Southern Nights - Elvis Presley

Believe it or not, the king of rock and roll, Elvis Presley gave over 1000 live performances between 1970 and his early death in 1977. Most of these performances included the same tracks because Elvis had both become bored with performing so often and he had also began to forget the words on stage, so sticking to the same songs helped eradicate this. Although the songs were often the same, the performances were often very different as sometimes Elvis would be right up for it whilst others he was very lethargic. The Elvis specialist record label FTD have done their very best to bring together a collection of the best performances from these shows and marketed ...  Read the complete review

During the 1970s Elvis Presley gave over 1000 live performances, many of them featuring the same songs. The reason for the similarity of the material was due to ease of rehearsal, and also because Elvis was quite bored and didn't want to spend lots of time working up lots of new material. This is not to say that there are not rare performances of songs which Elvis didn't sing live very often however. This CD from the Elvis Presley specialist record label FTD is an attempt to collect together a range of songs which he performed less often, and to present them as a kind of alternative concert. This concept really works. It is quite a treat, after ...  Read the complete review