Suspicious Minds

1968

Suspicious Minds is a song that Mark James wrote and recorded in 1968. Shortly after the first publication by the authors themselves, the producer Chips Moman ran the piece of Elvis Presley who found recorded a resounding success with the song, while James ' own version without resonance remained.

Suspicious Minds was that single, which brought Presley after the 68 Comeback Special not only back in the public consciousness, but also transported back to the charts. The song was his seventeenth and last number - one single in the United States. The Rolling Stone lists Presley's version ranked 91 of the 500 best songs of all time, calling it demonstrably Presley's masterpiece.

The lyrics itself is about a serious love relationship that seems doomed to fail without mutual trust. Both parties must appear on their shadows and empathize with the good of others. In the text, specifically this situation is called a trap (We caught in a trap ) refers.

Author Mark James wrote the number Himself in an emotional predicament was. He was married, but she still had feelings for his childhood sweetheart, who was in turn married to another. His wife did not trust him, and for all three it was a situation such as in a case where the above-mentioned song line stemmed.

Mark James took Suspicious Minds initially itself on, with chips Moman as producer. The single flopped on the charts. However, Elvis Presley was very willing also to take the piece itself, as it seemed to him apparently to please. James himself was initially assumed that Presley would need a rock and roll number, to make it to after the '68 Comeback Special back in the charts, actually played Presley with the band the piece more than a hint of soul number.

The session in which Presley's version of Suspicious Minds was, took place on January 23, 1969 zwischen 4 und 7 clock clock in the morning instead. In similar sessions the abum From Elvis in Memphis was created.

Even after Elvis Presley to more singers and musicians tried on the piece. Among them, Dee Dee Warwick, Fine Young Cannibals, Dwight Yoakam, BJ Thomas, Waylon Jennings with Jessi Colter and Gareth Gates; the latter had with Suspicious Minds a number 1 hit in the UK.