ELVIS PRESLEY AS RECORDED AT MADISON SQ GARDEN 1972 2 LP WLP PROMO VERY RARE
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ELVIS PRESLEY~AS RECORDED AT MADISON SQ GARDEN~1972 2 LP WLP PROMO~VERY RARE!
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ELVIS PRESLEY~Madison Square Garden~2 LP SPECIAL PROMO LP~VERY RARE! ELVIS PRESLEY "Elvis As Recorded at Madison Square Garden" RCA SPS-33-571 FROM 1972 COMES THIS VERY RARE PROMO GATEFOLD LP w/Timing Sticker! COMMENCING WITH THE THEME FROM "2001" ALL THE WAY THROUGH "CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU", THIS IS A NON-STOP ELVIS SPECTACULAR! THE ALBUM COMES IN A PLAIN WHITE COVER - IN THE STYLE OF THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM OR THE INFAMOUS DYLAN BOOTLEG "GREAT WHITE WONDER" - WITH 2 STICKERS LISTING ALL 21 TRACKS. VERY FEW OF THESE PROMO LPs WERE ISSUED AND THEY WERE ONLY MADE AVAILABLE TO RADIO STATIONS AT THE TIME - OVER 40 YEARS AGO! THE COVER IS IN VG+ CONDITION WITH SOME TAPE ALONG A COUPLE OF THE EDGES. VINYL IS IN VG+/VG++ CONDITION WITH LIGHT SURFACE SCRATCHES. This was one of several live recordings by "the King" to appear during the early '70s and was extremely popular, owing to the quality of the performance and the range and number of songs included, as well as the timing of its release -- older fans, having been denied Elvis Presley's presence on stage for more than a decade, responded to his sudden re-emergence with more enthusiasm than they'd shown for any of his non-hits albums in years; and new listeners, too young to have heard him in the 1950s but latching onto Elvis either directly or as part of the oldies boom, started checking out what all of the excitement was about. The show itself, from June 10, 1972, is the more elaborately produced follow-up to his Las Vegas performances of 1969-1970, Elvis backed by an eight-piece band, an orchestra, and at least eight male and female backup singers (including the Sweet Inspirations) -- once one gets past the opening fanfare of "Also Sprach Zarathustra," there isn't a lot of difference between this and the best of his Vegas shows, except that Elvis is a lot more confident and self-assured here than he is at the early post-"comeback" concerts. Emboldened by the success of those releases and the fact that he was able to sell out arenas like the Garden, RCA also did something here that they hadn't taken the chance on doing with his previous live albums, loading it up with songs new and old, and also a generous 52 minutes' running time. As with all of his shows of this era, the King interspersed his own established repertory -- which embraced everything from "That's All Right" to "Suspicious Minds" -- with songs identified with other performers: "Proud Mary," "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" were all very suitable for him. Presley was in good form for this show and, by all accounts, this series of concerts, and gave beautifully wrought performances of the ballads, as well as highly energetic renditions of the harder rocking numbers. The sound is surprisingly close, betraying little of the cavernous acoustic of Madison Square Garden -- there is, conversely, very little audience ambience as well, but that's not terribly important, either; much more to the point is that the accompaniment, from James Burton's guitar on down, is all captured reasonably well, thus making this one of the best of the big-venue Elvis Presley concert documents available: exciting, diverting, and mostly impressive as a performance. The image included with the auction is a scan of the actual item but, due to size limitations of the scanner, the edges of the item may have been cropped.If you have questions, BEFORE you buy, email us.
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MINT = like new or near new with only one or two small insignificant defects, a 9 or better on a 1-10 scale
EXCELLENT = Would be Near Mint, except for a couple of light hairlines or scuffs, which do not affect play
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Good = not actually good at all but probably will play through but with much in the way of surface noise, pops, crackles, etc. Still, will have no cracks, chips or the like
Fair = you are getting this record just to own but not to play
Poor = the sky's the limit, generally I will discard a record this bad (and sell the cover, jacket or sleeve alone) unless the label holds some particular interest
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