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Sin City's Hottest Ticket!

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Title: Sin City's  Hottest Ticket! - From The Booth Tapes Vol. 3
Label: Straight Arrow
Label Number: SA/SP 2014-20A/B-02
Release Date: 2014
Recording Type: Live Audience Recording
Location: Las Vegas , Nevada
Date: August 23 - 1973 Dinner + Midnight Show
Sound: Very Good! !
Track Listing:
  CD 1: Dinner Show        
01 Also Sprach Zarathustra       00:58
02 C. C. Rider       03:04
03 I Got A Woman / Amen       03:23
04 Love Me       01:32
05 You Gave Me A Mountain       03:16
06 Blue Suede Shoes       01:01
07 Rock Medley*       02:49
08 Love Me Tender (with false start)       01:41
09 Fever       03:10
10 How Great Thou Art       02:38
11 Suspicious Minds       03:47
12 Introductions of singers, musicians, orchestra       01:37
13 My Boy       03:17
14 Release Me       02:02
15 Something       02:11
16 An American Trilogy       04:02
17 A Big Hunk O' Love       02:00
18 Can't Help Falling In Love       01:33
19 Closing Vamp / Announcements       00:51
           
           
  CD 2: Midnight Show        
01 Opening Vamp / C. C. Rider     03:00
02 I Got A Woman / Amen   03:59
03 Love Me   01:27
04 Steamroller Blues   02:42
05 You Gave Me A Mountain   03:07
06 Blue Suede Shoes   01:00
07 Rock Medley*   02:41
08 Love Me Tender   01:30
09 Fever   02:47
10 What Now My Love   02:51
11 Suspicious Minds   03:47
12 Introductions of singers, musicians, orchestra   01:40
13 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (with false start)   04:38
14 An American Trilogy   03:48
15 Release Me   01:55
16 Mystery Train / Tiger Man   02:18
17 Can't Help Falling In Love   01:30
18 Closing Vamp   00:45
         
Notes: * Long Tall Sally / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On / Your Mama Don't Dance / Flip Flop And Fly / Jailhouse Rock / Hound Dog


From the press notes:
The new Straight Arrow's double feature CD release entitled 'Sin City's Hottest Ticket!', featuring the August 23, 1973 Dinner and Midnight performances. Both shows are taken from original 'audience booth recordings', taped by the same person who recorded previous Straight Arrow's release, 'Endless Summer Festival'. The sound quality is far superior to the usual audience recordings. Ask your local dealer for samples! Following the great success of the ‘Aloha' special, Elvis was more in demand than ever, and he was truly the hottest ticket in town. Las Vegas hotels at the time routinely booked their shows 20% over room capacity, because they knew that normally many of those who ordered tickets would not turn up for the shows. In Elvis' case this caused problems, because virtually everybody who ordered tickets DID show up!

In private, Elvis was fighting his personal demons at the time, but on stage he was delivering the goods. Perhaps his delivery was not quite as tight as at earlier Vegas engagements, but he was in good voice and genuinely seemed to enjoy the interaction with the fans. The shows presented here are two solid, engaging performances with plenty of highlights, including a gorgeous ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' and a rare-for-this-engagement one to last performance of ‘Something'.

It should be noted that neither of these superb-quality, off-line concert recordings have been previously issued. The August 23, 1973 Dinner show is completely new, even to die-hard Elvis fans. This concert was never in circulation, in any form.
Sound Sample: Something (Dinner Show)

Release Me (Midnight Show)
Concert: Both shows are very entertaining with excellent song selection. Highlights definitely included songs like My Boy, Release Me, Something, or The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Well done. Elvis ! It should be stressed  that the sound is really very good. (Ciscoking)