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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Make Me Know It
2. Soldier Boy
3. Stuck on You
4. Fame and Fortune
5. Mess of Blues, A
6. It Feels So Right
7. Fever
8. Like a Baby
9. It's Now or Never
10. Girl of My Best Friend, The
11. Dirty, Dirty Feeling
12. Thrill of Your Love
13. I Gotta Know
14. Such a Night
15. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
16. Girl Next Door Went A'Walking
17. I Will Be Home Again
18. Reconsider Baby
19. Surrender
20. I'm Comin' Home
21. Gently
22. In Your Arms
23. Give Me the Right
24. I Feel So Bad
25. It's a Sin
26. I Want You With Me
27. There's Always Me
DISC 2:
1. Starting Today
2. Sentimental Me
3. Judy
4. Put the Blame on Me
5. Kiss Me Quick
6. That's Someone You Never Forget
7. I'm Yours
8. His Latest Flame
9. Little Sister
10. For the Millionth and the Last Time
11. Good Luck Charm
12. Anything That's Part of You
13. I Met Her Today
14. Night Rider
15. Something Blue
16. Gonna Get Back Home Somehow
17. Easy Question, (Such an)
18. Fountain of Love
19. Just For Old Time Sake
20. You'll Be Gone
21. I Feel That I've Known You Forever
22. Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello
23. Suspicion
24. She's Not You
25. Echoes of Love
26. Please Don't Drag That String Around
27. Devil in Disguise, (You're the)
28. Never Ending
29. What Now, What Next, Where To
30. Witchcraft
31. Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers
32. Love Me Tonight
DISC 3:
1. Long Lonely Highway, (It's A)
2. Western Union
3. Slowly But Surely
4. Blue River
5. Memphis Tennessee
6. Ask Me
7. It Hurts Me
8. Down in the Alley
9. Tomorrow Is a Long Time
10. Love Letters
11. Beyond the Reef - (previously unreleased)
12. Come What May - (previously unreleased, take 7)
13. Fools Fall in Love
14. Indescribably Blue
15. I'll Remember You - (previously unreleased)
16. If Every Day Was Like Christmas
17. Suppose - (previously unreleased)
18. Guitar Man / What'd I Say
19. Big Boss Man
20. Mine
21. Just Call Me Lonesome
22. Hi-Heel Sneakers - (previously unreleased)
23. You Don't Know Me
24. Singing Tree
25. Too Much Monkey Business
26. U.S. Male
DISC 4:
1. Long Black Limousine
2. This Is the Story
3. Wearin' That Loved on Look
4. You'll Think of Me
5. Little Bit of Green, A
6. Gentle on My Mind
7. I'm Movin' On
8. Don't Cry Daddy
9. Inherit the Wind
10. Mama Liked the Roses
11. My Little Friend
12. In the Ghetto
13. Rubberneckin'
14. From a Jack to a King
15. Hey Jude
16. Without Love (There Is Nothing)
17. I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)
18. I'll Be There
19. Suspicious Minds
20. True Love Travels on a Gravel Road
21. Stranger in My Own Home Town
22. And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind
23. Power of My Love
DISC 5:
1. After Loving You
2. Do You Know Who I Am
3. Kentucky Rain
4. Only the Strong Survive
5. It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin'
6. Any Day Now
7. If I'm a Fool (For Loving You)
8. Fair Is Moving On, The
9. Who Am I?
10. This Time / I Can't Stop Loving You - (previously unreleased)
11. In the Ghetto - (previously unreleased, take 4)
12. Suspicious Minds - (previously unreleased, take 6)
13. Kentucky Rain - (previously unreleased, take 9)
14. Big Boss Man - (previously unreleased, take 2)
15. Down in the Alley - (previously unreleased, take 1)
16. Memphis Tennessee - (previously unreleased, take 1)
17. I'm Yours - (previously unreleased, take 1)
18. His Latest Flame - (previously unreleased, take 4)
19. That's Someone You Never Forget - (previously unreleased, take 1)
20. Surrender - (previously unreleased, take 1)
21. It's Now or Never
22. Love Me Tender / Witchcraft (from "The Frank Sinatra Timex Special") - (previously unreleased, from "The Frank Sinatra Timex Special")
Album Notes
FROM NASHVILLE TO MEMPHIS contains 130 tracks (19 previously unreleased) and a 94-page booklet with a complete '60s discography, session notes and many rare photos. It comes with a sheet of color stamps depicting 36 Presley album covers from the '60s.
Personnel: Elvis Presley (vocals, guitar, piano); The Jordanaires, Charlie Hodge, Millie Kirkham, Joe Babcock, The Imperials, June Page, Dolores Edgin, Sandy Posey, Mary Greene, Mary Holladay, Donna Thatcher, Susan Pilikington, Sonja Montgomery, Hurshel Wiginton, Frank Sinatra (vocals); Scotty Moore, Harold Bradley, Neal Matthews, Jerry Kennedy, Chip Young, Jerry Reed (guitar); Charlie McCoy (guitar, harmonica, organ, bass); Grady Martin (guitar, vibraphone); Hank Garland (guitar, electric bass); Pete Drake, John Hughey (steel guitar); Ed Kollis (harmonica); Gordon Stoker (accordion, piano); Boots Randolph (saxophone, vibraphone, shakers, claves); Rufus Long (saxophone); Ray Stevens (trumpet); The Memphis Horns (horns); Floyd Cramer, Henry Slaughter, David Briggs (piano, organ); Ronnie Milsap, Bobby Wood (piano); Bobby Emmons (organ); Bob Moore, Henry Strzelecki, Tommy Cogbill, Mike Leech (bass); D.J. Fontana, Gene Chrisman (drums); Buddy Harman (drums, tympani).
Compilation Producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon.
Engineers include: Bill Porter, Ron Steele, Jim Malloy.
Principally recorded at RCA's Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee and American Studios, Memphis, Tennessee between March 20, 1960 and February 22, 1969. Includes liner notes by Peter Guralnick.
Digitally Remastered by Dick Baxter (BMG Recording Studios, New York).
Unlike its predecessor THE COMPLETE 50'S MASTERS, the '60s box set FROM NASHVILLE TO MEMPHIS does not include all of Elvis Presley's recordings from a single decade. To whittle the set down to a manageable five discs, RCA reissued Presley's movie soundtracks and gospel recordings separately, focusing this set instead on Elvis' secular single and album releases. The set starts promisingly with Presley's brilliant first post-Army recordings, originally released on the album ELVIS IS BACK! The middle discs in the set, however, demonstrate that at some point in the early Sixties Elvis stopped receiving publishers' best material.
The singing is still great, but too many of the songs are as mediocre as Presley's soundtracks of the period. Fortunately, the story told by FROM NASHVILLE TO MEMPHIS has a happy ending, as the set wraps up with the King's triumphant American Studio recordings, which include the hits "In the Ghetto" and "Suspicious Minds." Even Presley's lean years yielded their share of great recordings, making FROM NASHVILLE TO MEMPHIS an essential addition to any serious music fan's collection.
Industry Reviews
5 Stars - Classic - ...FROM NASHVILLE TO MEMPHIS reveals that reclaiming [his] roots meant Elvis' artistic resurrection....[it] belies any notion that only the '50s Elvis was vital....[Elvis] remains the finest singer rock & roll has ever produced...
Rolling Stone (11/11/1993)
...[FROM NASHVILLE TO MEMPHIS] is the sound of Presley calming down, recognizing his talents, acknowledging the craft of the song rather than merely the lascivious bluster...
Melody Maker (10/23/1993)
7 - Very Good - ...These are the most majestic performances of his career, songs that stretched all his resources, the consummate artist of his era re-identifying with the very land he once sprung from like a thunderbolt....
NME (10/02/1993)
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