Elvis Summer Festival 1970 The Rehearsals

Summer Festival 1970 - The Rehearsals

The CD’s contain rehearsal highlights from one of the most memorable periods in Elvis’ career - his captivating performances at The International Hotel Las Vegas in the summer of 1970. These truly historical recordings, remastered and restored capture the raw and early development of songs that were performed weeks later in Las Vegas. The accompanying 40-page booklet includes rare photographs taken at some of these rehearsal sessions.

As usual MRS has spared every expense in our remastering techniques. For the first time ever all, the tracks listed have had repairs and restorations having now the same mastering techniques, used on such recent MRS releases such as ‘Made in Germany’ and ‘Such a Night in Pearl Harbor’. A sample sound of this will circulate on forums within days of this announcement.

The 180g 3LP Gatefold version will be announced soon.

Please note: This is a prequel to a series of releases coming out this year from MRS. In that series will be a totally new and unreleased soundboard from the Summer Festival in 1970. A recording never heard before, stay tuned.

CD1

MGM Sound Stage 1, Culver City, Los Angeles, California

14 July 1970

01. Words

02. Bridge Over Troubled Water

15 July 1970

03. Stagger Lee

04. Got My Mojo Working

05. I’ve Lost You

06. Stranger in the Crowd (Rehearsal 1)

07. The Next Step is Love

08. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me

09. Sweet Caroline

10. Yesterday

11. Ghost Riders in the Sky

12. Runaway

13. Peter Gunn Theme

14. One Night

15. Alla En El Rancho Grande

16. That’s All Right 03:09 Arthur Crudup

17. Twenty Days & Twenty Nights (Rehearsal 1)

18. Twenty Days & Twenty Nights (Rehearsal 2)

19. Patch It Up

20. Cotton Fields

21. Sylvia

22. Stranger in the Crowd (Rehearsal 2)

CD2

RCA Studios, Hollywood, California

24 July 1970

01. That’s All Right

02. I Got a Woman

03. The Wonder of You

04. I’ve Lost You

05. The Next Step Is Love

06. Stranger in The Crowd

07. You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ (Rehearsal 1)

08. Something

09. Don’t Cry Daddy/Don’t Cry Daddy (faster version)

10. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me

11. Polk Salad Annie

12. Bridge Over Troubled Water

13. I Can’t Stop Loving You

14. Just Pretend

15. Sweet Caroline

16. Words

17. Suspicious Minds

Bonus Stereo Mix Tracks

18. You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ (Rehearsal 1)

19. Sweet Caroline

CD3

RCA Studios, Hollywood, CA

24 JULY 1970 (continued)

01. I Just Can’t Help Believin’ (1)

02. Tomorrow Never Comes

03. Mary in the Morning

04. Twenty Days & Twenty Nights

05. You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ (Rehearsal 2)

06. I Just Can’t Help Believin’ (2)

07. Heart of Rome

08. Memories

09. Johnny B. Goode

10. Make the World Go Away

11. Stranger in My Own Hometown

12. I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water

MGM Sound Stage 1, Culver City, CA

JULY 29, 1970

13. Elvis Talking

14. Something

15. (Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I

16. Froggy Went A-Courtin’

17. Such A Night

18. It’s Now or Never