I'm Your Toy

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 6:47 am

"I'm Your Toy", recorded by Elvis on Almost Blue is actually a Gram Parsons song entitled "Hot Burrito #1"

Was this simply a mistake on Elvis or the record label's part, calling it "I'm Your Toy"? I wonder why it hasn't been corrected after all these years.

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:56 am

I don't really know, Blue. When EC names the song, he calls it

"I'm Your Toy (Hot Burrito #1)

and when anyone else refers to it, it is called

Hot Burrito #1 (I'm Your Toy)

I just don't know any more than that.

wardo68 · Post by **wardo68** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:56 am

The original song, as recorded on Gilded Palace Of Sin by the Flying Burrito Brothers, was simply called "Hot Burrito #1". (And the song that comes after it was, and still is, called "Hot Burrito #2". The story I recall is that both were written and recorded pretty fast to meet the recording deadline.)

By the time EC recorded it for AB, he changed the title to the parenthetical version, since he thought it was more deserving of something a little more stately than "Hot Burrito #1".

I think I prefer Elvis's recording to the original, though I wouldn't mind hearing him do "Hot Burrito #2". Any fans of the Byrds, and specifically the Sweetheart Of The Rodeo album, should definitely check out the Burrito Brothers. In the US there's a "Very Best Of" collection that includes all the songs from the first two albums, featuring Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons.

Sour Milk Cow · Post by **Sour Milk Cow** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 4:28 pm

On the new AB reissue, I believe that the parenthetical "Hot Burrito #1" has been dropped entirely, and it is just listed as "I'm Your Toy." In the liner notes, EC makes reference to the fact that they "re-named" the song.

I wonder, does one have to get permission to do something like that?

wardo68 · Post by **wardo68** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 5:10 pm

Sour Milk Cow wrote:On the new AB reissue, I believe that the parenthetical "Hot Burrito #1" has been dropped entirely, and it is just listed as "I'm Your Toy." In the liner notes, EC makes reference to the fact that they "re-named" the song.

I wonder, does one have to get permission to do something like that?

I think as long as the writers and publishers still get the props, it's fine. If EC tried to grab a writing credit for changing the title, then there'd be a problem.

Copenhagen Fan · Post by **Copenhagen Fan** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:29 am

jesus...stop saying hot burrito!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't had good Mexican food in a year!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **BlueChair** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:47 am

I think it's ridiculous, personally. Like all the people who call "Baba O'Riley" by The Who "Teenage Wasteland"

I will hereby be calling "Alison" "I See You Got A Husband Now"

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:56 am

Hey. . ."professional" journalists have been refering to the song Brilliant Mistake as "King of America" for years! There is no SONG named KOA as far as I'm aware!!!

wardo68 · Post by **wardo68** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:50 am

BlueChair wrote:I will hereby be calling "Alison" "I See You Got A Husband Now"

You mean "My Aim Is True", don't you? (wink wink)

There's an idea -- someone should compile a list of EC songs whose repeated tag is different than the title. Here's a start:

"I'm Not Satisfied" (Mystery Dance)
"Don't Turn Around" (Opportunity)
"Hey" (Less Than Zero)

OK, I admit, I put that last one in just to see who'd cringe.

Copenhagen Fan · Post by **Copenhagen Fan** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 5:25 am

you mean it's not called teenage waste land??! oooooh no

just kidding

Sour Milk Cow · Post by **Sour Milk Cow** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 5:59 am

"Hey Lindsay. Thanks for breaking up the band."

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:41 am

Freaks And Geeks!

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 5:30 pm

To complicate things further, EC refers to this as "Hot Burrito No. 2" in the liner notes of the Rycko re-issue.

And No Coffee Table · Post by **And No Coffee Table** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:23 pm

Flying Burrito Brothers Bassist Chris Ethridge Dead at 65

Chris Ethridge wrote "I'm Your Toy"/"Hot Burrito #1" with Gram Parsons.

bronxapostle · Post by **bronxapostle** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:32 pm

guess it will be played in Florida tonight, right???

SoulForHire · Post by **SoulForHire** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:28 pm

bronxapostle wrote:guess it will be played in Florida tonight, right???

I hope so. That's my favorite off of AB

Azmuda · Post by **Azmuda** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:45 pm

bronxapostle wrote:guess it will be played in Florida tonight, right???

Sadly no.

bronxapostle · Post by **bronxapostle** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:51 pm

got the setlist already??? give it up azmuda.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:25 pm

From Hickory Wind - The Life and Times of Gram Parsons (1991) by Ben Fong-Torres -

P.106 -

Gram and Chris(Hillman) were still short of an album’s worth of songs
by the time recording sessions began.

One day after a rehearsal, Chris Ethridge approached Gram
with a couple of melodies he’d been carrying with him since child-
hood. They were what he called “go songs.” That is, when he was a
kid in Mississippi and wanted to go out to play with friends, and
his parents wouldn’t let him, he’d march to the family piano and
bang out one of his tunes until his folks relented. “Go, go,” they’d
say. “Get out of here!”

Now he offered those shards of songs to Gram, who grabbed a
pencil, a notepad, and a handful of uppers. He dispensed two to
Ethridge, took two himself, and propped his notebook up while
Ethridge sat at the piano, picking out one of his songs. They tossed
lines at each other, and within a couple of hours, they nailed two
songs, which they lazily titled “Hot Burrito #1” and “Hot Burrito
#2.”
Both were reflective songs about love gone sad, and “#1” was
especially poignant, as a man in conflict pled his case to his
woman.

A particularly tasty version -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtdbTGoZ ... re=related

Gene Clark & Carla Olson - I'm Your Toy (Hot Burrito #1)

bronxapostle · Post by **bronxapostle** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:24 pm

bronxapostle wrote:guess it will be played in Florida tonight, right???

okay, so he did it a day late...we KNEW he would!

queenofthefleapit · Post by **queenofthefleapit** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:33 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Je7FE6S ... ture=share

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:59 pm

Lovely version. The pedant in me , however, feels the need to query Elvis' opening comments. He talks about working with Jim Dickinson because Steve Nieve was absent 'working on Welcome To The Voice'. That was in May '09, when WTTV was long out . Elvis didn't work with Steve for all of the first half of '09. Perhaps Elvis is thinking of the week in late April '05 when Steve had to absent himself from the Imposters for a few dates on a U.S. tour to got to Europe to record some of the contributors to the opera, necessitating the brief formation of The Pickups (Imposters Pete, Davey and David Hidalgo).

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