Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Lightyear Video
• VHS Release Date: November 24, 1992
• Run Time: 53 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303058744
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,325 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Never seen during his lifetime, this astonishing live performance could accurately be described as Elvis unplugged. Taped in a small studio, the session is a no-frills, intimate presentation of the Memphis rocker jamming with four of his earliest bandmates, revisiting early favorites in a relaxed and unrehearsed setting. With the musicians seated in a circle, facing one another while surrounded by a small but rapt audience, One Night with You is far removed from the more conventional staging seen elsewhere in his videography; Elvis's warm interaction with his old allies meanwhile refers directly back to his earliest stage and TV work in trio and quartet configurations.

Originally taped for the rock & roll legend's triumphant 1968 holiday special (available as Elvis: '68 Comeback Special), this reunion was never intended to be seen as a whole. Knowing that only brief segments might be used, Elvis jokes, clowns, and remains unfazed by the occasional musical gaffe. Yet he also brings an unforced vigor to his guitar playing (which had, for years, been reduced to pantomime for his formal shows), another clear link to the necessarily greater self-reliance of those career-making early shows.

For fans, the comeback special itself still looms as an unsurpassed feast of Presley music at the artist's peak. But this 53-minute companion, first aired by HBO, stands on its own as the tenderloin. --Sam Sutherland

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89 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This should be "One-Half Night with You", August 24, 2000

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Ellen M. Akerlund "Doxie Lover" (Los Altos, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Elvis - One Night With You (DVD)

I was extremely disappointed in the DVD. On the VHS version released years ago, there were two sessions--each with a different audience. The first session is loose, funny, and Elvis is obviously nervous. He then wants to play Scotty's guitar, but can't find a strap to hold the guitar while he stands up. There is joking around about this. He sends the first audience out with a comment that a second audience is coming in. There is disappointment in the group, to which Elvis answers, "Hey, I only work here!"

This entire first session is DELETED from the DVD version of "One night with you!" The DVD is only the second session, which has less energy, less FUN--there is no fooling around with the musicians on stage with Elvis. Elvis looks and sounds great, but the DVD is short and, in my opinion, cheats the buyer out of half of the black leather suit sessions. The VHS version is better in that it contains EVERYTHING--but then, DVD is DVD. Still, I'd rather watch the VHS version, even though I'm a die-hard advocate of DVD technology. It's just not enough Elvis on the DVD version, especially if you have the VHS version.

I don't know why EPE decided to delete one audience session (and couldn't get clearance for one of the songs--Are You Lonesome Tonight) for the DVD version.

If you're an Elvis collector, buy it knowing it is not complete; otherwise, I'd go find the old VHS version.

Summary: I was totally bummed out with this DVD. Elvis would not have liked what they did with cutting his performance either!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Black leather clad Elvis belting out his classics unplugged., December 2, 1998

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This review is from: One Night With You [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Elvis never looked or sounded better. Reunited with his original band from the Sun Studio days, Elvis sits in an informal "unplugged" style setting and rips through some of the classics that made him a star. He reaches back to his country/blues roots to bring out the raw power of the kind of rock and roll he created. He's at his best when he has to improvise, especially when he wants to stand but the mic is too low. Elvis is like a fighter trying to unleash the musical fury inside.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elvis was different, December 13, 2002

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M. Best "Zackariah" (Montgomery, Alabama United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Elvis - One Night With You (DVD)

I have always been an Elvis fan. He was/is the greatest performer/singer that ever lived. The Beatles were great, and beyond all others in musical accomplistments, except for Elvis, who far outranks them. In this DVD, one is able to experience him in the "unplugged" setting with a few of his "friends", including Scotty Moore, & D.J. Fontana. I had not seen any of this show since I first experienced it in 1968. Back then, we thought that he did it just to put the Beatles, (then at the height of their influence), in perspective. He did that.

But while viewing the program last night, I realized some things that are apparent now to me, that I would not have taken note of back then. I was a little uncomfortable with the way that everyone with him was dressed in red jumpsuits, while obviously adhering to careful agreement to every word Elvis said. They were indeed, the "yes-men" that have been revealed so often in the literature written since his death. After all the technological advances since that time, it seemed strange to see him passing guitars back and forth to Scotty Moore. Fontana used a guitar case as a drum, which gave an annoying "cardboard" sound when the DVD stereo sound was used. If this was done today, there would no limitations observed in the quality of equipment used, even in an "informal-unplugged" setting. Elvis even sang the last song, "Memories", to what sounded like a karaoke tape being played off-stage. Today, there would have been an orchestra behind him for accompaniment. Also, the between song chatter would have been much better planned. At one point, Elvis made reference to the "Music of today", saying that he "liked" the Beatles, and another group,(I cannot remember), before adding "and the rest" in a very flippant, unimportant manner. He really seemed to me to be doing this show as if it had just been suggested to him an hour ago. There was almost no preparation at all.

Having said that, let me now say that he pulled it off wonderfully! ONLY Elvis could do a show in this manner, and have it be a classic! His impromptu singing was as remarkable as I remembered it to be. No human voice was ever as beautiful as his! My wife lived all her life in another country until she married me a few years ago, and she had NEVER seen him on video before, till last night. All she could talk about was how handsome he was! He sang one masterpiece after another, and ALL she could talk about was how "beautiful that man is!" Her face seemed glossed over thoughout the whole show, as if she had been hypnotized! She was STILL talking about his appearance when I left for work this morning!! I am not sure that I am comfortable with her reaction to him, even with him being dead!

There will never be another performer like he was, and this DVD is proof of that! As long as these films of him exist, there will be people wanting to experience watching him as he was in 1968. There has not been any performer to appear on the horizon of entertainment in the years since his death, that even remotely approach the charisma, and talent, of this man. This DVD is a treasure, and highly reccomended to most people.