SONY / BMG News

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Sony BMG will release the following CDs this year - Elvis At The Movies, Viva Las Vegas 2CD With Unreleased Concert, Another Essential Release and 18 Singles & a singles box set. This has been confimred to us by Sony BMG Australia.

Full details of each of these projects will follow, but this is a brief overview.

Elvis At The Movies

Sony BMG will release 'Elvis At The Movies', a 40 track compliation on June 4, 2007. The release of this 2CD digipack set is in conjunction with Warner Brothers' & Paramount's massive Elvis presley movie DVD reissue campaigns this year.

View flyer with cover art & tracklisting.

Viva Las Vegas 2CD With Unreleased Concert

Sony BMG will release 'Viva Las Vegas' a 38 track 2CD set on July 30 featuring the best of Elvis' live recordings from Las Vegas on the first disc and a never before released concert from August 1969 on the second disc.

Disc 1:

Viva Las Vegas
See See Rider
The Wonder Of You
Polk Salad Annie
Release Me
Let It Be Me
Proud Mary
I Just Can’t Help Believin’
Walk A Mile In My Shoes
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Patch It Up
I’ve Lost You
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
An American Trilogy
Never Been To Spain
You Gave Me A Mountain
It’s Over
The Impossible dream

Disc 2:

Blue Suede Shoes
I Got A Woman
All Shook Up
Love Me Tender
Jailhouse Rock/Don't Be Cruel
Heartbreak Hotel
Hound Dog
Memories
Mystery Train/Tiger Man
Monologue/Lifestory
Baby What You Want Me To Do
Runaway
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Yesterday/Hey Jude
Introductions
In The Ghetto
Suspicious Minds
What'd I Say
Can't Help Falling In Love

Another Essential Release

The US and Australia released the Essential Elvis in January this year. The international version will be available for release from July 23rd. This will also be made available in completely different packaging for those countries that have difficulty mass marketing the Essential brand, although will remain the same tracklisting, in August.

(In addition, some countries have definite plans for their own album, and these are being dealt with on a country by country basis) This will be a 50 track compilation.

Although this consists of previously released material this time the tracklisting in non-chronological, for a number of reasons:

1) it creates a point of difference to pretty much every other Elvis compilation

2) the tracklisting is created to make it look great at first glance at retail, and plays wonderfully

3) it makes it harder to easily compare against low price public domain competition Tracklisting attached (not sequenced, final sequence will follow very soon) Cover for the Essential attached, alternative package cover tbc.

Tracklisting in alphabetical order:

(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame
(Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I
A Big Hunk O' Love
A Little Less Conversation
All Shook Up
Always On My Mind
American Trilogy
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Blue Suede Shoes
Burning Love
Can't Help Falling In Love With You
Crying In The Chapel
Devil In Disguise
Don't
Don't Be Cruel
Fever
Good Luck Charm
Green Green Grass Of Home
Guitar Man
Hard Headed Woman
Heartbreak Hotel
Hound Dog
I Just Can't Help Believing
In The Ghetto
It's Now Or Never
Jailhouse Rock
King Creole
Love Me Tender
Mess Of Blues
Moody Blue
My Boy
My Way
One Night
Party
Return To Sender
Rock-A-Hula Baby
She's Not You
Stuck On You
Surrender
Suspicious Minds
That's Alright
The Wonder Of You
There Goes My Everything
Too Much
Viva Las Vegas
Way Down
Wear My Ring Around Your Neck
Wooden Heart
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

18 Singles & a singles box set

Following the same plan as the 'Elvis 18 UK #1s campaign from 2005, which resulted in sales of over 750,000 units, Sony/BMG will release a new set of 18 singles, this time classic singles which were not part of the first campaign.

The campaign will run from August to December, followed by a complete box set also released in December. The 18 singles will be released over a period of 17 weeks, on CD, 10 vinyl, and digital download, with a collector’s edition numbered box at the beginning of the campaign, and a complete box (not numbered and slimmed down) in December 2007.


Elvis Australia

könnten verspätete April Scherze sein...

könnten verspätete April Scherze sein...

Leider wohl nicht.

Wenn das wirklich alles ist was wir zum 30. Todestag bekommen.

Hier noch die Rückseite der Movie CD.

Finde, dass sich einiges davon doch ganz gut anhört. Ein komplettes '69er Konzert, welches vorher noch nicht veröffentlicht wurde ist doch genial. Dass eine CD sozusagen als Soundtrack zu den auf DVD neu veröffentlichten Filme beigesteuert wird, finde ich auch interessant und aus nem marketingtechnischen Standpunkt sogar für richtig.
EDIT: hey, da is ja auch "Do the clam" drauf. Vielleicht "richtig" gemischt, wo es gerade diese Diskussion gibt?

Leider wohl nicht.

Wenn das wirklich alles ist was wir zum 30. Todestag bekommen.

Sei doch nicht so ungeduldig ! Es wird denke ich noch mehr kommen ,

Soll diese "Essential" die Fortsetzung der sehr geilen "Essential Elvis"-Reihe bedeuten?

Da haben die einfach mal mit fadenscheinigen Begründungen bekanntes Material draufgepackt? Unglaublich.

Soll diese "Essential" die Fortsetzung der sehr geilen "Essential Elvis"-Reihe bedeuten?

Hab ich mich auch grad gefragt. Aber das glaube ich nicht, die Songlist hat überhaupt nichts mit der Essential Reihe zu tun, jedenfalls wüsste ich nicht, welches Konzept dahinter stehen soll.
Und das 96er Konzert...so gut die alle sind....wir haben davon schon 3. Datum steht auch nicht dabei, kann sich aber nur um den 22. oder 23.8. handeln denke ich.
Ich halts wie crocT: Wenn man bedenkt, was alles schon für Veröffentlichungen diskutiert wurden, dann sehe ich das gelassen, und warte einfach ab.

Leider wohl nicht.

Wenn das wirklich alles ist was wir zum 30. Todestag bekommen.

das noch dazu:

Sony BMG have asked Elvis Australia to remove all news of the new CD releases from their website and were asked only to say that more news will be announced soon. This is a directive from Sony BMG USA.

Various sites and fora report BMG releases need to be approved by EPE and that has not yet been done. We checked wit EPE's Todd Morgan, his reaction: "No truth to it".

Quelle: Elvisnews.com

Sony BMG have asked Elvis Australia to remove all news of the new CD releases from their website and were asked only to say that more news will be announced soon. This is a directive from Sony BMG USA.

"A directive"! Seit wann entscheiden Medienkonzerne über Pressefreiheit? Erst lassen sie den Mist raus und dann folgen solche lächerlichen Aktionen? Wo leben wir denn bitte?

Bezieht sich die Meldung von Elvisnews.com eigentlich wirklich auf diese beiden völlig verzichtbaren Veröffentlichungen weiter oben? Dann verstehe ich den Aufstand erst recht nicht.