One of the Greatest Songs Ever Recorded: “There’s Always Me” by Elvis Presley!!!

For as long as I’ve been on the radio, and definitely for as long as I’ve been writing a blog, I will occasionally make a reference to a song being “One of the Greatest Songs Ever Recorded!” (GSER)

I would usually follow that by saying that I would eventually start a category for it, but then never get around to it.

Well, now I’m getting around to it!

My radio show, “Theme Attic,”  is on Wednesdays 12PM-4PM ET.

The show can be heard on WHFR 89.3 FM in the Dearborn-Detroit area of Michigan, or it can be streamed with this link: https://www.whfr.fm/streamer/!

The Greatest Songs will pretty much follow the pattern of The Most Awesomest Song of the Day.

I’ll select a song to celebrate and then give my thoughts about it. Nothing really brand new here that hasn’t been done before. But since I have a website, I can collect them and lay out what my own greatest songs are.

Here’s a link to have a look at “The Greatest Songs Ever Recorded”: https://philmaq.com/the-greatest-songs-ever-recorded/! Occasionally, an “awesome song” crosses over to become a “Greatest Song!”

Even though I always emphasize new music and artists, it’s always fun to take a short drive through the legendary artists, since they influenced those other artists!

But a song doesn’t have to be old or done by a legendary Theme Attic Hall of Fame member to be thus honored.

I can think of several songs that are only a few years old or less that I could identify as One of the Greatest Songs Ever Recorded.

This will be fun, and hopefully you will join me on my journey!

If you like what you see, don’t forget to spread the word by hitting the “like” button on my Facebook page, Phil Maq!

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Whichever way one wants to carve up Elvis Presley’s recorded catalog of music, the totals are something like 57 or so studio albums, 20 plus movie soundtrack albums, and many live albums and so many assorted great hits and collections that the total is conservatively north of 100 to 125.

Within a span of approximately 23 years, Elvis released a mountain of recorded material!

If we presume that most Elvis fans have heard the soundtracks because they saw the movies, or at least most of them, the average Presley fan has listened to–just counting the recorded film songs, about 25% of his music.

Throw in all of the hits that have played for many years on oldies stations, toss in some of the live albums from TV specials, and maybe that average listener likes Gospel music, so there’s a bit more to add to a listening total.

In this area, and let’s be wildly optimistic about how much an average person may have listened to Elvis music, maybe that person has listened to 50% of the output.

Then there’s at least another three hundred songs they haven’t listened to!

That’s a lot of music to explore and not have heard from one of the Greatest Ever Recording Artist!

That’s the conclusion I arrived at, so I have started to spend some time passing through Presley’s catalog.

I intend to occasionally draw some attention to some relatively overlooked songs.

And because they are Elvis songs, most will into my category of the Greatest Songs Ever Recorded!

Today’s Elvis Presley selection is from a 1961 album called “Something for Everybody.”

Now, that’s a generic title if I ever heard one!

The album, which consists of twelve country/pop up tempo tunes and ballads, starts off with an incredible song, “There’s Always Me!”

Elvis, sings one of his finest vocal performances that only someone like he can deliver!

Along with Floyd Cramer on piano who goes right along with him, Presley starts “There’s Always Me” almost at a whisper.

It’s a beautiful torch song where Elvis wants his love interest to know that he is waiting for her, by finishing the song after a gradual crescendo throughout, with an almost operatic full throated fortissimo that includes Cramer hammering away on the keys!

I get chills almost every time I listen to the song, and it is too good to be forgotten!

One of the Greatest Songs Ever Recorded: “There’s Always Me” by Elvis Presley!!!

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I have plenty of other musical areas to explore:

Here’s a link for my weekly list of Fave Songs:

https://philmaq.com/phils-lists/phils-faves-songs!

Here’s a link for my weekly Fave Album lists:
philmaq.com/phils-lists/phils-faves-albums

My somewhat unusual Hall of Fame can be explored here: https://philmaq.com/hall-of-fame/!

Lastly, but most importantly, is my Philby Awards link! A Philby is my annual award for outstanding musical achievement! https://philmaq.com/philbys/!

If you like what you see, don’t forget to spread the word by hitting the “like” button on my Facebook page, Phil Maq!

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