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Live at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada: August 26, 1969

Live at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada: August 26, 1969

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  • Release Date: 09/08/2019
  • Barcode: 0190759601617
  • Edition: Album
  • Genre: Rock and Roll
  • Label Family: Sony Music
  • Subgenre: Rock and Roll
Live at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada: August 26, 1969

Live at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada: August 26, 1969

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DESCRIPTION

'I was missing the contact with a live audience', Elvis says in this show, and at every show during his first engagement at The International Hotel in Las Vegas. Apart from two shows in 1961 and a recent TV show, Elvis hadn't performed on stage for 11 years. After years of increasingly worse movies and diminishing record sales, he had just managed to turn his career around with his 1968 TV special. The show had aired on December 3, 1968, and it was a surprising reminder to the world of just how magnetic a performer Elvis Presley still was. Just weeks later Elvis recorded more than 30 songs in Memphis, some of the best work of his career, and the return to live performances on July 31, 1969 was the third step of his resurrection as an artist. The entire four-week engagement was sold out, and fans and critics were ecstatic. There was a wild, almost manic, energy to the performances, displaying a burning desire from Elvis and his band to show the full potential of their abilities. This show demonstrates all the charm and charisma of Elvis and his great, new band, combining repertoire of mainly blues-tinged rock 'n' roll, with a few beautiful ballads and his two, new, hit singles, 'In the Ghetto' and 'Suspicious Minds'. Recorded at the 2,000-seater showroom of the International, the intimate setting also gave Elvis the opportunity to talk to his audience, cracking jokes and telling a 10-minute story of his career, giving a rare insight to an otherwise very private man.

TRACK LISTING


  • Disc 1
    1: Blue Suede Shoes
    2: I Got a Woman
    3: All Shook Up
    4: Love Me Tender
    5: Jailhouse Rock/Don't Be Cruel
    6: Heartbreak Hotel
    7: Hound Dog
    8: I Can't Stop Loving You
    9: Mystery Train/Tiger Man
    10: Monologue

    Disc 2
    1: Baby, What You Want Me to Do
    2: Runaway
    3: Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Laughing Version)
    4: Rubberneckin'
    5: Yesterday/Hey Jude
    6: In the Ghetto
    7: This Is the Story
    8: Suspicious Minds
    9: Can't Help Falling in Love
  • ADDITIONAL DETAILS

  • Number of Discs: 2
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