The Complete Elvis Presley Masters - Sony

Seconded!

 

How many collectors do you think will even break the seal? I'll bet half of the sets will be snapped up by the usual e-bay sellers, sit on them for a year or two, and then try to flog them for 5 grand each.

I wouldn't pay thirty dollars a disc for these if Elvis himself came back from the grave to deliver them.

 

Good point.

 

Insane pricing - why not price this more reasonably, and hence encourage more sales so people can AFFORD them?! This just plays into the hands of internet piracy!

Greedy bastards.

 

Two words: Limited Edition.

Brings out the fools every time!

 

well not sure fools is the right word...many chose not to get the franklin mint box due to its unusual sequencing...

still its quite pricey...and wondering what besides the certificate makes it limited edition myself...

do they not reproduce the book for the cheaper edition?

will be interesting to see how this plays out and how quickly this website sells out of its 1000 copies....

 

As far as I can tell, the 'rare' recordings are on discs 28, 29 and 30. Yet when added up, the number of songs on these three discs totals 84 tracks. As the set is advertised as including 103 rarities, does anyone know what the other rare 19 tracks are?

Disc 28
1.Blue Moon Of Kentucky (alternate take)
2.Shake, Rattle And Roll (alternate take 8)
3.I Beg Of You (alternate master)
4.One Night (Of Sin)
5.Loving You (fast version)
6.Treat Me Nice (movie version)
7.King Creole (1st version take 3)
8.As Long As I Have You (alternate master)
9.Lover Doll (LP version)
10.Doncha' Think It's Time (LP version)
11.Your Cheatin' Heart (alternate take 9)
12.Ain't That Loving You Baby (alternate take 11)
13.Big Boots (alternate master fast version)
14.Black Star (alternate title song)
15.Lonely Man (solo version)
16.Can't Help Falling In Love (movie version)
17.I'm Yours (single version - without harmony vocal and spoken part)
18.King Of The Whole Wide World (1st version - take 31)
19.One Broken Heart For Sale (movie version)
20.Memphis, Tennessee (1st version)
21.Ask Me (1st version)
22.Today, Tomorrow And Forever (duet version)
23.I'm A Roustabout (alternate title song - originally titled "Roustabout")
24.Tomorrow Night (overdubbed version)
25.It Hurts Me
26.Let Yourself Go
27.A Hundred Years From Now (studio jam)
28.Amazing Grace (alternate take 2)
29.Lady Madonna (studio jam)
30.I Shall Be Released
31.She Thinks I Still Care (alternate take 2B)

Disc 29
1.Tweedle Dee
2.Maybellene
3.Heartbreak Hotel
4.Long Tall Sally
5.Blue Suede Shoes
6.Money Honey
7.That's All Right
8.Are You Lonesome Tonight?
9.Blue Suede Shoes
10.Baby What You Want Me To Do
11.Love Me
12.Trying To Get To You
13.Are You Lonesome Tonight? (laughing version)
14.Little Sister/Get Back
15.Bridge Over Troubled Water
16.Never Been To Spain
17.You Gave Me A Mountain
18.A Big Hunk O' Love
19.The Impossible Dream
20.It's Over
21.Reconsider Baby
22.You're The Reason I'm Living
23.Softly As I Leave You
24.America
25.Unchained Melody

Disc 30
1.My Happiness
2.That's When Your Heartaches Begin
3.I'll Never Stand In Your Way
4.It Wouldn't Be The Same Without You
5.Fool, Fool, Fool
6.I Asked The Lord
7.Earth Angel
8.I'm Beginning To Forget You
9.Mona Lisa
10.(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame (studio rehearsal)
11.Viva Las Vegas (studio rehearsal)
12.If I Loved You
13.Tennessee Waltz
14.What Now My Love
15.Show Me Thy Ways, O Lord
16.Oh How I Love Jesus
17.Hide Thou Me
18.Write To Me From Naples
19.My Heart Cries For You
20.Dark Moon
21.A Little Less Conversation
22.It's My Way/This Time/I Can't Stop Loving You (studio jam)
23.Faded Love (studio rehearsal)
24.Ghost Riders In The Sky (rehearsal jam)
25.Alla En El Rancho Grande (rehearsal jam)
26.Froggy Went A Courtin' (rehearsal jam
27.I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
28.The Twelfth Of Never (rehearsal)

 

thanks for posting that Shawn...I always dreamed a full version of him doing Ghost Riders in the Sky would somehow materialize...seemed a perfect song for him to nail...

 

Two words: Mono Beatles.

2009: The Fool on the Hill
2010: A Fool Such as I

 

I assume it's this version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVAp258IPBY

 

They are spread across the other discs. Some of the songs are

Danny
When It Rains It Really Pours (Sun Version)
For The Good Times
My Way (Studio Version)

 

From what I can see masters released after Elvis' lifetime (e.g. "Danny", "My way") seem to be intermixed with the masters on the first 27 discs while the last 3 discs seem to contain alternate takes, live tracks, rehearsals and home recordings.

 

Betcha they'll release the "rarities" as a new 2-disc compilation soon after this goes out of print. Suckers...

 

If Sony can put out that Miles Davis (72?) disc set for around £150 there should be no reason why the standard release of this Elvis set can't come in around £100.

 

yeah, i'm figuring it. It's one of those songs I wish he'd actually recorded...

 

Subtotal $749.00
Tax $0.00
Shipping $9.99
Grand Total $758.99

 

Thanks Claus and thenexte. It will be interesting to see how they handle some of these tracks like "Dark Moon" which was edited on the FTD HOME RECORDINGS but unedited on A GOLDEN CELEBRATION.

 

Well, now that's just a freakin' steal! They're practically giving it away!

 

I bought it...for the new remastering.

 

Looks like the live albums released during his lifetime are included too.

 

I'm surprised the forum here hasn't tried to address this more. Seems important that a complete box is incomplete. Elvis experts: Why may these tracks have been omitted?

 

Mama is on disc 8. No sign of Let's Forget About The Stars.

 

The big problem that I have with both this box and the Franklin Mint set is with the '68 Comeback Special "studio" tracks (e.g. "Nothingville", "Let Yourself Go" etc--see page 248 of Jorgensen's book). They don't have the masters as separate tracks but rather as part of assembled "concert" medleys. Thus, the tracks are out of chronological order. For my personal collection made from the Franklin Mint set, I separated out each fragment as a separate track and put them in chronological order. It's a little jumpy, but it's historically accurate!

 

Aww man, one missing song! That's worse.

 

It's strange if it's not included and a mistake.

It's also strange why I Shall Be Released is included but not the rehearsal It's Diff'rent Now from 1973 and the version of I Love You Because found on the Elvis At Sun disc is not there either.