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Elvis Presley - Never Been To Spain - "Elvis On Tour" Version with RCA audio and original video
Elvis opened his sixth Las Vegas season on 26 January 1972 and the setlist included five new songs and an oldie which would recieve it's first 70's live performance.
The first of the six performed that evening, with Elvis wearing the 'White Pyramid' jumpsuit featured on the cover of the MSG album, was a song which would be synonamous with both MSG and On Tour - Never Been To Spain, a hit for Three Dog Night and written by Hoyt Axton. It was recorded by RCA over two weeks later at seven shows between 14-17 February with the master from 16 Feb MS intended for the abandoned 'Standing Room Only' album. This recording would have to wait for the 70's Masters box set to be officially released which meant the MSG recording was the first to be heard by the public at large but in 2009 Sony would re...
published: 19 Jan 2019
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Elvis Presley - Steamroller Blues (Live)(1973, Vinyl LP [1986] )
[Elvis Presley – The Legend Lives On: Collectors Edition (7 LP Set), RCA CUSTOM/Reader’s Digest, 1986]
*Bee-Sides Radio does not own nor claim copyright of this song/recording.
published: 17 Jan 2019
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Elvis Presley - I Got Lucky - movie version with remastered RCA audio and original video
As formulaic as Elvis' movies became many of their screenplays could be traced back to a novel, book or original screenplay which had lay unused in the studio offices for a good few years before being rewritten to suit the basic prerequisites needed for a sixties Elvis Presley movie. One exception however, was the only Elvis movie which was in fact a remake of an older movie and unlike many of the novels on which other Elvis movies found their origins, his 1962 movie "Kid Galahad" bore the same title as the original movie on which it was based.
Comparisons between Elvis' movie and the original black and white 1937 movie begin and end with the title and basic storyline whereas the original was dark and gritty, the version starring Elvis was much lighter in tone and naturally was seen as a ...
published: 19 Jun 2018
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Elvis Presley: The RCA Album Collection
This is the 60 CD box set of all Elvis' RCA albums. Hope you enjoy what this box has to offer!
Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. It doesn't cost you anything extra but helps me bring you continued content.
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published: 19 May 2018
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Elvis Presley - Proud Mary - "Elvis - On Tour" Version with RCA audio and original video
On the opening night of Elvis' second Las Vegas engagement he would introduce TEN new songs, two of which were new singles an another two 50's hits not used in the previous engagement. Later in the season more new songs would appear including 'Release Me', 'The Wonder of You' and 'See See Rider'.
'Proud Mary' a hit for Creedance Clearwater Revival a year earlier was one of the new additions on 26 January 1970 and would be first heard on the 'On Stage' album. This first nights version is different even to the 'On Stage' version recorded three weeks later but the song would be dropped for the next two seasons before reinstatemant in August 1971 with a new faster arrangement and the omitted verse included akin to On Tour and MSG. Elvis would perform 'Proud Mary' for the final time at the...
published: 18 Jan 2019
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Elvis Presley - Almost In Love - Movie version with remastered RCA audio and original video
The soundtrack of Elvis' 1968 movie "Live A Little, Love A Little" despite containing just four songs was far stronger than just about any movie since probably "Viva Las Vegas" four years earlier and was also far more contemporary. The entire project, as far as the music was concerned, was overseen by Billy Strange and he took Elvis and the music in a completely different direction than the stale banal compositions that Elvis had been presented with at recent movie soundtrack sessions.
"Almost In Love", the only song in the movie even resembling a ballad typified this change in direction with a Elvis backed with a full studio orchestra on record for the first and only time during a standard recording session. Many of the recordings for the '68 Special were also recorded in this way but ...
published: 28 Apr 2018
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Elvis Presley - Never Been To Spain - "Elvis On Tour" Version with RCA audio and original video
Elvis opened his sixth Las Vegas season on 26 January 1972 and the setlist included five new songs and an oldie which would recieve it's first 70's live perform...
Elvis opened his sixth Las Vegas season on 26 January 1972 and the setlist included five new songs and an oldie which would recieve it's first 70's live performance.
The first of the six performed that evening, with Elvis wearing the 'White Pyramid' jumpsuit featured on the cover of the MSG album, was a song which would be synonamous with both MSG and On Tour - Never Been To Spain, a hit for Three Dog Night and written by Hoyt Axton. It was recorded by RCA over two weeks later at seven shows between 14-17 February with the master from 16 Feb MS intended for the abandoned 'Standing Room Only' album. This recording would have to wait for the 70's Masters box set to be officially released which meant the MSG recording was the first to be heard by the public at large but in 2009 Sony would release through the FTD label a two disc album called 'Standing Room Only' including the master of this song with the original concept in mind.
Avalable information suggests that Elvis performed the song regularly throughout 1972 but would only sing it only once after the 18 August Vegas Midnight show, on opening night 19 August 74 when the setlist revamp was attempted. On 24 May 77 in Augusta, Maine, Elvis did start to sing it after 'See See Rider' but gave up after the first line.
https://wn.com/Elvis_Presley_Never_Been_To_Spain_Elvis_On_Tour_Version_With_Rca_Audio_And_Original_Video
Elvis opened his sixth Las Vegas season on 26 January 1972 and the setlist included five new songs and an oldie which would recieve it's first 70's live performance.
The first of the six performed that evening, with Elvis wearing the 'White Pyramid' jumpsuit featured on the cover of the MSG album, was a song which would be synonamous with both MSG and On Tour - Never Been To Spain, a hit for Three Dog Night and written by Hoyt Axton. It was recorded by RCA over two weeks later at seven shows between 14-17 February with the master from 16 Feb MS intended for the abandoned 'Standing Room Only' album. This recording would have to wait for the 70's Masters box set to be officially released which meant the MSG recording was the first to be heard by the public at large but in 2009 Sony would release through the FTD label a two disc album called 'Standing Room Only' including the master of this song with the original concept in mind.
Avalable information suggests that Elvis performed the song regularly throughout 1972 but would only sing it only once after the 18 August Vegas Midnight show, on opening night 19 August 74 when the setlist revamp was attempted. On 24 May 77 in Augusta, Maine, Elvis did start to sing it after 'See See Rider' but gave up after the first line.
- published: 19 Jan 2019
- views: 2922
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Elvis Presley - Steamroller Blues (Live)(1973, Vinyl LP [1986] )
[Elvis Presley – The Legend Lives On: Collectors Edition (7 LP Set), RCA CUSTOM/Reader’s Digest, 1986]
*Bee-Sides Radio does not own nor claim copyright of thi...
[Elvis Presley – The Legend Lives On: Collectors Edition (7 LP Set), RCA CUSTOM/Reader’s Digest, 1986]
*Bee-Sides Radio does not own nor claim copyright of this song/recording.
https://wn.com/Elvis_Presley_Steamroller_Blues_(Live)(1973,_Vinyl_Lp_1986_)
[Elvis Presley – The Legend Lives On: Collectors Edition (7 LP Set), RCA CUSTOM/Reader’s Digest, 1986]
*Bee-Sides Radio does not own nor claim copyright of this song/recording.
- published: 17 Jan 2019
- views: 60
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Elvis Presley - I Got Lucky - movie version with remastered RCA audio and original video
As formulaic as Elvis' movies became many of their screenplays could be traced back to a novel, book or original screenplay which had lay unused in the studio o...
As formulaic as Elvis' movies became many of their screenplays could be traced back to a novel, book or original screenplay which had lay unused in the studio offices for a good few years before being rewritten to suit the basic prerequisites needed for a sixties Elvis Presley movie. One exception however, was the only Elvis movie which was in fact a remake of an older movie and unlike many of the novels on which other Elvis movies found their origins, his 1962 movie "Kid Galahad" bore the same title as the original movie on which it was based.
Comparisons between Elvis' movie and the original black and white 1937 movie begin and end with the title and basic storyline whereas the original was dark and gritty, the version starring Elvis was much lighter in tone and naturally was seen as a musical. The original did have other links to Elvis' movie career however as it was directed by Michael Curtiz who would guide Elvis through "King Creole" and produced by Hollywood legend Hal Wallis who would produce six of Elvis' movies himself.
Both movies also had more than decent casts with the original starring Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis and the 1962 version with Elvis', future Academy Award winner Gig Young, Charles Bronson, Lola Albright and for the second time in as many years alongside Elvis, Joan Blackman.
Although not as good a movie as the original Elvis' "Kid Galahad" is a more than decent watch in which Elvis himself gives a good account of himself and the movie includes one of Elvis' most memorable movie lines with "I'm a grease monkey who won't slide so easily!!". The film also benefits from having just six songs in the body of the movie and none of those suffer from the indiscriminate or inappropriate placing that would be the fate of many songs in future movies.
Five songs however meant that an accompanying soundtrack album was not feasible and so fans had to make do with an EP instead although the songs were pretty good and whilst neither cutting edge of ground breaking did reflect much of the standard studio material that Elvis was recording at the time. When the songs did finally make it onto albums they did so in 1971 were split between two LP's with three released on "C'mon Everybody" and "I Got Lucky" both of which were released on RCA's budget label, Camden.
Whilst the opening song of the movie "King of the Whole Wide World" is probably the strongest of the six the bounciest and most toe tapping is probably "I Got Lucky" which whilst as far from rock 'n' roll as you can get is still a pleasant listen and fits into that part of the film just nicely and is far more infectious to watch and listen rather than just listen to. For the purposes of the movie instead of asking Elvis to record a take with the chorus repeated, the decision was taken to splice the chorus onto the end of the song and this version can only be heard on the movie soundtrack.
Whilst watching the video it is difficult not to chuckle as Joan Blackman constantly struggles with her left dress shoulder strap and it seems that Elvis and Joan sit down of their own accord in order to afford her no embarrassment and it seems that her smile and laugh at the song's conclusion is genuine in the fun that they had filming this scene.
https://wn.com/Elvis_Presley_I_Got_Lucky_Movie_Version_With_Remastered_Rca_Audio_And_Original_Video
As formulaic as Elvis' movies became many of their screenplays could be traced back to a novel, book or original screenplay which had lay unused in the studio offices for a good few years before being rewritten to suit the basic prerequisites needed for a sixties Elvis Presley movie. One exception however, was the only Elvis movie which was in fact a remake of an older movie and unlike many of the novels on which other Elvis movies found their origins, his 1962 movie "Kid Galahad" bore the same title as the original movie on which it was based.
Comparisons between Elvis' movie and the original black and white 1937 movie begin and end with the title and basic storyline whereas the original was dark and gritty, the version starring Elvis was much lighter in tone and naturally was seen as a musical. The original did have other links to Elvis' movie career however as it was directed by Michael Curtiz who would guide Elvis through "King Creole" and produced by Hollywood legend Hal Wallis who would produce six of Elvis' movies himself.
Both movies also had more than decent casts with the original starring Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis and the 1962 version with Elvis', future Academy Award winner Gig Young, Charles Bronson, Lola Albright and for the second time in as many years alongside Elvis, Joan Blackman.
Although not as good a movie as the original Elvis' "Kid Galahad" is a more than decent watch in which Elvis himself gives a good account of himself and the movie includes one of Elvis' most memorable movie lines with "I'm a grease monkey who won't slide so easily!!". The film also benefits from having just six songs in the body of the movie and none of those suffer from the indiscriminate or inappropriate placing that would be the fate of many songs in future movies.
Five songs however meant that an accompanying soundtrack album was not feasible and so fans had to make do with an EP instead although the songs were pretty good and whilst neither cutting edge of ground breaking did reflect much of the standard studio material that Elvis was recording at the time. When the songs did finally make it onto albums they did so in 1971 were split between two LP's with three released on "C'mon Everybody" and "I Got Lucky" both of which were released on RCA's budget label, Camden.
Whilst the opening song of the movie "King of the Whole Wide World" is probably the strongest of the six the bounciest and most toe tapping is probably "I Got Lucky" which whilst as far from rock 'n' roll as you can get is still a pleasant listen and fits into that part of the film just nicely and is far more infectious to watch and listen rather than just listen to. For the purposes of the movie instead of asking Elvis to record a take with the chorus repeated, the decision was taken to splice the chorus onto the end of the song and this version can only be heard on the movie soundtrack.
Whilst watching the video it is difficult not to chuckle as Joan Blackman constantly struggles with her left dress shoulder strap and it seems that Elvis and Joan sit down of their own accord in order to afford her no embarrassment and it seems that her smile and laugh at the song's conclusion is genuine in the fun that they had filming this scene.
- published: 19 Jun 2018
- views: 11063
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Elvis Presley: The RCA Album Collection
This is the 60 CD box set of all Elvis' RCA albums. Hope you enjoy what this box has to offer!
Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn commissions from quali...
This is the 60 CD box set of all Elvis' RCA albums. Hope you enjoy what this box has to offer!
Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. It doesn't cost you anything extra but helps me bring you continued content.
Get yours here: https://amzn.to/2P1D9UP
Follow me on Instagram: @markp.1
#elvispresley #linkindescription
https://wn.com/Elvis_Presley_The_Rca_Album_Collection
This is the 60 CD box set of all Elvis' RCA albums. Hope you enjoy what this box has to offer!
Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. It doesn't cost you anything extra but helps me bring you continued content.
Get yours here: https://amzn.to/2P1D9UP
Follow me on Instagram: @markp.1
#elvispresley #linkindescription
- published: 19 May 2018
- views: 19320
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Elvis Presley - Proud Mary - "Elvis - On Tour" Version with RCA audio and original video
On the opening night of Elvis' second Las Vegas engagement he would introduce TEN new songs, two of which were new singles an another two 50's hits not used in...
On the opening night of Elvis' second Las Vegas engagement he would introduce TEN new songs, two of which were new singles an another two 50's hits not used in the previous engagement. Later in the season more new songs would appear including 'Release Me', 'The Wonder of You' and 'See See Rider'.
'Proud Mary' a hit for Creedance Clearwater Revival a year earlier was one of the new additions on 26 January 1970 and would be first heard on the 'On Stage' album. This first nights version is different even to the 'On Stage' version recorded three weeks later but the song would be dropped for the next two seasons before reinstatemant in August 1971 with a new faster arrangement and the omitted verse included akin to On Tour and MSG. Elvis would perform 'Proud Mary' for the final time at the third show of his August 1974 engagement in Las Vegas at the Midnight Show on 20 August.
This is the version from the 18 April 1972 show at The Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, the last of four shows filmed for the Golden Globe winning documenatry, Elvis - On Tour, with the original MGM footage and audio from RCA's "Close Up" boxset.
https://wn.com/Elvis_Presley_Proud_Mary_Elvis_On_Tour_Version_With_Rca_Audio_And_Original_Video
On the opening night of Elvis' second Las Vegas engagement he would introduce TEN new songs, two of which were new singles an another two 50's hits not used in the previous engagement. Later in the season more new songs would appear including 'Release Me', 'The Wonder of You' and 'See See Rider'.
'Proud Mary' a hit for Creedance Clearwater Revival a year earlier was one of the new additions on 26 January 1970 and would be first heard on the 'On Stage' album. This first nights version is different even to the 'On Stage' version recorded three weeks later but the song would be dropped for the next two seasons before reinstatemant in August 1971 with a new faster arrangement and the omitted verse included akin to On Tour and MSG. Elvis would perform 'Proud Mary' for the final time at the third show of his August 1974 engagement in Las Vegas at the Midnight Show on 20 August.
This is the version from the 18 April 1972 show at The Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, the last of four shows filmed for the Golden Globe winning documenatry, Elvis - On Tour, with the original MGM footage and audio from RCA's "Close Up" boxset.
- published: 18 Jan 2019
- views: 3503
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Elvis Presley - Almost In Love - Movie version with remastered RCA audio and original video
The soundtrack of Elvis' 1968 movie "Live A Little, Love A Little" despite containing just four songs was far stronger than just about any movie since probably ...
The soundtrack of Elvis' 1968 movie "Live A Little, Love A Little" despite containing just four songs was far stronger than just about any movie since probably "Viva Las Vegas" four years earlier and was also far more contemporary. The entire project, as far as the music was concerned, was overseen by Billy Strange and he took Elvis and the music in a completely different direction than the stale banal compositions that Elvis had been presented with at recent movie soundtrack sessions.
"Almost In Love", the only song in the movie even resembling a ballad typified this change in direction with a Elvis backed with a full studio orchestra on record for the first and only time during a standard recording session. Many of the recordings for the '68 Special were also recorded in this way but as they were recorded with the aim for insertion into the special and not specifically for an accompanying album it could be argued that this was anything but a standard recording session. Previous movie songs which contains any type of strings within the movie, more commonly during opening credit sequences, were added at the sound stage in a completely different recording and never actually added to the RCA master recordings and testament to this is that all previous movie soundtrack songs contained no additional backing when released on record and sounded just as they did when recorded in the studio. Subsequent future standard studio recordings, specifically the "Memphis Sessions" and throughout the seventies would be made with only a basic "rhythm group" and orchestral overdubs added to spare channels on the master tapes later in post production overdub sessions.
The orchestral backing to "Almost In Love" is arranged in such a way that it has that almost instantly recognisable late sixties, early seventies feel typical to ,many movie and TV soundtracks of the time and none more obvious than the soft trumpet during the orchestral break and as such the "cocktail jazz" feel makes this song feel more dated than any of the other three. None of this however should detract from what is a superb vocal performance by Elvis who, regardless of the standard of the movie, is obviously enjoying getting his teeth into a decent soundtrack for a change.
The song, written by Luiz Bonfá and Randy Starr went through a rather strange recording process with Elvis trialling the recording in three different keys on 7 March 1968 and returned to the studio four days later to re-record his vocal and take three of the low-key version was chosen as the RCA master and released on single but the Camden album version had the intro edited on release. For insertion into the movie MGM took the RCA Stereo master and converted it into a mono version.
https://wn.com/Elvis_Presley_Almost_In_Love_Movie_Version_With_Remastered_Rca_Audio_And_Original_Video
The soundtrack of Elvis' 1968 movie "Live A Little, Love A Little" despite containing just four songs was far stronger than just about any movie since probably "Viva Las Vegas" four years earlier and was also far more contemporary. The entire project, as far as the music was concerned, was overseen by Billy Strange and he took Elvis and the music in a completely different direction than the stale banal compositions that Elvis had been presented with at recent movie soundtrack sessions.
"Almost In Love", the only song in the movie even resembling a ballad typified this change in direction with a Elvis backed with a full studio orchestra on record for the first and only time during a standard recording session. Many of the recordings for the '68 Special were also recorded in this way but as they were recorded with the aim for insertion into the special and not specifically for an accompanying album it could be argued that this was anything but a standard recording session. Previous movie songs which contains any type of strings within the movie, more commonly during opening credit sequences, were added at the sound stage in a completely different recording and never actually added to the RCA master recordings and testament to this is that all previous movie soundtrack songs contained no additional backing when released on record and sounded just as they did when recorded in the studio. Subsequent future standard studio recordings, specifically the "Memphis Sessions" and throughout the seventies would be made with only a basic "rhythm group" and orchestral overdubs added to spare channels on the master tapes later in post production overdub sessions.
The orchestral backing to "Almost In Love" is arranged in such a way that it has that almost instantly recognisable late sixties, early seventies feel typical to ,many movie and TV soundtracks of the time and none more obvious than the soft trumpet during the orchestral break and as such the "cocktail jazz" feel makes this song feel more dated than any of the other three. None of this however should detract from what is a superb vocal performance by Elvis who, regardless of the standard of the movie, is obviously enjoying getting his teeth into a decent soundtrack for a change.
The song, written by Luiz Bonfá and Randy Starr went through a rather strange recording process with Elvis trialling the recording in three different keys on 7 March 1968 and returned to the studio four days later to re-record his vocal and take three of the low-key version was chosen as the RCA master and released on single but the Camden album version had the intro edited on release. For insertion into the movie MGM took the RCA Stereo master and converted it into a mono version.
- published: 28 Apr 2018
- views: 15389