Love Me Tender

Stuart Sutcliffe | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: October 20, 2011
• Label: The Estate of Stuart Sutcliffe c/o CMG Worldwide
• Copyright: 2011 The Estate of Stuart Sutcliffe
• Total Length: 3:10
• Genres: Pop/Easy Listening
• ASIN: B005XLZTAC
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #211,183 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Probably Genuine, November 23, 2011

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Liscio - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Me Tender (MP3 Download)

Ed Lineberry, the "Rain" band singer who did "Love Me Tender" for the movie "Birth of the Beatles", has officially gone on record as saying it is NOT him on the newly-released Sutcliffe track. Lineberry seemed pleased, in fact, that he "came so close to the original"--meaning Stuart---when doing the song for the movie. Though there are still questions, it's highly likely this is Stuart singing. Those who knew him think the voice sounds like him...or there would be no debate at all. The voice has a Liverpool Scouse accent and it sounds like a Liverpudlian from the right decade...the 1960's (accents do slowly change). And the song is great...even the doubters say so. Stuart certainly could sing: was the lead in his church choir, and as for "Love Me Tender"---he sang that song a hundred times or more in Hamburg. There are other reasons that say this is Sutcliffe singing, but the best reason is the song itself. It exists---someone kept it all these years because it's historic; because it's Stuart Sutcliffe. Give it a listen. It's magic.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Probably fake, October 27, 2011

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Paul Crane (Wasilla, Alaska USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Me Tender (MP3 Download)

Sounds fake to me....

Sounds like the same singer who played Stu in Birth Of The Beatles, and it is in the same key, even if it isn't the same take. And BOTH versions are in the same key and style and tempo as Percy Sledge's 1966 cover of the tune.

A very unlikely coincidence, IMO....

The chance of this song actually being Stuart Sutcliffe is pretty slim....

I would be very interested in learning more about the provenance of the tape,

where and when the instrumental overdubs were performed, and a bit more concerning the initial recording itself.

And why it is that no mention, no rumor of this recording has ever been documented in the nearly 50 years since it was supposedly made, with all the intense press scrutiny of all the people surrounding the Beatles, their Hamburg days, and their friends (Klaus, Jurgen, Astrid, etc).....

More information needs to be forthcoming on this track.