Pete Yorn covers Elvis's 'Suspicious Minds'

NEW YORK (Pete Yorn Fans Website) - Pete Yorn is currently recording of a cover of Elvis Presley's classic "Suspicious Minds," and is trying to resurrect a piece of the original, famed recording in the process. Yorn's version-in-progress features the Sweet Inspirations, the backing group that also sang with the King during his legendary sessions in Memphis in 1969.

The Sweet Inspirations were one of the premier female backing-vocal groups in the '60s and early '70s, also appearing on recordings by Aretha Franklin, the Drifters, Jimi Hendrix, and Van Morrison, among others. Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston's mother, and Dionne Warwick were counted as members of the group at various times.

Yorn is recording the song at the Culver City, California studio of longtime collaborator R. Walk Vincent. There was no special reason for the recording, said a spokesperson. "He did it and then thought it would be cool to get the original girls, which he did." However, it "might go on the new record."

The unnamed album in question, the follow-up to Yorn's Columbia Records debut, Musicforthemorningafter, is due in March.