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Posted by: Brad Oct 11 2006, 09:17 PM

Sundial Productions SP-101





Season's Greetings From Vegas

Genre: Live Recording

Format: Audience Recording

Sound: Bad

Tracks: 26

Total Playing Time:

Recorded Live: Las Vegas Nevada, December 2 1975 Opening Night

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Musicians:

Lead Guitar: James Burton
Rhythm Guitar: John Wilkinson
Bass: Jerry Scheff
Drums: Ronnie Tutt
Piano: Glen Hardin
Electric Piano: David Briggs
Accoustic Guitar/Backup singer: Charlie Hodge
Highvoice singer: Kathy Westmoreland
Backup Vocals: The Sweet Inspirations (Myrna Smith / Sylvia Shemwell / Estelle Brown)
Backup Vocals: J.D.Sumner & The Stamps Quartet (Bill Baize / Ed Enoch / Ed Hill / Larry Strickland)
Backup Vocals: Voice (Shaun Nielsen / Donnie Sumner / Tim Baty)
Conductor: Joe Guercio
The Joe Guercio Orchestra

Tracklisting:

01 Also Sprach Zarathustra
02 See See Rider
03 I Got A Woman / Amen
04 Monologue
05 Love Me
06 Fairytale
07 Big Boss Man
08 It's Midnight
09 Early Mornin' Rain
10 And I Love You So
11 Trying To Get To You
12 All Shook Up
13 Teddy Bear / Don't Be Cruel
14 Hound Dog
15 You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
16 Monologue
17 Blue Christmas (part)
18 Monologue
19 Blue Christmas
20 Polk Salad Annie
21 My Boy
22 How Great Thou Art
23 Mystery Train - Tiger Man
24 Softly As I Leave You
25 America, The Beautiful
26 Can't Help Falling In Love

Notes: A good concert to kick off Elvis' December engagement in Las Vegas. A few rare songs for this time period performed such as You've Lost That Love And Feeling, My Boy. IMO, the setlist is almost perfect, to bad the sound is not as good.

Posted by: stefan Oct 12 2006, 06:28 AM

I think this is a very good concert with a tremendous setlist ! I always liked this concert very much and although the sound isn't exactly the best (I've heard far worse though) everything is still very audible.

My favorites from this show are You've Lost That Loving Feeling (last live performance ever !) and Early Morning Rain (fast paced, great to hear as a "concert song" instead of "time killer" during the introductions.) We also get the 1st America The Beautifull ever, which has quite a different ending than what we are used too.

Posted by: colonel snow Oct 12 2006, 02:36 PM

in spite of some very good concerts the releases from Groti rec. / Sundial productions / Claudi rec. etc are in most cases taken from inferior tapes;
it's a pity


colonel snow

Posted by: stefan Oct 12 2006, 04:55 PM

So, you're saying there is a better sounding tape of this concert ? If so, let them bring it on [img]style_emoticons/default/LSHIC.gif[/img]

Posted by: colonel snow Oct 12 2006, 05:22 PM

I've said that these labels uses inferior sources in most cases when they release an audience recording;
for instance Groti rec. released in 1994 the CD " Send me the light.. I need it bad" (Baltimore 29-05-77)>> with speed to fast it was possible to release it on one cd but it has to be released on 2 cd® because the total time is more then for one CD.
there are a lot of examples to mention for these labels; on the other hand we must be glad that they were released because in 1994 it was the only way to have an audience recording on CD.

colonel snow

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