The Complete Million Dollar Quartet
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-09-19
Music Label: Bmg / Elvis
Soundtracks:
- Instrumental
- Love Me Tender [Instrumental]
- Jingle Bells [Instrumental]
- White Christmas [Instrumental]
- Reconsider Baby
- Don't Be Cruel
- Don't Be Cruel
- Paralyzed
- Don't Be Cruel
- There's No Place Like Home
- When the Saints Go Marchin' In
- Softly and Tenderly
- When God Dips His Love in My Heart
- Just a Little Talk with Jesus
- Jesus Walked That Lonesome Valley
- I Shall Not Be Moved
- Peace in the Valley
- Down by the Riverside
- I'm with a Crowd But So Alone
- Farther Along
- Blessed Jesus (Hold My Hand)
- On the Jericho Road
- I Just Can't Make It by Myself
- Little Cabin Home on the Hill
- Summertime Is Past and Gone
- I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling
- Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
- Keeper of the Key (Carl Lead)
- Crazy Arms
- Don't Forbid Me
- Too Much Monkey Business
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- Don't Forbid Me
- You Belong to My Heart
- Is It So Strange
- That's When Your Heartaches Begin
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- Rip It Up
- I'm Gonna Bid My Blues Goodbye
- Crazy Arms
- That's My Desire
- End of the Road
- Black Bottom Stomp
- You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven
- Elvis Says Goodybe
Free Music Notes for The Complete Million Dollar Quartet
Free Music Review: Jerry Lee, Elvis, Carl and Johny Just Jamming
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this CD after seeing an amazing musical based on this real-life Jam session in Chicago. The musical was fantasic, but somehow I had trouble believing that Johny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis actually hung out one Christmas and played music together in the little studio (once an autoparts store/ garage) where they got there start. Picture yourself and 3 friends enjoying some Holiday cheer and deciding to take out a few instraments and sing. Now imagine that you just happen to be Elvis and your friends are the forefathers of rock and roll. That's pretty much what this is about. And it's not just their well know hits that you're eavesdropping on, but rather a lot of music from their roots. Gospel - church music and of course rock-a -billy. Unpretentious, pre-mega stardom, talent in its early days.
The sound quality is amazingly good considering that the session was secretly recorded back in the 50's.
Worth every penny.
The Complete Million Dollar Quartet Poster
Fifty years after a 21-year-old Elvis Presley first shook the world comes a reissue of the famed Million Dollar Quartet recording, the off-the-cuff Sun Records jam session where Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash joined Presley for a loose-jointed romp through 46 songs. Except that's not quite right--Cash either put down his part off-mic or rolled out his big baritone-bass when the tape wasn't rolling (the more likely explanation). So that, as Colin Escott writes in his liner notes, technically makes this a $750,000 Trio. And while this new edition is billed as the "complete" quartet--since 12 more minutes surfaced on a tape of superior sound quality found in Elvis's private collection, and the session is now in its right sequence--it obviously isn't the whole thing. (The 12 extra minutes are essentially four short instrumentals and "Reconsider Baby" at the start, as well as bits and pieces at different points throughout the CD.) But what survives is nevertheless fascinating, of course, not only for the historical record but for the fervor the three bring to a handful of spirituals (their finest moment) and how young Presley--who is already recording for RCA, and has just been dropped by Sun--presents himself. His new notoriety brings out a cocky charm, as he devotes much of these renditions of "Don't Be Cruel" and "Paralyzed" to an imitation of Jackie Wilson imitating him (Elvis knows Wilson only as one of Billy Ward's Dominoes), and boasting that Pat Boone recorded a song that Elvis wouldn't even audition. This fly-on-the-wall voyeurism should appeal to any student of rock 'n' roll history. But serious Elvisphiles will especially enjoy hearing Presley talk about the seeds of recording "That's When Your Heartaches Begin," mimic Hank Snow on "I'm Gonna Bid My Blues Goodbye," and express bemused ire over Faron Young, who had sent him a song ("Is It So Strange") he hoped Elvis would record. "He didn't want to give me none of it--he wanted it all, you know," Elvis says with a chuckle, supposedly referring to the publishing/writing credit, something Elvis's manager, the iron-fisted Colonel Tom Parker, demanded. As the trio moves through a plethora of material--Christmas songs, gospel, blues, R&B, country, pop, Dixieland, cowboy, and bluegrass--they become the hammer, anvil, and steel, forging a new form of music. What you have here, then, is no less than the sound of it, taking shape. --Alanna NashPop Music CDs
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