Always one of my favorite CDs......Excellent throughout.

Tracklist:

Blue Suede Shoes (1969/08/25 Midnight show)
Johnny B. Goode (1969/08/24 Midnight show)
All Shook Up (1969/08/25 Midnight show)
Are You Lonesome Tonight? (1969/08/24 Midnight show)
Hound Dog (1969/08/25 Midnight show)
I Can't Stop Loving You (1969/08/25 Midnight show)
My Babe (1969/08/25 Midnight show)
Mystery Train (1969/08/25 Midnight show)
Tiger Man (1969/08/25 Midnight show)
Words (1969/08/25 Midnight show)
In the Ghetto (1969/08/25 Dinner show)
Suspicious Minds (1969/08/26 Dinner show)
Can't Help Falling in Love (1969/08/26 Dinner show)


When Elvis and the Colonel decided it was time to start appearing live again, they assembled a crackerjack band (featuring James Burton) and took on Vegas full-bore. Easily the King's best live album, In Person at the International Hotel featured a slew of hits, including "Johnny B. Goode," "My Babe," the "Mystery Train/Tiger Man" medley, and "Suspicious Minds." If the album had a flaw, it was its skimpy running time (36 minutes). We now know, from the unissued tracks from these same performances that were added to the remastered On Stage (1970), that there was more to the repertory of those five days of August 1969 shows than is represented here; but the producers, limited to a single LP, faced a major problem: Should they weigh the tracks more toward his current repertory and recent singles, or toward his classic songs? The classic songs sort of won out, but in the decades since, those then-recent singles have risen in stature. Regardless of what they're playing, the band really rock throughout, and that's not just Burton -- who sounds like he's wearing his fingers ragged as he puts a new edge on "Hound Dog," coming up with something different than, yet vaguely similar to, Scotty Moore's approach to the song in concert 14 years earlier -- but also the entire guitar contingent of John Wilkinson and Charlie Hodge (not to mention Elvis himself, who strums along here and there) and the muscular rhythm section of bassist Jerry Scheff and drummer Ronnie Tutt. The vocal support by Hodge, Millie Kirkham, the Sweet Inspirations, and the Imperials is soaring and tasteful, never more so than on the album's seven-minute version of "Suspicious Minds" and the soaring finale, "Can't Help Falling in Love." ~ Cub Koda & Bruce Eder

thank's for this info Barry

Sorry BJ, but "Millie Kirkham" was'nt in Vegas in 1969!
Only in 1970 till august 16 I guess, before "Kathy Westmoreland"

Matteo,

I didn't actually write this review. I happened to come across it on the internet, and thought it was a well written, accurate description of this particular recording, so I decided to post it.

In reference to your claim that Millie Kirkham was not in Vegas for these recordings, Ernst Jorgensen's book, "A Life In Music" indicates she was there (See page 285).

hi my version of this seems to have the track my babe missing off it was there two versions of this

Don't belive so.....I originally had this on vinyl and then bought the U.S. CD in the 90's, and finally wound up with the Japanese Paper Sleeve Edition. They've all had "My Babe" on them.

thanks bj i might on the american site for a copy then

Thanks Barry I love that CD its great I just got it today its my 41 cd

some of the dialogue on I can't stop loving you - My baby - Mystery train/Tiger man is edited because it contain rough language/some were edited/some were taken from other places
as always RCA is playing with a pair of scissors

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