Label: Straight Arrow
CD 1)
HILTON HOTEL, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA, 22-08-1973 DINNER SHOW
CD 2)
HILTON HOTEL, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA, 22-08-1973 MIDNIGHT SHOW
AUDIENCE RECORDING
Coming
out soon is the new Straight Arrow's double-digipak CD release "ENDLESS
SUMMER FESTIVAL!", featuring the August 22, 1973 Dinner and Midnight
performances. Both shows are taken from original „booth recordings“, taped by
the same person, so this is an audience recording.
The sound quality is far superior to the usual audience
recordings. The year's journey from Hawaii
to Nevada was almost at its end on August 22, 1973. That Wednesday night, Elvis
delivered two professional, sold-out performances for the faithful at the Las
Vegas Hilton with a mix of the old and new, including a stunning, yet-to-be
recorded cover of Richard Harris' 1971 single, "My Boy." After the
final Hilton show on September 3, bass player Emory Gordy would leave to return
to the more creative studio environs of Nashville, Presley would instruct
manager Tom Parker to leave his employ, his wife Priscilla Beaulieu would leave
for good, and Elvis himself would nearly leave the land of the living. It was a
long, long way down from that worldwide broadcast in Honolulu on January 14,
but the man would survive, somehow, and return to sing his soul that December
in Memphis.
It should be noted that neither of these superb-quality,
off-line concert recordings have been previously issued. Both shows are completely new, even to die-hard Elvis fans. They
were never in circulation, in any form. Enjoy the music!
CD1 - Wednesday, August 22, 1973 Dinner Show
01.
Introduction: Also Sprach Zarathustra - 02. C. C. Rider - 03. I Got A Woman /
Amen - 04. Love Me - 05. You Gave Me A Mountain - 06. Blue Suede Shoes - 07.
Medley: Long Tall Sally / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On / Your Mama Don't Dance
/ Flip Flop And Fly / Jailhouse Rock / Hound Dog - 08. Love Me Tender - 09.
Fever - 10. What Now My Love - 11. Suspicious Minds - 12. Introductions of
singers, musicians, orchestra - 13. My Boy (with lyric flub corrected) - 14. Release
Me - 15. An American Trilogy - 16. (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear / Don't Be Cruel
- 17. Can't Help Falling In Love - 18. Closing Vamp / Announcements.
CD2 -
Wednesday, August 22, 1973 Midnight Show
01.
Introduction: Also Sprach Zarathustra - 02. C. C. Rider - 03. I Got A Woman /
Amen - 04. Love Me - 05. You Gave Me A Mountain - 06. Steamroller Blues - 07.
Blue Suede Shoes - 08. Medley: Long Tall Sally / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On /
Your Mama Don't Dance / Flip Flop And Fly / Jailhouse Rock / Hound Dog -
09. Love Me Tender - 10. Fever - 11. What Now My Love - 12. Suspicious Minds -
13. Introductions of singers, musicians, orchestra - 14. My Boy - 15. Release
Me - 16. An American Trilogy - 17. A Big Hunk O' Love - 18. Can't Help Falling
In Love - 19. Closing Vamp / Announcements.
