Milsap contends is Elvis' true legacy. 'He'd experiment with a song until he found something that he felt really was him'. If he didn't like them slow, he'd try them fast'. He'd try them in one key, and if that didn't work, he'd try them in another. 'I mean, he had recorded so long, he knew the songs he wanted to record and he knew how he wanted them. 'He was fun to be around and very experienced about recording', Milsap said. It will work on mine the same way, and it certainly did'.īesides receiving royal treatment, Milsap remembers his brush with Elvis as a rich lesson in studio discipline and creativity. He made that comment, and beyond that, he didn't say anything. 'The only suggestion I got from Elvis was that he wanted to hear thunder roll on the piano. 'Oh, I was given total (artistic) freedom (on Kentucky Rain)', Milsap recalled. It doesn't take a trained musical ear to distinguish how the pounding piano chords in The King's Kentucky Rain sound curiously similar to those in Milsap's smash Smoky Mountain Rain. Upon setting up shop in Memphis in the late 1960s, Ronnie Milsap joined forces with super-producer Chips Moman, and by decade's end, was tickling the ivories for none other than Elvis Presley.
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