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Memories: The '68 Comeback Special was a 1998 double album released by RCA Records that was a repackaging of material from the 1968 Elvis Presley television special, Elvis (commonly referred to as the Elvis Presley '68 Comeback Special). Twenty-two of the compilation's 35 tracks were previously unreleased recordings, including several alternate ...
No.TitleLength1."Trouble/Guitar Man"3:222."Heartbreak Hotel"1:343."Hound Dog"0:474."All Shook Up"2:01Aug 16, 2017 · By Kory Grow. August 16, 2017. Rock and roll musician Elvis Presley performing on the Elvis comeback TV special on June 27, 1968. NBC/Getty. “ Elvis was hardly ever nervous – but he was then,”...
Call It a Comeback: The Inside Story of Elvis Presley’s Iconic 1968 Special. Darlene Love, director Steve Binder, and a pair of Elvis-ologists on Elvis’s comeback special, which ushered...
2009 — Worldwide. Box Set —. Compilation, Limited Edition, Remastered. Explore the tracklist, credits, statistics, and more for Memories - The '68 Comeback Special by Elvis Presley. Compare versions and buy on Discogs.
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After he returned from the army in 1960, Elvis's manager Colonel Tom Parker nudged Presley away from music and towards movies. Always a carny at heart, Parker pushed for low-budget musical comedies – the films promoted the soundtracks and the soundtracks promoted the films. Elvis liked acting, and pushed for more straight dramatic roles. A couple o...
Finkel enlisted director Steve Binder, who had helmed the groundbreakingT.A.M.I. Showconcert film. Binder was convinced to sign up by his associate Bones Howe, who had worked with Elvis back in the 1950s. Binder and Howe hired musical director Billy Goldenberg, Presley's people got arranger Billy Strange on board, and Chris Bearde and Allan Blye we...
The Elvis's '68 Comeback Special wasn't a regular gig, but had a non-paying TV audience. Despite having promised to bus in fans from over the US for the taping, The Colonel apparently hadn't got round to it. Instead, Binder and Finkel yoinked some people from a nearby restaurant and also advertised on local radio to get the fans in.
On the June 27 sit-down sets, Elvis played with a small group of musicians which included guitarist Scotty Moore percussionist DJ Fontana, – members of his 1950s backing band The Blue Moon Boys. The group's bassist Bill Black had sadly died in 1965. Rounding out the group was guitarist and backing singer Charlie Hodge, Alan Fortas on percussion and...
As we've said, the comeback special is actually a combination of recordings: the sessions from June 20-23 at United Western Recorders, plus those two sit-down shows on June 27 and stand-up shows on June 29. Those earlier sessions weren't technically any sort of gig, so let's leave them to one side (for now). Here's the full setlist of those four li...
Today, the Elvis's '68 Comeback Special is widely acknowledged as being the spark that got Elvis back on the road, back recording great music and cementing his legacy as one of the greatest performers and artists of the 20th century (and not just the 1950s). At the time, it was a massive hit with audiences, topping the Nielsen ratings with 42% of t...
Binder decided that rather than end the show 'I'll Be Home for Christmas' as the Colonel wanted, it needed something a little more. He asked Walter Earl Brown to come up with a song, and knowing how devastated Elvis was by the murder of Martin Luther King in April of that year, he wrote 'If I Can Dream', which riffed on Dr King's 'I Have A Dream' s...
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Memories: The '68 Comeback Special, an Album by Elvis Presley. Released 13 October 1998 on RCA (catalog no. 0786367612 2; CD). Genres: Rock & Roll, Pop Rock.
Oct 13, 1998 · Find release reviews and credits for Memories: The '68 Comeback Special - Elvis Presley on AllMusic - 1998.
