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  • Artist: Elvis Presley
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2007
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 886971186727
  • Item Number: RCA118672
  • Release date: 07/31/2007
  • 1. Viva Las Vegas
  • 2. See See Rider
  • 3. The Wonder of You
  • 4. Polk Salad Annie
  • 5. Release Me
  • 6. Let It Be Me
  • 7. I Just Can't Help Believin'
  • 8. Walk a Mile in My Shoes
  • 9. Bridge over Troubled Water
  • 10. Patch It Up
  • 11. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
  • 12. You've Lost That Loving Feeling
  • 13. An American Trilogy
  • 14. Never Been to Spain
  • 15. You Gave Me a Mountain
  • 16. The Impossible Dream (The Quest)
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Elvis: Viva Las Vegas by Elvis Presley on CD


The soundtrack to an ABC-TV special, Elvis: Viva Las Vegas documents the king's years in a place, the International Hotel (later the Las Vegas Hilton), where he played close to one thousand shows, before two million fans, over the course of seven years. Dramatic, intense, driven and earthy, frequently moving, but not without the occasional cloying note, an Elvis show in the early '70s was the apotheosis of rock music. It was rock and soul, gospel and pop, blues and country. It was Elvis at maximum energy, whether he was kicking his older hits into a higher gear or down-shifting to make a burning ballad out of one of his favorite songs from the past few years. Elvis and his coterie took what had once been simple and unadorned and transformed it into one of the glitziest extravaganzas ever seen. Elvis: Viva Las Vegas is a live compilation (except for the studio version of the title track), most of it recorded during his earliest engagements at the International Hotel in February and August of 1970. (The same material can be found on the original live album On Stage: February 1970 as well as the expanded That's the Way It Is; the rest are from a February 1972 show that had previously appeared on the box set Live in Las Vegas.) The focus here is on material that Elvis had not made his own, but nevertheless seemed to fit with what he wanted to express in his post-movie years -- songs that struck the grand note, that stood for nothing less than a maximum of drama and feeling, songs like "Let It Be Me," "Release Me," "You've Lost That Loving Feeling," and "Bridge over Troubled Water." Late-period Elvis is not the way most fans wish to remember him, but it's an important part of his career, and both the film and soundtrack for Elvis: Viva Las Vegas document it well. ~ John Bush, Rovi
  • Artist: Elvis Presley
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2007
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 886971186727
  • Item Number: RCA118672
  • Release date: 07/31/2007
  • Label: Sony BMG
  • Genre: Pop/Rock
  • Style: Rock & Roll, Early Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, AM Pop
  • Album Time: 55:01

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  • Elvis: Viva Las Vegas Elvis Presley CD
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Editorial Reviews

One of the tiny handful of post-Army Elvis Presley vehicles which can be enjoyed on a non-ironic level, Viva Las Vegas stacks up as one of the King's best movies largely because for a change he has a co-star who can match him for onscreen charisma -- Ann-Margret. If Ann-Margret can't equal Elvis for essential rock & roll cool, she has great comic timing, can actually sing, and still knows how to make the sparks fly onscreen, and together they display an easygoing but potent chemistry that Elvis rarely managed with his other leading ladies. While the story is pretty typical stuff (the Big E is a race driver trying to raise money to put his car back on the track), George Sidney keeps things light and lively and knows enough to stay out of the way of his stars. Elvis even gets a few decent songs this time out, including the classic title tune (written by Doc Pomus) and a fiery take of Ray Charles' "What'd I Say." Add a stronger-than-average supporting cast (including William Demarest, Nicky Blair, Jack Carter, and a blink-and-you'll-miss-her bit part from Teri Garr) and you get an Elvis Presley movie you actually don't have to suffer through; if all of his pictures had displayed this level of competence, he wouldn't have had to apologize to his fans for his career in Hollywood. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide