scotch wrote:I just realized just over half of my Double Features actually came from "The Original Elvis Presley Collection". From that set I have #17, 18, 22, 24, 25 and 29. I don't really care about the incongruity as I took horrible care of my CD cases and ended up having to trash most of them... I assume there is no difference in sound quality or track listings between those from the collection and the original release?
I mentioned that a while back
sweetangeline wrote:...the contents are all the same...and they are also available in that numbered edition THE ORIGINAL ELVIS PRESLEY COLLECTION.
From my collection, here are the remaining soundtrack CD's pressed in Germany, USA and Japan back in the wonderful year of 1997 (Artist of the Century)!
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"I´m limp as a rag, worn out when a show´s over". Elvis in Tacoma, fall 1957. Long, Lonely Highway, by Ger Rijff (Tutti Frutti productions, 1985)
drghanem wrote:From my collection, here are the remaining soundtrack CD's pressed in Germany, USA and Japan back in the wonderful year of 1997 (Artist of the Century)!
Cool!. The book is still sealed? . Bye for now .
Maestro. Mike Windgren. Torero!!!!!!!!.
Always Trying To Make Peace <<--->> On FECC
Not The Best, Just The Coolest Guy Around!..
Viva el vino, viva el dinero, viva, viva el amor!!.
So, visted my local 2nd hand record and CD shop again this morning. Picked the last "Double Features" and "Loving You", "Jailhouse Rock".
My dealer gave me a discount, got the lot for £17.00.
Thanks for the advice, offers and comments guys!
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Roddy wrote:I love this collection. It remembers me my teenage years.
I was just able to get these CD's last year.
I sold one Kissin Cousins/Clambake (got the sealed one) and I got the right Frankie and Johnny without beeing from the 50 CD boxset.
I'd prefer to have all European or US, but this is what I got so far.
They are very rare to find here.
Yes, they are a great set. It was not until a couple of years ago, thanks to this forum, that I read that they are superior mixes to what had been avaialble on CD up to 1997. So, once realising this I had to complete the collection. Finally managed it this week.
Would you consider 'Can't help falling in love as part of the soundtrack collection, art style fits with G.I. Blues and Blue Hawaii.
The cover design certainly fits in... but GI Blues and Blue Hawaii were both mixed and mastered by Dennis Ferante in 1997... Dennis didn't work on the CHFIL compilation which was released in 1999. I always liked that collection and listened to it a lot when it was first issued.
I have them all, and I am not going to get rid of them. Two of the best remixes are to Frankie And Johnny and Harum Scarum!
Not everyone's cup of tea, but I really like those two! They came to life through the DF series!
"If you love me let me know, if you don't, ....move it!"
skatterbrane wrote: The GI Blues one features the original version of Didja Ever first released in 1960 and subsequently been replaced with the spliced version ever since.
Do you happen to know when the spliced version was made, or why it's superseded the original version?
On a side note, are the 1997 versions of Blue Hawaii and GI Blues remixed? Compared to the versions on the Movie Soundtracks box, they sound very different to my ears (maybe it's just the mastering, or maybe I'm just crazy?!).
Yes, the 1997 CD's featured brand new mixes which remain exclusive to those discs.
Would you consider 'Can't help falling in love as part of the soundtrack collection, art style fits with G.I. Blues and Blue Hawaii.
I think this release is a beauty, in its presentation the sound and content, really good. I like when they get “Artsy” and show some imagination such as the “Essential Elvis” disks.
I don't care what Ed Van Halen says about me--all's I know is that Howard Stern and Mr. Rogers like me just the way I friendly am! - David Lee Roth
I'm now on the third disc of the ten, which is Viva Las Vegas/Roustabout. VLV is perhaps the first instance of disappointing sound on the series. There's a LOT of reverb here, and the soundtrack lacks some of the punch it's got elsewhere, most notably in the 2007 remasters. And I Need Somebody to Lean On is quite muffled, too.
I'm now on the third disc of the ten, which is Viva Las Vegas/Roustabout. VLV is perhaps the first instance of disappointing sound on the series. There's a LOT of reverb here, and the soundtrack lacks some of the punch it's got elsewhere, most notably in the 2007 remasters. And I Need Somebody to Lean On is quite muffled, too.
As I recall, too much reverb was applied to some of the Double Features soundtracks.
"You go to school. I'm going out to make a buck!"
Elvis as Danny Fisher
I'm now on the third disc of the ten, which is Viva Las Vegas/Roustabout. VLV is perhaps the first instance of disappointing sound on the series. There's a LOT of reverb here, and the soundtrack lacks some of the punch it's got elsewhere, most notably in the 2007 remasters. And I Need Somebody to Lean On is quite muffled, too.
As I recall, too much reverb was applied to some of the Double Features soundtracks.
I hadn't noticed before. Certainly the sound improves drastically when the disc moves on to Roustabout.
I'm now on the third disc of the ten, which is Viva Las Vegas/Roustabout. VLV is perhaps the first instance of disappointing sound on the series. There's a LOT of reverb here, and the soundtrack lacks some of the punch it's got elsewhere, most notably in the 2007 remasters. And I Need Somebody to Lean On is quite muffled, too.
As I recall, too much reverb was applied to some of the Double Features soundtracks.
I hadn't noticed before. Certainly the sound improves drastically when the disc moves on to Roustabout.
Yes, it does. Ernst and Co. were kind of shooting in the dark on the Viva Las Vegas soundtrack since very few, if any, of the original songs had been mixed to stereo back in 1963 or 1964.
Per Keith Flynn and his wonderful web site, too much digital echo also mars the Easy Come, Easy Go masters on its Double Features release.
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"You go to school. I'm going out to make a buck!"
Elvis as Danny Fisher
Remember being in complete shock when I heard the 2010 version of The Yellow Rose Of Texas with so much prominient flute part, which I almost didn't notice on the DF album.
I guess technology has changed a lot and even personal taste / musical approach of those "in charge".
When your heart gets restless - time to move along,
When your heart gets weary - time to sing a song,
But when a dream is calling you
There's just one thing that you can do...
I'm now on the third disc of the ten, which is Viva Las Vegas/Roustabout. VLV is perhaps the first instance of disappointing sound on the series. There's a LOT of reverb here, and the soundtrack lacks some of the punch it's got elsewhere, most notably in the 2007 remasters. And I Need Somebody to Lean On is quite muffled, too.
As I recall, too much reverb was applied to some of the Double Features soundtracks.
I hadn't noticed before. Certainly the sound improves drastically when the disc moves on to Roustabout.
Yes, it does. Ernst and Co. were kind of shooting in the dark on the Viva Las Vegas soundtrack since very few, if any, of the original songs had been mixed to stereo back in 1963 or 1964.
Per Keith Flynn and his wonderful web site, too much digital echo also mars the Easy Come, Easy Go masters on its Double Features release.
Pretty sure they used some [if not all] of the versions that were remixed in stereo by Dick Bogert for Vol. 2 of the UK E.P. Collection [Love In Las Vegas] in 1982.
"Viva Las Vegas" and "What'd I Say" were later recycled on Vol. 3 [1983] of the German Rare Elvis series.
Not sure if any of the other mixes were ever reissued [A Valentine Gift For You, perhaps] prior to the Double Features release.
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I'm now on the third disc of the ten, which is Viva Las Vegas/Roustabout. VLV is perhaps the first instance of disappointing sound on the series. There's a LOT of reverb here, and the soundtrack lacks some of the punch it's got elsewhere, most notably in the 2007 remasters. And I Need Somebody to Lean On is quite muffled, too.
As I recall, too much reverb was applied to some of the Double Features soundtracks.
I hadn't noticed before. Certainly the sound improves drastically when the disc moves on to Roustabout.
Yes, it does. Ernst and Co. were kind of shooting in the dark on the Viva Las Vegas soundtrack since very few, if any, of the original songs had been mixed to stereo back in 1963 or 1964.
Per Keith Flynn and his wonderful web site, too much digital echo also mars the Easy Come, Easy Go masters on its Double Features release.
Pretty sure they used some [if not all] of the versions that were remixed in stereo by Dick Bogert for Vol. 2 of the UK E.P. Collection [Love In Las Vegas] in 1982.
"Viva Las Vegas" and "What'd I Say" were later recycled on Vol. 3 [1983] of the German Rare Elvis series.
Not sure if any of the other mixes were ever reissued [A Valentine Gift For You, perhaps] prior to the Double Features release.
Very interesting. I don't have Vol. 2 of the UK E.P. Collection. But you are definitely correct as the liner notes for the Double Features notes that the Viva Las Vegas songs were not remixed from a 3-track source.
"You go to school. I'm going out to make a buck!"
Elvis as Danny Fisher
. Bye for now 
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