Reply With QuoteThanks for that Steve!
Never seen that photo before, sad theres no chance of that conference being filmed with the camera though...that would be something else.
I agree it could have been all those things-but its funny he would see it as a RCA mobile recording unit? Tutt was no stranger to the recording industry and must have seen a few mobile recording outfits in his time. (and a few ice cream trucks)Originally Posted by Getlo
RCA has been notorious for a lack of good record keeping so it would not surprise me that they have no record of this.(as you say if it happened) I read a few years back on the net that when Sony and BMG merged in 2004 they began to try and unravel some of the information gaps and found a warehouse of recording info, sales information, etc.. which RCA had in storage and did nothing with.
Ernst Jorgenson has said the records of the regular sessions were not always complete-it was not until he began to dig that he began to piece together what RCA had and even then it was not always where it was suppose to be:
Ernst - In the early 90s, I got to know exactly what tapes were in the RCA vaults. And that is still the most fascinating story because nobody knew. There were two things they didn't know. They didn't know what they had and they didn't know what they had lost. So when we eventually established what they had we went in to examine what was lost. There was a guy named Bruce Hailstalk who ran the tape vault, and he was the keeper of the vault in New York. There were vaults in other places, in Nashville, in Indianapolis and in Los Angeles. He was one of those people who kept everything. He had shipping paperwork going way back. He was the one who had to break the news to me that in 1959 the president of RCA Records thought he'd save some money on warehouse spending so he dumped literally ten thousand tapes including the tapes with the outtakes of most of Elvis' Fifties repertoire and even some of the masters. Just to save a buck. That was one headache.
Ernst- Another thing I did with Bruce, even after he left, was to meticulously go over and find every trace of paperwork about tapes that were once at the company but no longer there. I'd try to find out when their paper trail stopped, which would indicate when it got lost and where it could have gotten lost. Sometimes you'd find some stuff at the other vaults. I also had to go outside of the company and find people who were involved at the time. Eventually you find people who knew something about somebody and some of the tapes would turn up again.......
So Getlo taking all these things into consideration I am hopeful perhaps there may still be some things that are still unknown and yet to surface.
Althought the more time that goes by-the less likely that becomes.
Thanks for that Steve!
Never seen that photo before, sad theres no chance of that conference being filmed with the camera though...that would be something else.
"How do I get placed in situations like this? Ah hell, I guess it's all part of showbusiness "~ Elvis in his limo on his way to perform in Omaha, NE on June 19th 1977
There is nothing here that indicates a video camera. It looks just like the other still cameras, only mounted on a tripod.
Getlo - cute'n'cuddly
I back this comment up cept that, I believe it was recorded for record release and some of it was all ready released by RCA and FTD. As for filming it for a historical event, I don't think there's any professional film of it. I've seen some 8mm videos maybe taped by Elvis himself to see how he looked on stage and work on his act. Quoting, Marty Lacker, he said they didn't have an act at that point.
I can't help but think that the Colonel thought of Elvis as another bad product he was pushing on people. He was of the mindset that, Elvis' music was a passing faze. Also, he did everything cheap. Down to Elvis not even having his own light show after 1973 a lot of the new big performers where using.
It was pretty much ad lib.
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What was recorded for release, what do you mean here?
Getlo - cute'n'cuddly
Sorry, I meant the audio of the 1969 comeback.
Ok.
Unfortunately, RCA chose not to record until August 21. I'm sure they wanted to give Elvis a chance to work out any kinks in the show.
But surely, even after a couple of nights, they could have seen Elvis was on fire, and sent in the recording crews.
Hang the expense of the tape, too: they should have recorded that very firrst show on July 31 (or at least the first "proper" show the next night). We have missed out on hearing one of the most important musical comebacks ever. And sadly, we'll never hear it.
Getlo - cute'n'cuddly
I always thought it was recorded. I have to look into it. Thanks for correcting me if I'm wrong and I totally back up your feelings on the fans and the world missing out on a lot of Elvis' firsts like the Madison Square Garden shows and The 1974 Recorded Live in Memphis Show.
sorry I was going by my Fort Baxter collection and just found this out about a cd that claimed to have been opening night.
Fort Baxter released the CD OPENING NIGHT but the date written on the cover is wrong. It's not the Opening Night (July 31, 1969) and it's not Aug. 1, 1969 Dinner Show neither. The most accepted date is August 3rd, Dinner Show.
I stand corrected.
And sadly, since no recordings exist to back it up, it will become a legendary story in the music world in the years to come.
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