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Elvis At The Hilton

October 14, 2014 | Music

From the AudiRec label a brand new double-CD Set which will be released shortly. 
CD 1 includes the complete “3 A.M.” Show while CD 2 includes the complete Dinner Show, both dated September 2, 1973.
It was the summer of 1973 - “Labor Day Weekend” brought thousands of visitors to Las Vegas. No wonder the Colonel agreed when being asked to schedule a special “3 A.M. Show” on Sunday morning (Sept. 2) to fulfill the many requests for tickets. Elvis was so popular in Vegas, it is hard to compare with any of today´s artists. So it is never a fault to say that Elvis was indeed the “King Of Vegas”. For our first release and with all the technical help we could get from our friends from the “Straight Arrow” Label we were able to obtain two rare shows, both from September 2, 1973. Both shows have been recorded with a tape-recorder brought in secretly and have to be called “typical audience recordings”, though clearly ones which are of real good quality for that type of recordings.

CD 1 - 02.09.1973 3 A/S:
Also Sprach Zarathustra - See See Rider - I Got A Woman / Amen - Love Me - Steamroller Blues -You Gave Me A Mountain - Trouble - Long Tall Sally / Whole Lotta Shakin´ Goin´ On / Mama Don’t Dance / Flip Flop & Fly / Hound Dog - Love Me Tender - Fever (Including Excerpt Of "Polk Salad Annie") -  What Now My Love (Funny Version) - Suspicious Minds - Band Introduction - Release Me - An American Trilogy - Mystery Train / Tiger Man - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - How Great Thou Art (With Reprise) - Can’t Help Falling In Love - Closing Vamp

CD 2 - 02.09.1973 D/S:
Also Sprach Zarathustra - See See Rider - I Got A Woman / Amen - Love Me - Steamroller Blues - You Gave Me A Mountain (Funny Version) - Trouble - Long Tall Sally / Whole Lotta Shakin´ Goin´ On / Mama Don’t Dance / Flip Flop & Fly / Hound Dog - Love Me Tender - Fever - Bridge Over Troubled Water (With Reprise) - Suspicious Minds - Band Introduction - Introduction Of Gloria Loring - My Boy - I Can’t Stop Loving You (With False Start) - (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear / Don’t Be Cruel - An American Trilogy - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - How 

Source:Elvis Information Network
Ciscoking wrote on October 15, 2014
According to what I have heard the sound is not bad. The 3 am show debuts on silver disc. The DS we hab before in incomplete form on Top Acts In Vegas Vol. 4. Elvis is in high spirits in both concerts..so this release is a must-have at least for collectors of such stuff..
Jerome wrote on October 15, 2014
They obviously did not receive Straight Arrow's help in designing this release...