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Title: Elvis As Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis (released: in 2004)

Label: FTD

Date: March 20, 1974 Memphis, TN, Mid-South Coliseum

Sound Quality: * * * * * + / * * * * * + (maximum)

Concert Rating: * * * * * / * * * * * +

Tracks: 1.Also Sprach Zarathustra 2.See See Rider 3.I Got A Woman / Amen 4.Love Me 5.Trying To Get To You 6.All Shook Up 7.Steamroller Blues 8.Teddy Bear / Don't Be Cruel 9.Love Me Tender 10.Medley: Long Tall Sally / Whole Lotta Shakin Going On / Mama Don't Dance / Flip, Flop & Fly / Jailhouse Rock / Hound Dog 11.Fever 12.Polk Salad Annie 12.Why Me Lord 13.How Great Thou Art 14.Suspicious Minds 15.Introductions By Elvis 16.Blueberry Hill / I Can't Stop Loving You 17.Help Me 18.An American Trilogy 19.Let Me Be There 20.My Baby Left Me 21.Lawdy Miss Clawdy 22.Funny How Time Slips Away 23.Can't Help Falling In Love. (marked bold are previously officially unreleased performances)

Package: The package is the one from the new sized FTD discs. A big booklet inside, but with poor color photos. The cover's scanned from the English LP release. March 1974-th Elvis' tour schedule is also inside the booklet. Also inside you can find an article (from Commercial appeal) by James Kingsley.

Elvis: He is just fantastic. This is his 5-th show in his hometown since 1961 (the first one released on the Hello Memphis bootleg) and as he says: "I was a little worried for the first show last Saturday, but the audience knocked me out. They were great and I appreciated it."

Songs: I guess there is no big need in a in-depth talk about this show. It was first officially released on CD back in 1994 and was the same as the LP release, missing 9 songs and the introductions. Then followed a bootleg CD Steamroller blues with a very bad mix of the RCA release and soundboard record of the officially excluded songs. And now we finally have a complete high-quality recording of this historic event. We can even hear El Dvorin saying, that "Elvis has left for Graceland" at the end of the show.

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