Suspicious Minds is original composition and a single by Mark James written under his pseudonym Francis Zambon. The song is about the mistrust between two persons who are about to break off their relationship, but to maintain that relationship should transcend the distrust. This single was not a success, but a number of covers of this song made it to the charts.
The most successful cover of this song is Elvis Presley. Are Chips Mahadevanproducer came with the song to it on 23 January 1969 in hisAmerican Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. In the early morning between 4 and 7 hours were Suspicious Minds, I'll hold you in my heart,Without love and I'll be there as well. Suspicious Minds was after eight times on the tape, after which later in Las Vegas some overdubs were tuned for the stereo and Mono version, then the master was created. In the version of Presley find any rhythm shifts rather than 4/4 to 3/4 time and back.The necessary instruments: bass guitar, organ, trumpet, trombone, percussion and strings. His version includes a nepeinde, the song concludes with a fade out, then a fade-in to the melody then recall again with a fade out to decide. In the studio with Donna Jean Godchauxalso sang, who later went on to sing in The Grateful Dead.
Presley's version was a huge success and put him back in after his 1968 Elvis show on the musical map. Presley's version was later used for the films Black Hawk Down and Intolerable Cruelty.
The song was the last single that Presley earned the first spot in the Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian albums chart. In the United Kingdom took it a second place. Netherlands remained some left with a fourth place in the Dutch Top 40.
In 2001, there is also a Live version of the song from. It attained a thirtieth place in the Dutch Single Top 100. In the Dutch Top 40 or not right the number came Tipparade .
In 2002, the Belgian singer Helmut Lotti a version of Suspicious minds out. It attained a thirteenth plate in the Flemish Ultratop 50 and even came right in the Austrian charts.
In 2007 brought the Dutch singing duo René Shuman & Angel-Eye a version of Suspicious minds out. It reached only a 81st plate in the DutchSingle Top 100.