Title: Dinner Bell In Vegas (Las Vegas Summer Festival vol. 1) (released 2004)

Label: Memory Records

Date: August 20, 1970 (dinner show) + bonus August 19, 1970 (midnight 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.Monologue 6.Love Me Tender (with false start) 7.I've Lost You 8.I Just Can't Help Believin' 9.You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' 10.Polk Salad Annie 11.Band Introductions 12.Johnny B. Goode 13.Band Introductions (ctd.) 14.Celebbrity Introductions (Ruth Boyd and the Rinky-Dinks) 15.The Wonder Of You 16.Heartbreak Hotel 17.Memphis Tennessee (one verse) 18.One Night 19.Blue Suede Shoes 20.Hound Dog 21.Bridge Over Troubled Water 22.Suspicious Minds 23.Can't Help Falling In Love 24.Clossing Vamp / Announcements Bonus Tracks: 25.I Just Can't Help Believin' 26.Johnny B. Goode 27.The Wonder Of You 28.All Shook Up 29.Suspicious Minds.

Package: The package is done with great care with the same design as the follow up of this CD - Bright Midnight With Elvis. All the necessary information may be found inside the 4 page-color booklet. The information also includes the so called "technical data" with the description of the equipment used to record the show

Elvis: The show is more intimate than it was when the MGM crew was at the International Hotel. Many songs where dropped out of the show program. However, Elvis enjoys making kisses during Love Me Tender. He also puts his best in Bridge Over Troubled Water and I Just Can't Help Believin'. Very interesting is the one verse of Memphis Tennessee. In overall, this whole third season in Vegas deserves to be completely released. At the moment only about 10 shows from 66 were released. They mostly include shows from August, but not from the September part of the engagement. Hopefully some day the very interesting closing show from September 7 will be released.

Highlights: This show was previously released in an incomplete form on the CD "Dinner Date With Elvis" (1991) and on improved version of this CD (1997). However, Dinner Bell In Vegas contains the complete show. This means it has three previously unreleased songs: Love Me Tender, You've Lost That Loving Feeling and Suspicious Minds. Not too much, but it if you don't have the previous releases it is a good option to have a complete show.

Bonus songs are from the evening show the day before. They were previously released on Double Dynamite CD (1998). I can't understand the reason they where put here, since Double Dynamite is somehow a not very old CD and most collectors have it.

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