Suspicious Minds
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| Single by Elvis Presley | ||
| Released | August 26, 1969 | |
| Format | 45 rpm record | |
| Recorded | January, 1969 | |
| Genre | Rock & Roll | |
| Length | 4:22 (3:28) | |
| Label | RCA | |
| Writer(s) | Mark James | |
| Producer(s) | Chips Moman and Felton Jarvis | |
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| Elvis Presley singles chronology | ||
| In the Ghetto (1969) |
Suspicious Minds | Don’t Cry Daddy (1969) |
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| Single by Gareth Gates | ||
| from the album What My Heart Wants to Say | ||
| Released | 23 September 2002 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | 2002 | |
| Genre | Pop | |
| Label | BMG | |
| Producer(s) | Stephen Lipson, Steve Mac | |
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| Gareth Gates singles chronology | ||
| "Anyone of Us (Stupid Mistake)" (2002) |
"The Long and Winding Road" / "Suspicious Minds" (2002) |
"What My Heart Wants to Say" (2002) |
"Suspicious Minds" was a song performed most notably by Elvis Presley, and was widely regarded as the single that jump-started his career after his successful '68 Comeback Special. It was Elvis's eighteenth number-one single in the United States. Rolling Stone later ranked it #91 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
[edit] Song
Written by Mark James (who also wrote "Always On My Mind", which Elvis was to record later), the song was recorded along with at least another two hit singles -- "In the Ghetto" and "Kentucky Rain" -- in the so-called "Memphis sessions" of January 1969. He first performed the song at the Las Vegas Hilton on July 31, 1969, and the 45 rpm single was released in the fall. It reached number one in the United States in the week of November 1 and stayed there for that week. It would be Elvis's final number-one single in the U.S. before his death ("The Wonder Of You" in 1970, "Way Down" in 1977 and a posthumous remixed release of "A Little Less Conversation" in 2002 all hit number one on the British charts, followed by re-issues of several previous chart toppers in 2005).
Notable in this song is a fade out at about 3:22 into the song, which fades out for about 15 seconds before fading back in. This fade out was intentional, as it helped convey a message of relationship in the song. [1]
[edit] Cover versions
In 1986, the band Fine Young Cannibals made a cover version of the song. Six years later, country singer Dwight Yoakam recorded his own version of the song for the soundtrack to the Honeymoon in Vegas movie.
In 1999, the punk rock band Avail covered the song for the compilation album Return of the Read Menace.
Throughout 2001-2002, the progressive rock band Tool occasionally added lyrics from "Suspicious Minds" into their live performance of the song "Stinkfist".
In 2002, Gareth Gates released his remake as a single from his debut album What My Heart Wants to Say. This version, charted as a double a-side with his duet with Will Young on "The Long and Winding Road," hit number one on the UK Singles Chart.
In 2003, Pete Yorn recorded two versions, a "Dawn Version" and a "Dusk Version" on a two-track promotional CD. He also released a live cover of the song on his 2004 album Live from New Jersey.
The song provides the soundtrack to the shower love scene with Richard Gere and Valerie Kaprisky in the 1983 film Breathless.
Bowling for Soup has also recorded a cover of this, although it was released as a b-side, with no trace of it on a pressed CD.
In 2004 on The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam, Dwight Yoakam remade this song once again.
Throughout their career, the American rock band Phish occasionally covered the song, as has No Doubt.
Mark Eitzel's album Caught in a Trap and I Can't Back out 'Cause I Love You Too Much, Baby takes its name from the song's opening line.
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| Preceded by "I Can't Get Next to You" by The Temptations |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single November 1, 1969 |
Succeeded by "Wedding Bell Blues" by The Fifth Dimension |
| Preceded by "Just Like a Pill" by Pink |
UK number-one single (Will Young/Gareth Gates version) September 29, 2002 (2 weeks) |
Succeeded by "The Ketchup Song" by Las Ketchup |
