Wednesday 3 October 2012

The Thrill of Your Love - Carl McVoy

The Thrill of Your Love (featured on Elvis is Back 1960) was written by Stan Kesler who also wrote or co-wrote I Forgot to Remember to Forget / I'm  Left, You're Right, She's Gone / Playing for Keeps / If I'm a Fool for Loving You.

Colonel Snow mentioned that this song was originally sang by Carl McVoy 1958 under the title A Woman's Love (The Thrill of Your Love) and here it is -




Carl McVoy (January 1931 – January 3, 1992) was an American pianist.
"McVoy was cousin to the younger Jerry Lee Lewis. He had been to New York with his father, who had been a minister there. McVoy got hooked on boogie-woogie while in New York, which he subsequently brought back to Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Jerry Lee Lewis would visit his older cousin and get him to show him things on the piano.
Plucked from the construction industry by Ray Harris, McVoy recorded "You Are My Sunshine" at Sun Records, which was the single that launched Hi Records. McVoy recorded a number of other sides at Sun in 1957 and 1958, most which have remained unissued.
He subsequently went back to Hi as pianist with The Bill Black Combo, but quit in the mid 1960s and returned to the construction industry forming his own company Carmack Construction. He died at the age of 61 early in 1992." Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_McVoy

Songwriter
"Stan Kesler (11 August 1928 , Abbeville , Mississippi ) From 1954 he was a studio musician ( steel guitar and bass ) and composer at Sam Phillips record label Sun Records, and contributed to the emergence of the "Sun Sounds."

Kesler (sometimes Kessler written) began his musical career in the Clyde Leoppard country band Snearly Ranch Boys, Buddy Holobaugh (guitar), Stan Kesler (steel guitar), Jan Ledbetter (bass), Smokey Joe Baugh (Piano / Vocal ) and William "Bill" Taylor (vocals) and Johnny Bernero passed (drums). Scotty Moore.


Stan Kesler's first recording session as a steel guitarist for Sun took place on 25 October 1954 for Maggie Sue Wimberleys How Long / Daydreams Come True (# 229) along with Quinton Claunch (guitar), Marcus Van Story (bass) and Bill Cantrell instead (fiddle). On 17 February 1955 was followed by the music of Charlie Feathers' song Peepin 'Eyes. Feathers again sought the services of Kesler, as on 1 November 1955 Defrost Your Heart / Wedding Gown of White (published in January 1956), was recorded. As Roy Orbison's support group The Teen Kings unlike Orbison got a record deal."
Read More here http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Kesler

Here's Elvis with Thrill of Your Love









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