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A Little Less Conversation - JXL Radio Edit Remix

2002Released
3:31

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Mac Davis and Billy Strange wrote this for the 1968 Elvis movie Live A Little, Love A Little, which was one of Presley's last. The song is all about taking action - enough talk already! Davis wrote the original version for Aretha Franklin, but when Billy Strange, who was handling music for the film, approached Davis about contributing a song, he realized that "A Little Less Conversation" fit the scene perfectly, so he reworked it with Strange and Elvis sang it for the film. "I read the script, and the place where they needed a song was in a scene where he's seducing a girl at a pool and she's talking too much, and he's trying to get her to leave with him," Davis said in a Songfacts interview. "I had this song already started that I was hoping Aretha Franklin might like, and I wrote it really with her in mind. It just fit right into that spot and they asked me to clean up the lyrics. It was a little funky, I guess, for his image at the time. So I changed his lyrics to fit the times."

In the movie, Elvis shows up at a swingin' pool party, finds a beautiful blonde, sings this to her and takes her back to his place. The film isn't a musical, but it becomes one for this one scene. The blonde (played by Celeste Yarnall) doesn't have any dialogue, so there's no conversation at all. Elvis movies could be a bit... incongruent.

This was a fairly obscure Elvis song, peaking at a very un-Kingly #69 in America when it was released in 1968. But when it was remixed and released as a single in 2002, this new version went to #1 in the UK, giving Elvis 18 #1 hits there, the most of any artist. Previously, he was tied with The Beatles at 17. The remix topped the charts in several other countries as well, but only reached #50 in the US.

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Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of A Little Less Conversation - JXL Radio Edit Remix.
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MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
115BPM

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(P) 2002 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

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