Sunday, December 31, 2023

December 31 - Elvis Sings If I Can Dream

Due for release from the Penitentiary Boulder import record label is the 5 CD / 1 DVD set 'Elvis Sings If I Can Dream' featuring a collection of audio and video material from the 1968 'NBC TV Special'. 

Tracks: CD 1 - The Original Mono Album - The Outtakes - 20.06.1968: Nothingville / Guitar Man (Part 1 - Guitar Man's Evil Section 1) - Let Yourself Go (Part 1 - Guitar Man's Evil Section 2) - Guitar Man (Part 2 / Escape Section 1 - Fast) - Callope Carnival (Escape Section 2) - Big Boss Man (Escape Section 3) - It Hurts Me (Part 1 / Escape Section 4)

CD 2: It Hurts Me (Part 2 - After Karate Section 1 - 21.06.1968) - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child / Where Could I Go But To The Lord / Yes, Yes, Yes / Up Above My Head (Intro - Gospel Section 1 - 21.06.1968) - Up Above My Head / I Found That Light / Sved (Intro - Gospel Section 2 - 21.06.1968) - Trouble / Guitar Man / Guitar Man Opening (22.06.1968) - If I Can Dream (Record Version - 23.06.1968) - Memories (Vocal Overdub - 24.06.1968) - It Hurts Me (Vocal Overdub & Playback Amusement Pier Part 2 - 27.06.1968) - Trouble / Guitar Man (Vocal Overdub Of After Karate Section 3 - 29.06.1968 6pm Show) - Trouble / Guitar Man (Vocal Overdub Of After Karate Section 3 - Guitar Man With Road - 29.06.1968 8pm Show) - Guitar Man (Vocal Overdub Road #2 - 30.06.1968) - Guitar Man (Vocal Overdub Road #3 - 30.06.1968)

CD 3: If I Can Dream (Vocal Overdub - 30.06.1968) - Trouble / Guitar Man (Vocal Overdub & Playback Opening Section #1 - 30.06.1968) - Guitar Man (Vocal Overdub - Alley - 30.06.1968) - Little Egypt / Trouble (Vocal Overdub - Nightclub - 30.06.1968) - Trouble (Vocal Overdub - Disco - 30.06.1968) - Trouble (Vocal Overdub - Supper Club - 30.06.1968)

Bonus Songs: Memories (Vocal Overdub) - Saved (Part 1) / Preach For The Sky / Saved (Part 2 - Gospel Section 3 - 22.06.1968)

CD 4 - Soundtrack Versions: Road Medley Composite - Gospel Medley Composite - It Hurts Me (Spliced Master) - Saved (Spliced Master With Edited Intro) - Trouble / Guitar (Stereo Version) - Tag - Uh Uh Uh (30.06.1968)

CD 5: The Original Singer Commercials - The ´68 Comeback Radio Special (One-Hour Radio Special - August 2008)

DVD: I'm Saved (A Different Perspective On The 1968 Comeback Special With Elvis´ Own Comments).

Chart Record Broken


Taylor Swift has broken Elvis Presley's longstanding record for the most weeks spent atop the Billboard 200 album chart by a solo artist. She set a new mark of 68 total weeks, as “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” landed on top of the chart for a fifth time in the final full tracking week of 2023
From 1956 to 2002 Elvis scored ten #1 albums that spent a combined 67 weeks at #1 on the Billboard album charts. 67 weeks was the most weeks a solo artist had spent at #1 on the Billboard albums charts. Elvis held that record for many years until Taylor Swift has just broken it. Taylor Swift has 13 number one albums that have spent a combined total of 68 weeks on top of the Billboard album charts. 

(Source: Elvis Club Berlin / FECC / Variety)