CD: ELVIS PRESLEY-ELVIS ARON PRESLEY-EU 1998 4xCD BOX SET-REMASTERED

Elvis Presley
Elvis Aron Presley

The first of several massive sets of rare and unissued Presley recordings, ELVIS ARON PRESLEY (sometimes called "The Silver Box") is a four-CD grab bag spanning the twenty-year career of America's biggest pop star. Other boxes in the series include ELVIS: A GOLDEN CELEBRATION, which largely consists of Presley's 1956 television and concert performances, and PLATINUM: A LIFE IN MUSIC, which intersperses alternate takes and demos previously released hits.
Disc one of ELVIS ARON PRESLEY contains two early concerts. The first, a notoriously disastrous 1956 stint in Las Vegas, finds Presley singing well to a totally indifferent audience, ultimately resorting to self-deprecating humor in a vain effort to get patrons to put down their forks and applaud. The second, a 1961 benefit for the USS Arizona Memorial, features a solid run-through of Presley's early hits before an adoring crowd. Disc two includes soundtrack outtakes, notable for Presley's inability to complete some of the more ludicrous numbers (such as "Dating") without giggling. Also featured are excepts from Presley's television specials and numerous live performances from the '70s. The unquestionable highlight of the set comes at the end of disc three: four lovely tracks of Presley singing alone at the piano.

WONDERFUL 1998 4xCD
RCA - 07863 67455 2
MADE IN THE EU
BARCODE: 0 7863674552 7

DISC 1:
An Early Live Performance 1956
1. Heartbreak Ho Long Tall Sally
3. Blue Suede Shoes
4. Money Honey
An Elvis Monolog
5. Monolog
An Early Benefit Performance 1961
6. Introduction
7. Heartbreak Ho All Shook Up
9. A Fool Such as I
10. I Got a Woman
11. Love Me
12. Introductions
13. Such a Night
14. Reconsider Baby
15. I Need Your Love Tonight
16. That's All Right
17. Don't Be Cruel
18. One Night
19. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
20. It's Now or Never
21. Sweet Chariot Swing Down
22. Hound Dog

DISC 2:
Collectors' Gold From The Movie Years
1. They Remind Me Too Much of You (take 1)
2. Tonight's All Right For Love (take 3) / Tonight's All Right For Love (take 4) / Tonight's All Right For Love (take 7) / Tonight's All Right For Love (take 8)
3. Follow That Dream (take 2)
4. Wild in the Country (take 16)
5. Datin' (take 6) / Datin' (take 7) / Datin' (take 8) / Datin' (take 11) / Datin' (take 12)
6. Shoppin' Around (take 3) / Shoppin' Around (take 5)
7. Can't Help Falling in Love (take 24)
8. A Dog's Life (take 4) / A Dog's Life (take 5) / A Dog's Life (take 6)
9. I'm Falling in Love Tonight (take 1) / I'm Falling in Love Tonight (take 2) / I'm Falling in Love Tonight (take 3) / I'm Falling in Love Tonight (take 4)
10. Thanks to the Rolling Sea (take 10)
The TV Specials
11. Jailhouse Rock
12. Suspicious Minds
13. Lawdy Miss Clawdy / Baby What You Want Me To Do / Baby What You Want Me To Do
14. Blue Christmas
15. You Gave Me a Mountain
16. Welcome to My World
17. Trying to Get to You
18. I'll Remember You
19. My Way

DISC 3:
The Las Vegas Years
1. Polk Salad Annie
2. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin
3. Sweet Caroline
4. Kentucky Rain
5. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
6. My Babe
7. In the Ghetto
8. An American Trilogy
9. Little Sister / Get Back
10. Yesterday
Lost Singles
11. I'm Leavin'
12. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
13. Hi-Heel Sneakers (single version)
14. Softly as I Leave You
15. Unchained Melody
16. Fool
17. Rags to Riches
18. It's Only Love
19. America the Beautiful
Elvis At The Piano
20. It's Still Here
21. Kathleen I'll Take You Home Again
22. Beyond the Reef
23. I Will Be True

DISC 4:
The Concert Years Part 1
1. Also Sprach Zarathustra
2. See See Rider
3. I Got A Woman / Amen
4. Love Me
5. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
6. Love Me Tender
7. All Shook Up
8. (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear / Don't Be Cruel
The Concert Years Concluded
9. Hound Dog
10. The Wonder of You
11. Burning Love
13. Johnny B. Goode
14. Introductions / Long Live Rock And Roll
15. T-R-O-U-B-L-E
16. Lord Why Me
17. How Great Thou Art
18. Let Me Be There
19. An American Trilogy
20. Funny How Time Slips Away
21. Little Darlin'
22. Mystery Train / Tiger Man
23. Can't Help Falling in Love
24. Closing Vamp

DISCS IN CLEAN EXCELLENT CONDITION, PERFECT PLAYBACK
ATTACHED BOOKLET IN MINT CONDITION
CASE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, NO WEAR, SOME LIGHT SCRATCH MARKS TO REAR, TINY SPOT OF DAMAGE ON FRONT

ORIGINAL FIRST ISSUE 1998 4xCD