A RARE GEM! Elvis Presley - Where Did They Go, Lord | REACTION

[@theresa6955]

Please hold your comment until the end of the song. No one should interrupt the King when he sings.

[@SephPlays]

If you dont like interruptions You aren't gonna like this channel 😅 i talk allllll the time. But dont worry im sure you will find a reactor who doesn't talk, there's thousands of zombies on youtube for you to watch 👍

[@theresa6955]

@SephPlays you certainly aren't going to get more viewers with your obnoxiousness. To give your opinions on any artist should be done after the song plays. You can then go back and replay parts and discuss what you felt about it. Referring to me as a zombie is typical of a self-involved prate.

[@SephPlays]

@@theresa6955 You might want to read my comment again. I clearly never called you a zombie. And calling me obnoxious isn't very nice. Remember for a moment that im a human being just like you and i have feelings.

[@jennyjorgensen9935]

​@@theresa6955, don't tell Seph how to run his channel! He is the best. Go elsewhere if you have a problem, please.❤❤❤

[@theresa6955]

@@jennyjorgensen9935 I intend to

[@Ntass1]

Love it had listen again and again.

[@suspiciousminds1750]

A love song? Gospel? Country? Incredible!

[@theresacona1328]

JUST BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL LOVE ELVIS ❤❤❤

[@artfromtex]

Hey Seph, That sound at the beginning is a regular electric guitar. No slide. What he is doing are "volume swells". You fret normally with the left hand, but instead of picking, the right hand is moving the volume knob on the guitar. You have to have the gain up on the amp to really get a good "swell". Take care, Arthur

[@michaellawliss3049]

Pure Brilliance 😊

[@janetb.8683]

It's hard to do this song justice with mere words! It's just so emotional listening to Elvis express his feelings, as he pleads & pours his heart out to the Lord!! Great reaction Seph, spot on analogy 👍❤

[@annieleouzon6598]

Anything and everything that ELVIS sings ,is a ****GEM****.Not a rough gem, the best cut gem in the world.****LONG LIVE THE KING**** Thank you Seph, you re the best...

[@SephPlays]

Very well said Annie! 😀

[@lindabratcher4457]

Wow! Love your reaction!

[@psychedelicelvis-777]

IT DOESN'T GET BETTER THAN THIS, END OF!

[@Snorkebogan]

Elvis is like a drug❤😉

[@janetd6686]

I agree. I have to listen to him every day.

[@ruthsimon7035]

Yes, so right!

[@SephPlays]

If i dont get my elvis fix i get the elvis sweats... Then the elvis shakes start.... Actually i feel one coming on now! *Plays Blue Suede Shoes* Whewwww that was a close one!! 🫠

[@mandyheath1793]

@@SephPlays 😂😂😂

[@katiemartin2279]

I'm addicted and it's an addiction I don't want to overcome.❤

[@delladawn1149]

One of my many favorites ❤

[@senyart890]

Fantastic reaction. This is another one that didn't get enough attention; way to go!

[@MMVDupont]

Just magnificent.

[@lechat8533]

Always gives me goosebumps❤

[@HeavenlyPresley-Tonya]

BANGER BANGER BANGER!!!! HIS *VIBRATO* STUNNING!! The Power / Emotion / ONLY ELVIS CAN SING TO YOUR HEART & SOUL LIKE THIS!!!!! GREAT REACTION SEPH!!!! LOVING THESE LONG REACTIONS SO MUCH --- HUGS

[@TheKopyKatz]

Pure fire 🔥🔥🔥

[@daviddavies2072]

Brilliant song , and elviss singing just knocks it out of the park ❤, sure miss the way ecould sing , 👍🇬🇧❤️🇺🇲

[@maggieshome]

Explosion of emotion beautiful Banger 3×

[@carriemichelle322]

BANGER BANGER BANGER All Day Long!!! His voice is so calming! Like Estelle Brown said...he was an angel and we were all touched. ❤

[@gorse9030]

This is one Elvis song, that for my sins I do not have on a playlist having forgotten or overlooked what a fine recording it really was. Yes Seph a banger at the very least.

[@MrAlanfalk73]

One of the Elvis songs I never skip !!

[@Laura-M-L]

I love this song! Really sad but sooo emotional! That voice! He puts his all into this one, beautiful!

[@Laura-M-L]

The Elvis sunflower, I love it!

[@rodniederschuh5524]

Power

[@SharonMatthews-h3w]

Goosebumps. My god this man can sing

[@jennyjorgensen9935]

I love your sunflower analogy! He has showered my life with so much sun and joy. This song is so heartfelt. I believe that Elvis had that passion in his heart and was an empath. He could express so easily with his voice the emotions that are universal to all of us. One of the many reasons he is so beloved and appreciated still.❤❤❤

[@MMVDupont]

Very well said!

[@SephPlays]

Loved this Jenny ❤️❤️❤️

[@jennyjorgensen9935]

​@@MMVDupont, thanks so much!❤❤❤

[@jennyjorgensen9935]

​@@SephPlays, awwww, thanks, Seph. Means a lot to me.❤❤❤

[@sammy_the_uncool2702]

Okay 3rd comment: Songwriter Info Below: First Up: Dallas Frazier: Dallas Frazier (October 27, 1939 - January 14, 2022) was an American country musician and songwriter who had success in the 1950s and 1960s. Frazier was born in Spiro, Oklahoma, on October 27, 1939, but was raised in Bakersfield, California. As a teenager, he played with Ferlin Husky and on the program Hometown Jamboree; and released his first single, "Space Command", at age 14 in 1954. As he told writer Edd Hurt in a 2008 profile for the music website Perfect Sound Forever, "We were part of The Grapes of Wrath. We were the Okies who went out to California with mattresses tied on the tops of their Model A Fords. My folks were poor. At twelve I moved away from home, with my folks' permission. Ferlin [Husky] offered me a job, and I started working with him when I was twelve. Then I recorded a side for Capitol Records when I was fourteen, and I did some country. I cut in the big circular building that's still out there on Hollywood and Vine." Frazier's 1957 song "Alley Oop", later taken to No. 1 in the US by The Hollywood Argyles, was his first hit. After Hometown Jamboree went off the air, Frazier moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and found work as a songwriter. Among his early successes was "Timber I'm Falling", a hit for Husky in 1964, and "There Goes My Everything", a big hit for Jack Greene in 1966, that earned him a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Country Song. In 1966, he released his solo debut album Elvira, containing his song "Elvira". His follow-up, Tell It Like It Is (1967), was also a success. While his singing success was limited, Frazier became an oft-covered songwriter. His tunes were recorded by O.C. Smith, George Jones (who recorded an entire album of Frazier's songs in 1968), Diana Ross, Engelbert Humperdinck, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jack Greene, Connie Smith (who also recorded an entire album of Frazier's songs in 1972), Willie Nelson, Brenda Lee, Carola, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Gene Watson, Elvis Presley, Moe Bandy, Roy Head, Charlie Louvin, Rodney Crowell, Dan McCafferty, Poco, "Gonna Go Down The River" composed by Buddy Mize & Frazier by The Kingston Trio, and Ronnie Hawkins. In 1970, Frazier earned his second Grammy nomination for Best Country Song, which is awarded to the songwriter rather than the performer, for "All I Have to Offer You (Is Me), which became a No. 1 hit for Charley Pride. Many of the songs became hits into the 1980s; examples include the Oak Ridge Boys cover of "Elvira" and Emmylou Harris's version of "Beneath Still Waters". The cover of "Elvira" by the Oak Ridge Boys was a crossover hit, peaking at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart and No. 5 on the all genre Billboard Hot 100; and earned Frazier his third Grammy nomination for Best Country song. Anne Murray with Glen Campbell, George Strait, Randy Travis, and Patty Loveless have all also recorded Frazier tunes. Frazier himself charted eight times on the U.S. country chart. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1976. In 1988, Frazier left the music industry and became a minister. Frazier suffered two strokes in late 2021, and died from related complications at a care facility in Gallatin, Tennessee, on January 14, 2022, at the age of 82. 2nd Up: A.L. "Doodles" Owens: Arthur Leo "Doodle" Owens (November 28, 1930 - October 4, 1999) was an American country music songwriter and singer. He had a long songwriting partnership with Dallas Frazier, with whom he wrote "All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)" (1969), "(I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Again" (1969), "I Can't Believe That You've Stopped Loving Me" (1970) and "Then Who Am I" (1974), all number-one country hits for Charley Pride. In the 1980s, Owens wrote many songs with fellow songwriter Dennis Knutson for George Jones and other artists. Owens was born is Waco, Texas. As a singer, his only charting hit was "Honky Tonk Toys", written by Owens with Gene Vowell, which made it to number 78 on the country charts in 1978. Charley Pride's version of "All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1970. Owens was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999. Owens died in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 68.

[@sherrera66]

I have this album and I play it at full blast Elvis just brings tears to my eyes with these songs. It breaks my heart and it tears into my soul. OMG! You hit it right on the head it’s a rainbow in the storm. TCB⚡️

[@mandypotts9090]

Fantastic performance yet again ❤

[@rhondadavis1897]

I listen to this song and I think he's singing about his Mama. She was sick and in the hospital but I believe they thought she'd get better, then suddenly she was gone. I don't think Elvis ever fully recovered from that, and it broke his heart.

[@jjbud3124]

I can see your love building for Elvis, but just wait. You'll gain even more appreciation of this man as a human being. His good very much eclipses his shortcomings. My Lord, this song is good. He makes you feel the song and you believe him when he's singing it. That has always been the strongest part of his singing. Pavarotti himself said if he could be any other singer it would be Elvis and that Elvis could have been one of the best opera singers if he had the training. I've listened to lots of opera and all kinds of music and it is the rare singer who folds you into the emotion like Elvis did. Other singers can do wonderful things with their voices, but the emotion is just not there to the same degree.

[@helenludlow2331]

Yay double banger - this is such an emotional song that Elvis sings just perfect and I love it. Notice that you haven't played C C Rider, Sweet Caroline, Polk Salad Annie, The Wonder of You, Walk a Mile In My Shoes, Let It Be Me from On Stage 1970 and Mystery Train/Tiger Man from Live at the International Hotel 1969 - I know some of these feature in the film Elvis That's The Way It is so was wondering if your mate was saving them and showing the film rather than just audio 🎶💙🎵

[@SephPlays]

All i know is that the copyright holders of that "film" are very very strict and have blocked 2 of my videos so far. So my friend who sorts out the list has been trying different ways to "Avoid copyright". This is why its being delayed whilst he figures out the best way to handle it. This is why I've carried on with the rest of the year first

[@helenludlow2331]

@@SephPlays Aw no that's a bummer - just didn't want you to miss out on these great songs and performances - hope your friend manages to get it sorted out for you soon 💕

[@sammy_the_uncool2702]

YES! DOUBLE BANGER! SPOT ON SEPH 👌 OH MY LAWD THE BUILD UP! THE SOUL! THE PASSION! HEART EXPLOSION 💓💞💓💞💓💞💓💞💓💞💓💞 Elvis doesn't tear your heart out. He breaks your heart and then puts it back together again but in a way that you know your heart will never quite beat as it did before. I LOVE THIS REACTION SEPH! WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL REACTION 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙌💃🙌💃🙌💃🙌💃🙌💃🙌💃🙌💃🙌💃🙌💃🙌💃😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 Now I gotta calm down in a totally different way than 🎶Yesterday🎶😄 All good Seph! Nothin' but love! Right then. I'm going to have to leave two comments under this reaction- at least. Got lots to go over with this one! First up: Recording Session Info: "Where Did They Go, Lord" written by Dallas Frazier & A.L. "Doodle" Owens. Recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee on September 22, 1970 Hours: 6:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m./ 10:00 p.m.- 1:00 a.m. Musicians: Guitar: Eddie Hinton Guitar: Chip Young Piano: David Briggs Bass: Norbert Putnam Organ/ Harmonica: Charlie McCoy Harmony Vocals: Elvis Presley "Snowbird" Take 1: Complete 2:18 Take 2: False Start + False Start 0:26 Take 3: Complete 2:25 Take 4:- Take 5:- Take 6 (Master) 2:24 Undubbed Master Overdubs (Master) Additional back up vocals on September 23, 1970 Overdub Master 2:27 Percussion overdubbed on October 28, 1970 (afternoon) (?) So a few additional facts: 1. Elvis's recording of "Where Did They Go, Lord" was the first recording and the first release. 2. Elvis's recording of this song took place in September 1970 but was not released until February 23, 1971. 3. Dallas Frazier cut his own version & it was released in July of 1971. 4. On Wikipedia it states that Elvis's version was an adaptation of Frazier's/ Owens's version. 4a. I took it upon myself to listen to Dallas Frazier's version and looked up the lyrics of both versions. The lyrics of both are the exact same. But the instrumentation used in both versions is very different. Too Dallas Frazier's version does not have the buildup that Elvis's version has. So the difference between the two lies in the musical & vocal interpretation of the song. If that makes sense. I will include a quote from Dallas Frazier himself on Elvis in a separate comment. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH SEPH BRILLIANT 💎👌 TCB ⚡ & TLC ❤ & peace ✌& blessings 🙏 to you & yours & to one & all here as well 💕

[@allandickson8576]

ye - such a rare song - other side to rags to riches I think. So many elvis songs never released on albums at the time - elvis just showing off here lol - beautiful song

[@joanmatthews2570]

Absolutely amazing!! He sings with so much passion every time

[@traceycater]

Elvis’s 70s country is heart-stringing. I absolutely love the depth in these type of his songs!

[@linnaeahansen4973]

En af mine 100 yndlings ❤❤❤❤

[@Wildlife_SA.]

Once again a beautiful Country song. It's just so enjoyable to listen to ELVIS music! His voice is just so special.... Thanks Seph. Nice reaction. 🎶🎧

[@sammy_the_uncool2702]

2nd comment: *Fingers Crossed This Goes Through* At the Ford Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville Saturday on August 11, 2012, four legendary songwriters tell how the King of Rock 'n' Roll changed their lives. Telling stories behind some of their songs Presley recorded were Dallas Frazier, Jerry Chesnut, Mac Davis and Billy Swan. (Frazier, Chesnut and Davis are all members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.) The Ford Theater is designed like an elevated classroom, with all the seats looking downward at the performance area where the four songwriters sat -- Frazier at a grand piano, the others in a row of plain, armless chairs with microphones and guitar stands in front of them. The museum's congenially cerebral Michael Gray conducted the 'Songs Fit for a King' session, deftly filling in helpful background information, keeping the songwriters on subject and allotting each sufficient time to convey his myriad Elvis connections. Among the many music industry figures in the audience were Scotty Moore, Presley's guitarist from the start of his career, and Chip Young, a regular member of Presley's studio band between 1965 and 1977. Frazier was first on the program to speak. He said he was a high school freshman when he first heard Presley. 'I kind of grew up with Elvis, musically speaking', he observed. 'There's never been another Elvis'. Presley cut his version of the song in 1970. It peaked at No. 9 on the country chart. Frazier pointed out that he rewrote the song as a gospel tune called He Is My Everything and that Presley had recorded that one as well. 'Elvis was a spiritual man', he said. 'He always leaned toward gospel. He loved gospel quartets and had half of them working for him'. Frazier ended his first round by playing and singing 'He Is My Everything'. Next up was Chesnut, who confessed he was so immersed in establishing himself as a country songwriter and singer that he paid scant attention to Presley when he first came on the scene. Elvis was just out of reach and another ball game', Chesnut continued, playing the complete rustic. 'For a long time, I didn't know who Ray Charles was. When Elvis Costello cut some of my songs, I thought he was an Elvis imitator'. Chesnut wised up quickly to the ways of Elvis, he admitted, when he cut one of his songs. 'I listened to his voice', Chesnut drawled, 'and I got to loving his music'. That first song was It's Midnight, which Chesnut co-wrote with Billy Edd Wheeler and which Presley cut in 1975. As it turned out, Davis couldn't hear straight either. He'd never heard the name Elvis. So when he and a friend went to a local record store the next day to check out this new guy, they asked if they had a song by 'Alman Parsons'. 'They said, 'You mean Elvis Presley? We said, 'Yeah'. We sat there and wore that record out until they ran us out of the record store', Davis recalled. 'We didn't have a dollar to pay for it'. It was a musically rich time to be living in Lubbock, Texas, Davis remembered. 'About that time, Buddy Holly was playing at a skating rink in Lubbock', he said. 'It was right down the street from my house. I used to tell people you could go down there and skate and pay an extra quarter and dance for two hours and get your ass whupped'. He said he eventually got to see Presley and his band (including Scotty Moore) playing on the back of a flatbed truck at a Ford dealership in Lubbock. 'It was about nine-to-one girls out there in the parking lot', said Davis, 'and every one of them was ... excited. I guarantee you, that night I was standing in front of a mirror (trying to copy you). What a sound you guys had.... I was involved in (Elvis') comeback years, but to me, the real Elvis records were in the beginning. Those old Sun Records had a unique sound, and his voice was way up there. I happened to like Blue Moon of Kentucky. Chesnut first met Presley when he asked him to go to a movie with him. The movie was the 1973 film, Charlie Varrick. 'We shook hands', Chesnut said, 'and he said, 'How ya doin'?' It was then, Chesnut continued, that he realized that Presley was just a 'little shy, wonderful kid. He was simple. All the great people are simple'. That meeting, Chesnut said, was transformative. 'From that day, I quit trying to write hit songs and started trying to write great songs', he said. Davis, whose turn it was next, told the crowd that he and Billy Strange wrote Memories for Presley's 1968 'comeback' TV special. It was a last-minute assignment, he said, leaving him just 24 hours to come up with a song. Davis had worked himself into a state of exhaustion, but Strange, who subsisted on a diet of 'uppers', gave him a 'Big Red' pill with which to revivify himself. Then Strange fell asleep, leaving Davis to finish the project. 'I never took another Big Red', Davis said. 'I didn't sleep for two days'. The crowd erupted with applause as Davis sang the first line from the song: 'Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind'. Swan said he wrote his biggest hit, I Can Help, in March 1974. His own recording of it that same year was a No. 1 country and No. 1 pop single for two weeks. It was later an album cut for Presley. Frazier completed his Elvis tribute by singing Wearing That Loved On Look, another co-composition with A. L. 'Doodles' Owens. He said he never met Presley but once talked to him on the phone. Davis said he wrote In the Ghetto in response to the racial troubles brewing during the civil rights movement. He said he'd grown up with a black friend and could never understand the reasons behind segregation. 'I was going to call it The Vicious Circle', he said, 'but try to rhyme with 'Circle'. He wrote the song, he explained, after Freddy Weller showed him a guitar lick he'd learned from Joe South. The lick, he said, is the one you hear at the beginning of In the Ghetto. After he wrote the song, he said he called Weller at 3 in the morning and played it for him. 'You son of a bitch!' Weller responded. Presley scored a No. 3 pop hit with In the Ghetto in 1969. Following his explanation, Davis sang the song. Swan concluded his portion of the event by singing his slowed-down and soulful version of Don't Be Cruel, Presley's 1956 hit that topped the pop chart for 11 weeks. Gray asked Davis to end the show by singing his Don't Cry Daddy, a No. 6 pop hit for Presley in 1970. Edit: I am so sorry I had to edit this article. Breaks my heart 💔 to do that but I did try to include the parts I thought would be most central to the topic at hand- that being Elvis and the impact he had on others, musically speaking this time.

[@janetd6686]

Lovely to hear of people in the business talking about Elvis' influence on them.

[@sammy_the_uncool2702]

@@janetd6686 Lovely sentiment yes I agree with you 💖🙏💕 So glad you enjoyed reading 🌹📖🌹😊 ⚡❤✌🙏💕

[@amandarayray9340]

Omg Seph, your remarks after this song were on point! ❤❤❤❤ Elvis and Seph, made my day ❤

[@randalldeetz8659]

Fantastic review Seph. Thank you for what you do! My only question from watching this is how in the heck is Bridge Over Troubled Water in the B rank??? OMG, that's in my A List for all songs ever recorded! 🙂

[@robbansa]

Goosebumps Goosebumps Goosebumps it's a fu.. triple banger. The Elvis sings with full blast and not holding back, that's just pure perfection. And a shout out to Jennifer alias this songs name, giving us beautiful quotes about Elvis.👌

[@SephPlays]

I'm so happy im not the only one who loves this song! Seems like the entire comment section is in agreement on this one 😍

[@florinfrentiu1383]

Back to great music again

[@Ntass1]

Banger 3 times.❤

[@Snorkebogan]

So f..good❤❤

[@dianacordova1580]

Don’t change how you react, Seph. You are part of the lovely experience that is the Elvis Train. You are doing a wonderful job. I love it!

[@roustabout583]

One thing about this song, I don t think he ever sounded 1969 in the 70s as he does here.

[@mandyheath1793]

Omg fantastic, it gives me goosebumps, his voice and the emotion is just like no other, only Elvis can do that to me ❤❤

[@terrywright8731]

Love it, one of my favorite Elvis tunes.

[@debbyschultz1729]

Beautiful!! I Love the way he sings this song!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤! This is a triple banger!! Thank you so very much! Love your reactions!!

[@dianemiller8382]

Yes a sunflower.🌻☀️Oh, that voice❤🎙🎶🎵Thank you Seph for your reaction 😊

[@ruthsimon7035]

What a voice! Wonderful!❤ ELVIS put all his emotions in this song, and his vocals simply amazing! Yes, a double banger! Great reaction!

[@mrchips4489]

Thinking that Elvis is singing about his Mama in this song...she didn't want to leave him but she did nonetheless when she died. Elvis's love for his mother is legendary.

[@miguela4477]

I've always liked this song. So much emotion. The effortless power of this man's voice never fails to move me. ❤️

[@SusieOrSueOrSusan]

Great reaction Seph! However, it's not "A RARE GEM". When it comes to the Elvis, there is no such thing 😉☺

[@SephPlays]

This is true actually!!

[@mimi-422]

❤👑👑👑👑👑❤️

[@grahampearce868]

I believe that it is James Burton on the guitar,not a violin or slide guitar. James could make his guitar sing

[@MarkRogersVOCFB]

Decent song, but not one I care to listen to. I've heard it a couple hundred times and never cared for it too much. Not on my playlist.

[@jjbud3124]

Aren't you the fella who likes the older stuff better, more into the rock era? You seem to be the odd man out on this one. 😊

[@MarkRogersVOCFB]

@@jjbud3124 I love a great variety of Elvis' music. He is my favorite and there really is no second.

[@jjbud3124]

@@MarkRogersVOCFB Ah. There was someone on here who didn't like the newer music. My apologies. We're all different, but you're still the odd man out on this one. 🙂🙂