There are ten known live recordings of elvas performing, are you lonesome to night? Starting in 19 61 in a concert at block arena in honolulu, up to the end of elvis life in 19 77. Allan elms and bruce heller analyze them all in their essay, 12 ways to say lonesome. The most problematic renditions of the bridge are the later ones, which come after the summer of 19 72. What happens in the sung portion is the part song where the singer is in control. But in the spoken bridge, the narrator is suddenly the one who's been deceived and rejected. And that's the part elvis can't get right. El