Elvis Presley - Elvis 75-Good Rockin' Tonight
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Artist: Elvis PresleyBrand: TCM
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2009-12-08
Model: 886976062521
Music Label: Sony Legacy
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- My Happiness
- That's All Right
- Blue Moon Of Kentucky
- Good Rockin' Tonight
- Baby Let's Play House
- Mystery Train
- I Forgot To Remember To Forget
- I Got A Woman
- Heartbreak Hotel
- I Was The One
- Blue Suede Shoes
- My Baby Left Me
- One-Sided Love Affair
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You)
- Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
- I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
- Hound Dog
- Don't Be Cruel
- Love Me Tender
- Love Me
- Paralyzed
- Too Much
- All Shook Up
- Mean Woman Blues
- (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)
- (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
- One Night
- Jailhouse Rock
- Treat Me Nice
- Blue Christmas
- Don't
- Hard Headed Woman
- Trouble
- King Creole
- Wear My Ring Around Your Neck
- I Need Your Love Tonight
- A Big Hunk O' Love
- (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I
- Stuck On You
- A Mess Of Blues
- It's Now Or Never
- Thrill Of Your Love
- Such A Night
- Are You Lonesome Tonight?
- Reconsider Baby
- Doin' The Best I Can
- Pocketful Of Rainbows
- Surrender
- Crying In The Chapel
- I Feel So Bad
- There's Always Me
- Judy
- Can't Help Falling In Love
- (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame
- Little Sister
- Good Luck Charm
- Suspicion
- She's Not You
- Return To Sender
- Bossa Nova Baby
- (You're The) Devil In Disguise
- (It's A) Long Lonely Highway
- I Need Somebody To Lean On
- Viva Las Vegas
- It Hurts Me
- This Is My Heaven
- Adam And Evil
- How Great Thou Art
- Tomorrow Is A Long Time
- Guitar Man
- Big Boss Man
- Too Much Monkey Business
- U.S. Male
- If I Can Dream
- Memories
- Don't Cry Daddy
- In The Ghetto
- Suspicious Minds
- Stranger In My Own Home Town
- Kentucky Rain
- Only The Strong Survive
- Polk Salad Annie
- The Fool
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
- I Just Can't Help Believin'
- I'm Leavin'
- An American Trilogy
- Burning Love
- Always On My Mind
- Steamroller Blues
- Loving Arms
- Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues
- Promised Land
- T-R-O-U-B-L-E
- For The Heart
- Hurt
- Way Down
- Unchained Melody
- A Little Less Conversation (JXL Radio Remix Edit)
Music reviews of Elvis 75-Good Rockin' Tonight
Music Review: 4-CD anthology shines as brightly as a King's crown
Rating: 5 Stars
Elvis was not only the king of Rock `n' Roll (Little Richard's claim on the crown notwithstanding), but in his afterlife he has also become the undisputed king of reissues and anthologies. RCA's four-CD set, spanning from his earliest self-funded acetates through late home recordings and live sides, his last major studio works and a post-mortem remix, offers no new tracks for Presley's legions of collectors, but provides a superb introduction and deep overview for anyone who's heard about, rather than heard, the King. Those who know a few hits or have sat through an Elvis movie or two will find the greatness of his musical catalog measures up to the hype and explains the dedication of his most ardent fans.
Collected here are one hundred tracks, beginning with Presley's very first recording, "My Happiness," waxed on his own dime as a gift for his mother. His earliest commercial sides show how he forged hillbilly, blues and country roots into his personal strand of rock `n' roll, first for Sun with Scotty Moore and Bill Black, and then, with the addition of D.J. Fontana on drums and A-list guests like Floyd Cramer and Chet Atkins, for RCA. These early works aren't so much primitive as they are elemental - the lack of production pomp or circumstance presents Elvis as an unadorned and raw rock `n' roll spirit. The addition of a backing vocal trio, as can first be heard on 1956's "I Was the One," showed a crooning side of Elvis that would continue to reappear even as he continued to explore rockabilly and blues.
From the 50s through the 70s Elvis moved through a variety of producer's hands and a number of different studios, and got something different from each. His studio recordings took him from Memphis to Nashville, north to New York, west to Hollywood, back to Nashville where he worked in RCA's legendary Studio B and back to Memphis for his legendary late-60s sessions at Chip Moman's American Studios. By the early `70s, on the heels of his televised comeback special, Elvis once again became a live draw, and selected sides find him in Las Vegas, Honolulu and on the road in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Elvis waxed his share of clunkers, but with each new direction and in each new setting he seemed to record something worthwhile, and producer Ernst Mikael Jorgensen has done a masterful job of picking highlights.
More importantly, Jorgensen has intermixed iconic hits with lesser known singles and album tracks, showing the depth of Elvis' artistry and the catalog he created. Elvis often overwhelmed the charts with hit singles, leaving terrific performances such as the energized "One-Sided Love Affair," a bluesy cover of Lloyd Price's "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" and the gospel "Thrill of Your Love" to languish as album tracks. Even more surprising is a 1962 version of "Suspicion" that pre-dates Terry Stafford's hit by two years. Elvis' soundtracks included their share of dregs, particularly as the `60s wore on, but they also included hits and great album tracks like a scorching version of "Trouble" from King Creole and bluesy covers of Dylan's "Tomorrow is a Long Time" from Spinout and Jimmy Reed's "Big Boss Man" from Clambake.
While other artists reinvented themselves to fit the times, Elvis bent the times around himself (excepting "Yoga is as Yoga Does," thankfully not included here), staying true to his voice as everything around him changed. His producers, songwriters, and musicians kept turning over, but in the center of it all Elvis sang a surprisingly straight line from '53 to `77. Even as his voice matured and the productions were influenced by his Vegas stage show, the fire in his delivery remained. Whether singing rock, blues, country, soul, pop or gospel, his performances found a true line stretched from the Sun sessions through RCA studios in Nashville, New York and Hollywood, a stint in the army, a catalog of often mediocre films, his 1968 resurrection, a triumphant return to Memphis, and country sessions that brought him back to his roots.
For many listeners, disc four will be the least familiar. Covering 1970 through 1977, these selections find Elvis' singles charting lower, but still delivering the goods. Only "Burning Love" made the top-5, and his other top-10 from that stretch, "The Wonder of You," is not included. "An American Trilogy," is at once bombastic and utterly show-stopping, his version of "Always on My Mind" made the country charts but should have found cross-over success before Willie Nelson ten years later, and his last single, "Way Down," though given to `70s production sounds, finds his gospel fervor undimmed. The beat heavy remix of "A Little Less Conversation" that closes the set shows just how easily Elvis' voice could slide into new contexts (the original film performance from Live a Little, Love a Little is worth searching out on DVD, by the way). These hundred tracks aren't a complete run through every Elvis highlight, but they tell the entire arc of his musical career in a compelling and thorough way.
The box includes an 80-page booklet that features a biographical essay by Billy Altman, numerous photos, reproductions of original record labels, covers and picture sleeves, movie posters, master tape boxes, and detailed recording, chart and personnel data. RCA/Legacy is releasing a companion 26-track single disc that cherry-picks this box, and though it may prove useful as a guide to further Elvis purchases, it doesn't provide the compelling, detailed portrait of this four-disc set. With more Elvis 75th-birthday anniversary reissues on the way (and a terrific 2-CD version of From Elvis in Memphis already out) you may be tempted to put together your own collection, but you'd have a hard time assembling a more compelling introduction than this box. [©2009 hyperbolium dot com]
Description of Elvis 75-Good Rockin' Tonight
Here is a glittering collection fit for a king -- in this case, the undisputed, Once and Future King of Rock 'n' Roll. To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the birth of Elvis Aaron Presley, Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight is the definitive retrospective, a remastered Hot 100 of Elvis classics in one beautifully-packaged four-CD boxed set.
Spanning the breadth of Presley's monumental, rags-to-riches career, Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight presents an artist who exploded in the mid-1950s, when he shook up a buttoned-down world with his mold-breaking music, not to mention his sideburns, swiveling hips, flamboyant wardrobe, and raw sexuality. Until his death at 42 in 1977, he would move from rockabilly, rhythm and blues, bluegrass, and rock 'n' roll to country, pop, gospel, and even to light operatic fare to become one of the greatest and most-beloved entertainers the world has ever known. He would also sell several hundred million records.
This definitive set has the chart-topping hits, numbers from his movies, deep cuts from various gold and platinum albums, and exciting in-concert performances. Featuring rare photographs and an incisive essay by respected music writer Billy Altman, ELVIS 75 repeatedly demonstrates that, to paraphrase one of his more famous album titles, 50,000,000 Elvis fans -- and counting -- can't be wrong.
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