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''How The Web Was Woven'' (Rehearsal) (Elvis off-mic)
Recorded Wednesday July 15, 1970 at MGM Sound Stage 1, Culver City, California

Name (Or. No of Instruments)
Elvis Presley - Vocals & Piano

Artist & Repertoire/Producer: Felton Jarvis
Recording Engineer: Al Pachucki

How The Web Was Woven" is a song written by English songwriters Clive Westlake and David Most. It was first recorded by rock and soul singer Jackie Lomax and released in February 1970 as his final single on the Beatles' Apple record label. George Harrison produced the recording, which also features contributions from American musician Leon Russell. The single is unique in that, with Paul McCartney producing the B-side, each side was produced by a different member of the Beatles. Elvis Presley issued a recording of the song later in 1970 on his album ''That's the Way It Is''. Presley's version was also the B-side of his 1971 single "I Just Can't Help Believin'", which became a top-ten hit in Britain and other European countries.

"How the Web Was Woven" was written in 1969 by Clive Westlake and David Most, the brother of record producer Mickie Most and, at the time, an executive at Carlin Music Publishers. According to Tony Hiller, another London-based songwriter, David Most first approached Australian producer David Mackay with an idea for the song and Mackay provided the melody for the chorus. Westlake and Most completed the song and recorded a demo. This and several other Carlin demos were then submitted as material for Elvis Presley to record via Freddy Bienstock, who owned Carlin and looked after Presley's music publishing interests in the company Hill & Range.

Like other ballads selected for Presley over this period, "How The Web Was Woven" is a love song with a dark theme. It was also typical of the material sourced from Carlin's songwriters in terms of its European pop style, dramatic mood and dense musical arrangement. Most told Record Mirror magazine that it was the third song he had written, after "Goodbye" and "Le Blon", recorded by Barry Ryan and Anita Harris, respectively. He also said that Percy Sledge was the singer he "had in mind" when writing the song.

Elvis Presley recorded "How the Web Was Woven" during a five-day period of intensive recording at RCA Studios in Nashville, in early June 1970. Other than for film soundtrack recordings, the sessions were Presley's first since February 1969 and produced a total of 34 tracks, many of them from Bienstock's Carlin catalogue. In return for the prestige associated with having their composition recorded by Presley, Westlake and Most ceded their publishing royalties to him and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, a situation that was standard for Hill & Range.

The song was released in November 1970 on Presley's album ''That's The Way It Is. In his review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine includes the track among the album's "perfectly pleasant middle-of-the-road material pitched halfway between Hollywood and Music City". It also appeared as the B-side of "I Just Can't Help Believin'", a single released in November 1971 in markets outside the United States. The single peaked at number 6 on the U.K. Singles Chart and was also a top-ten hit in Belgium, the Netherlands and South Africa.

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