It looks like the Gold Sparkled vinyl re-issue of the 'Moody Blue' album finally has been released by the Follow That Dream collectors label. One lucky fan showed a copy on the FTD collectors group on Facebook.
The album was originally released as a limited FTD vinyl in 2015.
Thanks to Robert Frieser for posting "the making of 'Moody Blue'.
Cover Art
Random House has revealed the title of the much-anticipated posthumous Lisa Marie Presley memoir scheduled for release on October 15. Entitled From Here to the Great Unknown - the cover features a photo of a young Lisa Marie with her father, Elvis Presley.
You can order the book on Amazon >>> here on Amazon (Affiliate link).
Graceland is excited to announce that fans who pre-order their copy of the memoir through Shop Graceland will receive a lithograph, autographed by Riley Keough.
In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir.
A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and grieved.
Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, laid in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran towards his body on the floor. About living in Los Angeles with her mother, getting sent to school after school, always kicked out, always in trouble. About her singular, lifelong relationship with Danny Keough, about being married to Michael Jackson, what they shared in common. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief. Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother’s wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world.
This extraordinary book is composed of both Lisa Marie’s and Riley’s voice, a mother and daughter communicating across the transom of death as they try to heal each other. Profoundly moving and deeply revealing, From Here to the Great Unknown is a book like no other—the last words of the only child of a true legend.
The book will be released in many languages on various digital and physical formats.
The Song That Changed The World
The Elvis Files team posted a preview promotional video for their upcoming 'That's All Right - The Song That Changed the World' 70th Anniversary package. The set is available from >>> Bennies Fifties.
Publicity stated: Presenting a unique collector’s item like you have never seen before! Housed in a box with a magnetic closure which features a never-before-seen 1954 Blue Light Studio picture on top. When you open the box, you’ll look at a mock-up 3D record player with the first 78 printed on top, a 7-inch 45 rpm EP (4 songs - 'That’s All Right' and 'Blue Moon Of Kentucky' recorded by all three artists - Elvis, Arthur Crudup and Bill Monroe), two 12-inch albums (12 songs on each).
The first album focuses on 'That’s All Right' and 'Blue Moon Of Kentucky' by Elvis in the 50’s and 60’s.
On the second one we hear That’s All Right from 1970 on black vinyl. Trivia: did you know that Elvis sang That’s All Right 294 times during the seventies!? All 294 recordings are mentioned in the book! Furthermore, a beautiful hardbound book packed with information about these songs and, of course, exceptionally beautiful pictures including printed for-your-pleasure, and on heavy paper, sheet music from both 'That’s All Right' and 'Blue Moon Of Kentucky' and a rare replica of a Poplar Tunes window card from 1954.
This highly sought after collector’s boxset will grab your attention with every detail and let you dream away for hours viewing and listening to Elvis' first two regional hits and his ultimate recognition in the musical field. This extremely beautiful set is going to be a collector’s item for every fan and for sure it will increase in value over the years. Once more…
The set is available from >>> Bennies Fifties.
Elvis Seventy Three Is Out
The ReelTrax import record label released the double CD set 'Elvis Seventy Three' featuring the August 7, 1973 Midnight Show, and September 3, 1973 Closing Show performances.
The CD is available from >>> Bennies Fifties.
'Elvis Seventy Three' is a 2-disc set with two complete shows from Elvis' August 1973 engagement at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas: On the first disc of this set you will be able to step back in time with Elvis Presley’s Closing Night performance from September 3, 1973. For the first time, experience this iconic show which easily can be seen as one of the most unusual performances of Elvis´ career in correct speed and superior sound quality, thanks to a meticulous Matrix Mix of soundboard and audience recordings. This new mix reveals intricacies and audience interactions previously unheard, capturing the King of Rock and Roll in his element.
The Closing Night concert is renowned for its humorous touch, for instance, when Elvis had a toy monkey on his back (all through the first two songs of the show) while being carried on stage on the back of Lamar Fike. Or when a red velvet bed had been placed on stage during the show with Elvis sitting on it while singing 'What Now My Love' and pretending to "search" for his love in the bed. And finally when he totally mixed up the music and lyrics of 'Suspicious Minds' and 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', probably just because he wanted to fool his musicians (we called that 'Suspicious Bridge' and gave it its own track on the CD).
But the concert is also known for its heartfelt and rare performances like 'Help Me Make It Through The Night', 'Softly As I Leave You' and a fantastic 'How Great Thou Art' with multiple reprises, among others.
Additionally, to make sure the content of this CD is 100% the “real” Closing Night show we did not use the first 6 songs from the soundboard of the dinner show of the same date (which has been done this way before on an earlier release of the show), but chose to include them from an ambiance recording which has been made at Closing Night. It’s a pity that those first six songs have not been recorded on soundboard back in 1973.
One of only two versions of 'Funny How Time Slips Away', sung during the August 1973 season, and 'Faded Love', performed live for its fourth and final time are real highlights.
But actually the set-lists of both shows in this 2-CD set contrast the energy from the beginning to the end of Elvis’s stint, highlighting both his serious and playful side on stage. The show on CD 2 has previously been released at a wrong speed on ‘Top Acts in Vegas’ 28 years ago. This corrected version now allows fans to hear Elvis as he truly sounded, making it a pivotal release for collectors and new fans alike.
Enhance your Elvis collection with this definitive edition, featuring no less than a variety of 9 bonus tracks that underscore rare moments and the fun Elvis had during the Las Vegas Summer season of 1973.
CD 1: September 3, 1973 – Closing Show, Las Vegas Hilton Hotel (Matrix Recording*): See See Rider - I Got A Woman / Amen - Love Me - Steamroller Blues - You Gave Me A Mountain - Trouble - Rock Medley - Love Me Tender - Fever - What Now My Love - Suspicious Bridge - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Suspicious Minds - Introductions Of Band And Celebrities - My Boy - I Can’t Stop Loving You - An American Trilogy - A Big Hunk O Love - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Mystery Train - Tiger Man - How Great Thou Art (Two Reprises) - Help Me Make It Through The Night - Softly As I Leave You - Can’t Help Falling In Love / Closing Vamp
*Tracks 1 to 6 were sourced from an ambiance recording, as these songs were not on the soundboard tape
CD 2: August 7, 1973 – Midnight Show, Las Vegas Hilton Hotel (Ambiance Recording): Also Sprach Zarathustra - See See Rider - I Got A Woman / Amen - Love Me - Steamroller Blues - You Gave Me A Mountain - Trouble - Blue Suede Shoes - Rock Medley - Love Me Tender - Fever - Bridge Over Troubled Water (Two False Starts) - Suspicious Minds - Introductions - My Boy - I Can’t Stop Loving You - An American Trilogy - Release Me - Mystery Train / Tiger Man - Funny How Time Slips Away - Faded Love - Can’t Help Falling In Love / Closing Vamp
Bonus tracks: Make The World Go Away (August 8, 1973 MS) - Tiger Man (August 11, 1973 MS) - Crying Time (August 12, 1973 MS) - Amazing Grace (August 14, 1973 DS) - Something (August 23, 1973 DS) - It’s A Matter Of Time (August 25, 1973 MS) - Johnny B. Goode (August 26, 1973 MS) - My Boy (False Start) - Release Me - My Boy (August 28, 1973 MS) - You Gave Me A Mountain (September 2, 1973 DS).
The CD is available from >>> Bennies Fifties.
(Source: FTD Collectors Group / Random House / ReelTrax)