Wednesday, May 02, 2012

May 02 - Elvis Is Back On Victrola

The Victrola importlabel announced the release of the CD 'Elvis Is Back - Special Edition'. It is a double CD, packed in a digipack with a 20 pages booklet, extensive liner notes, 24bit/96khz remastered sound. The first CD has a total running time of 51:01, the second disc runs for 73:40 minutes.


Elvis Sammlung


Volume 9 in the German Elvis Sammlung (Elvis Collection) was released. This volume contains the DVD 'G.I. Blues - CafĂ© Europa', a magazine, memorabelia reproductions and more. 

A Date With Elvis

The Hoodoo Records budgetlabel announced the release of the CD 'A Date With Elvis' coupled with 'Elvis Is Back!' and a few bonus songs. The CD is due may 8, 2012.

Tracklisting:
Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Young And Beautiful - (You´re So Square) Baby I Don´t Care - Milkow Blues Boogie - Baby Let´s Play House - Good Rockin´ Tonight - Is It So Strange - We´re Gonna Move - I Want Bo Be Free - I Forget To Remember To Forget - Make Me Know It - Fever - The Girl Of My Best Friend - I Will Be Home Again - Dirty, Dirty Feeling - The Thrill Of Your Love - Soldier Boy - Such A Night - It Feels So Right - The Girl Next Door Went A´ Walking - Like A Baby - Reconsider Baby
Bonus Songs:
It´s Now Or Never - Hands Off (Demo) - Stuck On You - Paralyzed - I´m Left, You´re Right, She´s Gone - Lawdy, Miss Clawdy

Jailhouse Rock EP Announced 


The Audio Fidelity label announced the release of the EP 'Jailhouse Rock' which is due June 5, 2012.


From the pressrelease:
"...one of The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock 'n' Roll".


In the fall of 1957 "Jailhouse Rock" was first released in the US as a single backed with "Treat Me Nice" and was #1 for seven weeks. Early in 1958 it entered the British charts at number one, making it the first single ever to do so and remained there for three weeks. "Jailhouse Rock" also spent some time at the top of the Country and the R&B charts.  Jailhouse Rock was not  released as an LP although it contains some of Elvis's best songs.
Five of the six songs from the movie were released as part of an extended-play, seven-inch 45 RPM record that soon topped the Billboard EP charts, eventually selling an additional two million copies and earning another double-platinum RIAA certification.
The Jailhouse Rock tunes are unassailable - the writing and production team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller played prominent roles in the making of the soundtrack. The pair took over the recording sessions, serving as unofficial producers of "Jailhouse Rock," "Treat Me Nice," "(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care," and other tunes. Their collaboration with Elvis and his musicians on "Jailhouse Rock" resulted in the singer's hardest-rocking movie song. As D.J. Fontana once noted about his drum playing on the record, "I tried to think of someone on a chain gang smashing rocks." 
The performance in the film of the title song by the young and sensual, "dangerous" Elvis complete with chorus boys dressed as convicts is legendary.  
One of the best of Presley's films, Jailhouse Rock is a perfect balance of song and story - seldom would Elvis be so well showcased in the future.
Elvis Presley's songs have become an integral part of American culture. All were interpreted and recorded by one of the most successful performers American popular music has ever seen. The Jailhouse Rock EP soundtrack is a classic example of the "early" Elvis on the rise to super-stardom. Elvis at his best.


"...#67 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."

Tracklisting Elvis Is Back (Victrola)
CD1
1) „Elvis is Back!“ interview excerpt 0:40
Recorded March 8, 1960; Graceland, Memphis, TN
2) Make Me Know It (O. Blackwell) 2:00
Recorded March 20, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
3) Fever (J. Davenport/E. Cooley) 3:33
Recorded April 3, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
4) The Girl Of My Best Friend (B. Ross/S. Bobrick) 2:23
Recorded April 3, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
5) „Future plans“ interview excerpt 0:34
Recorded March 1, 1960; Friedberg, Germany
6) I Will Be Home Again (Benjamin/Leveen/Singer) 2:34
Recorded April 3, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
7) Dirty, Dirty Feeling (J. Leiber/M. Stoller) 1:34
Recorded April 3, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
8) Thrill Of Your Love (S. Kesler) 3:01
Recorded April 3, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
9) Soldier Boy (D. Jones/T. Williams Jr.) 3:06
Recorded March 20, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
10) „Feel for music material“ interview excerpt 0:46
Recorded March 1, 1960; Friedberg, Germany
11) Such A Night (L. Chase) 3:00
Recorded April 3, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
12) It Feels So Right (F. Wise/B. Weisman) 2:10
Recorded March 20, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
13) Girl Next Door Went A´Walking (B. Rise/T. Wayne) 2:13
Recorded April 3, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
14) Like A Baby (J. Stone) 2:39
Recorded April 3, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
15) Reconsider Baby (L. Fulsom) 3:40
Recorded April 3, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
16) „Home Recording“ interview excerpt 0:17
Recorded March 1, 1960; Friedberg, Germany
17) Stuck On You (A. Schroeder/S. Leslie Mc Farland) 2:20
Recorded March 20, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
18) Fame And Fortune (F. Wise/B. Weisman), take 1 2:24
Recorded March 20, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
19) A Mess Of Blues (D. Pomus/M. Shuman) 2:41
Recorded March 20, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
20) It´s Now Or Never (A. Schroeder/W. Gold) 3:16
Recorded April 3, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
21) I Gotta Know (P. Evans/M. Williams) 2:17
Recorded April 3, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
22) Are You Lonesome Tonight? (R. Turk/L. Handman) 3:08
Recorded April 3, 1960; RCA´s Studio B, Nashville, TN
23) „European Tour“ interview excerpt 0:43
Recorded March 1, 1960; Friedberg, Germany


Tracklisting CD2
1) Reconsider Baby (L. Fulsom) 2:44
Sun Studios Jam Session, December 12, 1956
2) Reconsider Baby (L. Fulsom) 2:52
Recorded live in Charlotte, NC, February 21, 1977
3) There´s No Tomorrow (Hoffman/Corday/Carr) 2:24
Germany Home Recording, Summer 1959
4) Soldier Boy (D. Jones/T. Williams Jr.) 1:44
Germany Home Recording, Summer 1959
5) Apron Strings (Weiss/Schroeder) 2:33
Germany Home Recording, Summer 1959
6) The Titles Will Tell (previously mislabeled as „Number Eight“) (C. Underwood) 2:46
Germany Home Recording, Summer 1959
7) Stuck On You (A. Schroeder/S. Leslie Mc Farland) 2:24
TV Recording for „The Frank Sinatra-Timex Show“March 20, 1960
8) Fame And Fortune (F. Wise/B. Weisman) 2:26
TV Recording for „The Frank Sinatra-Timex Show“March 20, 1960
9) Such A Night (L. Chase) 2:37
Recorded live in Pearl Harbor, HI, March 25, 1961
10) Are You Lonesome Tonight? (R. Turk/L. Handman) 3:22
Recorded live in Pearl Harbor, HI, March 25, 1961
11) Reconsider Baby (L. Fulsom) 3:45
Recorded live in Pearl Harbor, HI, March 25, 1961
12) It´s Now Or Never (A. Schroeder/W. Gold) 2:56
Recorded live in Pearl Harbor, HI, March 25, 1961
13) Reconsider Baby (L. Fulsom) 3:15
Recorded live in Las Vegas, NV, August 23, 1969, Midnight show
14) Are You Lonesome Tonight? (R. Turk/L. Handman) 3:01
Recorded live in Las Vegas, NV, August 3, 1969
15) It´s Now Or Never (A. Schroeder/W. Gold) 2:19
Recorded live in Las Vegas, NV, February 23, 1970, Closing show
16) Such A Night (L. Chase) 1:44
Rehearsal for „That´s The Way It Is“, July 29, 1970  
17) Are You Lonesome Tonight? (R. Turk/L. Handman) 2:41
Recorded live in Hampton Roads, VA, April 9, 1972
18) Fever (J. Davenport/E. Cooley) 3:38
Rehearsal for 7th Season in Las Vegas, NV July-August 1972
19) It´s Now Or Never (A. Schroeder/W. Gold) / Are You Horny Tonight (one line) 2:27
Rehearsal for „That´s The Way It Is“, July 29, 1970
20) Fever (J. Davenport/E. Cooley) 2:50
Recorded live in Las Vegas, NV, August 11, 1972, Dinner show
21) Are You Lonesome Tonight? (R. Turk/L. Handman) 2:57
Recorded live in Las Vegas, NV, August 19, 1975, Midnight show
22) Such A Night (L. Chase) 1:41
Recorded live in Las Vegas, NV, December 12, 1976, Closing show
23) Fever (J. Davenport/E. Cooley) 3:01
Recorded live in Toledo, OH, April 23, 1977
24) Reconsider Baby (L. Fulsom) 2:54
Recorded live in Pittsburgh, PA, December 31, 1976
25) Are You Lonesome Tonight? (R. Turk/L. Handman) 3:52
Recorded live in Charlotte, NC, February 21, 1977
26) O Sole Mio (E. di Capua/G. Capurro) / It´s Now Or Never (A. Schroeder/W. Gold) 3:42
Recorded live in Madison, WI, June 24, 1977
27) Fever (J. Davenport/E. Cooley) 1:05
Recorded live in Jackson, MS, June 8, 1975, Afternoon show


(Source: e-mail / Elvis Club Berlin)