Tag: Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley – Live 1969 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 13:15:35 minutes | 16,2 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

Christmas day is every day for Elvis fans! As if the royal archives were a well that never dries up. If you thought they’d about run out of unpublished material, Legacy Recordings are out with new rarities like a magician playing some sort of bunny-in-the-hat trick. On the menu of Summer 2019, this wild Live 1969, a giant box set (216 tracks!) celebrating the 50 years of Elvis’ concerts at the Las Vegas International Hotel. After eight years in the shadows, the King was back on stage for 57 sold out concerts! During one of these shows, he was backed by the Imperials and the Sweet Inspirations for backing vocals, and musician-wise, a large orchestra as well as a group which would become the TCB Band later on. This is when he would sing the mythical Suspicious Minds for the first time live.

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Elvis Presley – Elvis’ Christmas Album (1957/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:34 minutes | 442 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | ©  RCA Victor

Elvis’ 1957 original Christmas album is one of his most inspired early outings and the first time he tackled anything resembling a thematic concept. Split evenly between rockers and bluesy numbers like “Santa Claus Is Back in Town,” “Blue Christmas,” and “Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me,” perennials like “White Christmas,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” and “Silent Night,” and straight-ahead gospel favorites like “I Believe,” “Peace in the Valley” and “Take My Hand, Precious Lord,” the disc revealed a different side of the rocker for the first time on a public instead conditioned to expect something outrageous. One of the King’s shining moments, this is quite simply still one of the best holiday albums available. ~ Cub Koda

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Elvis Presley – Back In Memphis (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:06 minutes | 686 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Front Cover | © RCA Victor – Legacy

Originally the second LP of the two-LP 1969 opus “From Memphis To Vegas/From Vegas To Memphis”, “Back In Memphis”, released on its own in November 1970, is the second part of Elvis’ hugely successful sojourn to Chips Moman’s American Studios that also yielded the classic “From Elvis In Memphis” during the summer of 1969.

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Elvis Presley – Spinout (1966/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:28 minutes | 633 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

The new soundtrack album, cut at Radio Recorders in Hollywood just months before the regenerative Nashville sessions, was as notable for its upbeat attitude as for its songs. For the first time in a long time Elvis seemed actively engaged by the prospect of making music for a movie, and it translated into the playing of the usual complement of top Nashville and L.A. session men. A not-inconsiderable bonus was two tracks taken from the May Nashville sessions, with a third coming from a follow-up session in June. Each stood out in a different way: there was a raucous, down-and-dirty version of the Clovers’ “Down In The Alley”; the beautifully rendered Hawaiian classic, “I’ll Remember You”; and, in a show of genuine eclecticism that offered a hint of things to come, a tender interpretation of Bob Dylan’s “Tomorrow Is A Long Time,” which Elvis had picked up from an Odetta album. His new LP sold well over 300,000 copies, a significant improvement over the last two soundtracks.

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Elvis Presley – Christmas with Elvis and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra {Deluxe Edition} (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz  | Time – 50:49 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

RCA Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalogue division of Sony Music Entertainment, celebrate the 2017 holiday season with the release of “Elvis Presley: Christmas With Elvis And The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra”. The album brings together Elvis Presley’s best-loved performances from ‘Elvis’ Christmas Album’ (1957) and ‘Elvis Sings The Wonderful World Of Christmas’ (1971) re-imagined with sublime and exquisite new arrangements performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This Deluxe Edition features four bonus tracks (The Peace In The Valley EP).

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Elvis Presley – Where No One Stands Alone (Remastered) (1967/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz  | Time – 44:07 minutes | 842 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Victor – Legacy

Groundbreaking new Elvis album features 14 original performances of gospel songs with newly-recorded instrumentation and backing vocals featuring legendary Presley alumnae including Darlene Love, Cissy Houston, The Imperials and The Stamps. “Since I was two years old”, Elvis Presley once said, “all I knew was gospel music. It became such a part of my life, it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape my problems, and my way of release.” It was gospel music that most ferociously stoked his musical passions, even as his unique synthesis of country, popular and rhythm and blues styles made him an idol to millions around the world.

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Elvis Presley – Promised Land (1975/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:51 minutes | 588 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Front Cover | © RCA Records
Recorded: December 10–15, 1973, Memphis, Tennessee

Promised Land is a 1975 album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley on RCA Records. It was recorded in December 1973 at Stax Records studios in Memphis and released on Presley’s 40th birthday. The material was the second pick from the December 1973 session, as the songs considered strongest had been issued on Good Times. The title track, a cover of the 1965 hit by Chuck Berry, was issued earlier as a single on September 27, 1974, and hit number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK top ten. Its flip side, “Its Midnight”, reached 9 on the Country Charts. Another hit single from the album was “If You Talk in Your Sleep” reaching 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the US the album only reached number 47 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, but reached 1 in Billboard’s Top Country LPs chart. The album also reached 1 in the Country Cashbox albums chart. In the UK the album reached #21.

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Elvis Presley – Raised on Rock / For Ol’ Times Sake (1973/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:57 minutes | 571 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Front Cover | © RCA Records
Recorded: July 21–24, 1973, Stax Studios, Memphis; September 22–23, 1973, Elvis Presley’s Residence, Palm Springs, California

Raised on Rock / For Ol’ Times Sake is a studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley released in 1973. Along with the album Elvis, it was released after the massive success of Aloha From Hawaii (although the entire Elvis album contained material recorded before the Aloha show). The album, which sold over one million copies worldwide, was recorded at Stax Studios in Memphis, Tennessee in July 1973 and at Presley’s home in Palm Springs, California in September 1973. Two songs from these sessions would be retained for release on the Good Times album the following spring. The initial vocal tracks were recorded in July 1973. “Raised on Rock” backed by “For Ol’ Times Sake” was the only single released from the album, reaching #41 on the Billboard chart and #42 on the Country chart in September 1973.
The album was one of the few that failed to chart in the United Kingdom, but the single “Raised on Rock / For Ol’ Times Sake” did enter the British charts. Some of the songs are well known covers like “Are You Sincere” which had been around for many years, but some new songs like the lead off single were written for Presley, or written by writers he had previously recorded, such as Mark James. The title single, “Raised on Rock,” has been noted by historians such as Roy Carr and Mick Farren in Elvis: The Illustrated Record as odd lyrically, as Presley sings in first person about being a child and discovering rock and roll through records such as “Johnny B. Goode” when Presley was a contemporary of the artists he cites.

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Elvis Presley – On Stage (1970/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:52 minutes | 693 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Front Cover | © RCA Records
Recorded: February 17–19, 1970, International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

On Stage is an Elvis Presley live album mostly recorded between February 17 and 19, 1970 at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, and released on RCA Records LSP-4362. It was an immediate follow up to From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis, which also featured live recordings. Unlike the previous release, however, this album focused on songs that were not, at the time, associated with Elvis. This album was released in June 1970 and reached number 13 on both the Billboard 200 and country music charts. It was certified Gold on February 23, 1971, and Platinum on July 15, 1999, by the Recording Industry Association of America.
It features the worldwide number one single “The Wonder of You”, which topped both the United States Adult Contemporary tracks chart and the British music chart. Other selections include “See See Rider”, “Yesterday”, Tony Joe White’s “Polk Salad Annie”, Del Shannon’s “Runaway”, and a version of “Let It Be Me”. “See See Rider” would go on to become Elvis’ frequent introductory number at his concerts up to his last performance at the (now defunct) Market Square Arena in Indianapolis Indiana on June 26, 1977, while “Polk Salad Annie” also became a regular part of his repertoire. The album is notable for not showing Elvis’ name anywhere on the cover.

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