Tag: Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley – The King Of Western Bop! (The Original Louisiana Hayride Recordings) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:39 minutes | 474 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Complete collection of all tracks Elvis recorded for the Louisiana Hayride radio show between 1954 to 1956. All track are remastered and include restored & more complete versions than before.

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Elvis Presley – The Complete 1954-1962 USA Singles (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:57:48 minutes | 2,25 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Crazy Warthog Media

“Elvis: The Complete 1954-62 U.S.A. Singles” is a curious release, from an independent British label, issued in 2015. It’s like a mini-boxed set, comprising 4 CDs. The 100 tracks – 25 on each disc – are, according to the sleeve notes, Elvis’s “complete 1954-62 American singles, presented here in the order in which they were issued, as well as all of his American EPs from the same period”.

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Elvis Presley – Blue Hawaii (1961/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:21 minutes | 706 MB | Genre: Rock, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

“Blue Hawaii” was released in 1961 and is the soundtrack to Presley’s film of the same name. It spent 20 weeks at #1 and 39 weeks in the Top 10 on the US Top Pop Albums Chart, and was certified Gold in December 1961, and 3x Platinum by 2002. It is second only to the soundtrack of “West Side Story” as the most successful album of the 1960s.

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Elvis Presley – The Complete U.S Singles 1954-1962 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:07 minutes | 963 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Elvis Aaron Presley[a] (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known simply as Elvis, was an American singer, musician and actor. He is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century and is often referred to as the “King of Rock and Roll” or simply “the King”. During the last years of his life he accepted the Islamic faith and died a Muslim. His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, led him to great success—and initial controversy.

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Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:56 minutes | 860 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Elvis Aaron Presley[a] (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known simply as Elvis, was an American singer, musician and actor. He is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century and is often referred to as the “King of Rock and Roll” or simply “the King”. His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, led him to great success—and initial controversy.

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Elvis Presley – From Elvis In Nashville (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:25:54 minutes | 5,35 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Victor – Legacy

Elvis Presley‘s 1970 sessions in Nashville are gathered for release in a new four-CD set, From Elvis in Nashville.

The King’s first recordings of the 1970s saw him cut loose live in the studio with a band in sync with his sensibility. Recorded live in RCA’s Studio B in Nashville over the course of a five day/night run in June (there was also an additional session on 22 September), Elvis’ performances from those sessions formed the core of the albums Elvis: That’s the Way It Is, Elvis Country (I’m 10,000 Years Old) and Love Letters from Elvis.

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Elvis Presley – If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:47 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front cover | © RCA – Legacy

If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a remarkable new album featuring classic Elvis vocal performances with brand-new orchestral accompaniment, along with a duet with Michael Bublé on Fever. An exciting revisit of Elvis’ work, ‘If I Can Dream’ focuses on the iconic artist’s unmistakable voice, emphasising the pure power of The King of Rock and Roll. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, the 14-track album features Elvis’ most dramatic original performances augmented with lush new arrangements by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. “This would be a dream come true for Elvis,” Priscilla Presley says of the project. “He would have loved to play with such a prestigious symphony orchestra. The music…the force that you feel with his voice and the orchestra is exactly what he would have done.”

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Elvis Presley – A Date With Elvis (Mono Remastered) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:42 minutes | 288 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Good products are worth their weight in gold when times are a little harsh – and this album was certainly a genially placed stopgap. In 1959, at the time when RCA launched this record on the market, the label’s shining rock star was out of the country doing his military service in good old Germany. In order to comfort all his fans during his forced absence, the record bosses produced an album with a smartly uniformed Elvis on the cover, smiling widely to let his faithful followers know that he’d be back soon. There was a special calendar too, so that his fans could count off the days until his return. This marketing ploy was extremely successful. The record became a highly desirable collector’s item and even years later illegal dollars still flowed from pirate copies.

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Elvis Presley – The Hillbilly Cat! (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:03 minutes | 700 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

The story of Elvis Presley’s discovery begins with a shy, 18-year-old Elvis entering a recording studio in 1953 to cut two songs on an acetate disk at a cost of four dollars. The Memphis Recording Service was owned and operated by Sam Phillips, who had been recording rhythm-and-blues artists since 1950. By the time Elvis came to the recording studio, Sam Phillips was known as Memphis’ most important independent record producer. He had opened Sun Records in 1952 to record both rhythm-and-blues (R&B) singers and country-western artists.

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Elvis Presley – Elvis Sings The Wonderful World Of Christmas (1971/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:14 minutes | 740 MB | Genre: Christmas/Holiday
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Front Cover | © RCA Victor/Legacy

Elvis Sings the Wonderful World of Christmas is the King of Rock & Roll giving it the old ho-ho-ho for his fans, circa 1971. As can be expected of later Elvis, he’s at his best when he slows down and lets the profound nuance of his voice wrap itself around the material. “The First Noel,” “Silver Bells,” “Blue Christmas,” and “It Won’t Seem Like Christmas (Without You)” are among the highlights. At 12 tracks, it’s also more generous than many of the repackages where albums were trimmed to eight or nine songs.

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