Complete Dressing Room Session, The

Complete Dressing Room Session, The

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Tracks:

01. I got a woman
02. Blue moon
03. Young love
04. Oh happy day
05. Guitar boogie (instrumental)
06. When it rains it really pours
07. Blue Christmas
08. Are you lonesome tonight / That's my desire
09. That's my desire
10. That's when your heartaches begin
11. That's when your heartaches begin
12. Peter Gunn theme / Baby what's wrong (instrumental)
13. Love me
14. When my blue moon turns to gold again
15. Blue Christmas
16. Santa Claus is back in town

17. Danny boy (instrumental)
18. Baby what you want me to do (instrumental)
19. Love me
20. Tiger man
21. That's allright
22. Peter Gunn theme (instrumental)
23. Santa Claus is back in town
24. Lawdy miss clawdy
25. One night
26. Blue Christmas
27. When my blue moon turns to gold again
28. Blue moon of Kentucky
29. Dialogue

30. Baby what you want me to do

31. If I can dream (instrumental)
32. If I can dream (false start)

Label: Memphis Sound MS 001
Released: 2000
Sound quality: good

Date: June 24-26, 1968
Location: Burbank, California

Reviews: n/a

Although the sound isn't really great, it isn't a big problem with this CD. This dressingroom jam session has been recorded on a cassettetape, so the sound is flat and unbalanced. But it really doesn't matter this time. This cd gives you Elvis in the raw, unpollished way that you have seen on the NBC special. But now in the dressingroom, rehearsing songs with band and friends, talking about the show, jamming and fooling around.

If only this CD had been packed in a great cover -Madison, Luxor, Memory- then this CD could have been one of the favourites among fans. But the way it is presented now it's a CD that you easily overlook.

Elvis at his best and purest

Ok, the cover isn't one of the greatest, but it's the content that counts. To me this double disc is one of the most interesting import releases. It's really great to hear Elvis play along with his (almost former) buddies Scotty Moore and DJ Fontana. If only they had done another record in 1968....

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