Viva Las Vegas

[blackdiamond]

http://elvisconcerts.com/forum/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif (http://elvisconcerts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6368#6368)Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject: Viva Las Vegashttp://elvisconcerts.com/forum/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/icon_quote.gif (http://elvisconcerts.com/forum/posting.php?mode=quote&p=6368) http://elvisconcerts.com/forum/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/icon_edit.gif (http://elvisconcerts.com/forum/posting.php?mode=editpost&p=6368) http://elvisconcerts.com/forum/templates/subSilver/images/icon_delete.gif (http://elvisconcerts.com/forum/posting.php?mode=delete&p=6368&sid=10c75a50d12f60ca7c93e6eb9da0891b) Yesterday I bought the latest RCA release Viva Las Vegas. As you may (or not) know it is a double CD set with on CD 1 commonly known live material but on CD 2 there's a previously unreleased concert (!) from August 21, 1969 included! http://elvisconcerts.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif

I have a song description on my board:



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[Brian Quinn]

The U.S.A. version of this album has only one disc with already released tracks. It has entered the Billboard Album Charts at No.94 in its first week selling some 8100 copies at retail according to Soundscan.


Brian

[thehillbillycat]

The U.S.A. version of this album has only one disc with already released tracks. It has entered the Billboard Album Charts at No.94 in its first week selling some 8100 copies at retail according to Soundscan.


Brian


No, there is two different versions of Viva Las Vegas. There is the regular one disc version and there is a Walmart Exclusive version that is two discs. Disc one is the regular version that is one the one disc release and disc two is the concert that was release under the FTD release Elvis At The International. Both are U.S.A.

The covers are the same but different as well. The one disc has a black background with Elvis (as seen on the FTD release Elvis At The International). Back features the sign of the International Hotel with a black and grey background. The two disc version is the one that is provided on the site that blackdiamond provided. But where all the black is in the background is all brown on the two disc version.

[srj1967]

disc two is the concert that was release under the FTD release Elvis At The International.


I may be wrong, but it's a different show. FTD was August 23rd; this new one is August 21st (James Burton's birthday).

I haven't listened to the FTD one for a while, so ...

[Brian Quinn]

Isn't the world becoming complicated. Why can't Sony BMG just issue the same product all over the world.


Brian (n)

[srj1967]

Isn't the world becoming complicated. Why can't Sony BMG just issue the same product all over the world.



For the same reason film companies lumber us with that stupid "regional coding" on DVDs. Copyright, they say. It's rubbish. Thankfully, now most modern players can play any region DVD.

[thehillbillycat]

I may be wrong, but it's a different show. FTD was August 23rd; this new one is August 21st (James Burton's birthday).

I haven't listened to the FTD one for a while, so ...


You are right on that! Someone told me it was from the FTD.

[KPM]

Its a shame they did not release a one disc version of the 8-21-69 live show at the International. I would much rather have it than the already released live cuts.

[srj1967]

Checked both today - they're two different shows.

Although there's a lot of dialogue that's exactly the saem, which tells me the FTD one may have had a few different sources.