Aug 23, 2022
Guest Darin Evans joins Gurdip and Justin for an in-depth look at Elvis's 1961-1962 output which eventually led to the release of the album Pot Luck in May 1962. What starts with a Blue Hawaii reject and several sessions simply held for the purpose of recording singles eventually begins to take shape as the severely overlooked followup to 1961's "Something for Everybody."
Top songwriters like Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman and Don Robertson
dominate the material recorded in June and October 1961 and we get
to be a fly on the wall as we hear Elvis, alongside key members of
the Nashville A-team at the top of their A-game, working steadily
away to create products with commercial and creative viability. Was
Pot Luck truly a disappointment, or simply misjudged? We'll try to
find out across this two-parter.
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