Tracks side A: That's All Right - Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Side B: Good Rockin' Tonight - You're A Heartbreaker.
The set can be ordered from >>> Flaming Star by email.
Closing Night Released
The Memphis Recording Service import label released the CD and LP editions of 'Las Vegas Closing Night 1973' featuring parts of the September 3, 1973, Dinner and Closing Show performances. The first fans showed their copies on facebook.
Publicity stated: This CD set contains the highlights of Elvis’ final two shows performed on the Closing Night of his Las Vegas engagement in early September 1973. For the first time ever, the material from these shows is presented in stereo.
The accompanying booklet - which includes rare photographs and memorabilia dating from this engagement and features liner notes which set the scene for this, his ninth season, in Las Vegas. The CD comes housed in a digibook.
Note: The CD is a straight copy of the 2004 'Closing Night' CD as released by the Follow That Dream Collectors label. An audience recording of the Closing Show was released in June 2024 as 'Seventy Three' by the ReelTrax import record label.
For the CD edition click here to go to >>> Amazon (associate link).
CD 1 - September 3, 1973 Dinner Show:
Also Sprach Zarathustra - See See Rider - Elvis Talks - I Got A Woman - Amen - Love Me - Steamroller Blues - You Gave Me A Mountain - Trouble
September 3, 1973 Closing Show: Long Tall Sally / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On / Mama Don't Dance / Flip, Flop And Fly / Hound Dog - Love Me Tender - Fever - What Now My Love - Suspicious Minds (Messed Up) - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Suspicious Minds - Band Introductions - Welcoming Guests - My Boy - I Can't Stop Loving You - An American Trilogy - A Big Hunk O' Love - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Elvis Talks About Mario - Mystery Train - Tiger Man - How Great Thou Art - Help Me Make It Through The Night - Softly As I Leave You - Can't Help Falling In Love
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The independent music company Reservoir Media has acquired the publishing rights to the catalog of the late songwriter and guitarist Billy Strange.
While the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, Reservoir said the acquisition includes some of Strange’s most well-known compositions, such as Elvis Presley’s hits 'A Little Less Conversation', 'Memories', 'Clean Up Your Own Back Yard', 'Charro' and 'Nothingville'.
Born in 1930 in Long Beach, California, Strange died in February 2012 at the age of 81. Strange started his career as a session guitarist in the 1950s. He quickly established himself as a guitarist, songwriter, and arranger. Strange became closely associated with Elvis contributing to several of big hits including 'A Little Less Conversation', which originally featured in Elvis film 'Live a Little, Love a Little'. The track gained renewed popularity when Junkie XL remixed the song in 2002, as 'A Little Less Conversation – JXL Radio Edit Remix', which topped
the charts in nine countries, including a four-week run at #1 in the UK.
Billy Strange was the original Musical Director of the "68 Comeback Special" but was replaced by Billy Goldenburg. Beyond his work with Presley, Strange’s catalog also includes hits such as The Champs, Chubby Checker and contributions to film soundtracks, 'The Trouble with Girls' (1969), TV shows 'The Munsters' (1964), 'Batman' (1966), and 'Have Gun – Will Travel' (1957).
As a guitarist, Strange played with legendary acts such as the Beach Boys, Nancy Sinatra, Willie Nelson, Randy Newman, and Nat King Cole.
(Source: Flaming Star / Facebook / Elvis Information Network)