That's When Your Heartaches Begin WPA5 2532
Memphis Recording Service, Private Recording (Summer) 1953
Lyrics:
If you find your sweetheart
in the arms of a friend
That's when your heartaches begin
When dreams of a lifetime
must come to an end
That's when your heartaches begin
Love is a thing
you never can share
When you bring a friend
into your love affair
That's the end of your sweetheart,
that's the end of your friend
That's when your heartaches begin
Spoken:
If you find your sweetheart
in the arms of a friend
That's that's when your heartaches begin
And when dreams when dreams of a lifetime
must all come to an end
Yeah that's when your heartaches begin
You see love is a thing
that you never can share
and when you bring a friend
into your love affair
that's the end.
Musicians:
Guitar Elvis Presley
Alternate Versions:
VPA4 5329 - December 4th 1956, Sun Studios Memphis, available on "The Complete Million Dollar Quartet"
H2WB 0260-sp - January 13th 1957, RCA Radio Recorders, Hollywood, available on "Elvis's Golden Records"
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Writen by William J Raskin, Billy Hill, Fred Fisher (1940) The Ink Spots made a succesful recording of this song in 1950 with Orville "Hoppy" Jones (bass) providing the spoken interlude.
During the million dollar quartet Elvis tells his fellows about this record and how he lost the dubs and goes on to express how he would like to hear it sung right with "a real deep voice talkin' it off [and] I think it would sell." It's intersting then that just over a month later he records it formally for RCA, sung properly but without that real deep voice. The MDQ version assumes a fine middle position between the raw and nervous original rendition and this later more polished and perhaps sanitized version.