That's the Way It Is ( Elvis Paper Sleeve Collection Mini LP 24 bit 96 khz ) [Import, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered]

Elvis Presley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 29, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
• Label: Bmg Int'l
• ASIN: B00003E43Q
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #703,439 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Just Can't Help Believin'

2. Twenty Days And Twenty Nights

3. How The Web Was Woven

4. Patch It Up

5. Mary In The Morning

6. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

7. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

8. I've Lost You

9. Just Pretend

10. Stranger In The Crowd

11. The Next Step Is Love

12. Bridge Over Troubled Water

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elvis at his best, May 27, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: That's the Way It Is (Audio CD)

I have 80% of all that Elvis recorded and this one is my favorite hands down. This is a group of recordings that are unmatched, belonging together in such a way that you must hear to appreciate. I never grow weary of listening to it again.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The King at his best .... yet again!!, February 12, 2005

By 

R. Spencer "Rob" (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: That's the Way It Is (Audio CD)

This is a classic album in every sense of the word. This album mixes live and studio recordings to accompany the 1970 documentary "Elvis - That's The Way It is".
The result is one of Elvis' best ever efforts (and that's saying something). As good (or should i say great!) as they were, his albums of the 50s and 60s do not match up to this extraordinary effort, from a singer who had always been extraordinary since the start.

Fresh from the success of the chart-topping single "The Wonder of you" and the hot "On Stage" album, Presley was on a roll.
The album "That's the way it is" contained a mere 12 of many songs recorded at the live shows, rehearsals and studio sessions during this time. Nevertheless why complain when the result is a true 5 STAR album as this?

It has a huge Country feel from the first cut ("I just can't help believing") and this is echoed throughout most of the album.
I actually bought this album after hearing 2 songs. The already mentioned Just can't help believing" and Elvis' version of the Simon and Garfunkel classic "Bridge over troubled water", whioch ironically is the albums last song.

The material in-between does not disappoint.
"Just Pretend" has to be the highlight. This is my second favourite song Presley EVER recorded (right next too "If I can dream", recorded 2 years earlier).
This is the ultimate love song about a man who has argued with his love and has left, however (obviously the two are in a telephone conversion) miles apart, both are now wishing they were back together.
Presley then sings "I'll come flying to you again, all the crying is true/through, I will hold you and love you again, but until then, well, Just Pretend". A marvellous song.

Unlike a lot of Live albums (this was half live, half studio) we are treated to 100% material never before released by Elvis.
"That's the way it is" shows Elvis at his best. This proves the later Elvis material was right up their with anything he had done before.

Anyone who claims he was past it in 1960, should check this set out. It's Presley's finest.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Live and Studio Albums by The King, February 17, 2000

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Mathew Jutovsky (Carmichael, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: That's the Way It Is (Audio CD)

This Albums opens up with very soft and pretty love song, "I Just Can't Help Believin", it is a classic to me of Elvis's career. Their are magnificient dramatic bring it all down pieces on this album. They represent his days singing at Sun Studios, such songs as "How The Web Was Woven", "Just Pretend". They mixe his singing roots of Blues and Country. His live recordings, are his best music coming from Vegas in 1970, such songs, as "You've Lost The Lovin' Feeling", and "A Bridge over Trouble Water". Elvis's version of "A Bridge Over Trouble Water" is so over powering it puts people that love music to tears. I listen to this album almost every day and it is the best studio live albums of Elvis's later career.