Pardon Me Madame

And No Coffee Table · Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:13 am

I'm not sure which link you followed, but this is the "Pardon Me Madam" video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1evVEnJRmA

Elvis co-wrote the song with Loretta Lynn.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:50 pm

Great song, great performance. His voice is sounding excellent. All this nonsense about not recording and all these new songs! Clearly there will be recordings.

Lester Burnham · Post by **Lester Burnham** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:46 pm

Otis Westinghouse wrote:Great song, great performance. His voice is sounding excellent. All this nonsense about not recording and all these new songs! Clearly there will be recordings.

Indeed. Let's count the amount of times that Elvis has threatened to quit the music industry, only to come bouncing back with a new album.

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:30 am

Not me, for sure.
Could you posibly post a link to an mp3 ?

Cheers

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:23 am

http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/disc3.php

Lifeboat (performed live at Hammersmith Odeon, 22-Dec-83. Parts of the
lyrics were used in "Worthless Thing")

I thought I had this, but turns out I have Dec 17 of the same year at the Hammy Palais. Perhaps I have it somewhere else and can't locate it! I thought I'd heard this but can't now recall.

And No Coffee Table · Post by **And No Coffee Table** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:33 am

"Lifeboat" MP3 (from the boot Oh God, What Have We Done (Goodbye Cruel World Live) â€”Â maybe that's where Otis heard it?):
http://www.mediafire.com/?cbmgtlvgrvc

The June Tabor album is called Against the Streams, and the song EC wrote for it is "I Want To Vanish." She also recorded "All This Useless Beauty" on an earlier album.

charliestumpy · Post by **charliestumpy** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:48 am

Thankyou.

thepopeofpop · Post by **thepopeofpop** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 8:34 pm

I'd heard of Lifeboat too. Aside from the lines that ended up in Worthless Thing the melody is vaguely reminiscent of another one of his songs, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Thanks for the link!

Pardon Me Madam is very good. And he wrote it all by himself (apart from the title).

Surely sooner or later someone like T-Bone Burnett will convince Elvis to record some of these new songs he's working on!

wardo68 · Post by **wardo68** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:17 pm

"Lifeboat" sounds melodically similar to "Shatterproof" to my ears.