FROM MEMPHIS TO VEGAS STEREO DOUBLE VINYL LP,ALBUM,ELVIS PRESLEY,1970,NEAR MINT
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Mar 18, 2019 Sold Date
Apr 8, 2017 Start Date
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*SHIPPED TRACKED WORLDWIDE FOR SECURITY.

*THIS IS MY OWN ORIGINAL U.K 1970 FIRST ISSUE DOUBLE STEREO ALBUM THAT I RECEIVED AS A GIFT WAY BACK THEN.

*ALTHOUGH THE SET WAS RELEASED IN 1969 THE STEREO EDITION DID NOT SURFACE UNTIL 1970 IN THE U.K

*SF8090/81

*ITS IN LOVELY CONDITION AND I HAVE REALLY TAKEN CARE OF THE WHOLE ITEM

*PRESLEY HAD MADE A REMARKABLE COMEBACK SINCE 1968 AND ON THIS ALBUMS RELEASE WAS THE BIGGEST SELLING ARTIST IN 1970 AND THIS WAS NOT ON PAST EFFORTS BUT 1970 RECORD SALES.

*THIS WAS A DOUBLE ALBUM WITH THE OFFICIAL TITLE OF "FROM MEMPHIS TO VEGAS,FROM VEGAS TO MEMPHIS".THIS WAS MEANT TO SHOW THAT AFTER ELVIS' LAST ALBUM "FROM ELVIS IN MEMPHIS" ELVIS HAD GONE FROM THE MEMPHIS STUDIO'S TO VEGAS [WHICH HE HAD ] AND THEN BACK TO MEMPHIS TO RECORD THE SECOND ALBUM OF THIS SET IN MEMPHIS.NOT TRUE-----ELVIS CUT THE SECOND ALBUM THE SAME TIME AS HE CUT "FROM ELVIS IN MEMPHIS"

*THE FIRST ALBUM OF THIS DOUBLE SET "FROM MEMPHIS TO VEGAS" WERE CUT LIVE AT THE INTERNATIONAL HOTEL IN VEGAS IN JULY/AUGUST 1969.

*PRESLEY STATES THAT THIS WAS HIS FIRST LIVE APPEARANCE IN NINE YEARS.IT WAS ACTUALLY EIGHT.HE LAST APPEARED LIVE IN 1961 IN MEMPHIS AND HAWAII.HE HAD RECORDED A T.V SHOW IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE IN 1968 BUT THIS OF COURSE COULD BE EDITED.

*STAND OUT TRACKS ON THIS LIVE ALBUM WERE PRESLEYS COVERS OF CHUCK BERRYS "JOHNNY B GOODE" LITTLE WALTERS BLUESY " MY BABE" AND THE LIVE VERSION OF "SUSPICIOUS MINDS". THE SHOW WAS A STAGGERING SUCCESS.

BLUE SUEDE SHOES----JOHNNY B GOODE----ALL SHOOK UP-----ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT-----HOUND DOG------I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU----MY BABE----MYSTERY TRAIN/TIGER MAN------WORDS-------IN THE GHETTO----SUSPICIOUS MINDS-----CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE.

THE SECOND ALBUM FROM VEGAS TO MEMPHIS WAS CUT TOTALLY IN THE STUDIO AT AMERICAN STUDIO'S MEMPHISIT WAS BEAUTIFULLY RECORDED AND STANDOUT TRACKS HAD TO BE "STRANGER IN MY OWN HOME TOWN" A FIREY PIECE OF BLUES, "THE FAIRS MOVING ON" CONSIDERED ALMOST NAFF THEN BUT A LOVELY COUNTRY BALLAD AND "WITHOUT LOVE" ALMOST A GOSPEL SOUNDING BALLAD WHICH TOM JONES RELEASED AS A SINGLE.

INHERIT THE WIND----THIS IS THE STORY----STRANGER IN MY OWN HOME TOWN----A LITTLE BIT OF GREEN----AND THE GRASS WON'T PAY NO MIND---DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?----FROM A JACK TO A KING----THE FAIRS MOVING ON-----YOU'LL THINK OF ME----WITHOUT LOVE


 

 

 

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