Danielle Keough, de dochter van Lisa Marie Presley acteert op dit ogenblik in een film aan de zijde van niet minder dan Orlando Bloom. Met als titel: The Good Doctor. Dit wordt de eerste film van Danielle waarin ze een leidinggevende rol zal spelen. Haar eerste bijrol kreeg ze in de film "The Runaways" die op 19 maart in Amerika première gaat.
James aanwezig bij het derde Crossroads Guitar Festival 26 juni 2010
James aanwezig bij het derde Crossroads Guitar Festival 26 juni 2010
Eric Clapton is bezig om voor de derde maal hrt Crossroads Guitar Festival te organiseren op 26 juni 2010. Circa 30 gitaristen hebben zich al aangemeld, waaronder James Burton.
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06-03-2010
Elvis Presley: A love affair
Elvis Presley: A love affair
For better or worse, Elvis Presley and Las Vegas formed a bond in business and in pleasure that endures
Las Vegas News Bureau
Priscilla and Elvis Presley at their wedding at the Aladdin in Las Vegas.
John Katsilometes interviews long-time Hilton employees about their experiences with Elvis for the hotel's 40th anniversary on July 2, 2009.
He enjoyed Vegas tremendously because this was the only town you could do 24 hours a day, Esposito says. But he was always concerned about whether Vegas would ever like him.
It wasnt until the 1963 filming of Viva Las Vegas that the entire city began to fully embrace Elvis. The cast and crew were everywhere the UNLV gymnasium, the Flamingo swimming pool, the Tropicana skeet range.
The big turnaround for Elvis in Vegas started with Viva Las Vegas because tourism increased tremendously after he made the movie, Esposito says. He felt good because he was respected.
The film was capped off by the title song, in which Presley serenaded the bright light city gonna set my soul, gonna set my soul on fire.
His link with the city was cemented when he exchanged wedding rings with Priscilla Ann Beaulieu in Prells suite at the Aladdin in May 1967.
They chose Vegas because it was an easy place to get married quick, says Esposito, who served as best man. It was discreet.
After the Elvis-Priscilla honeymoon came his much longer honeymoon with Las Vegas a historic seven-year run at the International-turned-Las Vegas Hilton from 1969 to 1976. The shows revived Presleys career as a live performer while injecting new life into a city that had been searching for the next great act after the breakup of the Rat Pack.
Elvis was more than ready to appear before a live audience in Las Vegas for the first time in 13 years, even if he didnt realize it at the time.
He was very excited that people came out to see him but he was a nervous wreck when he first walked onstage, Esposito says. He had been so concerned about being accepted again, and he had tears in his eyes when he was accepted.
International owner Kirk Kerkorian inked the deal with an initial $100,000-a-week contract, and Presleys image was plastered on billboards and bus placards all over town. Elvis, wearing his trademark jumpsuits, sold out 837 consecutive shows over the seven years after opening in July 1969. Performing two shows a night for two months each year, he sold more than $164 million worth of tickets in todays dollars to 2.5 million fans, engraving rock n roll into the citys landscape and proving that a casino showroom could make money.
Elvis gave back to local charities, allowing them to share in the proceeds of souvenirs that were sold in the hotel lobby.
This transformation, from unappreciated Las Vegas performer in 1956 to beloved superstar, had everything to do with the fact that Elvis had become about the same age as his audience and had developed a persona befitting a showroom, College of Southern Nevada history professor Michael Green says.
When he came back in 69 he came back with glitz, and thats what Las Vegas entertainment is all about, Green says. He was also in his 30s by the time he came back to the International and much closer to the age group of the people who came to see his show.
Presleys affair with the city began to sour a little toward the end, even as fans continued to jam the 2,000-seat theater. Rumors began circulating about his increasing reliance on painkillers, amphetamines and other drugs. In his penthouse suite, he had whipped out a handgun and shot at the television and the chandelier.
His rapid weight gain became noticeable. He looked tired and the quality of his stage performances began slipping. He canceled some of his Hilton engagements because of health issues.
On Aug. 16, 1977, barely eight months after Elvis left the Hilton building for good, he died at his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tenn. He was only 42.
About 150 mourners gathered outside a Las Vegas mortuary to pay their respects at a service that featured Presleys music played through large speakers. One fan complained that she could find no expressions of sorrow from Strip hotels.
But when the city adopted its What happens in Vegas mantra, Las Vegas again embraced Elvis.
He is a good way to reach back to the old days to someone who was naughty in his youth, to someone they couldnt show from the hips down on TV, Green says. It fits in with Vegas being naughty.
The tourists who want to share in Las Vegas love affair with Elvis usually make several stops around town.
A visit to the eight-home street of Elvis Presley Court doesnt usually rank high on the list. He never lived there. But Elvis has a star on the Strips Las Vegas Walk of Stars, made possible through a $15,000 contribution from the Viva Las Vegas! Elvis Presley Fan Club.
Fans may lament the closing of the Elvis-O-Rama museum a few years ago, but the Imperial Palace has the Kings Ransom Museum, featuring his jewelry, stage and film wardrobe and his 1977 Lincoln Continental. Elvis in black leather lives in wax at Madame Tussauds at the Venetian.
The Mecca, though, is the Las Vegas Hilton, where guests are greeted by a life-size bronze statue of The King. The hotel is planning an Elvis fan festival for July.
It has been a steady flow of people who want to see where Elvis performed, Hilton marketing and entertainment boss Rick White explains. They want to look at the stage, and they come in all age groups.
Cirque du Soleil's Viva Elvis show is a tribute to the life and music of Elvis Presley.
Photograph by: Ethan Miller, Getty Images for Cirque du Soleil
Midway into Cirque du Soleils latest eye-popping Las Vegas production, Viva Elvis, theres a segment saluting Elvis Presleys love affair with Hollywood.
Its an upbeat, thigh-slapping, ersatz Western number in which one of the troupes dancers, outfitted as a movie cowboy, spins a lasso that keeps expanding until it seems to take in half the stage at the Aria Resort & Casino, where the show had its glitzy premiere Feb. 19.
Impressive as that was, it underscored how the Canadian company cant get a rope around the mythic figure that is the King of Rock n Roll.
All the signature Cirque elements are here: breathtaking acrobatics, dazzlingly inventive sets, joyfully inspired costumes and imaginatively reimagined music the bulk of it derived from Presleys recordings.
Julie Aucoin/Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleils Viva Elvis at MGM CityCenters Aria.
But Cirques creative team set a standard for itself, and others, with the Beatles-driven Love show just down the street, which is not easily equaled, much less surpassed. That venture not only taps the musical spirit, but also reaches to the magical soul of the Fab Four, something that Viva Elvis aspires to only fleetingly in paying homage to pop musics other titanic figure.
Love brought the Beatles to Las Vegas without a hint of schlock, a mission apparently impossible with Elvis, given that his association with Sin City virtually defined the contemporary notion of pop-culture kitsch.
Cirque might have attempted to ignore that aspect of his career, but instead embraces it, and often in witty, mostly affectionate ways.
Ultimately, however, Viva Elvis is skewed more toward fans who are captivated by the cultural excess of Graceland than those most drawn to the startling power of his best music.
The show, for which tickets run $99 to $175, unfolds roughly chronologically, and incorporates lessons learned from Love in the lively deconstructions and reconstructions of nearly three dozen of his studio recordings. Presleys vocals are often detached from the original instrumental backing and paired with a live band that belts behind his voice with considerable gusto.
Cirques smart move from the outset was bypassing the use of any male singers for live renditions of his songs: Several numbers that are rendered anew are sung by female cast members, occasionally in duet with the Kings own disembodied voice.
But Viva Elvis doesnt spend a lot of time trying to explore the mystery of Presley. It prefers to celebrate the public figure, and it does so with great affection, if not always with meticulous attention to historical accuracy or cultural credibility.
The shows use of the character of Col. Tom Parker as narrator paints him as a sympathetic father figure With Elvis, he announces fondly, every day was an adventure! overlooking the self-enriching career and life direction the onetime carny gave his most famous client. Elvis put Las Vegas on the map! the Parker character intones without a hint of irony or even self-serving bluster, a statement with which fans of Frank Sinatra might take issue.
It also gives equal weight and value to both his fallow Hollywood years and his creatively explosive 50s period, when he truly left the world all shook up.
One of the few times the show taps the pathos and tragedy of Presleys life story what makes that story so emotionally rich is in the delivery of One Night.
Instead of the ribald R&B number that Elvis transformed from One Night of Sin into One Night With You, its rendered here as a disarmingly graceful ballad, sung by a woman in contemporary tank top and jeans as she watches two men athletically working their way around a gigantic guitar-shaped metal framework suspended from above.
The men are dressed identically in the standard-issue teenage boy uniform of the 50s: white T-shirts, cuffed blue jeans and black oxford shoes, representing Elvis Aaron and his twin, Jesse Garon, who was stillborn.
At the end of the number, while Elvis scales the neck of the guitar climbing toward the heaven-bound headstock, Jesse drops from one of the bottom rungs into a pit below, one hint at the personal loss that haunted Presley throughout his life.
Theres also a gorgeous and moving aerial pas de deux in which two members of the troupe float effortlessly through the air to accompany the weightless sound of Elvis vocal on Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Among the other individual set pieces, Got a Lot O Livin to Do takes an audio clip in which Presley expresses his youthful passion for comic books as the foundation for a fanciful trampoline workout for acrobats fitted in various superhero- inspired costumes. Bossa Nova Baby incorporates a nerve-testing, chair-balancing act full of characters in garish 60s hipster duds.
The two most striking numbers are the military-based treatment of Return to Sender that follows film footage of Presleys 1958 swearing-in as an Army private, and an electrifying reinvention of the iconic Jailhouse Rock movie production number.
The show goes on to reference his fairy-tale wedding to Priscilla Beaulieu, as well as their tempestuous life together minus any allusions to the birth of daughter Lisa Marie.
Elvis Presley became the single most influential pop musician of the rock era by unleashing an innate genre- and colour-blind talent that let him transcend his dirt-poor origins and achieve a previously unimaginable level of worldwide success, a story that still resonates powerfully because of the way that success fuelled the excess that ultimately led to his downfall.
Cirque du Soleil clearly loves Elvis tender, but in the end, Viva Elvis never lets him step off the mystery train.
30 years after the first volume of Rare Elvis, here is finally volume 4, to celebrate its 30th anniversary. A full color booklet is included with the disc.
Ready Teddy - 1983 remix from I Was The One lp ( unreleased on CD ) Brown Eyed Handsome Man- ( unreleased new edit ) Dont 1983 remix from I Was The One lp ( unreleased on CD ) Ain´t That Loving You Baby - spliced alternate take, full version Franfort Special takes 7,8 Tonight is All Right for Love extended stereo version Bossa Nova Baby original 1987 extended mix by Simon Harris (unreleased in digital remastered sound ) Please Dont Stop Loving Me take 17 Just Call Me Lonesome take 6 Stay Away Joe Takes 5,6 & 8 Blue Suede Shoes- from This Is Elvis Soundtrack album (unreleased in digital remastered sound) Lets Forget About the Stars original mix with piano overdubb Swing Down Sweet Chariot Brass overdubs Stranger in My Own Home Town - alternate mix Sound Of Your Cry ( extended version) Havana Gila Rehearsal July 29, 1970 ( unreleased new edit ) Something Live February 23, 1971 (closing show) The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - duet with Temple Riser Ive Got A Thing About You Baby short version from This Is Elvis soundtrack album Let Me Be The One informal recording Mr. Songman - undubbed master Promised Land harmony version from This Is Elvis soundtrack album You Gave Me A Mountain - Live, September 2, 1974 Wooden Heart Live December 13,1975 Solitaire - Undubbed Master
De nieuwe 5" uitgave van FTD "A Minnesota Moment" wordt verwacht op 15 februari 2010. Het betreft een live optreden van 17 oktober 1976. Deze show werd opgenomen in het Metropolitan Sports Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dit onder toeziend oog van 15800 toeschouwers. Elvis droeg op die dag het "Inca Cold Leaf" suit. De CD wordt aangevuld met bonus tracks van de shows "Sioux Falls"( 18 oktober 1976) waar Elvis het King of Spades Suit droeg en daarnaast zijn er nummers te horen uit "Dayton" (26 oktober 1976) waar hij optrad voor 13.000 toeschouwers in zijn Flame Suit. Alledrie de shows komen uit tour 22. Deze tour begon op 14 oktober 1976 met een optreden in Chicago, Illinois en eindigde op 27 oktober 1976 met een optreden in Carbondale, Illinois.
TRACKLISTING
Also Sprach Zarathustra See See Rider I Got A Woman / Amen Love Me If You Love Me (Let Me Know) You Gave Me A Mountain Jailhouse Rock All Shook Up (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear / Don t Be Cruel And I Love You So Fever Steamroller Blues Introductions/Early Mornin Rain Whatd I Say / Johnny B. Goode Love Letters School Days Hurt Hound Dog One Night It's Now Or Never Mystery Train/Tiger Man Funny How Time Slips Away Cant Help Falling In Love
BONUS CUTS Fairytale America Hawaiian Wedding Song Blue Christmas
EPE announced that this Fall, Elvis on Tour is coming to DVD and dazzling Blu-ray high definition - for the first time ever. Featuring electric performances from Elvis' 1972 tour, this Golden Globe winning documentary captures the raw energy and excitement of Elvis' best live performances. In celebration of Elvis' 75th birthday year, a 17-film Ultimate Collector's Edition DVD box set is also planned, which will include ELVIS ON TOUR, VIVA LAS VEGAS, JAILHOUSE ROCK and more. Be on the lookout for more details soon!
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Live At The Showroom Internationale
Live At The Showroom Internationale
A new import CD out now is "Live At The Showroom Internationale" featuring the supposed February 23rd, 1971 Dinner Show.
Here's the tracklisting: (same as Elvis Internationale 2 CD-set Disc 2)
1. 2001 Theme 2. Thats All Right 3. I Got A Woman/By The Time I Get To Phoenix 4. Love Me Tender (Intro Only)/ Love Me 5. Mystery Train/Tiger Man 6. Sweet Caroline 7. Youve Lost That Lovin Feeling 8. Polk Salad Annie 9. Something 10. Johnny B. Goode 11. How Great Thou Art 12. Dont Be Cruel 13. Heartbreak Hotel 14. Blue Suede Shoes 15. Bride Over Troubled Water 16. Little Sister/Get Back 17. Hound Dog 18. Suspicious Minds (Spliced with Jan 28 DS) 19. The Impossible Dream (Jan 28 DS)
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Off Duty With Private Presley
Off Duty With Private Presley
Het "Memphis Recording Service label" heeft al een mooie reeks boeken, CD's en Dvds op haar naam staan. Nu kunnen we uitkijken naar een volgend exemplaar namelijk: "50 Year Commemorative Issue (19602010)"De CD met bijhorend boek verschijnt ter gelegenheid van het feit dat het vijftig jaar geleden is dat Elvis afzwaaide uit militaire dienst. De titel: "Off Duty With Private Presley". De CD bevat de opnames die Elvis bij RCA realiseerde tijdens zijn dienstperiode zoals "A Big Hunk O Love", "A Fool Such As I" en "I Got Stung". Verder ook nog 30 onuitgebrachte homerecordings, die zowel tijdens zijn diensttijd in Texas als in Duitsland werden opgenomen. Het 100 pagina's tellende boek bevat zeldzame foto's. Release datum: 22 februari 2010. Kenners zullen wel weten dat het overgrote deel van de songs enkele jaren geleden verschenen op diverse illegale uitgaven.
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Master Recordings RCA Studio B, Nashville Tennessee - June 1958
01- A Big Hunk O Love 02- I Need Your Love Tonight 03- (Now & Then Theres) A Fool Such As I 04- I Got Stung
Private Home Recordings - Eddie Fadal Residence, Waco Texas -May 1958
05- Sail Along Silvery Moon / I Understand Just How I Feel 06- Happy, Happy Birthday Baby 07- Dialogue 08- I Can't Help It 09- Dialogue 10- Who's Sorry Now 11- Who's Sorry Now Reprise#2 12- Happy, Happy Birthday Baby Reprise#2 13- Happy, Happy Birthday Baby Reprise#3 14- Happy, Happy Birthday Baby Reprise#4 15- Happy, Happy Birthday Baby Reprise#5 16- Happy, Happy Birthday Baby Reprise#6 17- Dialogue 18- Tumblin' Tumbleweeds / Blue Moon / Dont You Know I Love You 19- Tomorrow Night 20- Tomorrow Night Reprise#2 21- Little Darlin' 22- Monologue 23- Just A Closer Walk With Thee 24 Elvis Arrival in Germany - Ray Barracks, Friedberg 2nd October 1958
Private Home Recordings - Bad Nauheim , Germany - Summer 1959
25- At The Hop 26- I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen 27- Que Sera Sera / Hound Dog 28- I Asked The Lord 29- I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen (Fast Unedited Version) not on FTD Private Moment 30- Apron Strings (Unedited version) 31- The Titles Wil l Tell 32- At The Hop / Give Me Oil In My Lamp 33- Que Sera Sera (Reprise#2)/ Hound Dog (Reprise#2) 34- Piano Solo 35- Send Me Some Lovin
Een van de beste uitgaven uit de FTD catalogus van de afgelopen maanden is ongetwijfeld de twee cd set Good Times. Een unieke cd met daarop de opnames uit de STAX studio in Memphis. Een Elvis die goed bezig is in de studio in hometown Memphis.
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16-01-2010
Linda Thompson Talks About Elvis' 75th Birthday!
Linda Thompson Talks About Elvis' 75th Birthday!
Linda Thompson, Elvis' former girlfriend says Elvis would be `ageing gracefully` at 75. Thompson lived with Elvis at Graceland after he divorced Priscilla Presley. The couple split shortly before he died on August 16, 1977. If Elvis Presley were alive today, he wouldn't be All Shook Up at turning 75, instead he would be 'ageing gracefully,' says Linda. Linda Thompson made her comments on the eve of the singer's 75th birthday, which would have been on January 8. She said: 'If Elvis were still alive today, he'd be laughing and still making jokes and hopefully be aging as gracefully as the rest of us are trying to.' The former beauty queen lived with the King of Rock 'n' Roll for four-and-a-half years after meeting him in 1972, following his split from wife Priscilla Presley. Now 58, Thompson who is the mother of reality TV star Brody Jenner claims the singer took her virginity when she was 22. But she says he never stopped womanizing when they were dating. 'Elvis loved women and women loved Elvis,' says Thompson who claims Presley was very open about cheating on her. 'He would say, 'You know what, I'm just not gonna lie to you. There was this girl that was around but honey, it just made me appreciate you more'.' Thompson added that Elvis was a tender lover and a great kisser. 'He was an amazing kisser. Elvis had beautiful lips and they were like kissing fluffy marshmallows,' she said.
A new DVD titled '' Elvis Live '' was released on January 5, 2010. The highlights of this DVD are footage filmed at the opening show of Madison Square Garden with sound. '' Elvis Live '' will also featured NEVER BEFORE SEEN footage filmed during Elvis' rehearsals on March 31, 1972. A great way to kick off the 75th Anniversary !!!
Radio 5 Nostalgia staat vrijdag tussen 06.00 en 19.00 uur in het teken van Elvis Presley. 'The King' is ook onze weekartiest.
Verjaardag Op 8 januari aanstaande zou Presley 75 jaar geworden zijn. Radio 5 Nostalgia draait deze dag extra veel muziek van de zanger. Daarnaast is er in de programmas aandacht voor herinneringen van luisteraars aan de muziek en films van The King of Rock 'n Roll.
Carrière Radio 5 Nostalgia blikt terug op de veelzijdige carrière van Elvis met veel muziek, het concert Aloha From Hawaii, gesprekken met Elvis-kenners en fans en de Elvis Top 75.
Concert Voorafgaand aan de Elvis Top 75, van 13.00 tot 14.00 uur, is het concert Aloha From Hawaii te horen op Radio 5 Nostalgia. Het concert, opgenomen op 14 januari 1973, werd destijds live uitgezonden in meer dan 10 landen en trok bijna anderhalf miljard kijkers wereldwijd.
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Elvis Presley's Birthday
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Type disc:
DVD
Genre:
Romantiek - Muziekfilm
Regio:
2
Jaar van uitgave:
1967
Regisseur:
John Rich
Uitgever:
Paramount Home Entertainment
Speelduur:
91 minuten
Leeftijd:
Alle leeftijden
Verpakking:
Amaray Keep Case
Acteurs:
Dodie Marshall Elvis Presley Pat Harrington Pat Priest Slip Ward
Beeldformaat:
1.78:1 anamorf
Geluidssporen:
Dolby Digital 2.0 - Duits Dolby Digital 2.0 - Frans Dolby Digital 5.1 - Engels Dolby Digital 2.0 - Engels Dolby Digital 2.0 - Italiaans
Ondertiteling:
Nederlands Engels Duits Frans En vele andere
Extra´s:
Geen
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Samenvatting
Ted Jackson (Elvis Presley) maakt als duiker bij de marine oude zeemijnen onschadelijk. Vlak voordat Ted afzwaait, ontdekt hij bij zijn laatste klus een grote kist bij een oud wrak. Ted vermoedt een grote schat. Hetzelfde moment is ook een jacht nabij waarop Dina Bishop (Pat Priest) en Judd Whitman (Pat Harrington) ook de schat hebben gezien. Als Ted weer gewoon burger is, gaat hij op zoek naar de herkomst van het wrak. Zo komt hij bij Jo Symington (Dodie Marshall). Haar opa heeft op het bewust schip gevaren. Jo woont nabij een oude vuurtoren met diverse andere kunstenaars. Ted doet alsof hij een boek gaat schrijven over het wrak en weet zo informatie over de mogelijke schat van Jo te krijgen. Als Ted weer wil gaan duiken, blijken er meer kapers op de kust te zijn.
Elvis Presley (1935-1977), the King of Rock & Roll, begon in 1956 met de film Love me tender zijn filmcarrière die 13 jaar duurde. In die periode maakt The King maar liefst 31 speelfilms, waar uiteraard de muziek centraal in stond. Zijn films zijn altijd volgens eenzelfde formule opgezet; komische liefdesverhalen waarin het Presley steevast tegenzit, maar waar het natuurlijk altijd tot een goed einde komt. Flinterdunne verhalen met twee vaste ingrediënten: Presley zingt een groot aantal liedjes in de film en de goed ogende, stoere man wordt altijd achternagezeten door verschillende mooie vrouwen. Uiteraard speelt het zich allemaal af op een mooie, tot de verbeelding sprekende, exotische locatie. De film Easy Come, Easy Go uit 1967 is Presleys 23e speelfilm. In zijn eerste films had Presley een eigen stijl van acteren, waarbij hij zijn karakter neerzet als een soort van nonchalante macho. In de latere films van Presley, en daar behoort Easy Come, Easy Go ook toe, is het spel van Presley veel routineuze geworden en mist het de charme van zijn eerste films. Ook in deze film is het belangrijkste dat The King zingt. In deze films hoor je songs als Ill take live, de titelsong Easy Come, Easy Go, Yoga is as Yoga does en The Love Machine. De film is geregisseerd door John Rich, die slechts een paar speelfilms regisseerde en meer bekendheid heeft als regisseur van televisieseries. Het script van deze film is wederom afkomstig van Allan Weiss, die in totaal voor zes Presley films het script heeft geschreven.
Beeldkwaliteit
Het oorspronkelijke beeldformaat van de film is 1.85:1. Op DVD staat de film in een iets bijgesneden versie met 1.78:1 beeldformaat, dat anamorf is vastgelegd. De beeldkwaliteit van deze 40 jaar oude film is redelijk goed. Kleuren zien er goed verzadigd en redelijk natuurlijk uit. Contrast en zwartniveau zijn goed, in sommige donkere scènes lijkt het beeld iets te flets. Scherpte en detaillering zijn zeer acceptabel. Soms is het beeld een beetje soft. Wel is af en toe duidelijk te zien dat edge enhancement is toegepast. Filmgrain is slechts minimaal aanwezig. De film is verdeeld in 16 tracks. De film staat op een DVD-5 (enkellaags), dus geen laagwisseling in de film. De optionele ondertiteling (wit) is duidelijk, heeft een te groot lettertype en staat te hoog in het beeld geplaatst.
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Geluidskwaliteit
De originele mono soundtrack is geremixt naar een Dolby Digital 5.1 (bitrate 448 kb/s) soundtrack. Het merendeel van de filmgeluiden komt daarbij uit de centerspeaker, evenals de stemmen. De muziek komt met een verrassend goede stereospreiding uit beide frontspeakers en klinkt erg goed. De surrounds zijn zo zacht dat deze nauwelijks meedoen. Het hoog is redelijk helder, het laag is duidelijk wat versterkt. Ook aanwezig is een gerestaureerde originele monotrack, in Dolby Digital 2.0 mono (192 kb/s). En alhoewel mono zijn beperkingen heeft, klinkt deze soundtrack zeer goed en is totaal ruisvrij. Complimenten aan Paramount dat op deze wijze de keuze voor de originele soundtrack wordt gegeven.
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Extra's
De breedbeeld menuschermen zijn statische plaatjes zonder achtergrondgeluid. Deze DVD heeft geen extras, helemaal niets. Bij de DVD zit een inlay met de tracklisting.
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Conclusie
Easy Come, Easy Go is de 23e speelfilm met Elvis Presley. The King of Rock & Roll heeft in totaal 31 films gemaakt, waarbij het vooral om zijn zangtalent ging en niet om zijn wat minder aanwezige acteertalenten. In zijn latere films is van acteren bij Presley nauwelijks sprake, maar is het meer het routineus afdraaien van een standaard opgezet flinterdun verhaal. In Easy Come, Easy Go speelt Presley een ex marine duiker die op zoek gaat naar een schat. Uiteraard zijn er weer de nodige vrouwen die hem helpen of juist hoofdbrekens bezorgen. Zoals gezegd, het gaat om de songs en Presley zingt in deze film weer de nodige bekende liedjes. Deze Paramount uitgave van deze ruim 35 jaar oude film heeft een redelijk goede beeld- en geluidskwaliteit. De geremixte soundtrack klinkt goed, maar voor de puristen is ook een goed klinkende, gerestaureerde originele monotrack aanwezig. Extras heeft deze uitgave helaas niet. Voor de lage prijs hoef je deze release niet te laten liggen, net als de andere Presley films is ook deze titel voor een budget prijs te krijgen.
Elvis Presley's 1970 live album, On Stage, will be reissued in an expanded format on March 23 by RCA/Legacy. The original album's 10-track playlist will also include three rarely performed songs from the same Las Vegas engagement that produced the album: "Don't Cry Daddy," "Kentucky Rain" and "Long Tall Sally." The double-disc set will also feature audio recordings of an afternoon rehearsal prior to the concert taping. The platinum-selling album initially produced the hit, "The Wonder of You." Presley would have celebrated his 75th birthday on Jan. 8, 2010. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1998.
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12-12-2009
Baby Let's Play House
Baby Let's Play House
Released: 2010/01/05 by It Books
Rating:
In August 2007, Alanna Nash interviewed a number of Elvis' female co-stars, family members, and friends for a Ladies Home Journal article titled 'The Women Who Loved Elvis'. Now she's turning the idea into a 656 page book for It books, to be published in time for Elvis' 75th birthday in January 2010.
Alanna Nash reports the book will be the first comprehensive look at Elvis purely from the female prospective. 'For all his maleness, Elvis was a very woman-centered man, because of his closeness with his mother', she says. 'It was women he could really talk with, and from whom he drew much of his strength. The book will look at a number of his relationships, both platonic and romantic. And part of it will consider how his status as one of the greatest sex symbols of the 20th century informed his stage act and his interactions with the opposite sex'.
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05-12-2009
Elvis Presley - The Essential 60's Masters
Elvis Presley - The Essential 60's Masters (Box Set) (5CD)
Elvis Presley - The Essential 60's Masters (Box Set) (5CD) Genre: Rock | Year: 1993 | Label: Bmg / Elvis
TrackList CD1 01.Make Me Know It 02.Soldier Boy 03.Stuck on You 04.Fame and Fortune 05.Mess of Blues 06.It Feels So Right 07.Fever 08.Like a Baby 09.It's Now or Never 10.Girl of My Best Friend 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
CD2 01.Starting Today 02.Sentimental Me 03.Judy 04.Put the Blame on Me 05.Kiss Me Quick 06.That's Someone You Never Forget 07.I'm Yours 08.(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame 09.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.(Such An) Easy Question 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.(You're The) Devil in Disguise 28.Never Ending 29.What Now, What Next, Where To? 30.Witchcraft 31.Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers 32.Love Me Tonight
CD3 01.(It's A) Long, Lonely Highway 02.Western Union 03.Slowly But Surely 04.Blue River 05.Memphis Tennessee 06.Ask Me 07.It Hurts Me 08.Down in the Alley 09.Tomorrow Is a Long Time 10.Love Letters 11.Beyond the Reef (Original Undubbed Master) 12.Come What May (Alternate Take) 13.Fools Fall in Love 14.Indescribably Blue 15.I'll Remember You (Original Unedited Master) 16.If Every Day Was Like Christmas 17.Suppose ([Master) 18.Guitar Man/What'd I Say (Original Unedited Master) 19.Big Boss Man 20.Mine 21.Just Call Me Lonesome 22.Hi-Heel Sneakers (Original Unedited Master) 23.You Don't Know Me 24.Singing Tree 25.Too Much Monkey Business 26.U.S. Male
CD4 01.Long Black Limousine 02.This Is the Story 03.Wearin' That Loved on Look 04.You'll Think of Me 05.Little Bit of Green 06.Gentle on My Mind 07.I'm Movin' On 08.Don't Cry Daddy 09.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
CD5 01.After Loving You 02.Do You Know Who I Am? 03.Kentucky Rain 04.Only the Strong Survive 05.It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin' 06.Any Day Now 07.If I'm a Fool (For Loving You) 08.Fair Is Moving On 09.Who Am I? 10.This Time/I Can't Stop Loving You (Informal Recording) 11.In the Ghetto (Alternate Take 4) 12.Suspicious Minds (Alternate Take 6) 13.Kentucky Rain (Alternate Take 9) 14.Big Boss Man (Alternate Take 2) 15.Down in the Alley (Alternate Take 1) 16.Memphis Tennessee (Alternate Take 1 from the "1963 Session") 17.I'm Yours (Alternate Take 1 Undubbed Version) 18.(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame (Alternate Take 4) 19.That's Someone You Never Forget (Alternate Take 1) 20.Surrender (Alternate Take 1) 21.It's Now or Never (Original Undubbed Master) 22.Love Me Tender/Witchcraft