Elvis Presley - Memories: The '68 Comeback Special
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Artist: Elvis PresleyEdition: Music CD
Format: Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-10-13
Music Label: Bmg / Elvis
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Trouble/Guitar Man
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Hound Dog
- All Shook Up
- Can't Help Falling In Love
- Jailhouse Rock
- Don't Be Cruel
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Love Me Tender
- Baby What You Want Me To Do
- Trouble/Guitar Man
- Gospel Medley: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child/Where Could I Go But To The Lord/Up Above...
- Memories
- A Little Less Conversation
- Road Medley: Nothingville/Big Boss Man/Let Yourself Go/It Hurts Me/Guitar Man/Little Egypt/Trouble
- If I Can Dream
- When It Rains, It Really Pours
- Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
- Baby What You Want Me To Do
- That's All Right
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Love Me
- Baby What You Want Me To Do
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Baby What You Want Me To Do
- Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
- Are You Lonesome Tonight?
- When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
- Blue Christmas
- Trying To Get To You
- One Night
- Baby What You Want Me To Do
- One Night
- Memories
- If I Can Dream
Music reviews of Memories: The '68 Comeback Special
Music Review: Comeback? More Like A Resurrection
Rating: 5 Stars
To say that Elvis' 1968 NBC-TV special was a "comeback" would be kind of understating the matter. The truth is that it was more like an out-and-out resurrection. For much of the 1960s, the man they call the King was being overtaken by younger disciples like the Beatles, while he was forced by his penny-wise, pound-foolish Colonel of a manager to make largely appalling B-movies that destroyed his considerable potential as an actor--that and the equally appalling songs he had to do in those films that almost ran his music career into the ground. He had begun to make strides back toward his roots earlier in 1968 with "Guitar Man" and "U.S. Male"; but it was indeed that TV special that sealed the deal.
And the soundtrack taken from that landmark show gives us the proof that Elvis could bring himself back from B-movie Purgatory and to the top once more. Encouraged by the show's director Steve Binder to be the "real Elvis", rather than the Colonel's puppet on a string, Elvis got back together with his good friends Scotty Moore and D.C. Fontana to resurrect the "good old days" of "Heartbreak Hotel", "Trying To Get To You", and many other groundbreaking 1950s masterpieces in what would later be deemed "Unplugged" territory. This is music that, in the words of rock music critic Greil Marcus, bleeds; and Elvis was clearly enjoying himself. But there was even more. Not merely content to just revive old standbys, the King gives us the Mac Davis-penned ballad "Memories", one of his best vocals (and, strangely, only a #35 hit in April 1969).
And as it was June 1968 when he did this project, right after the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, Elvis, defying the Colonel's plot to do this whole thing as a Christmas special, went ahead and poured everything he had into the inspirational "If I Can Dream", which, in reaching #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 just a few weeks after the special had aired, became the man's biggest hit since 1965's "Crying In The Chapel." The album, meanwhile, hit #8 on the Billboard Album Chart, laying the foundation for his Memphis and Nashville albums of the next few years, and showing that he was still a vital force.
Listening to this recording, as it was with many of Elvis' late-era albums, it is hard not to feel a certain sense of melancholia amidst the triumph. He never stopped trying his damnedest to make great music or give his all and then some (witness Madison Square Garden in 1972, and ALOHA FROM HAWAII in 1973), but the Colonel's bizarre decision to make him basically a Vegas lounge act in the 1970s made even less artistic sense (if that's possible) than the B-movies of the 1960s did; and this routine, combined with the excesses to which Elvis was all too prone, went lethal on him on August 16, 1977.
But for all his faults, there's no denying that when he was doing what God put him here to do, Elvis could not be beat. And this recording, plus the special to which it was attached, is proof of that. Long live the one and only true King.
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