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The Complete '68 Comeback Special (Limited Edition Deluxe) | 
| Artist: Elvis Presley
Label: SonyBMG
Category: Music
List Price: £33.99
Buy New: £27.89
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 22819
Format: Box Set, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 5.6 x 1.1
MPN: 730626
UPC: 886973062623
EAN: 0886973062623
ASIN: B001AX60KU
Release Date: August 4, 2008
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Trouble/Guitar Man | | • | Lawdy, Miss Clawdy/Baby, What You Want Me To Do | | • | Where Could I Go But To The Lord/Up Above My Head/Saved | | • | Blue Christmas/One Night | | • | Memories | | • | Medley: Nothingville/Big Boss Man/Guitar Man/Little Egypt/Trouble/Guitar Man | | • | If I Can Dream | | • | It Hurts Me | | • | Let Yourself Go | | • | A Little Less Conversation | | • | Memories (Stereo Mix) |
Disc 2
| • | Introductions | | • | That's All Right | | • | Heartbreak Hotel | | • | Love Me | | • | Baby What You Want Me To Do | | • | Blue Suede Shoes | | • | Baby What You Want Me To Do | | • | Lawdy Miss Clawdy | | • | Are You Lonesome Tonight? | | • | When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again | | • | Blue Christmas | | • | Trying To Get To You | | • | One Night | | • | Baby What You Want Me To Do | | • | One Night | | • | Memories | | • | Heartbreak Hotel | | • | One Night | | • | Heartbreak Hotel | | • | Hound Dog | | • | All Shook Up | | • | Can't Help Falling In Love | | • | Jailhouse Rock | | • | Don't Be Cruel | | • | Blue Suede Shoes | | • | Love Me Tender | | • | Trouble/Guitar Man | | • | Baby What You Want Me To Do | | • | If I Can Dream |
Disc 3
| • | Heartbreak Hotel | | • | Baby What You Want Me To Do | | • | Introductions | | • | That's All Right | | • | Are You Lonesome Tonight? | | • | Baby What You Want Me To Do | | • | Blue Suede Shoes | | • | One Night | | • | Love Me | | • | Trying To Get To You | | • | Lawdy Miss Clawdy | | • | Santa Claus Is Back In Town | | • | Blue Christmas | | • | Tiger Man | | • | When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again | | • | Memories | | • | Heartbreak Hotel | | • | Hound Dog | | • | All Shook Up | | • | Can't Help Falling In Love | | • | Jailhouse Rock | | • | Don't Be Cruel | | • | Blue Suede Shoes | | • | Love Me Tender | | • | Trouble | | • | Trouble | | • | Trouble/Guitar Man | | • | Trouble/Guitar Man | | • | If I Can Dream |
Disc 4
| • | I Got A Woman | | • | Blue Moon/Young Love/Oh, Happy Day | | • | When It Rains It Really Pours | | • | Blue Christmas | | • | Are You Lonesome Tonight?/That's My Desire | | • | That's When Your Heartaches Begin | | • | Peter Gun theme | | • | Love Me | | • | When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again | | • | Blue Christmas/Santa Claus Is Back In Town | | • | Danny Boy | | • | Baby What You Want Me To Do | | • | Love Me | | • | Tiger Man | | • | Santa Claus Is Back In Town | | • | Lawdy, Miss Clawdy | | • | One Night | | • | Blue Christmas | | • | Baby What You Want Me To Do | | • | When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again | | • | Blue Moon Of Kentucky |
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| Customer Reviews:
Exciting Elvis October 26, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This 4 set CD is superb! Pleased to hear the TV recordings from 1968 - a good mix to suit everyone's taste, I particularly like his rendition of 'Where could I go but to the Lord' vocals are excellent and you can feel the atmosphere of the session he really puts everything into the songs and has the girls screaming with delight. I can't add anything further other than - buy it, it is brilliant to say the least.
The resurrection of a King! September 7, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Once the revolutionary icon of American music from the fifties, Elvis Presley had, by 1968, almost become obsolete. The changing trends in popular music (think: British invasion, "psychedelic" music...) was a contributing factor. But Elvis mostly suffered from the greedy mismanagement of the infamous "Colonel" Parker who made him appear in movies that went from bad to worse. This, in turn, cut him from live performance.
The decision to record a TV Christmas show proved to be a cornerstone in Elvis' career. Witness to informal jamming sessions where the musicians would be sitting in Elvis' room, the TV producer persuaded Elvis (despite Parker's objections) to film similar sessions in order to intersperse them with the more polished shootage.
The original album LP included both types of material but leaned heavily on the latter cuts. Some of the informal material was sporadically released through the ensuing years.
Elvis delivered an incredible performance throughout the television special. His vocals were loose and gutsy showing, for the first time in about ten years that Elvis could still deliver. The musicians, including studio pros as well as his earliest bandmates, Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana, are top-notch. Bones Howe's sound recording is excellent, as usual. By the way, this TV special let everybody see that, while no virtuoso, Elvis definitely knew his way around a guitar.
This "40th anniversary" 4-CD box set collects the original LP and bonus tracks on the first disc. The second and third CD present Elvis' complete performances of both the 'informal" and "polished" shows. The fourth disc includes earlier, very loose rehearsals for the TV special. A lavish, well-documented booklet is included.
Of course, a 4-CD set comprising material from a single show - with much song duplication - could prove too much of a good thing for anyone but the true fans.
Considering the price, it represents nonetheless pretty good value for money. Those intense, spirited and moving performances, mixing rock, country, blues, soul, pop and everything in-between prove to be an unexpected resurrection as well as a formidable testament to the King's talents.
"The Complete '68 Comeback Special" also constitutes the definitive, if belated, blueprint for what was to be the rest of Elvis' career.
Elvis Tiger Man unplugged August 19, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This 4 cd set represents most of what is available from the '68 TV Special live and studio recordings. It is great to have it all in one box set as earlier releases were rather fragmented. I don't think there is much unreleased material on this and certainly there is no indication of any unreleased material at all in the comprehensive booklet which accompanies the set. Having said that some of the dialogue did appear "new" to me. Elvis does a grand rocking job throughout and as we all know was lean, mean and vocall fired up throughout. Buy it and enjoy the best ever Unplugged set ever!
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