Title: Bright Midnight With Elvis (Las Vegas Summer Festival vol. 2) (released in 2004)

Label: Memory Records

Date: August 20, 1970, International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada (midnight show) + bonus: August 19, 1970, International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada (evening show)

Sound Quality: * * + / * * * * * +

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

Tracks: 1.Opening Vamp 2.That's All Right, Mama 3.I Got A Woman / Ave Maria (excerpt) 4.Tiger Man 5.Playing with "birds" and laughing box / Monologue 6.Love Me Tender (with false start) 7.I've Lost You 8.Sweet Caroline 9.You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' 10.Polk Salad Annie 11.Band Introductions 12.Sweet Inspiration 13.Band Introductions (ctd.) 14.Johnny B. Goode 15. Band Introductions (ctd.) 16.The Wonder Of You 17.Heartbreak Hotel 18.Blue Suede Shoes 19.Hound Dog 20.More (one verse) 21.Bridge Over Troubled Water 22.Suspicious Minds (laughing version) 23.Can't Help Falling In Love 24.Clossing Vamp Bonus: 25.Tiger Man (as show opening song) 26.I've Lost You 27.You Don't Have To Say You Love Me 28.Polk Salad Annie 29.Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Package: The package is done with great care with the same design as the previous volume of Las Vegas Summer Festival Vol. 1 - Dinner Bell In Vegas. All necessary information may be found inside 4 pages color booklet. The information also includes so called "technical data" with the description of the equipment used to record the show.

Elvis: Comparing to the dinner show, this one is more interesting from different points of view. First of all this is midnight show and Elvis became more "in tempo". He was so interested in the show that he performed almost complete version of Sweet Inspiration. He also did that only once later - during September 1 midnight show. Very famous laughing version of Suspicious Minds is a true highlight.

Highlights: This show was previously released on the CD Midnight Inspiration - A Night To Remember" (1994), but the producers consider it's sound more poor. The only unreleased song from this disc is from the dinner show the day before (I've Lost You). It was missed from Double Dynamite CD (1998), which contained August 19, 1970 dinner show.

In overall this CD is a bit weaker than The Dinner Bell In Vegas, but it makes the complete picture of August 20, 1970 show day and is good for collectors of audience recordings.

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