Two new CDs will be released at the end of August by Memory Records. The second title is "Elvis - The Cover Up" (MR 2040-2). This is the first Memory CD that contains an eight pages booklet with a lot of rare and good photographs of Elvis in 1977 illustrating a a long essay.
It contains a collection of very rare interviews from radio and TV broadcasts (with Ginger Alden, Dr. Nick, Dr. Ghanem, Rick Stanley among others) concerning Elvis Presley tragic death, health and drug problems was. It is completed with more than twenty minutes of remastered and mostly unreleased 1977 live tracks taken from quality audience recorded tapes.
Excerpt from 8 pages booklet:
In the summer of 1979, a production team from sensational investigative TV show 20/20 moved down to Memphis. In September, the Tennessee Medical Board charged Dr Nick with gross malpractice over the illegal prescription of painkillers and other drugs to Elvis, and 13 other patients. The hour-long 20/20 special, 'The Elvis Cover-Up', was broadcast in 1979, maintaining that Presley was killed by an overdose of prescription drugs.
The Medical Board Tribunal heard evidence of astounding volumes of prescriptions written by Dr Nick. Between 1975 and 1977, he had prescribed 19,000 doses of drugs. In the first eight months of 1977 alone, he had written 199 prescriptions totalling more than 10,000 doses of sedatives, amphetamines and narcotics: all in Elvis's name."
Track listing:
01. August 16th 1977: Introduction of Ginger Alden (Rapid City 21.06.1977) / Ginger Alden interview / Overview of last 12 hours of Elvis' life / Jerry Francisco press conference (Shelby County Medical Examiner) #1.
02. I Really Don't Want To Know (Jacksonville 30.05.1977).
03. Cover-up: Maurice Elliot interview (spokesman for Baptist Memorial Hospital) / Dr. Noel Florindo interview (asst. doctor during autopsy).
04. The Truth Comes Out: Bio Science Laboratory test results / Dr. Jerry Francisco press conference #2 / Raymond Kelly interview (from Bio Science Laboratory) / Matthew Ellenhorn interview (toxicologist) / Cirol Wick interview (coroner / medical Examiner) / David Stanley interview (Elvis' stepbrother) / Ginger Alden interview (Elvis last girlfriend) / Ricky Stanley (Elvis' stepbrother) / W. S. Nash interview (pharmacist who filled Elvis' perscriptions).
05. Help Me (Lincoln 20.06.1977).
06. Geraldo Rivera asks why and who allowed this to happen to Elvis.
07. Keeping an Eye on the King: John O'Grady interview (Elvis and Vernon's private detective) / Jack Kelly interview (private detective) / Dr. Max Shapiro interview (Elvis dentist also known as Dr. Feelgood) / Ricky Stanley interview.
08. How Great Thou Art (Tempe 23.03.1977).
09. Dr. Nick speaks out: Dr. George Nichopoulos interview / Marty Lacker interview.
10. Dr. Nick Again: Dr. George Nichopoulos interview / Jack Kirsch interview.
11. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Binghampton 27.05.1977).
12. Proof of cover-up: W. J. Hampton Jr. interview (Expert on Elvis' 1977 tours).
13. Warning Signs: Conclusion of cover-up story / Barbara Childers INTERVIEW (she found prescription bottle in Elvis' airplane's trash in February, 1977 while Elvis was performing in Charlotte, NC).
14. Unchained Melody (Lincoln 20.06.1977).
15. Famous People speak about Elvis: Carl Perkins interview / Al Green interview / Chet Atkins interview / Chuck Berry interview / Charlie Rich interview / Segments of Madison Square Garden press conference.
16. More Famous People Speak about Elvis: Marianne McKinnis interview / Knox Phillips interview (Sam Phillips' son) / Elliot Clark interview / Floyd Cramer interview / Rufus Thomas interview (Black disk jockey) / J.D. Sumner interview.
17. Hurt (Johnson City 19.02.1977).
18. Elvis' close friends speak: Richard Scates (Elvis Memphis Friend) / Willie Nichols (Elvis' Memphis friend) / Sonny West and Dave Hebler interview (Elvis' Bodyguards) regarding their book "Elvis What Happened" / Dr. Elias Ghanam interview / Sonny West interview / Marion Cocke interview (Elvis Nurse) / J.D. Sumner interview Sonny West Interview / David Stanley interview / My Way (excerpt, Orlando, 15.02.1977).
Czech CD: The Cover Up
August 24, 2004 | Music
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CD King wrote on
August 26, 2004
Czech Republic 's Memory Records keeps releasing these CDs. Are they legal? The only thing good about these cds is that the cover-sleeves is nice but the audience recordings inspite of being remastered etc are still crap and a pain to my ears.
elvishimselvis wrote on
August 25, 2004
This cd sounds very very interesting... some things I dont have in my collection.. and straight from the people whom were there.
Mofoca22 wrote on
August 25, 2004
i dont mind some of the interviews on there but come on i want more music and i wanna hear elvis' side. we never heard it from elvis' side really. but i have a great idea what he would say one would be the poem " men with broken hearts" and then he would tell us he did it his way. plus his jaycee award speech in 1971 and various other press conferences. who cares what dr. nick says or geraldo or anyone else who is just gonna bash elvis.