«Burning Love» with its chugging tempo, which owed a lot to the swamp rock of Creedence Clearwater Revival and Tony Joe White, and "I'm just a hunk-a-hunk-a burnin' love" ad lib at the end, 'Burning Love' - written and originally demoed by Dennis Linde - became one of the best songs in the Elvis Presley repertoire of the '70s and a mainstay of his live set in the Aloha from Hawaii period.
'Burning Love' was first released commercially, along with three other Linde compositions, by Arthur Alexander on the eponymous album the country-soul pioneer made for Warner Brothers in Memphis in late 1971. Alexander and Linde had both become staff writers at Combine Music, joining the likes of Kris Kristofferson, Billy Swan and Wanda Jackson on the books of the Nashville-based publishing company. Alexander's version of 'Burning Love' was quickly eclipsed by Presley's, which made the Top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic and narrowly missed the #1 spot in the United States in October 1972.
Linde had already issued a solo album, 'Linde Manor', on the Mercury subsidiary Intrepid in 1970, and parlayed his success as a songwriter into a new deal with Elektra ('Dennis Linde', 1973) and then Asylum ('Trapped In The Suburbs', 1974), though his most critically acclaimed release was 'Under The Eye' for Monument (1977).
Remember I have this album, but I can't find it... Althoug, to be honest, I like the Linde Manor album better...
Drawing on the influence of writers such as Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger and John Steinbeck, composers such as George Gershwin and Cole Porter and the rock'n'rollers Little Richard and Fats Domino, Linde developed the quirky, idiosyncratic, individual style which would lead him to write colourful hits such as 'Bubba Shot The Jukebox' and 'It Sure Is Monday' for the country singer Mark Chesnutt, and 'Queen Of My Double Wide Trailer' for Sammy Kershaw, another country star, in the early '90s.
In 1969, Linde moved to Nashville and came to the attention of Bob Beckham, who was at the time running Combine Music. He joined the publishing company and placed 'Long Long Texas Road', his first major country hit, with Roy Drusky the following year. Linde found his niche at Combine, and flourished alongside writers and artists like Mickey Newbury and Dolly Parton. He married Beckham's daughter and greatly increased the profitability of the company through the worldwide success of 'Burning Love'. Presley recorded two more Linde compositions - 'For The Heart' and 'I Got A Feelin' In My Body' - and the songwriter did some guitar overdubs on three tracks the King cut during sessions at the Stax studio in Memphis in 1973.
Though Linde would set himself challenges like writing a series of songs starting with each letter of the alphabet - which explains why his catalogue includes puzzling titles like 'X Marks The Spot' and 'Zoot Suit Baby' - his outlook and approach remained unpretentious.
"If you can last through the down spells and don't get wiped out by the up spells, you can stay there. And that's what I want to do," he said.
Dennis Linde – Linde Manor (1970)
01. Dennis Linde - Linde Manor
02. Dennis Linde - On The Run
03. Dennis Linde - I Don't Want Nobody 'Ceptin' You
04. Dennis Linde - Call Me Honey
05. Dennis Linde - Horned Toad
06. Dennis Linde - Rockin' Days
07. Dennis Linde - The Fat Of The Land
08. Dennis Linde - Kitty Starr
09. Dennis Linde - Mornin', Mornin'
10. Dennis Linde - Preacher Jones
11. Dennis Linde - Stormy Weather Girl + Linde Manor (Reprise)
I'm looking for the album from '74 - Dennis Linde – Trapped In The Suburbs. Any help...
Dennis Linde - Trapped In The Suburbs.
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