Legendary Performer Volume 1

Elvis Presley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 30, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: BMG Music, RCA Records
• ASIN: B0000038QJ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,364 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. That's All Right

2. Heartbreak Hotel

3. Elvis (Excerpt From Interview Held Sept.22, 1958)

4. Don't Be Cruel

5. Trying To Get To You

6. Love Me Tender

7. (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)

8. Elvis (Excerpt From Interview Held Sept.22, 1958)

9. Tonight's All Right For Love

10. Can't Help Falling In Love

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A legendary album, January 6, 2006

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Blue Boy (Noisy-le-Grand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legendary Performer Volume 1 (Audio CD)

Released in 1974 while Elvis was still alive, this compilation included for the first time outtakes and alternate versions of songs every fan knew by heart. It also included the master takes of some of his biggest hits.
This album was produced by Joan Deary who, at the time, was supposed to become Elvis's next producer after Felton Jarvis. Jarvis had been Elvis's own producer since 1966 but by 1974 nobody could get Elvis in the studio, not even Jarvis although RCA Records relied on him. They thought Jarvis was incompetent and they wanted to get rid of him, the record sales were becoming really bad since mid-1973 so RCA put Joan Deary in charge of Elvis's back catalogue. She did a tremendous job with LEGENDARY PERFORMER, the fans and the critics were happy and the mass audience could get another view of Elvis.
Elvis would do only three more recording sessions before his death (one in 1975, two in 1976), not showing at a fourth one on January 1977. Jarvis tried everything he could to keep his job, promising new songs and new records to RCA while Elvis did evrything he could to stop them. He was so bored at that time, full of medication, waiting for death.
This album (the first of the four volumes) did very well in the charts, selling more copies than Elvis's new records. But it did some good for his career too because just before his death his record sales began to rise again. His new albums sold more copies while the back catalogue did very well too.
It's truly a great album and I'm not sure Deary would have made a better job than Jarvis but at least she was the first person at RCA Records to take care of Elvis's musical legacy.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A decent introduction to the Legendary Performer!, September 17, 2004

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Gitters (Allendale, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legendary Performer Volume 1 (Audio CD)

Elvis A Legendary Performer Volume 1 is a fine place to get introduced to the man's music. This was the first Elvis album that I owned. While the album is extremely skimpy by today's standards, it is a good album.Out of the 10 songs two of them are excerpts from interviews, so in all reality there are only 8 songs, but among those eight songs are some of Elvis's best early recordings like Heartbreak Hotel, Don't Be Cruel,Love Me Tender, adn Can't Help Falling in Love, which I personally think some of these songs represent his strongest material, basically he was at his best during the 50's and early 60's. Some of these are the songs that drew me in to Elvis's music. There are many complations that cover his career in much more depth, but for a quick taste of Elvis's best years check out A Legendary Performer Volume 1.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Incorrect Track Listing, November 13, 2004

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New-York City Historian "Chris Belena" (Brooklyn, NYC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legendary Performer Volume 1 (Audio CD)

The track listing above is not correct. Here is the correct track list:
1) That's All Right
2) I Love You Because
3) Heartbreak Hotel
4) Interview
5) Don't Be Cruel
6) Love Me
7) Trying to Get to You
8) Love Me Tender
9) (There'll Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me)
10) Elvis' Farewell to His Fans (22 Sep 1958)
11) (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I
12) Tonight Is So Right for Love
13) Are You Lonesome Tonight?
14) Can't Help Falling in Love