ELIO PACE - The Wonder Of You (feat. James Burton) (from the album 'Come And Get It' 2002) 5 of 16

'The Wonder Of You' was written by Baker Knight and originally recorded by Ray Peterson. Elio's version is based on Elvis Presley's version.
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A message from Elio...
The original concept behind 'Come And Get It', was to produce a high quality demo for me and my band to use as promotion with a view to attracting bigger and better corporate work as a 'covers band'. It was never intended for commercial release. Proving this point, the original two-thousand CDs pressed in February 2002, had no barcode on the artwork.
In fact, the idea (going into the first day of recording) was to record only segments of 10 or 12 songs and to create a five-minute showreel. It was only just as recording was about to commence that Darren Loveday (one of two guitarists in the band at the time and my co-producer on the project) suggested that for the time it took to decide which segment of each song should be recorded, we may as well play the whole song from start to finish, especially as we all knew the songs so well, having played them so many times. It was only when listening back the following day to the 13-tracks we'd recorded, that Darren and I decided to create a full album of the material.
It was also decided that along with the 13 'new' songs, we should make use of the 74-minutes available on CD (at the time) and include; a previous demo we'd made in 1998 of Billy Joel's 'My Life'; a live stereo recording (off MiniDisc, with a few overdubs) of Jerry Lee Lewis' 'Great Balls Of Fire' from August 2000; and demos of three original songs I'd written (Addicted To The Phone, Got The Bug Back and Katy Likes House) which would eventually be re-recorded and released on my 2009 'debut' album, 'A Seat At My Table.
The last item that we decided to include on this original 19-track album was a 1998 demo we had recorded of Delbert McClinton's 'Two More Bottles Of Wine'. Ironically, it was THIS little track (with just myself on piano, Darren on guitar and the both of us doing the backing vocals and hand-claps) that realised the original concept for this album and opened a huge door for me in my career. Sir Terry Wogan and the late Paul Walters, working together on BBC Radio 2's 'Wake Up To Wogan', played my version of 'Two More Bottles Of Wine' on their show, once a week for six-months, from August 2003. It was the first time that one of my recordings had been played on national radio in the UK. I really wasn't prepared for it as I didn't even have a website at the time.
I eventually got my act together and although casually stocked in a hand-full of small record shops, 'Come And Get It' (on my own label, Rosa Records) became available to buy in 2005 on CD via my website and then released to the general public as a download in 2007. This digital release and the subsequent CD pressings does not include the three demos of my songs... for obvious reasons. Now discontinued, you would have to hunt down one of the original batch of those two-thousand CDs pressed in February 2002.
By the way, the billing as 'The Elio Pace Band' was purely to guarantee that prospective clients knew that they were not booking just an individual at a piano and to differentiate between my two 'hats' as a performer; a) playing 'dance party' covers and b) playing my own material, for which I would simply be known as Elio Pace. Interestingly, Terry Wogan never once announced my record as 'The Elio Pace Band'. Instead he always referred to me as "Elio Pace and his band". 'Come And Get It' was the first and only album that will have 'The Elio Pace Band' as the artist name although I fully expect to record another album of covers sometime in the future.
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Track listing:
1. Signed Sealed Delivered I'm Yours
2. Dance The Night Away
3. Jump Jive An' Wail
4. You Never Can Tell
5. The Wonder Of You (featuring James Burton)
6. My Life
7. Honky Cat
8. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
9. The River Of Dreams
10. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
11. I Got You (I Feel Good)
12. Yeh Yeh
13. Proud Mary
14. It's Not Unusual
15. Great Balls Of Fire (Live)
16. Two More Bottles Of Wine
For further information on Elio Pace or to buy 'Come And Get It' please visit www.eliopace.com

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