Backing session for Suspicious Minds

[@laurierken]

Those voices are the ribbon on the package. Makes the song, voices like Angels.

[@qso3566]

What a great statement!

[@rant1200]

When I am breathing my last,I wish I could hear their voices singing the refrain.Beautiful harmony.Food for the soul.

[@derekmyers3258]

Truly some of the greatest backing vocals of all recorded history and a big reason this track was monumentally majestic. These girls really shine.

[@qso3566]

Agree!

[@dooby562]

Suspicious Minds is my favourite Elvis song and the backing vocals are a big reason for that. Its wonderful to hear them so clearly.

[@markdesmit]

same here

[@crashb0mb]

so obsessed with their voices on this song😍

[@screamingpirhana]

Sadly, we'll never see days like this again. These singers were so amazing. They deserve great fame of their own. The documentary on Jeanie was great.

[@qso3566]

Very nostalgic. This is a gem! They had no idea at the time that they were recording something that would become a fantastic piece of music history.

[@jamesdavis5096]

Thank you for the info I will watch that

[@enemywithin1295]

One of my all time favourite backing tracks.

[@wendellrufino]

Hell yeah! Since I was a little boy.....it's my favourite backing tracks...hight tunes

[@robertobrito4490]

One of the best backing vocals of all time

[@analu7306]

Hauntingly beautiful, perfection. The good old days...

[@maryeggert4199]

Gotta be my favorite Elvis song! Yup. I harmonize right along with those girls!

[@user-et2fj8xm5l]

I wish they still made records like this. The humanity, emotion and passion has left the recording industry. At least we still have the music..

[@guilhermehomsy674]

I liove this song and its back vocals. Came here just for that!

[@drstorm]

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm surprised I didn't find this earlier. Mary "Jeanie" Greene (Lee) has been a long time family friend for many years; I affectionately call her "Aunt Jeanie". However, having discovered eerie similarities and connections in our family histories, it's probably not too far fetched to say that we are actually related! She has led an interesting life, and has so many stories to tell. I was fortunate enough to capture a little bit of her life in a three part interview I did with her several years ago that I posted here on KZbin. Sadly, Jeanie is currently suffering from a weak heart and is in a nursing home under Hospice care. Prayers are appreciated.

[@robertsmotherman]

I saw Jeanie only a few times after Max passed away, we all went to the same church I just found out that she passed away today.

[@drstorm]

She was an awesome person. Sorely missed!

[@pjer518]

What a beautiful high voices. Incredible. I've never heard only backup singers.

[@TMCNJ]

Could you imagine just spending the day at these recording studios back in the day 😄 history in the making

[@qso3566]

That would have been AMAZING!!

[@daveboydell2896]

Incredible ! The greatest Elvis song of all!

[@tytits]

I'm so glad to find this LOL. My best friend and I had a debate over this song. He refused to believe the backing in the song, was done by actual people. He firmly believed it was done by instruments, or computers. I kept trying to tell him it was done by legitimate background singers. So it makes me feel good to find this. Thanks uploader.

[@bobberry5809]

Donna Thatcher, later (married) Donna Godchaux of The Grateful Dead!

[@SuperBeachbum74]

She sang on When a Man Loves a Woman by Percy Sledge among others

[@honkytonk2010]

So amazing! How they put a song together and the back up singers are so awesome! Thank you so much for sharing your awesome! Video

[@brandonthomas5926]

Absolutely incredible. A true find!

[@TheDONELVIS]

Wonderful ❤️ Why he didn’t engagement them for the live shows?

[@TheDONELVIS]

What a voices ❤️

[@Redboy4]

This has to be one of the all time best backing tracks, and one of the main reasons I loved Suspicious Minds so much was because of the backing vocals. I wonder if there is a rehearsal with Elvis and these ladies in it somewhere?

[@freddysnip6257]

The backing was overdubbed after the session took place on a later date! Here is an example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/laCom36uf9qSopo

[@Redboy4]

@@freddysnip6257 I realize that. Just wondered if there was a rehearsal that took place before all the dubbing. Two different things.

[@Sfaknak]

Correction. The best.

[@kennymullins9910]

The strings, horns, and, vocals were arranged by Chips, and, overdubbed . The undubbed tracks from these sessions are up on KZbin.

[@kevinjohnson-xt6kn]

And I always thought it was the sweet inspirations who did this . My all time favourite elvis song

[@DavCaz1964]

So did I man,for all these years🤔Where were the sweets?

[@bennyadler5882]

Me too!

[@robertobrito4490]

Incredible. Fantastic.

[@robertsmith9373]

Unsung heroes! The best

[@kilroy8357]

Wonderful !

[@TheDONELVIS]

BRIVIDI ❤

[@djdon60]

Wow-just, wow!

[@melissapresley3179]

Does anyone know which girl at 2:12 does that highest pitch? God, that's beautiful.

[@danamiller4769]

I love that part. Favorite part of the song.

[@danamiller4769]

I'm pretty sure that was Donna Thatcher.

[@woodwil6543]

@@danamiller4769 Jeanie told me that it was herself... it's called a "step out".

Espetacular. Que era de ouro Meu Deus, o mundo mudou demais

[@sweety1009]

*Goosebumps*

[@TLK9419]

Where did you get individual studio tracks?

[@Birdlives247]

It's hard to hear Jeanie Greene's voice apart from the other singers, which is unusual. Probably because they are singing mostly in unison and she's singing in a lower register than usual. Her voice was truly unique. She made the sound of any backing group unique. I think that is her greatest contribution to rock 'n soul. (Let me make a plug for a recording, that is on KZbin, that she made at Sun studios when she was 13 years old. It's under her real name "Mary Johnson - River Of No Return" She plays piano too. Her voice is so different from her adult voice. It's beautiful.)

[@screamingpirhana]

There are other youtube videos with her, in fact, if I look to the right of where I'm typing, I see one, an interview with her. She deserved far-ranging recognition.

[@brianwhitney9181]

The key was Elvis asking them to hold the note near the end and they did it.❤

[@PhillyCYOSports]

Haunting

[@DCGuy1997]

Amazing! I'm surprised. I thought it was a black gospel choir all these years.

[@markjohnson6786]

Thats soul

[@jolawolska1451]

Wow.💓

[@marcmywords6970]

i would really love to know what notes they are hitting. i have been drawn to this song since i was child.

[@cdnz7471]

The very best

[@PauloArton]

Great !

[@richardbinns1]

Brilliant

[@rogergomez1]

perfection...

[@rogergomez1]

the blackest white singers ever!

[@idawilliams3528]

Sensation❤

[@kakaroto4estrelas]

Nice...

[@JerryJimmson]

Wow!

[@jamesdavis5096]

Where on earth did you get this? This Hass to be from the family and a special mix, Or some sort of supercomputer extracting this

[@marcmywords6970]

and how they accomplished the whoo..ah.... whoo.....whoo.

[@EvenStevenSays]

My whole life I thought it was Black Women 😅

[@slares111]

70’s Elvis > 50’s Elvis

[@karolk7711]

Other way around

[@cortilusgrant7675]

A suspicious mind is a dead god Coeus⚘🌚👍rest In the good news 🌹 okay bye

[@timelesstimes219]

The switch that I have mentioned that one other person has mentioned that made me look into the switch that's in Asians that avoids PTSD after wars is their ability to switch on and off. I wish to disclose this switch with you I'm running out of time until I kidnap time and make everyone pay to know what time it is until then time is not on my side but one day it will be on my side. The switch that the Asians have in their consciousness is through DNA life experience of killing each other since the beginning of dawn not for beliefs not for propaganda but for the real things in life we're going to steal your land and kill you and enslave you and take your food. The switch is something everyone believes anyway the mind becometh what it thinketh the switch is switching off the idea of God and switching it back on when times are good and hello and goodbye will be accepted one day as a greeting saving time avoiding the awkward it's time for me to go are you going already why don't you have another beer just leave mysteriously cuz you already said goodbye when you said hello

[@laurelrunlaurelrun]

Wow, it's actually better without Elvis.