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Mirage
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Giant/ Baum/ KayeIs your love darling just a mirage?
From the distance, you call to me like an oasis
Though your kisses, keep drawing me near
Is your love a mirage that will disappear?
Like a man in the desert, I'm lost
Is this dream just a trick of my imagination
Though I thirst for your lips, night and day
Is your love a mirage that will fade away?
How I pray, heaven answered my prayer
When I reach out for you, You'll be there
In the search for my love will be through
Like a dream a mirage, will come true
How I pray, heaven answered my prayer
When I reach out for you, You'll be there
In the search for my love will be through
Like a dream a mirage, will come true
A mirage, a mirage, a mirage Recorded:
1965/02/26, first released on
Harum ScarumReactions
Elvis sings this perfect. Too bad the song isn't.
This is indeed a beautiful song with that tender soulful intimate delivery he employed on these types of ballad.
As I have said on a few occasions, the addition of echo pushes the impact of these soundtrack songs up a notch.
Mirage is a beautiful balled sang in a very tender way by Elvis. It has subtle and serene instrumentation. Elvis in pure sixties voice singing a simple yet pretty track from a movie. Mirage ... A pretty song with fine vocals by Elvis something along the lines of "Never Ending" or "Love Me Tonight".
This was just money for Parker.....end of. Lost EAP alot of fans I think. Even in the UK it came under the tent as Harem
Holiday,this was no holiday for him or us. Spinout Was the same,the American producer's thought we wouldn't understand the title so that called it California Holiday ?? but at least it was a much better film & soundtrack.
Lovely tune from the "Harem Scarum" LP.
At the end of the song Elvis is being told in the movie that he is in the garden of paradise. Unfortunately that is not true for his fans watching this movie and listening to this song! The sad part is that Elvis was reportedly very excited about this movie upfront, thinking that he would have a Rudolph Valentino kind of role. I'm sure that excitement was gone after a few days on the set and listening to the demos of the songs offered. This ballad is surprisingly not brought with the usual Elvis magic that makes even a worse ballad a joy to listen to. Two stars from me.
I absolutely cannot sit through the movie--it might be my least favorite of all Elvis' movies--but it is an interesting soundtrack to me. Elvis sounds great throughout and there are a lot of sounds and instruments used that almost make it psychedelic. (OK, I know that is not really true exactly. I sometimes find it easier to take the bad soundtrack albums if I imagine there was no movie and this is just a very very weird psychedelic concept album, about life in the desert.... It's a bit of a stretch. lol)
As one reviewer said at the time, he was pitching his movies to an audience of chimpanzees. Depressing movie and soundtrack even the much overrated So Close, Yet So Far From Paradise, a very cliched ballad in my opinion.
Elvis at an all time low. This song, the soundtrack & the film. Not even worth one star.
Just plain awful. I was very upset upon hearing this soundtrack in the pivotal year 1965. Even the title is childish. Once again, the 2 bonus songs are the only worthy songs on the LP.
Don't really care for it and really don't care for the movie....... a stinker!!. If you want a great song from the movie.... Yet So Far (From Paradise).
One of my favorite tunes on the Harum Scarum soundtrack. It w
Fits perfectly in time and moment our man’s career: Elvis was, by then already crossing the desert in all senses, so he had another of those awful mirages, provided by a team of rubbish makers, that kept misguiding him.
P.S. I was always unable to see that movie till the end… wonder why…
"Can't Help Falling In Love", "Pocketful Of Rainbows", "Young And Beautiful", "Don't Ask Me Why", "Loving You", "Love Me Tender", "They Remind Me Too Much Of You", "Puppet On A String", "All That I Am", "Please Don't Stop Loving Me", "Today, Tomorrow And Forever", "You Don't Know Me", "The Girl I Never Loved" and "Almost" are just some of the best movie ballads from Elvis' movies. Beautifully sung, well written and for the most part well produced. This song from "Harum Scarum" is easily one of the three worst movie ballads (along with "Kismet" from the same movie and "One Boy, Two Little Girls" from "Kissin' Cousins").
A boring unmemorable tune...i can't get into it.