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From Elvis in Memphis | 
| Artist: Elvis Presley
Label: RCA/Legacy
Category: Music
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1728
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: 751497
UPC: 886975149728
EAN: 0886975149728
ASIN: B002BX4VEK
Release Date: July 27, 2009
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Wearin' That Loved On Look | | • | Only The Strong Survive | | • | I'll Hold You In My Heart (Till I Can Hold You In My Arms) | | • | Long Black Limousine | | • | It Keeps Right On A Hurtin' | | • | I'm Movin' On | | • | Power Of My Love | | • | Gentle On My Mind | | • | After Loving You | | • | True Love Travels On A Gravel Road | | • | Any Day Now | | • | In The Ghetto | | • | I'll be there | | • | Hey Jude | | • | If I'm a fool (for loving you) | | • | Who am I ? |
Disc 2
| • | Inherit The Wind | | • | This Is The Story | | • | Stranger In My Own Home Town | | • | Little Bit Of Green, | | • | And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind | | • | Do You Know Who I Am | | • | From A Jack To A King | | • | The Fair's Moving On | | • | You'll Think Of Me | | • | Without Love (There Is Nothing) | | • | In the ghetto | | • | Any Day now | | • | The Fair's Moving On | | • | Suspicious minds | | • | You'll Think Of Me | | • | Don't cry daddy | | • | Rubberneckin' | | • | Kentucky rain | | • | My Little friend | | • | Mama liked the roses |
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A Journey Back to 1969 August 1, 2009
Mr. Jamie P. Kitson (England)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
This two-disc version of `From Elvis In Memphis' collects together the `From Elvis In Memphis' and `Back In Memphis' albums, both of which were derived from Elvis's celebrated 1969 recording sessions in Memphis. Leftovers and singles taped at those sessions are also included. I won't appraise the musical merits of these songs because they have been eulogised already by many people. Instead, I'll address if it's worth upgrading the previous inclusive Memphis 1969 compilation, the double CD set `Suspicious Minds'. Despite my misgivings when this latest project was first announced, it is phenomenally good. The sound is very classy, yet the rawness and emotionality that underpinned the greatness of the original album are somehow enhanced. The overall timbre is crystal clear yet full of warmth. But what tingles the spine the most is the detail now plainly audible in Elvis' voice - I've never before heard him sounding so evocative, so nuanced and so engaged on these recordings. I can think of no other CD set that better illustrates the point that, just as good instruments are useless in isolation, state-of-the-art sound technology only has a value when the engineers operating it are musically adept. The technicians who prepared this new set have truly picked up on the honesty, humanity and simplicity in the music, and have brilliantly brought those key elements to the fore. Closing the final disc with the singles means that the set ends on a run of mostly good songs. Some of the mono single mixes are very distinctive particularly `Kentucky Rain', its ending shorn of overdubbed strings - I'd not heard it in this form since dispensing with the old UK vinyl compilation `Hits of the 70s' half a lifetime ago. The FEIM Legacy Edition doesn't contain the out-takes found on the `Suspicious Minds' set nor its informal fragments. But this is easily one of the most intelligent and tasteful remastering jobs I have ever heard, the enormity of Elvis's talent is plain for anyone to hear, and I would urge all his fans to check it out for themselves. His singing is unbelievable.
A Feast Of Elvis! August 3, 2009
Mr. David Tinson
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Elvis Presley's 1969 triumph - FROM ELVIS IN MEMPHIS 2-CD gets the SONY LEGACY treatment culminating in a total smorgasboard of treats for the listener -- from the RB clout of "Wearin' That Loved On Look" with gorgeous gospel piano, to the majestic, gospel soul of "Long Black Limousine" the quality never drops on this superb release sounding all the better for its stunning audio upgrade.
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br /More standouts are the blues power of "Power Of My Love," side two's bluesy romp - "Stranger In My Hometown" and "From A Jack To A King's" obvious sing-a-long charm. Additionally there's wonderful sitar on "You'll Think Of Me."
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br /The CD finishes with 10 classic Presley singles all recorded in mono: "Suspicious Minds," "Kentucky Rain," "Rubberneckin" and "Don't Cry Daddy" - there's to many highlights to mention here but definitely something for everyone in a classic 2-CD package.
Stellar expansion of 1969 Elvis milestone July 29, 2009
hyperbolium (Earth, USA)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Elvis Presley wasn't just the King of Rock `n' Roll, he was an artist who prospered in spite of an unsympathetic manager, and a star who rose to a second great peak, resurrected himself from the ashes of a moribund career. His incendiary, game-changing hits of the `50s led to the start of a bright film career, but after losing his crown in a repetitive string of artistically lean popcorn movies, it took a string of three iconic performances to regain the throne. The first, 1967's How Great Thou Art, was a gospel album anchored in Elvis' musical roots; the second, an iconic NBC comeback special in 1968, proved he still had the rock `n' roll spark; and the third, this 1969 return to his Memphis home ground, showed he still had something new and potent to offer. There was more, including live and country albums, but the artistic and commercial renaissance of 1967-69, capped by this soul and gospel masterpiece (and its hit single, "In the Ghetto"), is one of the great comebacks in music history.
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br /Even more impressive, the album's dozen tunes are less than half the Memphis sessions' output. RCA's 2-CD Legacy reissue collects 36 tracks from Elvis' stay at Chip Moman's American Studio, adding ten tracks from the second platter of From Memphis to Vegas - From Vegas to Memphis (subsequently reissued as Back in Memphis), four single mixes of album tracks, six non-LP singles (including the trio of chart hits "Suspicious Minds," "Don't Cry Daddy," and "Kentucky Rain"), and four bonus tracks. Having recorded in Nashville and Hollywood since his mid-50s departure from Sun, Elvis returned to Memphis to find soul music still heavily influenced by gospel and blues, but also powered by the bass-and-horns funk developed by the Stax, Hi, FAME, American and Muscle Shoals studios.
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br /Buoyed by the success of his televised comeback, Elvis shook off the insipid material he'd been recording, and dug deeply into a set of blues, country, gospel and pop sounds, pushed by Moman and his crack studio band. You can hear Elvis rediscovering himself as he tests his crooning, wandering through a loose arrangement of "I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)" that turns Eddy Arnold's 1940s country twanger into an emotion-soaked gospel. He's commanding with the testimony of "Power of My Love" and swaggering and blue at the same time on "After Loving You." He nails a slow-burning gospel-tinged cover of "Long Black Limousine," lightens to horn-lined Memphis melancholy with "Any Day Now" and closes the album with the stunning "In the Ghetto." The extras on disc one are finished tracks that include Bobby Darin's "I'll Be There," the Beatles' "Hey Jude," and the gospel "Who Am I?"
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br /The ten tracks of the follow-up album open disc two, and though the sessions were well picked-over for the original album, there are several highlights in the second set, including the slow building blues rocker "Stranger in My Own Hometown," the dramatic farewell of "The Fair's Moving On" and the gospel soul "Without Love (There is Nothing)." Disc two's pay-off are the original mono single mixes, six of which don't appear on either Memphis album, including the hits "Suspicious Minds," "Don't Cry Daddy" and "Kentucky Rain," and the supremely funky "Rubberneckin'." All of these tracks have been previously released, scattered across LPs and singles, and brought together on collections such as The Memphis Record and Suspicious Minds. But never before has Elvis' homecoming been drawn as such a vivid portrait.
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br /This brief leave from Col. Parker's stifling control gave Elvis a chance to go home, both literally and figuratively, and the circumstances in which to wax one of the two or three finest albums of his career. The energy created in Memphis sustained the King through a resurgent live show, but as the bubble closed back around him, these blue-eyed soul sessions turned into the last studio high point of his extraordinary career. Legacy's 2-CD set is delivered in a tri-fold digipack that reproduces the covers of both From Elvis in Memphis and Back in Memphis, and includes a 24-page booklet stuffed with photos and excellent liner notes by Robert Gordon and Tara McAdams. [©2009 hyperbolium dot com]
Memphis Magic July 24, 2009
M. ROSS-TREVOR (York)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This CD is an essential purchase you get the complete 'Elvis In Memphis' and 'Back In Memphis' albums in the original running orders plus the titles that they left behind as a bonus and also the singles from these sessions with the original mono mixes as released in the late sixties, the mono mixes alone are worth the price of this album and they have all been newly remastered. Elvis at his best, buy it !!!
The king at his best August 1, 2009
Kevin Riley (manchester, U.K)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
No one other than Elvis Presley could go from trashy boring movie sountracks to this raw powerful music.
br /After doing his famous 68 comeback special, Elvis went into the studio with Chips Moman and over 2 months January/February 1969 he produced his 'From Elvis in Memphis' album. That album was simply his best album ever.
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br /Now, we have the legacy edition which has all the tracks he recorded at these sessions. Just put the cd on and wallow in the music, Elvis was never better than this. Miss it at your peril.
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