Elvis Presley, the "Sunset Boulevard" box with unpublished

Elvis Presley, the “Sunset Boulevard” box with unpublished

ByJohn

Next August will be published a new box dedicated to Elvis Presley, Designed to celebrate what would have been his 90th birthday. The collection will include 89 songs documenting his last decade of artistic activity. The box set will be titled “Sunset Boulevard“And will collect recordings from the Presley archives dating back to first half of the seventiesperiod in which the king of rock’n’roll and the TCB Band they found themselves a Los Angeles for the tests of live concerts and to record songs at the Study C of the RCA.

Of the 89 songs present in the box, Over half have never been published in the United States. The five CD box will come out the August 1st. An alternative version of “Burning Love” (1972), Presley’s latest single to enter the top 10.

After the famous television special of 1968 which marked his return to the scenes, and after the publication of some recordings made to Memphis In 1969 (including his latest number one, “Suspticious Minds”), Elvis Presley began to perform regularly at Las Vegasliving a second wave of popularity until his death in 1977. In March 1972 and in March 1975Elvis spent overall Seven days in the studio to record songs that would then become single or that would have been included in albums such as “Separate Ways “ (1973) and “TODAY “ (1975). Among the songs engraved in those sessions, two classics of its later production include: “Burning Love” And “Always on my mind”both present in “Sunset Boulevard “ Both in the final version and in alternative take. Between the two sessions of Los Angeles, Presley also recorded at the Stax Studios by Memphis.

The box will include a CD with versions remastered and remixed of the 17 songs engraved in the two Losangeline sessions of the 70s, a second CD containing 17 Alternative Takes and discarded versions of the 1972 and 1975 sessions. As happened for the box dedicated to Memphis released last year (containing recordings of 1969), All overdubs have been removed: what remains is only the voice of Elvis and the live recording of the band. The other three CDs are dedicated to live tests carried out by Presley with the band in Los Angeles in preparation for the concerts of the 1970 and 1974. The test of the July 24, 1970which occupies a CD and a half, includes songs from all of Elvis’s career, from “That’s All Right” to “Love me tender”until “Don’t Cry Daddy”.

The box closes with the records of the test of the August 16, 1974with more recent songs from the artist’s repertoire, including “Promised Land”, “If you talk in Your Sleep” and a cover of “Proud Mary” of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Here is the full tracklist and the cover:

Disc 1 – The Masters

1. Burning Love
2. Always on my mind
3. Where do i go from here
4. Separate Ways
5. For the good times
6. It’s a Matter of Time
7. Fool
8. Trouble
9. And I love you know
10. Susan When she Tried
11. Woman Without love
12. Shake a hand
13. Pieces of my life
14. Fairytale
15. I Can Help
16. Bringin ‘it back
17. Green, Green Grass of Home

Disc 2 – Outtakes Highlights

1. Separate Ways – Take 25
2. For the good Times – Take 3
3. Where do i go from here – take 2
4. Burning Love – Take 2
5. Fool – Take 1
6. Always on My Mind – Take 2
7. It’s a Matter of Time – Takes 1–3
8. It’s a Matter of Time – Take 4
9. Fairytale – Take 2
10. Green, Green Grass of Home – Takes 2 and 3
11. And I love you so – take 2
12. Susan When She Tried – Takes 1 and 2
13. Trouble – Take 1
14. Tiger man
15. Shake a hand – Take 2
16. Bringin ‘it back – Takes 2 and 3
17. Pieces of My Life – Takes 2 and 3

Disc 3 – July 24, 1970 Rehearsal

1. That’s All Right
2. The Got to Woman
3. The Got to Woman
4. The Wonder of You
5. I’ve lost you
6. The Next Step is love
7. Stranger in the crowd
8. You’ve Lost That Lovin ‘Feelin’
9. Something
10. Don’t Cry Daddy
11. Don’t Cry Daddy
12. You don’t have to say you love me
13. Polk Salad Annie
14. Bridge over Troubled Water
15. I Can’t Stop Loving You
16. Just Pretend
17. Sweet Caroline
18. Love me tender
19. Words
20. Suspticious Minds
21. I Just Can’t Help Believin ‘
22. The Just Can’t Help Believin ‘

Disc 4 – July 24, 1970 Rehearsal (Continued)

1. Tomorrow Never Comes
2. Mary in the Morning
3. Twenty days and twenty nights
4. You’ve Lost That Lovin ‘Feelin’
5. Just Can’t Help Believin ‘
6. Heart of Rome
7. Heart of Rome
8. Memories
9. Johnny B. Goode
10. Make the World Go Away
11. Stranger in My Own Home Town
12. The Washed My Hands in Muddy Water
August 16, 1974 Rehearsal
13. If you love me (Let Me Know)
14. If you love me (Let Me Know)
15. Promised Land
16. Promised Land
17. Down in the Alley
18. Down in the Alley

Disc 5 – August 16, 1974 Rehearsal (Continued)

1. It’s Midnight
2. It’s Midnight
3. Your Love’s Been a Long Time Coming
4. Good time charlie’s got the blues
5. Softly as I Leave You
6. Softly as I Leave You
7. I’m leavin ‘
8. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
9. Proud Mary
10. If you talk in Your Sleep
11. If you love me (Let Me Know)
12. If you love me (Let Me Know)
13. The Twelfth of Never
14. Faded love
15. Just pretend

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