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  • Elvis Soundalikes, Part 1 - Ral Donner

    From RWC@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 14 08:04:31 2024
    Playlist with 22 Ral Donner 'Elvis soundalike' tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch_videos?video_ids=jbLaCtcmzGw,jZsmaPmFJrs,TzYygU2tHSE,Qc6JR7oraeU,ZBtj8KKcYmM,vtuR9D-xyw4,ET847XT8TO8,3twhHKqhh8M,1j5stT_tHVM,yM1GSP7K-0U,EN-Tcs7DwRA,px0m2_dzr9A,b3MgjMAKlXw,bjzSwILUjM8,83S9DMSa_vg,MkKZlVMCP40,4d75D8fpax4,
    6GEa_ElqGbg,z27OGZUNVYk,HFArQ0rZWU4,b3MgjMAKlXw,4HkFP7-YLQs,

    01 Ral Donner - Girl Of My Best Friend [Gone 5102] - 1961
    02 Ral Donner - To Love [Gone 5108] - 1961
    03 Ral Donner - So Close To Heaven [Gone 5108] - 1961
    04 Ral Donner - You Don't Know What You've Got [Gone 5108] - 1961
    05 Ral Donner - Please Don't Go [Gone 5114] - 1961
    06 Ral Donner - School Of Heartbreakers [Gone 5119] - 1961

    [LP Gone "Takin' Care Of Business"] - 1961
    07 Ral Donner - Turn Back The Clock
    08 Ral Donner - With You Now
    09 Ral Donner - Lonely Star
    10 Ral Donner - Your Skies Of Blue
    11 Ral Donner - For Love Nor Money
    12 Ral Donner - Pray For Me

    13 Ral Donner - Loveless Life [Gone 5129] - 1962
    14 Ral Donner - Bells Of Love [Gone 5129] - 1962
    15 Ral Donner - (Things That Make Up) Christmas Day [Reprise 20,135] -
    1962
    16 Ral Donner - A Tear In My Eye [Reprise 20,141] - 1963
    17 Ral Donner - I Wish This Night Would Never End [Reprise 20,176] -
    1963
    18 Ral Donner - Loneliness Of A Star [Tau 105] - 1963

    [Unissued] - 1959-1962
    19 Ral Donner - Nite Owl
    20 Ral Donner - Puddle Of Tears
    21 Ral Donner - Loveless Life
    22 Ral Donner with The Jordanaires - Don't Leave Me Now

    By the way, Ral Donner did not sound like Elvis on up tempo
    recordings.

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  • From Roger@21:1/5 to RWC on Wed Feb 14 14:59:49 2024
    RWC wrote:


    Playlist with 22 Ral Donner 'Elvis soundalike' tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch_videos?video_ids=jbLaCtcmzGw,jZsmaPmFJrs,TzYygU2tHSE,Qc6JR7oraeU,ZBtj8KKcYmM,vtuR9D-xyw4,ET847XT8TO8,3twhHKqhh8M,1j5stT_tHVM,yM1GSP7K-0U,EN-Tcs7DwRA,px0m2_dzr9A,b3MgjMAKlXw,bjzSwILUjM8,83S9DMSa_vg,MkKZlVMCP40,4d75D8fpax4,
    6GEa_ElqGbg,z27OGZUNVYk,HFArQ0rZWU4,b3MgjMAKlXw,4HkFP7-YLQs,

    01 Ral Donner - Girl Of My Best Friend [Gone 5102] - 1961

    I'm not much of a Ral Donner fan finding most of his stuff pretty dull or weak--or both. We never got his take of this song here since the Elvis version was issued as a UK 45RPM (b/w "A Mess Of Blues") and naturally was a big hit

    BTW Elvis has the best version---but NOT the original version on the song. From 1959 this guy does (even weaker than Ral's)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeSWsVzIgzo

    Like many of his records Ral's remake of Cliff Richard's "Nine Times Out Of Ten" is pretty limp too

    But one I DO like by him is the rockin' "I Got Burned" from much later (1963) on Reprise

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