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Track Listing
1. I Just Can't Help Believin'
2. Twenty Days and Twenty Nights
3. How the Web Was Woven
4. Patch It Up
5. Mary in the Morning
6. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
7. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
8. I've Lost You
9. Just Pretend
10. Stranger in the Crowd
11. Next Step Is Love, The
12. Bridge Over Troubled Water
Album Notes
Personnel: Elvis Presley (vocals); James Burton, John Wilkinson, Charlie Hodge, Chip Young (guitar); Charlie McCoy (harmonica, organ); David Briggs (piano); Glen D. Hardin (keyboards); Jerry Scheff, Norbert Putnam (bass); Ronnie Tutt, Jerry Carrigan (drums); Millie Kirkham, The Sweet Inspirations, The Imperials Quartet, The Nashville Edition, Mary Holladay, Ginger Holladay, Jeannie Greene (background vocals).
Recorded at RCA's "Nashville Sound" Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee on June 6-7, 1970 and live at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada on August 13-15, 1970. The new liner notes are taken from a 1980 interview with original producer Felton Jarvis.
This 3-disc set includes the original album THAT'S THE WAY IT IS and two discs of unreleased tracks.
Personnel: Elvis Presley (vocals, guitar); James Burton, Chip Young, Eddie Hinton, John Wilkinson (guitar); Charlie McCoy (harmonica, organ); David Briggs, Glen D. Hardin (piano); Norbert Putnam, Jerry Scheff (bass); Jerry Carrigan, Ron Tutt (drums); Charlie Hodge Orchestra; The Imperials, The Jordanaires, The Sweet Inspirations, Millie Kirkham, Mary Green, Mary Holladay, Ginger Holladay, Temple Riser, June Page, Sonja Montgomery, Dolores Edgin (background vocals).
Compilation producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon.
Principally recorded at The International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada on August 12, 1970.
This 3-disc set includes the original album THAT'S THE WAY IT IS and two discs of unreleased tracks.
Personnel: Elvis Presley (vocals, guitar); James Burton, Chip Young, Eddie Hinton, John Wilkinson (guitar); Charlie McCoy (harmonica, organ); David Briggs, Glen D. Hardin (piano); Norbert Putnam, Jerry Scheff (bass); Jerry Carrigan, Ron Tutt (drums); The Imperials, The Jordanaires, The Sweet Inspirations, Millie Kirkham, Mary Green, Mary Holladay, Ginger Holladay, Temple Riser, June Page, Sonja Montgomery, Dolores Edgin (background vocals); Charlie Hodge Orchestra.
Compilation producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon.
Principally recorded at The International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada on August 12, 1970.
Although it shares its title with a documentary about Elvis' 1970 late summer engagement at Las Vegas' International Hotel, the album THAT'S THE WAY IT IS features only two songs ("You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" and "The Next Step Is Love") that appear in the film. Of the other ten songs here, four were recorded live at the International but not included in the film; the other six are studio recordings from Presley's June 1970 Nashville sessions.
THAT'S THE WAY IT IS captures Presley at the tail-end of his transition from rock star to Vegas showman. Gone from Presley's repertoire are the spare rockers and tender love songs that highlight his earlier career. Replacing them are huge production numbers and dramatic ballads like "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" and "I've Lost You." In fact, the majority of the songs here are down tempo heartbreak songs, nearly all sung with a near-operatic level of intensity. In lesser hands the results would be mawkish, but Presley manages to pull it off. Especially effective are the opening and closing numbers, "I Just Can't Help Believin'" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
This is a highly expanded (three CD) version of the soundtrack to Dennis Saunder's 1970 documentary of Presley's first big post-comeback tour, designed to complement the restored reissue of the film itself. Disc one features the original album--which mixes live and studio cuts from Nashville and Las Vegas--fleshed out with seven more songs from the same sessions, including an impassioned version of the Beatles' "Something," and a honky-tonk take on Tony Bennett's '50s weeper "Rags to Riches."
Disc two features an entire (mostly previously unreleased) live show from the same period, brilliantly remixed, so that genius guitarist James Burton can really be heard for a change. Disc three features rehearsals for the tour, some recorded at home. ...
Industry Reviews
...Elvis rocks out, clearly enjoying himself, playing to the crowd at the International, including the smoochfest with the ladies during 'Love Me Tender'....[It's] Elvis poised at the top of the arc of his decline...
Mojo (09/01/2000)
...It's Elvis in full effect: magnificent pop arais in the studio, swampy grit on stage, and covers that sound schmaltzy until the towering emotion in his voice makes you realize he means every word. - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (07/28/2000)
4 stars out of 5 - ...This was the blueprint for an Elvis we could have grown old with...
Rolling Stone (06/26/2003)
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