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Track Listing
DISC 1: THE SINGLES:
1. Wonder of You, The
2. I've Lost You
3. Next Step Is Love, The
4. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
5. Patch It Up
6. I Really Don't Want to Know
7. There Goes My Everything
8. Rags to Riches
9. Where Did They Go, Lord
10. Life
11. I'm Leavin'
12. Heart of Rome
13. It's Only Love
14. Sound of Your Cry, The
15. I Just Can't Help Believin'
16. How the Web Was Woven
17. Until It's Time For You to Go
18. We Can Make the Morning
19. American Trilogy, An
20. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, The
21. Burning Love
22. It's a Matter of Time
23. Separate Ways
DISC 2: THE SINGLES:
1. Always on My Mind
2. Fool
3. Steamroller Blues
4. Raised on Rock
5. For Ol' Times Sake
6. I've Got a Thing About You Baby
7. Take Good Care of Her
8. If You Talk in Your Sleep
9. Promised Land
10. It's Midnight
11. My Boy
12. Loving Arms
13. T-R-O-U-B-L-E
14. Mr. Songman
15. Bringing It Back
16. Pieces of My Life
17. Green, Green Grass of Home
18. Thinking About You
19. Hurt
20. For the Heart
21. Moody Blue
22. She Thinks I Still Care
23. Way Down
24. Pledging My Love
DISC 3: STUDIO HIGHLIGHTS 1970-71:
1. Twenty Days and Twenty Nights
2. I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago
3. Fool, The
4. Hundred Years From Now, A - (previously unreleased, informal recording)
5. Little Cabin on the Hill
6. Cindy, Cindy
7. Bridge Over Troubled Water
8. Got My Mojo Working / Keep Your Hands Off Of It
9. It's Your Baby, You Rock It
10. Stranger in the Crowd
11. Mary in the Morning
12. It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)
13. Just Pretend
14. Faded Love - (previously unreleased, original unedited version)
15. Tomorrow Never Comes - (previously unreleased, with false start)
16. Make the World Go Away
17. Funny How Time Slips Away
18. I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water - (previously unreleased, long version)
19. Snowbird
20. Whole Lot-Ta Shakin' Goin' On
21. Amazing Grace - (previously unreleased, alternate take 2)
22. For Lovin' Me, (That's What You Get)
23. Lady Madonna - (previously unreleased, informal recording)
DISC 4: STUDIO HIGHLIGHTS 1971-76:
1. Merry Christmas Baby
2. I Shall Be Released - (previously unreleased, informal recording)
3. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - (previously unreleased, jam edit)
4. It's Still Here - (original unedited version)
5. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen - (original undubbed version)
6. I Will Be True
7. My Way - (previously unreleased, master)
8. For the Good Times - (previously unreleased, master)
9. Just a Little Bit
10. It's Diff'rent Now - (previously unreleased, rehearsal)
11. Are You Sincere
12. I Got a Feelin' in My Body
13. You Asked Me To
14. Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
15. Talk About the Good Times
16. Tiger Man - (previously unreleased, jam)
17. I Can Help
18. Susan When She Tried
19. Shake a Hand
20. She Thinks I Still Care - (previously unreleased, alternate take 2B)
21. Danny Boy
22. Love Coming Down
23. He'll Have to Go
DISC 5: THE ELVIS PRESLEY SHOW:
1. See See Rider
2. Men With Broken Hearts - (previously unreleased, short poem)
3. Walk a Mile in My Shoes
4. Polk Salad Annie
5. Let It Be Me (Je T' Appartiens)
6. Proud Mary
7. Something - (previously unreleased, master)
8. You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
9. Heartbreak Hotel - (previously unreleased)
10. I Was the One - (previously unreleased)
11. One Night - (previously unreleased)
12. Never Been to Spain - (previously unreleased, master)
13. You Gave Me a Mountain - (previously unreleased, master)
14. It's Impossible
15. Big Hunk O' Love, A - (previously unreleased, master)
16. It's Over - (previously unreleased, master)
17. Impossible Dream, The (The Quest)
18. Reconsider Baby
19. I'll Remember You
20. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
21. Suspicious Minds
22. Unchained Melody
23. Twelfth of Never, The - (previously unreleased, rehearsal)
24. Softly as I Leave You - (previously unreleased, rehearsal)
25. Alla' en el "Rancho Grande" - (previously unreleased, informal rehearsal)
26. Froggy Went a Courtin' - (previously unreleased, informal rehearsal)
27. Stranger in My Own Home Town - (previously unreleased, informal rehearsal)
Album Notes
This 5-CD retrospective contains 120 tracks recorded in the 1970s, including 27 previously unreleased takes and versions. All tracks have been restored from the original master tapes.
Discs 1 and 2 include the A and B sides of every single released by Presley in the U.S. during the '70s, with the exception of "Kentucky Rain," "My Little Friend" and "Mama Liked The Roses," which are available on FROM NASHVILLE TO MEMPHIS: THE ESSENTIAL 60's MASTERS I, and "Only Believe" and "Help Me," available on AMAZING GRACE: HIS GREATEST SACRED PERFORMANCES. Discs 3 and 4 are additional studio recordings. Disc 5 compiles songs from several concerts.
The box set includes a sheet of stamps depicting Presley's '70s record covers.
Personnel includes: Elvis Presley (vocals, piano); Charlie Hodge (vocals, guitar); The Imperials, The Sweet Inspirations, The Jordanaires, The Nashville Edition, J.D. Sumner & The Stamps, Voice, Sandy Posey, James Glaser, Millie Kirkham, Mary Greene, Mary Holladay, Ginger Holladay, Temple Riser, June Page, Sonja Montgomery, Dolores Edgin, Joe Babcock, Kathy Westmoreland, Susan Pilkinton, Mary Cain, Lea J. Beranati, Myrna Smith, Wendellyn Suits, Hurshel Wiginton, Sherrill Nielsen (vocals); Dennis Linde (guitar, bass); James Burton, John Wilkinson, Chip Young, Eddie Hinton, Harold Bradley, Reggie Young, Bobby Manual, Johnny Christopher, Alan Rush, Bill Sanford (guitar); Bobby Thompson (banjo); Weldon Myrick (steel guitar); Buddy Spicher (fiddle); Charlie McCoy (harmonica, organ, percussion); David Briggs (piano, electric piano, organ, clavinet); Bob Ogdin (piano, electric piano); Per-Erik "Pete" Hallin, Tony Brown (piano, organ); Glen Hardin, Joe Moscheo, Bobby Wood, Don Sumner (piano); Bobby Emmons (electric piano, organ); Randy Cullers (organ, drums, percussion); Glen Spreen (organ); Greg Gordon (clavinet); Shane Keister (Moog synthesizer); Farrell Morris (vibraphone, congas, timpani, percussion); Jerry Scheff, Norbert Putnam, Emory Gordy, Tommy Cogbill, Donald Dunn, Duke Bardwell, Mike Leech, Thomas Hensley (bass); Jerry Carrigan (drums, percussion); Bob Lanning, Kenneth Buttrey, Ronnie Tutt, Al Jackson (drums); Richard F. Morris (bells, percussion); Rob Galbraith (percussion); Bobby Morris And His Orchestra, Joe Guercio And His Orchestra.
Producers include: Felton Jarvis, Elvis Presley, Marty Pasetta, Joan Deary, Harry Jenkins.
Compilation producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon.
Engineers include: Al Pachucki, Rick Ruggieri, Dick Baxter.
Recorded between 1970 and 1977. Includes a 94-page color booklet with liner notes by Dave Marsh.
Digitally remastered by Dennis Ferrante (1995, BMG Recording Studios, New York, New York).
Popular myth portrays Elvis Presley's career in steady decline from his heady 1956 debut to his tragic demise in 1977. Most Elvis aficionados feel, however, that Presley reached his artistic nadir in the mid-'60s, when he was cranking out one "boy-meets-girl" movie after another. Hardcore fans, in fact, argue that the '60s were Presley's most artistically fulfilling era, that his voice matured into a profound, emotional baritone at the same time that his material turned from innocent love to the adult themes of loss and regret. WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES pleads their case, presenting the best of Presley's Seventies output in one five-CD box set.
The first two discs contain all of Presley's singles of the era; discs three and four present 26 of his best non-single album tracks. Disc five is devoted to live performance, fitting given that Presley performed over 1000 concerts between 1969 and his death. The set makes a convincing argument for the artistic vitality of Presley's later period, although it requires a high tolerance for dramatic ballads and lavish production. As an added bonus, Presley is supported throughout by one of history's great backing bands, featuring guitar great James Burton.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #10 on NME's 'Compilations Of The Year' list for 1995.
5 Stars - Indispensable - ...On nearly all of the material here, like all truly great singers, Presley sounded believable....This is sensational music...
Q (12/01/1995)
7 (out of 10) - ...Amidst the multi-media haze of kitsch iconography...the fact that during this period Elvis was a dedicated recording artist tends to be ignored....Given decent material, Elvis could still stoke the elemental furnaces with as much gusto as ever...s
NME (11/11/1995)
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