12th of Never

[Snoopy]

Is there any evidence that shows Elvis performed The 12th of Never at least once in concert ?

[JohanD]

Guess it did not happen.
All the shows for the Summer festival of 1974 (where this song was rehearsed for) are known to collectors, being on cd or cdr... no trace of "Twelfth of never"...

[NinaFromCanadaEh]

a rehearsal.. not concert apparently



The Twelfth Of Never (Live) · Elvis Presley 1974-08-16

Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential '70s Masters

℗ 1995 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

Released on: 1995-10-10

[martin018]

I remember buying the single of this in the mid 90’s.
Was a hit in the UK.
Have got the cd and 7 inch single.

[katele18]

Wasn't the Twelfth Of Never one of the rumoured 6 songs Elvis asked Charlie to find the lyrics and chord changes for the tour that never happened in August 1977?

[rockinrebel]

Wasn't the Twelfth Of Never one of the rumoured 6 songs Elvis asked Charlie to find the lyrics and chord changes for the tour that never happened in August 1977?

Yes, but its unlikely that the August 1977 tour would have been any different to the previous ones. Therefore, any new additions to the set list would have been unrehearsed, and had the song been spontaneously attempted, the odds on Elvis turning in a complete performance couldn't have been good...

[elvis-fan]

Is there any evidence that shows Elvis performed The 12th of Never at least once in concert ?

No.

[colonel snow]

Wasn't the Twelfth Of Never one of the rumoured 6 songs Elvis asked Charlie to find the lyrics and chord changes for the tour that never happened in August 1977?

Indeed, see attachment.


colonel snow

[bobtcb]

I love the song. What a treasure it was when we were first treated to it 31 years ago on the Walk A Mile In My Shoes set. I must confess I was not familiar with the Johnny Mathis version of the song or anyone else's back then, making it a total aural discovery for me.

I know this is saying a lot but to me, it is one of the best love songs he sang and we don't have a proper recording of it!

In recent months I came across this speed-corrected version. I don't have any technical reasoning to support my position, but my ears tell me it sounds better and like a closer approximation to how Elvis probably sounded when he sang it on August 16, 1974. Do you all not think this sounds superior to what we just got on the Sunset Boulevard set?



It does still have the tape hiss, which doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to clean up in this day and age. Shame on me but I had been hopeful going into the SB release that we might see some serious sonic improvements made on these rehearsals. The proper studio recordings were treated so masterfully and of course that is where they should have focused their efforts. I guess I'm just greedy like that.

I'm sure many of you know this version with overdubs by David Briggs from the DAE import From Sunset Boulevard to Paradise Road, released the year after WAMIMS. The instrumentation is beautiful and does an ok job of covering up the shortcomings overall, but it seems to make Elvis's vocal stand out even more as being from a subpar recording. And of course the speed is not corrected as in the above version.



Someday, I guess someone -- maybe somebody from this forum -- will put all these types of possible enhancements together and do Elvis and this superbly written piece of music justice.