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LAS VEGAS INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS ELVIS-NOW 1971

Alla fine di maggio, la Memphis Recording Service pubblicherà un cofanetto di 4 CD dedicato ai lve del 1971.
Sarà presente un corposo booklet con foto rare, date ed aneddoti.
Nulla di nuovo per chi colleziona Elvis: il tutto era disponibile da molti anni in vari bootles.

CD 1
26.01.1971 – Opening Show (Registrazione incompleta):
Also Sprach Zarathustra – That’s All Right – Mystery Train / Tiger Man – Love Me Tender – Johnny B. Goode – Introductions – The Wonder Of You – Can’t Help Falling in Love – Make The World Go Away Something
27.01.1971 – Midnight Show (Registrazione incompleta):
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me – Love Me Tender – There Goes My Everything – Sweet Caroline – You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling – Polk Salad Annie – Only Believe – How Great Thou Art – Introductions – Johnny B. Goode – The Wonder Of You – Something – Make The World Go Away – Love Me – One Night – Blue Suede Shoes – Hound Dog

CD 2 – 28.01.1971 – Dinner Show (Registrazione incompleta):
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me – Love Me Tender – Sweet Caroline – You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling – Polk Salad Annie – Band Introductions – Something – Release Me – Blue Suede Shoes – Hound Dog – It’s Now Or Never – Suspicious Minds – The Impossible Dream
28.01.1971 – Midnight Show:
Also Sprach Zarathustra – That’s All Right – I Got A Woman – Love Me Tender – You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me – Sweet Caroline – You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling – Polk Salad Annie – Introductions (#1) – Johnny B. Goode – Introductions (#2) – Something – Introductions – The Wonder Of You – Heartbreak Hotel – Blue Suede Shoes – Hound Dog – One Night – Teddy Bear – Suspicious Minds – Come Home Baby (Instrumental Vamp) – The Impossible Dream

CD 3 – 29.01.1971 – Dinner Show:
Also Sprach Zarathustra – That’s All Right – I Got A Woman – Love Me Tender – You Don’t Have To Say Love Me – Sweet Caroline – You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling – Polk Salad Annie – Johnny B Goode – Band Introductions – Something – Heartbreak Hotel – Blue Suede Shoes – Teddy Bear – Hound Dog – Snowbird – The Impossible Dream

CD 4 – 23.02.1971 – Closing Show (Registrazione incompleta):
Also Sprach Zarathustra – That’s All Right – I Got A Woman – Love Me – Mystery Train / Tiger Man – Sweet Caroline – You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling – Polk Salad Annie – Something – Johnny B. Goode – How Great Thou Art – Don’t Be Cruel – Heartbreak Hotel – Blue Suede Shoes – Bridge Over Troubled Water – Little Sister / Get Back – Hound Dog – Suspicious Minds (Spliced With 28.01.1971 DS)

 

Nuovi bootlegs della “Radio Recorders”.

THE G.I. BLUES RECORDING SESSIONS
01. G.I. Blues – (EO) take 4 & composite master
02. Tonight’s All Right For Love – (R1O) take 1
03. Big Boots (SLOW tempo) – (MO) take 2 & 3
04. What’s She Really Like – (GO) take 13
05. Frankfort Special (medium tempo) – (HO-X) take 7 & 8
06. Tonight’s All Right For Love – (R10) take 11 & 12
07. Pocketful Of Rainbows – (NO) take 9
08. Wooden Heart – (QO) take 2 & 4 (stereo master)
09. Big Boots (FAST tempo) – (M1O) take 3
10. Shoppin’ Around – (BO) take 6 & 10
11. Didja’ Ever – (CO) take 2 (1960 lp stereo master)
12. Tonight Is So Right For Love – (FO) take 4
13. Doin’ The Best – (DO) take 5 & 13 (stereo master)
14. Shoppin’ Around – (BO-X) take 2
15. Frankfort Special (FAST tempo) – (HO) take 6 & 7
16. Blue Suede Shoes – (PO) take 1 (stereo master)
17. Big Boots (SOLO) – (MO-X) take 6 & take 1 Insert (M2O-X)
18. G.I. Blues – (EO) take 3 & Pickup take 9
19. Tonight’s All Right For Love – (R1O) – take 8
20. What’s She Really Like – (GO) take 5
21. Pocketful Of Rainbows – (NO) take 12
22. Frankfort Special (medium tempo) – (HO-X) take 10 (stereo master)
23. Tonight’s All Right For Love – Extended (1960 master)
24. Big Boots (FAST tempo) – (M1O) take 5
25. Shoppin’ Around – (BO-X) take 3,6 & 7
26. What’s She Really Like – (GO) take 18 & 19
27. Frankfort Special (FAST tempo) (HO) – take 8
28. Tonight Is So Right For Love – (FO) take 9

THE BLUE HAWAII RECORDING SESSIONS
01. Blue Hawaii – (FO) take 7 (mono master)
02. Almost Always True – (MO) take 1 & 8 (mono master)
03. Beach Boy Blues – stereo movie master
04. No More – (DO) take 3, 5, & 9
05. Rock-A-Hula Baby – (TO) take 4 & 5 (mono master)
06. Ku-U-I-Po – (CO) take 8 & 9 (mono master)
07. Slicin’ Sand – (EO) take 10
08. Aloha Oe – stereo master
09. Hawaiian Sunset – (AO) stereo master
10. Can’t Help Falling In Love – (RO) stereo movie master
11. Steppin’ Out Of Line – (LO) take 1, 2, 3 (movie version) & 17 (mono master / record version)
12. Island Of Love – (KO) take 3, 5, 10, 11, 12 & 13 (mono master)
13. Ito Eats – (HO) Tag For movie take 1+ (GO) take 3, 7, 8 & 9 (mono master)
14. Slicin’ Sand – (EO) take 17
15. Can’t Help Falling In Love – (RO) take 4 & 5
16. Beach Boy Blues – (SO) take 1 & 2 (mono master / record version)
17. Aloha Oe – (BO) take 4 & take 3 (section 2)
18. Moonlight Swim – (NO) (stereo master)
19. Hawaiian Wedding Song – (JO) take 2 (mono master)
20. Slicin’ Sand – (EO) take 18 & 19 (mono master)
21. Can’t Help Falling In Love – (RO) take 9 (movie version)
22. Aloha-Oe – (BO) take 2 (section 2)
Bonus:
23. Can’t Help Falling In Love – (RO) movie version take 1 – 8
24. Can’t Help Falling In Love – (RO) movie version take 10-12
25. Can’t Help Falling In Love – (RO) movie version take 18 & record version 27, 28 & 29 (stereo master)

ELVIS ROCKIN’ THE EARLY SIXTIES
01. Such A Night (master take 5)
02. Make Me Know It (take 14)
03. Stuck On You (master take 3)
04. I Gotta Know (master take 2)
05. Dirty, Dirty Feeling (take 4)
06. Shoppin’ Around (take 2 / remake)
07. Blue Suede Shoes (master take 1 / remake)
08. I’m Coming Home (false start & master take 7)
09. Judy (master take 8)
10. I Want You With Me (master take 2)
11. Little Sister (master take 12)
12. (Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame (master take 8)
13. Gonna Get Back Home Somehow (take 4 /alternate master)
14. One Broken Heart For Sale (film version)
15. Steppin’ Out Of Line (master take 17 /mono)
16. King Of The Whole Wide World (take 29)
17. Follow That Dream (master / mono)
18. In Your Arms (master take 2)
19. Girl Next Door Went A’Walking (master take 4)
20. Swing Down Sweet Chariot (master take 4)

TICKLE ME
01. (it’s A) Long Lonely Highway (film version)
02. It Feels So Right (master take 5)
03. (such an) Easy Question (master take 5)
04. Dirty, Dirty Feeling (take 4)
05. Put The Blame On Me (master take 5)
06. I’m Yours (spliced master)
07. Night Rider (master take 3)
08. I Feel That I’ve Known You Forever (master take 5)
09. Slowly But Surely (film version)
Additional Soundtrack versions:
10. It Feels So Right
11. (such An) Easy Question
12. Dirty, Dirty Feeling
13. Put The Blame On Me
14. I’m Yours
15. Night Rider
16. I Feel That I’ve Known You Forever – version 1
17. I Feel That I’ve Known You Forever – version 2
Tracks Suggested By Colonel Parker
18. Something Blue (take 5 & 6)
19. Just For Old Time Sake (master take 5)
20. Make Me Know It (take 14)
21. Gonna Get Back Home Somehow (take 4 – alternate master)
22. There’s Always Me (master take 10)
23. The Girl Of My Best Friend (take 1, 7 & master take 10)
24. Fountain Of Love (take 6)
25. That’s Someone You Never Forget (master take 8)
26. In Your Arms (master take 2)
27. Give Me The Right (master take 4)
28. Starting Today (master take 3)
Bonus:
29. Dirty, Dirty Feeling (spliced master)
30. I’m Yours (vocal Overdub # 1)
31. I Feel That I’ve Know You Forever (take 2)

Nulla di nuovo in questi 4 CD, ovviamente.

 

SUMMER FESTIVAL

La sconosciuta etichetta “Stage Recordings” ha appena emesso un cofanetto di 5 CD intitolato “Summer Festival”. Esso include cinque registrazioni amatoriali, già disponibili in altri CD pirata, datati agosto 1971, Las Vegas.
Ennesimo ed inutile, costoso, box
9/8/1971 OS
10/8/1971 DS
11/8/1971 DS
12/8/1971 MS
14/8/1971 MS

La scaletta del cofanetto, la potete leggere cliccando qua.

 

ELVIS 28+

È davvero incredibile il proliferare di questi inutili ed assurdi CD dedicati alle spliced takes, cioè alle versioni “nuove” di canzoni fabbricate da questo produttore con il computer, adoperando diverse takes del brano…
Al di là del fatto musicale (ad un attento ascolto, sono assurde), mi chiedo come uno possa spendere denaro in una pubblicazione del genere…

1. Fun in Acapulco – alternate master (remade)
2. Bossa Nova Baby – spliced take 1,2,3,5,6,7
3. Devil in Disguise – alternate master
4. Please Don’t Drag That String Around – spliced take 1,1,3,5
5. Long Lonely Highway
6. Witchcraft – spliced take 2,1,2
7. Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers – spliced take 2,3,1,1
8. Western Union – spliced take 1,2,3,4
9. Slowly But Surely – spliced take 1,3,4,1,3
10. Blue River – spliced take 1,fs,2,2
11. Echoes of Love – spliced take
12. Never Ending – spliced take
13. What Now, What Next, Where To – alternate master
14. Love Me Tonight – 2,4,5,5
15. Viva Las Vegas – alternate master
16. C’mon Everybody – spliced take 6,7
17. If You Think I Don’t Need You – spliced take 9,8,10,12,2,12,7,2
18. Do The Vega – spliced take 5,4,2,2,2,4
19. I Need Somebody To Lean On – spliced take 17,19
20. Kissin’ Cousins #2 – spliced take 1,2
21. Catchin’ on Fast – alternate master
22. Anyone – alternate master
23. Kissin’ Cousins – reversed master
24. Memphis Tennessee – alternate master
25. Ask Me – spliced take 3,4 (63), 3 (64)
26. It Hurts Me – spliced take 3,4.

 

IN A PRIVATE MOMENT VOLUME 2

CD pirata dedicato alle registrazioni private di Elvis che “rifà il verso” a quello della FTD di molti anni fa.
Ci tengo sempre a precisarlo: nulla di nuovo…

1. Happy, Happy Birthday Baby
2. I Can’t Help It
3. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
4. Santa Claus is Back in Town
5. I’m Beginning To Forget You – spliced
6. Danny Boy – spliced
7. Send Me Some Lovin’
8. The Fool – spliced
9. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
10. Cool Water (edit)
11. Apron Strings (edit)
12. Earth Angel
13. If I Didn’t Care/Are You Sincere
14. Return To Me (edit)
15. Soldier Boy
16. Her Hand in Mine (edit)
17. Like A Baby (edit)
18. I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen (slow/fast)
19. Oh Lonesome Me
20. He Knows Just What I Need
21. Stand By Me (edit)
23. You’ll Never Walk Alone
24. Sweet Leilani
25. Spanish Eyes (edit)
26. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
bonustracks:
27. Don’t You Know I Love You (remade)
28. Little Darlin’ (remade)
29. Happy, Happy Birthday Baby (remade)

 

A REAL PLEASANT PERFORMANCE

La “BJ Records” presenta il suo secondo lavoro: si tratta di un doppio CD in confezione digipack che include registrazioni soundboard (già disponibili), incise nel febbraio 1977.
L’annuncio del produttore è, ovviamente, che “esse suonano meglio in quanto remixate da zero”.
Si tratta dei concerti di West Palm Beach (13 febbraio 1977) e di St. Petersburg (14 febbraio 1977) con qualche bonus tratta sempre da quel tour.
Staremo a… sentire…
Ecco la tracklist completa di questo doppio CD: clicca qua.

 

MIDNIGHT IN LAS VEGAS

Finalmente un CD con qualcosa di mai sentito prima…
Siamo di fronte alla registrazione amatoriale di Las Vegas, 24 marzo 1975, midnight show.
Questa esibizione non è mai stata pubblicata in alcuna forma.
Quell’ingaggio vide Elvis in forma che offrì bellissimi shows nella “città del vizio”, dopo un forzato riposo alla fine del 1974 per motivi di salute.
Speriamo in una resa sonora godibile.
La label è la “Ampex”.

1. Also Sprach Zarathustra
2. See See Rider
3. I Got A Woman / Amen
4. Love Me
5. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
6. And I Love You So
7. Big Boss Man
8. It’s Midnight
9. Promised Land
10. Fairytale
11. Introductions – What’d I Say
12. Drum Solo (By Ronnie Tutt)
13. Bass Solo (By Duke Bardwell)
14. Piano Solo (By Glen D. Hardin)
15. T-R-O-U-B-L-E (Short instrumental by David Briggs)
16. School Day
17. Introduction of ”Wolfman Jack”
18. My Boy
19. I’ll Remember You
20. My Heavenly Father (By Kathy Westmoreland)
21. Let Me Be There (With false start and reprise)
22. Teddy Bear / Don’t Be Cruel
23. Hound Dog
24. Hawaiian Wedding Song
25. Dialogue
26. Can’t Help Falling In Love / Closing Vamp

 

FTD: posticipati al 10 maggio i tre nuovi lavori…

A seguito di un errore in fase di lavorazione (il titolo del doppio CD live è sbagliato…), i tre lavori della FTD saranno disponibili solo dal 10 maggio.
Chi non sbaglia, mentre lavora, alzi la mano ma mi sembra che chi lavoa per la FTD, debba alzare anche i piedi…

 

Ristampa di “On stage”.

La “Music On CD” ha ristampato il doppio CD della serie Legacy di “On stage”.
In questa riedizione della label olandese, non abbiamo assolutamente nulla di diverso dall’edizione SONY del 2013.

 

“The Vince Everett – Laurel Records”

La danese “Memphis Mansions” ha annunciato l’emissione di un box di tre 45 giri, CD,  poster  ed altri gadgets.

Disc 1: Treat Me Nice – Stereo Movie Master / One More Day – Hunk Houghton
Disc 2: Jailhouse Rock – Stereo Master / Baby I Don’t Care
Disc 3: Young and Beautiful / Don’t Leave Me Now – Stereo Master.

“Elvis Presley In Jazz – A Jazz Tribute To Elvis Presley”

La “Wagram Music” pubblicherà un CD ed un LP dal titolo “Elvis Presley In Jazz – A Jazz Tribute To Elvis Presley” il prossimo 13 maggio.
Le rispettive tracklists sono state curate dal giornalista musicale ed esperto di Jazz, Lionel Eskenazi del “Jazz Magazine”.

CD:
Stuck On You (Matthieu Boré) – All Shook Up (Jon Spencer) – Fever (Tom Verlaine) – Mystery Train (Junior Wells) – Love Me Tender (Der Rote Bereich) – (You’re The) Devil In Disguise (Larkin Poe) – Suspicious Minds (Ace Cannon) – That’s All Right (John Gill´s Jazz Kings) – Crawfish (Lou Pecci) – (Let’s Have A) Party (AMos Milburn) – Love Me (Billy Ecstine) – Blue Moon (Bobby Bland) – Reconsider Baby (Lowell Fulson) – Hound Dog (The Lieber-Stoller Big Band) – It’s Now Or Never (O Sole Mio) (The Three Sounds) – Fever (Elisabeth Kontomanou) – Don’t Be Cruel (Josh Roseman Unit) – Blue Suede Shoes (Albert King)

LP:
LATO A:
Fever (Rigmor Gustafsson Feat. Nils Landgren) – All Shook Up (Jon Spencer) – Love Me Tender (Biréli Lagréne) – That’s All Right (John Gill´s Jazz Kings) – Blue Moon (Bobby Bland) – (Let’s Have A) Party (AMos Milburn) – Suspicious Minds (Ace Cannon)

LATO B:
(You’re The) Devil In Disguise (Larkin Poe) – Stuck On You (Matthieu Boré) – Hound Dog (The Lieber-Stoller Big Band) – Reconsider Baby (Lowell Fulson) – Love Me (Billy Ecstine) – It’s Now Or Never (O Sole Mio) (The Three Sounds)

 

La “DOL” ci colora, questa primavera…

L’etichetta “DOL” annuncia per il 24 giugno 2022, la pubblicazione di 10 LPs in vinile colorato:

‘Blue Hawaii’ Limited Edition on Turquoise colored vinyl.
‘Chicas! Chicas! Chicas!’ Limited Edition on Red colored vinyl.
‘Elvis Is Back’ Limited Edition on Blue colored vinyl.
‘Fun In Acapulco’ Limited Edition on Green colored vinyl.
‘G.I. Blues’ Limited Edition on Yellow colored vinyl.
‘His Hand In Mine ‘ Limited Edition on Blue colored vinyl.
‘It Happened at the World’s Fair’ on Limited Edition Orange colored vinyl.
‘King Creole’ Limited Edition on Yellow colored vinyl.
‘Pot Luck’ Limited Edition on Red colored vinyl.
‘Something For Everybody’ Limited Edition on Purple colored vinyl.

 

THE MANY FACES OF ELVIS in vinile

Il 17 giugno 2022, la “Musik Brokers” emetterà un doppio LP intitolato “The many faces of Elvis” (esisteva già in CD).

Side A – A Small Circle Of Friends:
Work With Me, Anne (Bill Black’s Combo) – Maybellene (The Blue Moon Boys) – Have Guitar, Will Travel (Scotty Moore) – Dig A Little Deeper (The Jordanaires) – Blue Moon Of Kentucky (The Blue Moon Boys) – Smokie (Part 2 – Bill Black’s Combo) – Don’t Be Cruel (The Million Dollar Quartet) – Going Back To Memphis (All The King’s Men Feat. Bill Black’s Combo)

Side B:
Sweet Inspiration (The Sweet Inspirations) – You Better Run (The Jordanaires) – Good Rockin’ Tonight (The Blue Moon Boys) – There’s No Place Like Home (The Million Dollar Quartet) – Tweedle Dee (Elvis Presley – Live Januar 1955) – The Lord’s Prayer (The Sweet Inspirations)

Side C – The Originals, The Rock ´n´ Roll Years:
Tutti Frutti (Little Richard) – Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins) – Hound Dog (Big Mama Thornton) – Mystery Train (Little Junior Parker’s Blue Flames) – Long Tall Sally (Little Richard) – Got A Woman (Ray Charles) – Blueberry Hill (Fats Domino) – Blue Moon (The Marcels)

Side D – Originals & Versions, The Las Vegas Years:
In The Ghetto (Candi Staton) – Suspicious Minds (Clark Harris) – I Can’t Stop Loving You (Don Gibson) – Always On My Mind (Tupelo Jordan) – Unchained Melody (Al Hibbler) – Pledging My Love (Johnny Ace) – Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Al Jolson)

 

PRODIGY OF SUN RECORDS

Arriverà in estate l’opera di 800 pagine in due volumi di Erik Lorentzen e Robert van Beek dal titolo ‘Elvis Presley – Prodigy of SUN Records’.
Un viaggio attraverso i primi giorni di carriera di Elvis in ordine cronologico, con tanti dettagli, informazioni, memorabilia, memorie e tante foto in altissima qualità
Il set si completa con un 10 pollici LP contenente 12 tracce del periodo SUN.

 

“Elvis German EPs Record Guide”

‘Elvis German EPs Record Guide’, inizialmente in programma per il 2021, sarà pubblicato ad aprile / maggio 2022.
Scritto a quattro mani da Horst e Heinz Zimmerman , questo libro di 596 pagine in formato A4 non si limita a catalogare tutti gli EP di produzione tedesca, ma accompagna il tutto con delle eccellenti immagini di alta qualità. e tantissimi dettagli e informazioni.

 

“Elvis ’77’: O Ultimo Ano”

“Elvis Presley fan club” brasiliano ha di recente pubblicato il libro di 328 pagine ‘Elvis ’77’: O Ultimo Ano’ (‘Elvis 77: The Last Year’) .
L’autore è Waldenir Ceson.
La prima tiratura del libro è stata di sole 50′ copie.

 

The Faith Of Elvis

Nuovo libro scritto dal fratellastro di Elvis, Billy Stanley, che in 256 pagine ripercorre l’artista e l’uomo Elvis e l’influenza esercitati su di lui dalla musica Gospel.
In uscita ad ottobre di quest’anno.

 

“Südseeparadies”

La “Paramount Home Entertainment” ripropone il DVD ‘Südseeparadies’ (‘Paradise Hawaiian Style’) in Germania per il prossimo 2 giugno 2022.
Il DVD sarà disponibile in lingua inglese, tedesco, italiano, francese e spagnolo.
Sottotitoli in oltre 18 lingue.