#elvis live

[vintageshanny]

Elvis lovers - it’s that time again! This week’s question is…..what are your top three live song performances? I definitely have not heard all the live stuff that’s available, so I’m really excited to see all of your answers and add them to my playlist! ❤️❤️❤️ Don’t forget to put the reasons why it speaks to you! Reading about everyone’s love for this man just makes my heart swell. 😘❤️

Such a Night (March 25, 1961 Pearl Harbor) - This concert is amazing, and this song in particular just puts me in a good mood. The little growling noises he does throughout are just so sexy, and the song is so upbeat. I love that you can hear the playful dynamic between him and the audience. There are so many amazing songs from this concert that he rarely performed again - Reconsider Baby, It’s Now or Never, I Need Your Love Tonight. And the corny jokes are already in full effect! He was really just his dorky self on stage, and I love it so much!

My Babe (Elvis Live 1969 Disc 9 - August 25, 1969 Las Vegas Midnight Show) - This is one of my favorite blues songs, and I was so excited when I first saw that Elvis covered it. (If you like blues, listen to Little Walter’s version. It is a great song, and I wish that Elvis had sung all the verses - I’d love to hear him sing “When she’s hot there ain’t no coolin’ her.” 😉😍) The amount of sexiness he oozes in this vocal is almost criminal. When he sings “she don’t, she don’t, she don’t, oh God,” I bet every woman there felt something…unspeakable. And the grunting! Whew…I need to recover from just thinking about this performance. 🥵 Really everything from this first Vegas run is just superb - the bluesy arrangement for Heartbreak Hotel is another favorite for me.

Funny How Time Slips Away (Elvis on Tour Disc 3 - April 14, 1972 Greensboro) - I love this song so much, and this particular version just does things to me. Right before he starts the song, he asks them to turn the house lights up, and when he says “I-I-It’s funny because I-I-I can’t see you really,” his sweet little stutter just melts my heart. Then when he sings, “How am I doin’? Well I’m sweatin’ a little bit baby, but I guess I’m doin’ fine,” it makes a lot more than my heart react. 😉😍😂 I just love how you get a feel for his interaction with the audience in this performance, and I like when he says “let her have it, man, let her have it” to security (I think about someone trying to get a scarf). My other favorite live performance of this is at Madison Square Garden. In that one, you actually can hear him stutter while singing a line, and I love that he goes up and hits that falsetto note when he sings “Remember what I told you,” and then drops way back down. I think he just had a lot of fun singing this, considering it’s kind of a sad song.

Runner-up goes to You’re the Reason I’m Living (March 22, 1975 Midnight Show). I think this is the only time he performed this live (someone correct me if I’m wrong), and it feels like just a beautiful dedication to his fans. Again you can hear his sweet stutter before he starts, and I like how you can hear him direct the band on what to do during the song. He performs the song so beautifully and then concludes by saying “That was, probably you could tell, totally unrehearsed.” Um, no, I could not tell that at all because it was amazing! ❤️

Again tagging past participants, but if you love Elvis and his music, please join in! 😘

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[lllsaslll]

Elvis Presley - New Years Show, Pittsburgh Civic Center, 1976

Incredible amateur recording of the entire New Year's show at The Pittsburgh Civic Arena, December 31st 1976: "Final Countdown to Midnight". Regarded as one of Elvis' best concerts of the late 70's, he performed to a crowd of over 16,000 just months before his death. Ringing in his last New Year with a lively and loving crowd, Elvis took requests, shared the mic with fans, and delivered one of his most impressive (yet rarely sung live) vocal performances in "Rags to Riches". On that freezing winter night, Elvis' spirit burned bright. Happy New Year everyone~

“I would like to wish you all really a very happy and a prosperous new year, hope you have health and happiness, and that God be with you.”

- Elvis Presley

[elvis1970s]

Following on from a two-week Las Vegas engagement in March, Elvis kicked off his first arena tour in six months at Macon (GA) Coliseum, on April 24th, 1975. Part of the show was recorded at the soundboard and bootlegged.

There was huge local excitement about Elvis coming to town. One local paper reported that Elvis' entourage included twenty bodyguards, and they had booked out the entire top floor of the local Hilton, the transport arrangements having included a large private jet, blue and yellow Cadillac limousines and a chartered greyhound coach. Hotel staff told the paper that Elvis nearly took a tumble on a slippery floor while accessing the hotel through the kitchen, but took it in good humour.

The Macon Telegraph reported;

"…Elvis Presley, who has been selling out auditoriums and arenas for 20 years, did it again in Macon Thursday night before a crowd of 10,242 persons, who travelled from all over the Southeast to hear the legendary performer sing…At 9.40 p.m, Presley walked up the eight steps leading to the five foot high, 32 by 40 foot stage and the overflow crowd burst into yells, tears, screams and roaring applause…The performer immediately began singing See See Rider, which was followed by I Got A Woman. He paused after these two numbers and introduced himself to the elated crowd as Johnny Cash. That drew a tremendous round of laughter and applause…Presley, wearing a blue suit with silver sequins, followed those songs with 15 others, including such favourites as Love Me, Burning Love and Let Me Be There…Presley left the stage amidst thundering applause and thrilled fans who stretched over the balcony trying to touch the performer…"

It’s an interesting set-list, with the emphasis on more contemporary material. This mix is a little different with piano dominating in the rock numbers, and actually overpowering the vocal in some parts.

The tour extended through to May 7th, and included a benefit show in Jackson for victims of a recent Tornado in McComb, MS.

[folkbreeze]

🗣️lazzaaaa, your man is throwing your child into the ocean again!!!

(befores and afters of the first two pics under the cut bc i'm kinda proud)

let's not talk about how long i spent DRAWING water like ??? 1- i don't know how to draw, 2- how 3- i really don't care if it looks bad, the mxao line looked worse 😌

for this one i was big brain bc i just cropped the sea from another screenie and layered it twice on this one (and then made it look like waves, added shadows and lights and called it a day)

[lostl1sbons1ster]

[urdeadsweetheart]

[feralgodmothers]

[rwnjun]

andreil if they were birds ..!

[redribbonsandblood]

Girlhood

[wh0-is-lily]

Priscilla Presley in cars throughout the '60s ♥️

[vintageshanny]

I was so excited to find this vinyl in decent condition on eBay! If you have not listened to the Pearl Harbor concert recording, do yourself a favor and search for it on YouTube. Elvis is Back is one of my favorite albums, and you get to hear the only live recordings of some of those songs. Thank you to @thatbanditqueen Norah for turning me on to this concert! ❤️😘

[texaschainsawmascara]

Jacob Elordi, He Went That Way (2023)

[elvis1970s]

Over March 29th and 30th, 1977, Elvis played two shows at Rapides Parish Coliseum, Alexandria, Louisiana. This is a partial soundboard recording of the second night’s performance, during which Elvis was sufficiently troubled by malfunctioning sound equipment that he invited sound engineers Felton Jarvis and Bruce Jackson onto the stage to make his point. He also re-interpreted a line of And I Love You So to reflect his feelings on the matter...

"I guess...they understand...how bad the sound has been..."

The Alexandria Town Talk reviewed the first night’s performance, and part of this review was quoted in Peter Guralnick’s bio, Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley as a general (and not entirely fair) wider commentary on Elvis’ level of engagement and showmanship during this period;

“…Tuesday night Presley was on stage less than an hour; he was impossible to understand when (or if) he talked between numbers…he never said one word to the audience or mentioned how nice or not nice it was to be in Alexandria… He came on stage, did a few numbers and then dashed off - no encores, no extra bows, no nothing…”

The review in its entirety was not as devastating as that one paragraph, and seemed to reflect the reporter’s bewilderment over the hysteria of the fans, and the fact that the show itself was, in her own words, ‘great fun’, ‘Capital E’ entertaining, and ‘Capital P’ professional, in spite of its musical shortcomings.

The reviewer noted Elvis’ consideration in giving attention to those seated behind the stage, complimented his rendition of Early Morning Rain, joked that How Great Thou Art should have been renamed 'How Loud Thou Art', and urged Elvis to include more contemporary numbers in the set.

This show provided no warning of the disaster that would befall the tour the following night. In Baton Rouge, as showtime approached, Elvis was semi-conscious and could not be roused. The decision to cancel was made at the last minute, when the arena was already full and seated. A very quick evacuation from the city was arranged, a statement was released explaining Elvis' ill-health, and the Baton Rouge show, along with the other three remaining nights of the tour, were rescheduled.

[cherrycolaride]

Okay I need an explanation girlies, anyone please...

at 2:10 minutes, the story he tells...

"i said baby... she said deeper, deeper!"

what the hell please what is he talking about 😭 can anybody tell?

like the whole thing, why does it sound so naughtyyy? i mean he's jokin' around but uuh...

also his voice, his laugh in this recording... why is everything he does so naturally sexy and smooth? it all got me goin' feral, i can't even imagine how it must have felt like experiencing this live!

gotta talk about this whole live album in general soon... every recording is a blessing and i stand by that. though i'm genuinely mad there's no availabe video footage! like you can't tease me like that and let me hear but not see 👀

[ribb0ngirl]

Autumn killed summer with the softest kiss ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

[fimmelsbestestgirl]

Can’t wait till this movie comes out