Out now from Venus Productions is a new CD in great sound quality. The first fourteen tracks feature mostly unedited overdub masters and some undubbed masters, all recorded during the famous Stax 1973 sessions. One of the highlight is definitely the complete unedited master of ''Promised Land'' with vocal harmony by Elvis himself, and partly used in the movie and on the album ''This Is Elvis''.
The eleven bonus tracks were all recorded after the Aloha Special for inclusion during the Special shown later that year in the USA. It features several takes of some of the performances, and dialogues between Elvis, the producer and his musicians. We are again able to present all these tracks in our usual ''out of space'' sound quality. As always there are no fade-ins, no fade-outs and all recordings were left as there were recorded. Don't miss this very limited edition and .....If it sounds like from outer space, you can be sure it's from Venus.
Tracks :
1 Promised Land Take 6* 3:06
2 It’s Midnight (undubbed) Take 19 4:45
3 If You Talk In Your Sleep Unedited master 2:50
4 Thinking About You Unedited O.V. master 4:53
5 Love Song Of The Year Unedited O.V.master 3:59
6 Help Me (with false Start) overdubbed master 2:52
7 My Boy unedited O.V. master 3:23
8 Loving Arms (with backing vocals) overdubbed master 3:03
9 Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues une. undubbed master 4:42
10 Talk About The Good Times Unedited O.V. master 2:58
11 Your Love’s Been A Long Time Coming Unedited OV. Master 4:00
12 There’s A Honky Tonk Angel Unedited O.V. master 3:24
13 If You Talk In Your Sleep Backing vocals overdub 2:24
14 If That Isn’t Love Take 1 4:04
* Take 6 V.O. : Vocal harmony by Elvis ( unedited )
Bonus tracks :
15 Blue Hawaii rehearsal (incomplete) 0:52
16 Dialogue 1:30
17 Blue Hawaii /dialogue Take 1 1:29
18 Blue Hawaii Take 2 2:34
19 Dialogue 2:15
20 Ku-U-I-Po Take 1 2:36
21 Dialogue / No More Take 1 3:34
22 Dialogue / Hawaiian Wedding Song Take 2 1:04
23 Hawaiian Wedding Song Take 3 1:55
24 Hawaiian Wedding Song Take 4 2:04
25 Early Morning Rain Take 2 3:00