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Hard Luck

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Words & Music: Ben Weisman/ Sid Wayne

Oh I'm really feeling mighty low
No, no, no, I got no place that I can go
So I've got some blues to sing
And oh, so much remembering, woe......

Black cats, keep away from me
Take my advice, go shinning up a tree
I got hard luck, the hardest kind a luck you'll find
I ain't lyin', I've got the bluest kinda blues
Drivin' me right outta my mind

She's gone, said toodle-loo
Kissed her good-bye and my-my, my money too
I've got hard luck, the hardest kinda luck you've seen
I mean, the way I'm runnin' lately
My lucky number is thirteen

Where do I belong, everything I do is wrong, all wrong
Wrong as can be
Who's stacking all the decks, lady luck has got the hex on me
I'm on her knee da-da-da-da

Shove off, oh I'm warning you
This thing I caught, you know could be catchin' too
I've got hard luck, the hardest kinda luck there can be
Yes siree, I guess hard luck always chooses
Natural born losers like me
Oh ahhh!

Recorded: 1965/05/13, first released on Frankie and Johnny

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bajo (profile/ contact) wrote on Jan 9, 2012report abuse

I like this song. I hated the sound on the original LP album along with Harum Scarum. Luckily Ernst found it worthwhile to remix both these albums on the DF series. They came out like brand new recordings and brought new life to them.
I still use the DF versions when I play those albums. Pity they didn't stick to those remixes while releasing them on FTD.

Monster (profile/ contact) wrote on Jan 9, 2012report abuse

Good song from one of the better post 64 soundtracks. Terrible sound though. What other major artist had such a dull sound on their lps? Shows how little Elvis cared about the mid sixties soundtracks that he didn't say "No, it's not good enough". With song quality you could point to bad scripts and time pressure as an weak excuse for subpar music but there was no such constraint on mixing or engineering surely??

old shep (profile/ contact) wrote on Jan 9, 2012report abuse

Not a bad song made better by Charlie McCoy's harmonica.I got the feeling though that Elvis felt uncomfortable with this

freedom101 (profile/ contact) wrote on Nov 29, 2011report abuse

Elvis nailed this with a nine pound hammer. Love it!

TCB1974 (profile/ contact) wrote on Nov 29, 2011report abuse

The Frankie and Johnny album had ridiculous cover art with Elvis dressed up like a monkey. However, some hidden gems can be found on this LP, like Please don't stop loving me and this one. Three stars from me.

Elvis Rimes (profile/ contact) wrote on Nov 29, 2011report abuse

For years I blamed the quality of the play back on my old record player! Good song, good vocals, bad mixing...possibly a candidate for remix?

dgirl (profile/ contact) wrote on Nov 29, 2011report abuse

Pretty good song for a movie track. A very bad sountrack and movie however. He won no new fans with this one and I know a few who he lost back in the 60's because of it. They had given up on their once idol. I agree the mix on this is atrocious.

Rob Wanders (profile/ contact) wrote on Nov 29, 2011report abuse

a cool song! badly recorded unfortunatelly.

KingKreole (profile/ contact) wrote on Apr 8, 2010report abuse

Another Ben Weisman/ Sid Wayne track. They did a nice job on the similarly bluesy "All I Needed Was The Rain" and this one is pretty good too and the harmonica is great.

Deano1 (profile/ contact) wrote on Mar 11, 2010report abuse

Good song from the movie "Frankie And Johnny". Elvis doesn't sound like he in another room on this one, the background music (other than the harmonica) does. Such was the case for the 12 songs on this soundtrack. RCA thought the albums would sell better if we heard Elvis more pronounced than normal. The album, although decent, would peak 12 positions lower than "Harum Scarum" (not a good LP at all) and RCA would return to slightly more normal mixes on the next soundtrack LP. Still this track is worthy of three stars as is the album. The movie is a good musical comedy.

Steve V (profile/ contact) wrote on Jan 26, 2009report abuse

Not too bad for a film song but Elvis seemed like he was singing in another room or something. Bad mix. Nice harmonica.

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