Sunday, November 14, 2010

November 14 - Touchdown!

The Touchdown Productions import label announced the release of their second CD; "All In A Blaze" featuring the complete and former unreleased show from December 12, 1975 in Las Vegas. 


The source for this audience recording release is new and of excellent quality, as the source was a first copy of the master tape, according to the release. This time the CD comes with a 16-page booklet with lots of rare and seldom seen pictures from Elvis first pre-holiday engagement in Vegas in 1975.


Viva Charts


The "Viva Elvis" debuted at #45 on this week's ARIA (Australia) album chart. In addition to "Viva Elvis", "The King" re-enters the chart at #70. In the U.K., "Viva Elvis" debuts at #19 (with 14088 copies sold) while Down Under in Australia the album debuted at #45 (with 1,231 copies sold) on the Australian Album Chart.



Ernst Jørgensen In Record Collector



Ken Sharp dide an interview with Ernst Jørgensen for Record Collector. Look out for the December issue!

For those eternal pessimists who say dreams don’t come true, they’re dead wrong, as long-time Elvis Presley compilation producer and music historian Ernst Mikael Jorgensen will proudly attest. Years in the works, The Complete Elvis Presley Masters (Sony/ Legacy) is the stunning result of one man’s dream.

A limited-numbered edition of 1,000, the 30-CD box set is the long-awaited comprehensive survey of Presley’s entire recorded work, presenting all 711 masters in chronological order and enhanced with the welcome addition of 103 essential rarities ranging from alternate takes (Blue Moon Of Kentucky and Shake, Rattle & Roll), home recordings (Earth Angel and Mona Lisa), studio jams (The Beatles’ Lady Madonna, It’s My Way (Of Loving You)/ I Can’t Stop Loving You), revelatory live cuts circa 1955-1977 (Tweedle Dee, Chuck Berry’s Maybellene, Hound Dog, Little Sister/Get Back, A Big Hunk ’O Love, Unchained Melody), movie versions (Treat Me Nice, One Broken Heart For Sale), studio rehearsals (Marie’s The Name), His Latest Flame, Viva Las Vegas) and much more. Digitally remastered via 24-bit technology, Elvis’ music has never sounded better.



(Source: FECC / Elvis Unlimited)