It
is easy to imagine a hypothetical
Painted
From
Memory reissue including
its own album-length Rhino-style
bonus disc, since there is already an album's worth of related material
available on existing CDs. These tracks alternate and live
versions of
Painted
From Memory songs, Elvis
covering old Bacharach hits, and an Elvis cameo on one of Burt's solo
albums are listed in the "Related Extras" section below.
The songs listed in the "Additional Extras" and "Unreleased &
Unrecorded" sections have no real connection to
Painted
From Memory
other than the
chronological one. They seem less likely to be part of a
Painted
From Memory
reissue, but they
could turn up somewhere else.
There has, in fact, already been a
Painted
From
Memory reissue. Seven
months after the album's initial
release, the "2CD limited tour edition" was issued in the UK with a
bonus disc of five otherwise unavailable live recordings. These tracks
are included in the "Related Extras" section.
RELATED EXTRAS
I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE
AGAIN with
Burt
Bacharach
[Austin
Powers:
The Spy
Who Shagged Me Music from the Motion Picture
album by various artists]
Elvis and Burt make a brief appearance in the second
Austin
Powers
film miming to a new
recording of the Bacharach & David classic. They filmed their
part
in November 1998 and presumably recorded the song shortly before that.
GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH
(Live, New York, Feb. 25, 1997)
[Live
On Letterman
Music from the Late Show
album by various artists]
GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH
(Live,
New York,
Apr. 8, 1998)
[One
Amazing Night
album by Burt
Bacharach]
PAINTED FROM MEMORY (Live,
New York,
Oct. 18, 1998)
[The
Best Of Sessions at
West 54th
album by various artists]
THIS HOUSE IS EMPTY NOW
(Live,
New York,
Nov. 23, 1998)
[Painted
From
Memory (2CD
Limited Tour
Edition)]
I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO
DO WITH
MYSELF (Live,
London, Jun. 30, 2000)
[Tribute
To Burt Bacharach
& Hal David
album by various artists]
These are the officially released live performances by Elvis Costello
and Burt Bacharach. They are backed by a larger band on all but "This
House Is Empty Now," which features only Elvis' voice and Burt's piano.
"This House Is Empty Now" and both versions of "God Give Me Strength"
are abbreviated arrangements of the songs, having been shortened for
the
television shows for which they were originally recorded. The first
"God
Give Me Strength" actually dates from Elvis' tenure with Warner Bros.,
but it is listed on this page for thematic reasons. Elvis and Burt also
included versions of Bacharach & David's "Make It Easy On
Yourself,"
"My Little Red Book," and "Anyone Who Had A Heart" in most of their
1998
concert appearances, and all three can be heard on the officially
released
Sessions
At West 54th
video.
TOLEDO arranged
by
Bill Frisell
[The
Sweetest Punch
The New Songs of Elvis
Costello and Burt Bacharach
album by Bill Frisell]
I STILL HAVE THAT OTHER
GIRL with
Cassandra Wilson;
arranged by Bill Frisell
[The
Sweetest Punch
The New Songs of Elvis
Costello and Burt Bacharach
album by Bill Frisell]
While Elvis and Burt were working on
Painted
From
Memory in Los Angeles,
Bill Frisell was recording his
primarily instrumental arrangements of the same songs in New York.
Although he was not otherwise involved in the recording of
The
Sweetest Punch,
Elvis
contributed vocals to a reworked "Toledo" and a duet version of "I
Still
Have That Other Girl" with Cassandra Wilson.
TEARS AT THE BIRTHDAY
PARTY
(Live, Sydney, Jan. 27, 1999)
["Toledo"
CD single #1]
WHAT'S HER NAME TODAY?
(Live,
Tokyo, Feb. 10, 1999)
[Painted
From
Memory (2CD
Limited Tour
Edition)]
I STILL HAVE THAT OTHER
GIRL (Live,
Tokyo,
Feb.
10, 1999)
[Painted
From
Memory (2CD
Limited Tour
Edition)]
SUCH UNLIKELY LOVERS
(Live,
Perth, Feb.
13,
1999)
["Toledo"
CD single #2]
IN THE DARKEST PLACE
(Live,
Melbourne, Feb.
16, 1999)
[Painted
From
Memory (2CD
Limited Tour
Edition)]
PAINTED FROM MEMORY
(Live,
Melbourne,
Feb.
16, 1999)
[Painted
From
Memory (2CD
Limited Tour
Edition)]
Nine
songs
from Elvis Costello
and Steve Nieve's 1999 "Lonely World Tour" were distributed among
various CDs in 1999, including these six versions of
Painted
From Memory
songs. All differ
significantly from the elaborately produced album versions.
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? with
Burt
Bacharach
[At
This Time
album by Burt Bacharach]
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
(Explicit Version) with
Burt Bacharach
[download-only
single]
Elvis does most of the singing on this song (written by Bacharach and
Tonio K) from Burt's 2005 album. The song was originally recorded with
Elvis singing the closing line as "See things really have to change or
we're all fucked," but the lyric was toned down to "See things really
have to change before it's too late" on the album. The original
"explicit version" was made available from online download services
(including iTunes and Yahoo! Music) in February 2006.
ADDITIONAL EXTRAS 1998-2000
LONG JOURNEY HOME
(ANTHEM) with
The
Chieftains,
The Irish Film Orchestra and Anϊna
[Long
Journey Home
Original Soundtrack
album by various artists]
"Long
Journey Home" was
created for the TV miniseries
The
Irish In America: Long Journey Home.
It
was
written by Elvis and Paddy
Moloney and recorded with The Chieftains, The Irish Film Orchestra, and
the vocal group Anϊna at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin.
Released in January 1998, "Long Journey Home" apparently dates from the
brief period following Elvis' departure from Warner Bros. and prior to
his debut as a Mercury recording artist. (The CD booklet says he
"appears courtesy of By Eleven," his management company.) The track can
also be found on The Chieftains' 2002 album
The
Wide World Over
A 40 Year Celebration,
but there it is in the form of the "radio edit" (previously available
on a European promo-only CD single) which is about a minute shorter
than
on the soundtrack album.
EDITH AND THE KINGPIN
[A
Tribute to Joni Mitchell
album by various artists]
Although it went unreleased until 2007, Elvis recorded this Joni
Mitchell song
(from 1975's
The Hissing Of Summer
Lawns) for the long-delayed
tribute album August 21, 1997 at London's Westside Studios.
MY MOOD SWINGS
[The
Big Lebowski
Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by various
artists]
MY MOOD SWINGS (Alternate Mix)
["My
Mood
Swings" promo CD single]
Elvis' unofficial debut as a Mercury recording artist was this
Costello/O'Riordan original written especially for the film
The
Big Lebowski
and produced by T
Bone Burnett. It was recorded at New York's Clinton Recorders with Marc
Ribot, Greg Cohen, and Jim Keltner in October 1997 and first released
on
the movie's soundtrack album in February 1998. A promo-only CD single
inexplicably featured a completely different mix of the song. The
original mix from the soundtrack album was also used as the B-side of
the single for "45" in 2002.
SHE
[Notting
Hill
Music From The Motion Picture
album by various artists; also released as a single and included on The
Very Best Of Elvis
Costello]
Elvis' version of Charles Aznavour's "She" was recorded for use in the
1999 Julia Roberts/Hugh Grant film
Notting
Hill.
Its
subsequent
release as a single resulted in a respectable chart hit (#19 in the UK
making it Elvis' biggest hit in the UK since 1983's "Pills And Soap")
which also found a home on
The Very
Best Of Elvis Costello later
in 1999.
BABY PLAYS AROUND (Live, Sydney,
Feb. 19, 1999)
["Toledo"
CD single #2]
INCH BY INCH / FEVER
(Live,
Sydney,
Feb. 19, 1999)
["Toledo"
CD single #1]
ALISON (Live,
Rome [New
York] Jul. 25, 1999)
[Woodstock
99
Volume Two album by
various artists]
Three additional recordings from Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve's 1999
"Lonely World Tour."
MEET
ME ON THE CORNER with
Dan
Hicks and the
Hot Licks
[Beatin'
the Heat
album by Dan Hicks
and the Hot Licks]
This uptempo duet with Dan Hicks also features Brian Setzer on guitar
and was released in 2000. Elvis' involvement was limited to adding his
vocal to an otherwise completed track.
BRIGHT
BLUE TIMES
["Bright Blue Times" 10" single]
BRIGHT
BLUE DUB
["Bright Blue Times" 10" single]
Elvis wrote and recorded "Bright Blue Times" especially for the film
Soft
Sand, Blue Sea,
which was
produced by Alan Bleasdale and aired on British television in 1998.
Elvis played the recorded version on Irish radio shortly before the
telecast and explained, "It's not out on record yet, but it'll turn up
somewhere I don't really know where." The same 1998 recording finally
turned up on a 10" vinyl single credited to The Imposter, reportedly
limited to 500 copies, and sold exclusively at Elvis' concerts in June
2017. It is unknown whether the dub version on the b-side was also
prepared in 1998 or is a more recent creation.
UNRELEASED
&
UNRECORDED
YOU
LIE SWEETLY
Several
unrecorded tunes were premiered during Costello
& Nieve's 1999 Lonely World Tour. Most of them
"45," "Alibi,"
"When I Was Cruel," "Oh Well," "Soul For Hire," "Heart Shaped
Bruise," "I Dreamed Of My Old Lover," "Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter," and
"Suspect My Tears" have since been recorded. "You Lie Sweetly,"
written by Costello & Nieve and originally intended for Nieve's
song cycle
Correspondence, was
performed frequently by the duo in
1999 and occasionally since, but its only official release to date is a
version sung by Sting on Steve Nieve's 2013 album
ToGetHer.
COULDN'T
YOU KEEP THAT TO
YOURSELF
Another
unrecorded tune from the Lonely World Tour was played
only twice before receiving official release in the form of Ute
Lemper's
cover version (on her 2000 album
Punishing
Kiss). "I sent two versions
of it to Ute, different kinds of
variations on the available verses and left it for her to choose which
final lyrics she sang," Elvis said at the time. Elvis had joked in 1996
about writing a song called "Couldn't You Keep That to Yourself" for
Madonna, which may indicate that the song was written around the time
of
All This
Useless
Beauty.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
Elvis is featured as producer, co-writer (with Cait O'Riordan), and
background vocalist on "I Throw My Toys Around," which was credited to
"No Doubt featuring Elvis Costello" in its initial appearance on the
soundtrack to
The Rugrats Movie
in 1998. (It can also be found on the No Doubt box set
Boom
Box
and B-sides collection
Everything in
Time.)
It is not
listed above because I do not consider it a Costello performance. The
track was recorded April 23, 1998.
An early version of "God Give Me Strength" recorded with the
Attractions is discussed on the
All
This Useless Beauty
page.
"Sleepless Nights," Elvis' contribution to
Return
of the Grievous
Angel: A Tribute to
Gram Parsons, was recorded
around the time of
Painted From Memory
but is not listed
above as it has already appeared as part of Rhino's reissue program on
the
Kojak Variety
bonus disc. Similarly, the Elvis-related songs from Roy Nathanson's
Fire
at Keaton's Bar
& Grill date
from this period but are included on
The
Juliet Letters
bonus disc.
