Saturday, April 13, 2019

April 13 - Record Store Day

Five Elvis Presley LP's were officially released today for Record Store Day. All limited editions and officially only available on this day (although some popped-up earlier). The Sony Legacy LP is limited to 3000 copies, the Memphis Recording Service titles are (said to be) limited to 500 copies each and the French VPI releases are limited to 1000 copies. 

Sony Legacy released "Live At The International Hotel, Las Vegas, NV August 23, 1969", The UK based Memphis Recording Service" released "Complete 50's Movie Masters and Alternate Recordings" and "Made in Germany - Private Recordings" and the French VPI Records released "I Sing All Kinds" on white colored vinyl and "Elvis In Paris: 60th Anniversary" in the colors of the French flag, red, white and blue.

Variety has nominated their 25 Best Record Store day releases and Elvis Presley, “Live at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, NV August 23, 1969” is one of them. They noted:

Elvis’ so-called comeback special is rightly revered. What came immediately after, a little less so. But there’s a forthcoming CD box set devoted to the very first run of shows he did in Las Vegas, when he was still riding high off that network special, that represented his first real live gigs in 11 years, that aims to make the case that Elvis in Vegas was initially a beautiful thing, however sour things went before his demise. 

In advance of the new 1969 box-set, they’ve issued one complete live show as a two-LP set just for RSD, and the prototype for the TCB Band is as smoking as the still-in-fighting-trim Presley.

Inspirational Quotes

Due for release from Carlton Books in the UK on July 11, 2019 is the 192 -page book "Little Book Of Elvis Presley: Inspirational Quotes From The King Of Rock 'n' Roll" by music journalist Malcolm Croft.

(Source: Carlton Books / Elvis Club Berlin / MRS / Amazon / Variety / Elvis Information Network).