.Elvis recorded the song on October 24, 1968 at the United Recorders in Hollywood for the 1969 movie "The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It)". It was composed by Ben Weisman & Buddy Kaye. This movie is not on my top 10 Elvis list but the scene were Elvis sings Almost in that white suit is super cool and that make worth it all alone
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Lyrics:
We almost shared a dream
We almost made it as a team
How nice it would have been.
We almost touched the stars
And there stood heaven, almost ours
We were just outsiders looking in.
We had the chance to fall
But fate stepped in to end it all
Before it could begin.
And if it's true, you're really going
There's nothing but goodbye to say
The saddest part of all is knowing
We almost went all the way.
This song has always been a favourite of mine, since I heard it on the radio in the 80´s on a special Elvis program that was broadcasted every Friday midnight, I usually didn´t have to work on weekends so I could listen to it until the end, which lasted 2 hours.
That special Elvis channel promoted a lot of bootleg lps, cd was not widely distributed yet in Spain in the mid/late-eighties. Thanks to all this listening, I became an instant Elvis bootleg collector. My Elvis bootleg collection reached almost 100 lp´s but many years later I sold almost all of them, when I converted to cd
.As I noted before the Almost was a first for me, I was amazed by the outstanding vocal Elvis laid on this song, it was the undubbed "Take 31" as included on the legendary 4 lp box set: Behind Closed Doors released under the great bootleg label Audifon.
http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/ZPBgzg4t/file.html
Almost. Undubbed Take 31 taken from an acetate recording. Wav audio rip.
Behind Closed Doors 4 LP Box Set: Audifon Records AFNS-66072-4 (Released: 1979) 50 Tracks. Front cover.
Behind Closed Doors 4 LP Box Set: Audifon Records AFNS-66072-4 (Released: 1979) 50 Tracks. Back cover.
P.S: Not to be confused, in late 80´s a cd version was released but several of the original outstanding outtakes were left out because of the capacity of the cd. Of course after all the years almost everything has been released officially
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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS CD: Audifon AFNS 66072-4 (Released: 1989) 40 Tracks.
With not many original Classic albums left to be released on the FTD label, there have been many speculations about how FTD will deal with the last 60´s movies like: "Charro", "Trouble With Girls" & "Change Of Habit". We don´t know what FTD has in the vaults or what has been found or bought recently. What we know, from some of the recording books is that on these three movies the recording sessions are lost
.Some would like to have them individually released on cd by FTD, other have stated to group them all together in one special release. My preference would be if there is not much left on unreleased outtakes, FTD should put out two special CAMDEN releases of Let´s Be Friends & Almost In Love and include everything they have on these
. That said, I still think that a single cd could be made for the movie "Throuble With Girls", as this movie has more songs than the other two mentioned and we already had some undubbed and alternates takes of the songs Almost and Clean Up Your Own Back Yard before.
Some years ago, I was told that the complete recording session for Almost exist in the RCA vaults
. It would be very interesting listen on how Elvis struggles through the song on the first takes and maybe they even have a rehearsal for it 
. Let´s wait and see!. Bye for now 
.Source: http://www.keithflynn.com/recording-sessions/681023.html
. Bye for now 