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Elvis Box Full Of Unreleased Goodies
BMG Heritage has set a July 1 release for “Elvis: Close Up,” a four-disc box set featuring a bounty of unreleased Elvis Presley material. “Close Up” follows last year’s RCA release of the box set “Elvis Today, Tomorrow, and Forever” and the single-disc collection “ELV1S 30 #1 Hits,” which debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 2.8 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
“Elvis: Close Up” collects 89 tracks in all, and each of its four remastered discs represent different aspects of Presley’s career. Disc one concentrates on stereo master tapes from the 1950s, marking the first such releases for “Blueberry Hill,” “Loving You,” “(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me),” “Don’t Leave Me Now,” and more. Disc two culls tracks from four of Presley’s films: “G.I. Blues,” “Blue Hawaii,” “Flaming Star,” and “Wild in the Country.” The disc features 25 previously unreleased outtakes.
The third disc covers Presley’s 1960s sessions at RCA’s Studio B in Nashville. Twenty-one outtakes from a number of different sessions are featured, including “Make Me Know It,” “U.S. Male,” “Surrender,” “His Latest Flame,” “The Girl of My Best Friend,” and “Singing Tree.”
The final disc is taken up by a complete unreleased concert recorded April 18, 1972 in San Antonio. The 23-track show features “Burning Love,” “Proud Mary,” “Suspicious Minds,” “Never Been to Spain,” “Funny How Time Slips Away,” and “Polk Salad Annie.”