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40th Anniversary 2CD Edition of Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis Available March 18th

RCA/Legacy Recordings Set to Release 40th Anniversary 2CD Edition of Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis, the King of Rock’s Triumphant 1974 Hometown Return Concert

 

Newly Remastered Album Includes All Concert Tracks Not Included on Original Vinyl

 

2nd Disc Premieres Previously Unreleased MONO “Test Run” of Entire Concert Recorded with a Live Audience at the Richmond Coliseum on March 18, 1974

 

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RCA Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis with an expanded 2CD release of the monumental concert experience featuring tracks left off the original album (because of the spatial limitations of vinyl) plus a wealth of previously unreleased material.  Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis will be available on Tuesday, March 18, 2014.

 

The 40th Anniversary Edition of Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis may be preordered on Amazon (http://smarturl.it/elvis_ERLOSIM_amzn).

 

Disc 2 of the newly remastered expanded Legacy Edition of Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis presents for the first time a recently located recording of Elvis’ complete concert “test run” held for an ecstatic live audience on March 18, 1974, two days before his historic concert return to Memphis, where he’d last played live in 1961.  The remarkable “test run” performance was recorded in MONO, drenched in the reverb Elvis preferred, and provides new insight into the magic of Elvis.

 

As a special added bonus for Elvis aficionados, Disc 2 of Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis includes five intimate tracks (three of them previously unreleased) cut at the RCA Studios in Hollywood on August 16, 1974. Originally intended as reference recordings for an upcoming Las Vegas engagement, the performances—which include “Down In The Alley,” “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues,” “Softly As I Leave You,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “The Twelfth Of Never”—-provide a rare fly-on-the-wall glimpse into Elvis’ consummate backstage artistry as he prepares these songs for concert.

 

The musicians backing Elvis on Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis include James Burton and John Wilkinson (guitars); Charlie Hodge (guitar and vocals); Duke Bardwell (bass); Ronnie Tutt (drums); Glen D. Hardin (piano); The Sweet Inspirations, J.D. Sumner & The Stamps, Kathy Westmoreland (vocals) with Joe Guercio and his Orchestra.

 

Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis will include a 24 page booklet featuring rare photos, previously unseen memorabilia, new liner notes, press clips and more.

 

Following the artistic success of his 1973 Stax sessions and the global phenomenon of the Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite album and broadcast the same year, Elvis opened 1974 with a 15 city tour routed to end in Memphis and a state-of-the-art concert recording.

 

“I wanted to record a live session in my hometown of Memphis,” said Elvis at the time.  “After all, this is where it all started out for me.”

 

Originally released on vinyl on July 7, 1974, Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis reached #1 on the Country charts and featured “How Great Thou Art,” the track that would bring Elvis his third (and third Gospel) Grammy win.

 

Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis

 

Disc 1

 

The Memphis “Homecoming” Concert

 

Also Sprach Zarathustra

See See Rider

I Got A Woman/Amen

Love Me

Trying To Get To You

All Shook Up (not included on original album)

Steamroller Blues (not included on original album)

Teddy Bear-Don’t Be Cruel (not included on original album)

Love Me Tender (not included on original album)

Long Tall Sally-Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On-Mama Don’t Dance-Flip, Flop And Fly-Jailhouse Rock-Hound Dog

Fever (not included on original album)

Polk Salad Annie (not included on original album)

Why Me Lord

How Great Thou Art

Suspicious Minds (not included on original album)

Introductions (not included on original album)

Help Me

An American Trilogy

Let Me Be There

My Baby Left Me

Lawdy, Miss Clawdy (not included on original album)

Funny How Time Slips Away (not included on original album)

Can’t Help Falling In Love

Closing Vamp

 

Recorded live March 20, 1974 at the Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee

 

Disc 2

The Richmond “Test Run” Concert – previously unreleased

Also Sprach Zarathustra

See See Rider

I Got A Woman/Amen

Love Me

Trying To Get To You

All Shook Up

Steamroller Blues

Teddy Bear-Don’t Be Cruel

Love Me Tender

Long Tall Sally-Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On-Mama Don’t Dance-Flip, Flop And Fly-Jailhouse Rock-Hound Dog

Fever

Polk Salad Annie

Why Me Lord

How Great Thou Art

Suspicious Minds

Introductions

Help Me

An American Trilogy

Let Me Be There

My Baby Left Me

Lawdy, Miss Clawdy

Funny How Time Slips Away

Can’t Help Falling In Love

Closing Vamp

 

Recorded live March 18, 1974 at the Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, Virginia

 

The August 1974 RCA Rehearsal

Down In The Alley (previously unreleased)

Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues (previously unreleased)

Softly As I Leave You

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (previously unreleased)

The Twelfth Of Never