Elvis Sings Guitar Man FTD 2 CD Special EditionFTD will release Elvis Sings Guitar Man in the classic album series in April. As with the releases of Standing Room Only and Elvis Sings Memphis Tennessee, 'Elvis Sings Guitar Man' is an album that never was, but in our opinion should have been) So here it is !!! Released at the same time is Live In LA. For information FTD do not plan to release 'CD only' versions of Flashback and Writing For The King.
Disc 1
01) Guitar Man 2:22 (Jerry Reed)
02) Tomorrow Is A Long Time 5:24 (Bob Dylan)
03) Big Boss Man 2:54 (Al Smith/Luther Dixon)
04) Love Letters 2:52 (Edward Heyman/Victor Young)
05) Indescribably Blue 2:50 (Darrell Glenn)
06) Fools Fall In Love 2:08 (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller
07) Hi-Heel Sneakers 2:48 (Robert Higginbotham)
08) Down In The Alley 2:54 (Jesse Stone and The Clovers)
09) Come What May 2:03 (Frank Tableporter)
10) Mine 2:39 (Sid Tepper/Roy C) Bennett)
11) Just Call Me Lonesome 2:08 (Rex Griffin)
12) You Don't Know Me 2:32 (Cindy Walker/Eddy Arnold)
13) Singing Tree 2:22 (Arthur L) Owens/Archie Solberg)
14) I'll Remember You 2:48 (Kuiokalaani Lee)
Bonus Song
15) Beyond The Reef (overdubbed version) (Jack Pitman)
First Takes
16) Guitar Man - takes 1,2,5 4:22
17) Tomorrow Is A Long Time - takes 1,2 6:15
18) Big Boss Man - take 2 3:35
19) Love Letters -take 2 2:53
20) Fools Fall In Love - takes 1,4 2:40
21) Hi-Heel Sneakers - take 5 4:58
22) Down In The Alley - take 1 3:13
23) Come What May - take 2 2:12
24) Singing Tree - take 1 3:11
25) I’ll Remember You - vocal overdub take 2 4:14
Disc 2
May 1966 sessions
01) Down In The Alley - takes 2,3,4 2:18
02) Down In The Alley - take 6 2:51
03) Love Letters - takes 3,4,5,7 4:39
04) Love Letters - take 8 3:12
05) Beyond The Reef - takes 1,2 (undubbed master) 5:42
06) Come What May - takes 3,4 2:27
07) Come What May - take 6 2:07
08) Come What May - take 7 - 2:21
June 1966 sessions
09) Indescribably - (vocal overdub) take 1 2:55
10) I’ll Remember You - (unedited master) vocal overdub 1 4:10
1967 Sessions
11) Guitar Man - takes 7,9 2:52
12) Guitar Man - take 10 2:55
13) Guitar Man - takes 11, 12 (unedited/undubbed master) 4:02
14) Big Boss Man - takes 1,3,4,5 3:19
15) Big Boss Man - takes 7, 9 3:48
16) Singing Tree - takes 2,4 3:28
17) Singing Tree - take 8 3:03
18) Singing Tree - takes 10,13 3:44
19) Just Call Me Lonesome - takes 3,4 2:55
20) Just Call Me Lonesome - takes 5,6 2:31
21) Hi-Heel Sneakers - takes 1,6 2:51
22) Hi-Heel Sneakers - take 7 - (unedited master) 4:57
23) You Don't Know Me - take 2 2:57
24) Singing Tree - (remake) takes 1,2,3 3:21
Live In LAFTD will release Live In LA CD in April. Originally released as part of a book set, as with The Way It Was and Rockin' Across Texas now the book is deleted, FTD will release a 5" CD only version.
01) Also Sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss)
02) See See Rider (Traditional; Arr) By Elvis Presley)
03) I Got A Woman / Amen (Ray Charles) / (J) Hairston)
04) Love Me (Jerry Leiber/mike Stoller)
05) Trying To Get To You (Rose Marie Mccoy/charles Singleton)
06) All Shook Up (Otis Blackwell/elvis Presley)
07) Teddy Bear / Don't Be Cruel (Kal Mann/bernie Lowe) / (Otis Blackwell/elvis Presley)
08) Love Me Tender (Vera Matson/elvis Presley)
09) Steamroller Blues (James Taylor)
10) Hound Dog (Jerry Leiber/mike Stoller)
11) Fever (Davenport/cooley)
12) Polk Salad Annie (Tony Joe White)
13) Why Me Lord (Kris Kristofferson)
14) Suspicious Minds (Mark James)
15) Introductions
16) I Can't Stop Loving You (Don Gibson)
17) Help Me (Larry Gatlin)
18) An American Trilogy (Mickey Newbury)
19) Let Me Be There (John Rostill)
20) Funny How Time Slips Away (Willie Nelson)
21) Big Boss Man (Smith/dixon)
22) Can't Help Falling In Love (Peretti/creatore/weiss)
Bonus Song:
23) You Can Have Her (William Cook)
Budapest Honours Elvis
Budapest's mayor says Elvis Presley will be declared a posthumous honorary citizen of Hungary's capital and a city landmark will be named after him. Mayor Istvan Tarlos said Wednesday that Elvis will be commemorated because of his support for Hungary in the wake of the short-lived, anti-Soviet revolution of October 1956.
On the city's website, visitors can pick one of 12 locations to be renamed after Elvis, including street crossings, a small square and a site at the foot of Margaret Bridge, which spans the Danube River. Voting closes March 15.On Jan. 6, 1957, during his last appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," Elvis sang a gospel standard, "Peace in Valley," which Sullivan said reflected the singer's preoccupation with Hungarians' plight after the uprising.
Elvis By Special Request - '71 at '40
News Form Ernst Jorgensen On Sun Project
Previously the following is the infomation that has been released.
Researched
Ernst Jorgensen 1) The SUN tapes have been researched endlessly by many people including Kevan Budd and myself. We have had full co-operation from Shelby and John Singleton at SUN, The family of Sam Phillips, EPE and obviously Sony/BMG. You will get every little bit we have, but really only a few bits on 'Harbor Lights' and 'When it Rains, It Really Pours' are previously unreleased. I don't even have a rumor to pursue anymore. As for live recordings I can obviously not know whether somebody, somewhere has something we don't know about. The owners of the 6 track 'Little Mama' acetate have NO plans for it's release and money is not a factor.
The Book
At first I thought the book needed to included every known photo of Elvis from the period, but thankfully that's not possible anymore - I have too many. However, I do want to try and find EVERY show date, and I'm still about 10 short. There is no point in rewriting Guralnicks 'Last Train To Memephis' or Hopkins biography, but I will need to use some of their findings and viewpoints to create a text element that puts all the bits and pieces together. Where both Hopkins and Guralnick in their narrative were able to paint a full portrait of the young Elvis Presley, I do not have such talent. My mission is to create a source book of facts, photos, music, memorabilia, memories of those who were there, and try and link it together for those are not already familiar with the basic story. Exactly how to do this is what's going to to be sorted in the next few months.
Elvis Presley, Bill Black, Scotty Moore & Sam Phillip's February 3, 1955.
Just in case you were under the illusion that I have collected all this material myself, I will mention that without Hopkins, Guralnick, Lee Cotton, Rijff, Sean O'Neal, Kevan Budd, Sebastian Jeansson, Sherif Hanna, Bill Burk, Trevor The Man and my two exceptional detectives Luca Fabris and Brian Petersen this would have been a much poorer project, and my life would have been nowhere as much fun as it has. Additionally dozens of people have made their photos exclusively available for this project - (I hope that this is respected!!)
CD.
The CDs with it will be an extra added bonus. No, we don't have 'Uncle Penn', 'Tennessee Saturday Night' or 'Rock Around The Clock' as mentioned in the rumours that keep circulating. However we have a great selection on three CDs. The first will be The Masters, the second The Outtakes and then the third with everything else that we could get hold of. However I don't think people should be buying this release just because of the CDs, but because of the photos, the information and the complete package.
Cafe Europa Press-release
Following is the official press releases from U.K. based Memphis Recording Service for the forthcoming "Cafe Europa" 4 disc set:
The Complete G.I. Blues Sessions 4 CD Deluxe Set. This special 4 CD-Set/100 page book contains nearly 4 hours of Elvis' officially UNRELEASED studio takes from the 'Café Europa' sessions, recorded for the movie ultimately titled G.I. Blues. The audio contained here includes the master recordings from the original soundtrack album 'G.I. Blues' plus, hours of alternate takes of all songs, with all the Elvis studio banter intact and, instilling new insight and live atmosphere into the complete making of this historic movie soundtrack.
These recordings are transferred and processed in 24bit 192k stereo. In addition to these rare recordings, the set includes a 100 page book entertained with pages of unreleased photographs, memorabilia and goes behind the scenes, with full text and documentation and includes contributions from Ray Walker of the Jordanaires and a forward by Sid Tepper who co- wrote the songs 'Shoppin' Around' and 'G.I. Blues'.
(Source: Elvis Australia / ElvisMatters / Elvis Information Network)