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List Price: $49.98 | | Label: RCA
Salesrank: 19667
Released: August 5, 2008 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Complete '68 Comeback Special: 40th Anniversary Edition Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. Trouble/Guitar Man
2. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy/Baby What You Want Me to Do Medley: Heartbreak Hotel
3. Where Could I Go But to the Lord/Up Above My Head/Saved [Medley]
4. Blue Christmas/One Night [Medley]
5. Memories
6. Medley: Nothingville/Big Boss Man/Guitar Man/Little Egypt/Trouble/Guita
7. If I Can Dream
8. It Hurts Me
9. Let Yourself Go
10. Little Less Conversation
11. Memories [Stereo Mix]
12. If I Can Dream [Stereo Mix]
Disc 2:
1. That's All Right
2. Heartbreak Hotel
3. Love Me
4. Baby, What You Want Me to Do
5. Blue Suede Shoes
6. Baby, What You Want Me to Do
7. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
8. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
9. When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again
10. Blue Christmas
11. Trying to Get to You
12. One Night
13. Baby, What You Want Me to Do
14. One Night
15. Memories
16. Heartbreak Hotel
17. Hound Dog
18. All Shook Up
19. Can't Help Falling in Love
20. Jailhouse Rock
21. Don't Be Cruel
22. Blue Suede Shoes
23. Love Me Tender
24. Trouble
25. Baby, What You Want Me to Do
26. If I Can Dream
Disc 3:
1. Heartbreak Hotel
2. Baby, What You Want Me to Do
3. Introductions
4. That's All Right
5. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
6. Baby, What You Want Me to Do
7. Blue Suede Shoes
8. One Night
9. Love Me
10. Trying to Get to You
11. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
12. Santa Claus Is Back in Town
13. Blue Christmas
14. Tiger Man
15. When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again
16. Memories
17. Heartbreak Hotel
18. Hound Dog
19. All Shook Up
20. Can't Help Falling in Love
21. Jailhouse Rock
22. Don't Be Cruel
23. Blue Suede Shoes
24. Love Me Tender
25. Trouble/Guitar Man [Medley]
26. Trouble/Guitar Man [Medley]
27. If I Can Dream
Editorial Review:
During a career of invention and re-invention the'68 Comeback Special is perhaps THE pivotal performance of Elvis' career. He was back from the movie career that had kept him away from the live arena throughout most of the 60's and what's more he looked and sounded amazing. To celebrate the 40th anniversary we are releasing the Complete '68 Comeback Special, a box set that features the whole story from the rehearsals to the finished show, outtakes and rarely heard gems. Deluxe Edition - 4 disc box set including over 103 songs, CD sized Box with text foil stamped lift off lid. Each disc is housed in mini LP style wallets with a 36 page booklet. This album contains 8 previously unreleased tracks.
The Complete '68 Comeback Special: 40th Anniversary Edition Reviews:
elvis the great 
2008-09-08 - Elvis is still the greatest singer of all time. These new stars can't come close to him. Is 68 come back special is great!!!!!! everyone should
bye it.
RCA does it again...wrong !!! 
2008-08-31 - I have been a Elvis fan since 1962 and have seen RCA make one blunder after another and this collection is no exception. When I first saw the song selection, my immediate reaction was this is definitely not complete. No where to be found is take after take of the production numbers. Elvis was a perfectionist and as usual did take after take to get it right. I bought the set anyway because I buy anything RCA puts out. I am that devoted of a fan. When I listen to disc 1, I thought to myself that the original album probably left off "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" due to limited space on a record but there is more than enough space on a CD. To call it "complete" there should be nothing in the TV special that is not included on the CD.
Another Brilliant Box Set Collection
2008-08-19 - RCA / BMG, love them or hate them, have put out a number of high quality box sets over the years. Right about the time I was afraid we'd never see another they release this brilliant collection that really allows you to rediscover just how talented Elvis really was. These 4 CDs capture Elvis at a period of time where he was tested and he really rose to the challenge. Elvis would go on to always be great, but never again was he tested like he was in this special. And he more than met the challenge. He aced the test! Long live the king! This is a must have collection.
The Ultimate ELVIS Presley CD box-set
2008-08-10 - For me, this is the Ultimate ELVIS Presley! Not only he sings brilliantly. He looks awesomely handsome too! Two Thumbs Up, 5 STARS***** Ratings!!!
Another good idea shot to hell by RCA/BMG!...
2008-08-08 - RCA/BMG have taken yet another potentially great idea for a new release and screwed it up again! Will it never end?! The title "Complete '68 Comeback Special" is a LIE in itself. This set is NOT COMPLETE! The big blunder is the fact that disc 1 is called "The Original Album", which is the LAST thing they should have included here! I enjoyed it when it was first released, but I think that most serious Elvis fans have learned since then that there were MANY things wrong with this LP! A lot of what should be in true stereo were only included in flat mono sound, including "Memories" and "If I Can Dream" and the opening of the Gospel Medley ("Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child") was completely cut from the album. The instrumental breaks on this medley were shortened as well. A few years back, RCA released the 2-disc set "Memories-The'68 Comeback Special", and although this was far from complete, it DID include the entire Gospel Medley completely un-cut! Why then did they go back to releasing the cut version on this set which claims to be complete?! You would think a set like this would by now be the definitive version, but it's not! I really believe the label does these things purposely to get as much money out of the poor Elvis fan as they can! Even the huge DVD set of this show had a mistake in it. The "It Hurts Me" sequence was only included in separate pieces (the way it was filmed) and not in its' entirety! A 4-disc set!...and I also had to go out and buy the single disc version, which came out later, just to have this entire song sequence, which is one of my favorites! If you're a casual Elvis fan, then these things probably won't mean anything to you...but if you're a die-hard fan like me, then you'll still be longing for RCA/BMG to get something right so we won't have to keep buying it over and over!
