Suspicious Minds

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The King is another widely covered artist, and Elvis also covered a wide variety of artists as well, often getting the credit for other's, generally black blues artists, work.

"Suspicious Minds" was widely regarded as the single that jumpstarted his career after his successful '68 Comeback Special. It was Elvis' seventeenth #1 single in the United States. Written by Mark James (who also wrote "Always On My Mind", which Elvis was to record later), the song was recorded along with at least another two hit singles -- "In the Ghetto" and "Kentucky Rain" - in the so-called "Memphis sessions" of January 1969.

Notable in this song is a fade out at about 3:22 into the song, which fades out for about 15 seconds before fading back in. This fade out was intentional, as it helped convey a message of relationship in the song.

Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds (full version)

My Morning Jacket - Suspicious Minds
Belle & Sebastian - Suspicious Minds
Pete Yorn - Suspicious Minds (Dawn Version)
Pete Yorn - Suspicious Minds (Dusk Version)
Dwight Yoakam - Suspicious Minds
Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter - Suspicious Minds
Chris Bailey - Suspicious Minds
Avail - Suspicious Minds
The Heptones - Suspicious Minds
The Independents - Suspicious Minds
Luca Olivieri - Suspicious Minds
Billy Swan - Suspicious Minds
King Junior - Suspicious Minds
B.J. Thomas - Suspicious Minds
Bon Jovi & Willie Nelson - Suspicious Minds
Fine Young Cannibals - Suspicious Minds
Mark James - Suspicious Minds
Dee Dee Warwick - Suspicious Minds
Candi Staton - Suspicious Minds
Chris Daughtry - Suspicious Minds (American Idol contestant)
Nine Inch Elvis - Suspicious Minds
No Doubt - Suspicious Minds (Elvis CBS TV special)
Ronnie McDowell - Suspicious Minds
Gareth Gates - Suspicious Minds (2002 British Pop Idol runner-up)