| | |  | Music | Home » » Elvis at Sun | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Japanese pressing live album contains 1 bonus track 'That's All Right' (alternate take). BMG. 2004. | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| June 22, 2004 | | Studio:
| Bmg / Elvis | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 34 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | Harbor Lights | | 2. | I Love You Because (Alternate Take 2) | | 3. | That's All Right | | 4. | Blue Moon Of Kentucky | | 5. | Blue Moon | | 6. | Tomorrow Night | | 7. | I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin') | | 8. | Just Because | | 9. | Good Rockin' Tonight | | 10. | I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine | | 11. | Milkcow Blues Boogie | | 12. | You're A Heartbreaker | | 13. | I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone (Slow Version) | | 14. | I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone | | 15. | Baby Let's Play House | | 16. | I Forgot To Remember To Forget | | 17. | Mystery Train | | 18. | Trying To Get To You | | 19. | When It Rains It Really Pours | |
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38 of 38 found the following review helpful:
 About the track "I Love You Because"Mar 04, 2006
By Reinaldo F. Jesus Jr.
Hi folks, I just wanted to let you know that the track "I Love You Because" in this CD is the original version as recorded at Sun Studios. The famous master take which has been the subject of controversy here at amazon is the version released by RCA after Elvis left the Sun label. RCA edited the song by making a split of takes 2 and 4, leaving out the spoken part. Hence, if you want the RCA version, buy the remastered Elvis Presley (1956) album. Don't be fooled by people who haven't really purchased this CD and haven't taken their time to read the great booklet that brings all this information. This IS indeed the ultimate Elvis Sun Sessions masters album. Top quality!!!
40 of 41 found the following review helpful:
Fantastic Early Elvis!!Jul 04, 2004
By Louie Bourland
To commemorate 50 years since the young Elvis Presley stepped into Sun Records to make his initial recordings (and indeed, the birth of Rock and Roll), RCA has released yet another compilation of The King's historic Sun sessions.
There has already been countless questionable reviews on "Elvis at Sun" which state this collection isn't comprehensive enough or is missing key tracks. While this collection doesn't offer every note recorded during Elvis's priceless Sun sessions, it does offer an excellent sampling of this piece of musical history.
The sound quality and remastering done to the original session tapes is outstanding and gives the music an overall restored clarity. Just listen for those percussive slaps on Bill Black's bass and you'll see what I mean.
Overall, this is a great CD which display Elvis's budding talents in their best quality yet. Sure, there may be a few tracks missing but the outer label says 'most comprehensive' not 'most complete'.
Fantastic Historic Elvis and A Must For Any Fan of The King!!
20 of 21 found the following review helpful:
The definite definiteApr 19, 2006
By Soulboogiealex
We could mope about RCA's money machine al we want to. We could complain that this is the Nth re-release of Elvis' Sun recordings. Bitch about how this is probably not the end of it. Yes, this is reissue one-million and one. And yes, there are probably going to be others. Let's just focus on the music.
The Sun recordings were truly Elvis' greatest recordings ever. They earned him his legendary status while he was alive. His later RCA works pales in comparison. It was at RCA where Elvis would soon be grinded in the commercial machine until he would (almost) be no better than Pat Boone. Sure he recorded some great sides at RCA, but it takes a lot digging in the enormous amount of movie fluff and comeback albums to discover them. Elvis often sounded bored and tiresome after he arrived at RCA.
Here we get Elvis at his most impressive. At times the music is oozing with pure sexual energy. At others it is moving and melancholic. Always it's committed, raw and full of energy. The fact that he managed to accomplish this with very little instrumentation is stellar. Some fifteen years down the road rock 'n roll would need towers of amplifiers to create the same exiting buzz.
Aside from the obviously legendary tracks, the sound on this disc is unbelievable. Every single one of them sounds like they have been recorded yesterday. Although the crisp sound does strip it of some of its romance and nostalgia, you could suddenly imagine That's All Right Mama shooting up the charts once more. Making this truly the "definite" definite Sun recording. No matter what RCA will decide to fire at us in the future. Stick with this one!
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
The definitive release of Elvis's sun materialSep 14, 2004
By Marc Haegeman
"Marc Haegeman"
This is by far the best release of Sun material around, surpassing all previous efforts by the mere quality of the sound restoration. Other releases might have been more complete, but listening to "Elvis at Sun" proves more revelatory than all, even fifty years after date.
Groundbreaking, visionary, indispensable.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
#1 Rock n' Roll Album (On My All-Time List)Jan 12, 2006
By John Moeller
"JohnnyGuitar"
The remastered sound on this album is truly a godsend, giving rock n roll conisieurs a much more vivid, amplified Elvis, Scotty Moore, and Bill Black and bringing the music to justice before a jury of Elvis fans desperate for a thorough remastering. This album is as close as one can come to experiencing the King like he was sitting on the end of his bed and playing in your living room with the bop power of Bill Black and Scotty Moore's fretboard scaling storming right behind like a couple horses keeping pace. The alternate take of I Love You Because is actually a plus, as the original can be found remastered on the 1956 Elvis Presley album release, his first with RCA. Get this album over the over-stocked Sunrise and feel the power of this amazing group of musicians, and you will understand why these recording are so seminal and immediate to the core of rock n roll and global music of the last 100 years.
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