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Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Laughing Version) Las Vegas Live 1969
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Are you lonesome tonight?
Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray to a bright summer day
when I kissed you and called you sweetheart?
And do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your bald head and
wish you had hair?1
(Ha ha ha)
Is your heart filled with pain?
Shall I come back (ha ha ha)?
Tell me, dear, are you lonesome (ha ha ha)? Oh, Lord, Lord!
I wonder (ha ha ha)…
You know, someone said that the world's a stage and each of us must play a part (ha ha ha)…
I can’t! (Ha ha ha)
Oh, God! (Ha ha ha)… Wooo! (Ha ha ha)
Sing it, baby! (Ha ha ha)
Shall I come (ha ha ha) again?
Tell me, dear, are you lonesome (ha ha ha) tonight?
Is your heart filled with pain?
Shall I come back again?
Tell me, dear, (ha ha ha) are you lonesome tonight (ha ha ha)?
That’s it, man! 14 years right down the drain. 2
- 1. The laughing version of Elvis Presley's "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" was recorded live on August 26, 1969, in Las Vegas when Elvis saw a man in the audience take off his toupee and start swaying it. This amused Elvis, who altered the original lyrics “Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?“ to "Do you gaze at your bald head and wish you had hair" and then laughed through the rest of the song, with the backup singer Cissy Houston continuing to sing her part.
- 2. Elvis loses it on stage, at the beginning of his comeback tour in 1969. Apparently he thought he'd really messed up and, at the end, he says "That's it, man! 14 years right down the drain.” because 14 years earlier he had his first hit records.
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The laughing version of Elvis Presley's "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" was recorded live on August 26, 1969, in Las Vegas when Elvis saw a man in the audience take off his toupee and start swaying it. This amused Elvis, who altered the original lyrics “Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?“
to "Do you gaze at your bald head and wish you had hair" and then laughed through the rest of the song, with the backup singer Cissy Houston continuing to sing her part.
Elvis ends it with "That's it, man! 14 years right down the drain" referring to the fact that 14 years earlier he had his first hit records.