Elvis Presley - Elvis Viva Las Vegas (2007) [2CD]

Elvis Presley - Elvis Viva Las Vegas (2007) [2CD]
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The soundtrack to an ABC-TV special, Elvis: Viva Las Vegas documents the king's years in a place, the International Hotel (later the Las Vegas Hilton), where he played close to one thousand shows, before two million fans, over the course of seven years.

Dramatic, intense, driven and earthy, frequently moving, but not without the occasional cloying note, an Elvis show in the early '70s was the apotheosis of rock music. It was rock and soul, gospel and pop, blues and country. It was Elvis at maximum energy, whether he was kicking his older hits into a higher gear or down-shifting to make a burning ballad out of one of his favorite songs from the past few years. Elvis and his coterie took what had once been simple and unadorned and transformed it into one of the glitziest extravaganzas ever seen. Elvis: Viva Las Vegas is a live compilation (except for the studio version of the title track), most of it recorded during his earliest engagements at the International Hotel in February and August of 1970.

The same material can be found on the original live album On Stage: February 1970 as well as the expanded That's the Way It Is [Special Edition]; the rest are from a February 1972 show that had previously appeared on the box set Live in Las Vegas.

The focus here is on material that Elvis had not made his own, but nevertheless seemed to fit with what he wanted to express in his post-movie years — songs that struck the grand note, that stood for nothing less than a maximum of drama and feeling, songs like "Let It Be Me," "Release Me," "You've Lost That Loving Feeling," and "Bridge over Troubled Water."

Late-period Elvis is not the way most fans wish to remember him, but it's an important part of his career, and both the film and soundtrack for Elvis: Viva Las Vegas document it well. [Shortly after the soundtrack's release, a 2-CD version appeared, including on its second disc a previously unreleased Elvis concert taped on August 21, 1969 — the first day that live recordings took place during that engagement, and thus the first Elvis performance that had taken place in nine years. The performance, while a little too loose for release as an official live album, doesn't reveal any flaws.

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Disc 1:
01. Viva Las Vegas (Doc Pomus / Mort Shuman)
Recorded July 10, 1963 Radio Recorders, Hollywood
02. See See Rider (Traditional)
Recorded February 17, 1970 International Hotel, Las Vegas
03. The Wonder Of You (Baker Knight)
Recorded February 17, 1970 International Hotel, Las Vegas
04. Polk Salad Annie (Tony Joe White)
Recorded February 17, 1970 International Hotel, Las Vegas
05. Release Me (Miller / Yount / Williams)
Recorded February 18, 1970 International Hotel, Las Vegas
06. Let It Be Me (Mann Curtis / Pierre Delanoe / Gilbert Becaud)
Recorded February 17, 1970 International Hotel, Las Vegas
07. I Just Can't Help Believin'(Billy Mann / Cynthia Weil)
Recorded August 13, 1970 International Hotel, Las Vegas
08. Walk A Mile In My Shoes (Joe South)
Recorded February 19, 1970 International Hotel, Las Vegas
09. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Paul Simon)
Recorded August 11, 1970 International Hotel, Las Vegas
10. Patch It Up (E. Rabbitt / R. Bourke)
Recorded August 12, 1970 International Hotel, Las Vegas
11. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (Wickham / Napier Bell /Donaggio/Pallavicine)
Recorded August 10, 1970 International Hotel, Las Vegas
12. You've Lost That Loving Feeling (B. Mann / H.P. Spector / Cynthia Weil)
Recorded August 13, 1970 International Hotel, Las Vegas
13. An American Trilogy (Mickey Newbury)
Recorded February 16, 1972 Las Vegas Hilton
14. Never Been To Spain (Hoyt Axton)
Recorded February 16, 1972 Las Vegas Hilton
15. You Gave Me A Mountain(Marty Robbins)
Recorded February 16, 1972 Las Vegas Hilton
16. The Impossible Dream (The Quest) (Mitch Leigh / Joe Darion)
Recorded February 16, 1972 Las Vegas Hilton


Disc 2:
Previously unreleased concert, recorded at The International Hotel in Las Vegas, August 21, 1969.
01. Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins)
02. I Got A Woman (Ray Charles)
03. All Shook Up (Otis Blackwell / Elvis Presley)
04. Love Me Tender (Elvis Presley / Vera Matson)
05. Jailhouse Rock/Don't Be Cruel (Otis Blackwell / Elvis Presley)
06. Heartbreak Hotel (Mae Boren Axton / Tommy Durden / Elvis Presley)
07. Hound Dog (Jerry Lieber / Mike Stoller)
08. Memories (Billy Strange / Mac Davis)
09. Mystery Train/Tiger Man (Sam C. Phillips / Herman Paker, Jr.)
10. Monologue/Lifestory
11. Baby What You Want Me To Do (Jimmy Reed)
12. Runaway (Max Crook / Del Shannon)
13. Are You Lonesome Tonight ? (Roy Turk / Lou Handman)
14. Yesterday/Hey Jude (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
15. Introductions
16. In The Ghetto (Mac Davis)
17. Suspicious Minds (Mark James)
18. What'd I Say(Ray Charles)
19. Can't Help Falling In Love (Hugo Peretti / Luigi Creatore / George Weiss)

*2007 RCA / BMG | 88697 11108 2



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