who did original "I Stand Accused"

[blu...@comcast.net]

I've downloaded a few songs withf the same title but none are the song
Elvis covered.
Thanks ,Jay

[Sal Monk]

Some guy named Tony Colton

Pretty hard to find

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[Hawksmoor26]

Never heard of Tony Colton, but I'm sure you're right. However, I think the
version EC heard first (and probably learnt it from) was the Merseybeats'
version (early 1960s). I remember seeing it on a compilation that would have
been around in EC's youth, and the track immediately following was called -
can't quite remember - either 'I Turn Around' or 'Don't Turn Around'. Curious
in that there's an IMPERIAL BEDROOM out-take called 'I Turn Around' (and of
course 'don't turn around' is the refrain-line in 'Opportunity'). Sometimes
just makes you wonder if a line/phrase has stuck in his head from somewhere.

[MARK SPECK]

Gee, and all this time I thought it was Jerry Butler, who had a hit with it.

Shows how little I know, and I've been collecting records my whole damned
life!

Best,

Mark
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[Aristeas]

Tony Colton was originally with "The Big Boss Band", later with Albert Lee in
'Head, Hands $ Feet', moved to the US and worked as a songwriter (for Gregg
Allman, LeeAnn Rimes among others) and producer for Yes, George Thorogood, and
others .. still working today out of Nashville I believe .. and yes it's almost
impossible to find ac opy - out side of EC's record collection, no doubt..

[martinfoyle]

Aristeas <aris...@optushome.com.au> wrote in message news:<3D5A3878...@optushome.com.au>...

> Tony Colton was originally with "The Big Boss Band", later with Albert Lee in
> 'Head, Hands $ Feet', moved to the US and worked as a songwriter (for Gregg
> Allman, LeeAnn Rimes among others) and producer for Yes, George Thorogood, and
> others .. still working today out of Nashville I believe .. and yes it's almost

> impossible to find a copy - out side of EC's record collection, no doubt

Tony Colton's version of this song can be found on WATCH YOUR STEP-THE
BEAT ERA VOLUME 1, an excellent sounding compilation released by the
SEQUEL label, cat.#NEXLP 107, in 1990. Just managed to order a nicely
priced 2nd hand copy through www.gemm.com so I'm sure it should be
easy to get.

[Hawksmoor26]

>Gee, and all this time I thought it was Jerry Butler, who had a hit with it.

Well, you might be right about Jerry Butler - I'm not especially well-versed in
all this. I just had it in my head that he'd got it from the Merseybeats
(perhaps from the same LP where he found 'Really Mystified').

[Sal Monk]

"Aristeas" <aris...@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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> Tony Colton was originally with "The Big Boss Band", later with Albert Lee
in
> 'Head, Hands $ Feet', moved to the US and worked as a songwriter (for
Gregg
> Allman, LeeAnn Rimes among others) and producer for Yes, George Thorogood,
and
> others .. still working today out of Nashville

That's interesting. An American black soul singer produced Yes. Too bad he
couldn't make them get down.

[blu...@comcast.net]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 01:41:36 GMT, "MARK SPECK" <soul...@flash.net>
wrote:

>Gee, and all this time I thought it was Jerry Butler, who had a hit with it.
>
>Shows how little I know, and I've been collecting records my whole damned
>life!
>
>Best,
>
>Mark

Yeah but the J. Butler is a different song!
Jay

[steve horan]

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FWIW, that's the way I understand it too.
I've got a cassette somewhere that has the
original versions of a bunch of songs that
EC covered, including most of the KV and
AB tracks.

[steve horan]

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I dunno, "Roundabout" is pretty damn funky!

Seriously, no really, I mean it!

Honestly. That instrumental section in the
middle burns the house down - particularly
Bill Bruford's drumming. Their cover of
Paul Simon's "America" was pretty rockin'
too, though Steve Howe is a pretty tight
guitarist.

"The Godfather" is on TNN so I must skeedaddle...

[Junk451]

I posted about this once before, can't remember if anyone answered. The Jerry
Butler "I Stand Accused" and the EC/Merseybeats "I Stand Accused" are indeed
different songs with different melodies, but the lyrics have, how shall I say
it, a more than co-incidental likeness to each other, rhyming "touch of your
hand" and "witness stand" for example. Anyone know which came first.

[Junk451]

In June I asked:.....
Does anyone know the full story of that song? EC says he "learned it from the
Merseybeats" and on Get Happy!! it is credited to Colton/Smith - published by
Getaway Music. The words are more or less the same as the Jerry Butler song of
the same name, credited to Butler/Butler published by Ivan Mogull Music/Warner
Bros. Who should be taking who to court? Is this one of those cases like The
Who's recording of Dancing in the Street, shamlessly credited to Townsend?

[Junk451]

What did I say? How come I always mange to kill this thread when I pitch in?
By the way according to Motown insider R Dean Taylor "Dancing In the Street"
was written by Ivy Jo Hunter, but is credited to William Stephenson & Marvin
Gaye: all due to internal record company politics, who's turn it was to get a
hit, who's turn it was to get some publishing royalties, etc.

Interstingly a quick search on google showed the song credited to either
"Stephenson/Gaye" or "Stephenson, Hunter, Gaye" so the record seems to have
been set (partially?) straight in the intervening years.