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'Love Me Tender' 2 CD 7" Classic album set celebrates Elvis' first motion picture Love Me Tender from 1956. Elvis first performed 'Love Me Tender' on the Ed Sullivan Show (September 9) and pre-sales reached over 1 million before its release on September 28. It features a 16-page booklet with great photos, movie trivia, memorabilia and full recording data. Disc 2 features the legendary live show from the Mississippi Alabama State Fair and Dairy Show held in Tupelo on September 26.
Track listing
Disc 1 : 'Love Me Tender' (2CD) The Original EP : Side 1
1) Love Me Tender 2:44 (Vera Matson/Elvis Presley) 2) Let Me 2:11 (Vera Matson/Elvis Presley) 3) Poor Boy 2:16 (Vera Matson/Elvis Presley) 4) We're Gonna Move 2:31 (Vera Matson/Elvis Presley)
Bonus Tracks
5) Love Me Tender - end title version 1:09 6) 20) The Truth About Me 2:09 Original spoken word 45 rpm disc included in Teen Parade magazine
The Outtakes
07) We're Gonna Move - take 4 2:47 08) We're Gonna Move - take 9 4:39 09) Poor Boy - take 3 original 3 verse master 1:51 10) Poor Boy - remake take 1 1:00 11) Poor Boy - extended verse. Vocal overdub take 6 0:37 12) Let Me - vocal overdub take 3 2:21 13) Let Me - vocal overdub take 4 2:19
Stereo Masters
14) Love Me Tender 2:52 15) Let Me 2:11 16) Poor Boy 2:16 17) We're Gonna Move 2:32
Interview
18) The Truth About Me Interview 10:04
Recorded August 22 on the set of Love Me Tender, Hollywood, California
All songs recorded for the motion picture Love Me Tender Recorded August 24, September 4 and 5, and October 1, 1956 at Fox Stage 1, Hollywood.
Producer / A&R: Lionel Newman / Ken Darby Engineer: Bob Mayer & Ken Runyon
Guitar: Vito Mumolo; Bass: Mike 'Myer' Rubin; Drums: Richard Cornell; Banjo: Luther 'Red' Roundtree; Accordion: Carl Fortina, Dominic Frontieri; Vocals: Rad Robinson, Jon Dodson, Charles Prescott.
Disc 2 : Mississippi-Alabama State Fair & Dairy Show, Tupelo Afternoon Show
1) Heartbreak Hotel 2:43 (Mae Boren Axton/Tommy Durden/Elvis Presley) 2) Long Tall Sally 2:43 (Richard Penniman/Robert Blackwell/Enotris Johnson) 3) Introductions and presentation 2:36 4) I Was The One 3:19 (Aaron Schroeder/Claude DeMetrius/Hal Blair/Bill Peppers) 5) I Want You, I Need You, I Love You 2:52 (Maurice Mysels/Ira Kosloff) 6) Elvis talks 0:34 7) I Got A Woman 2:53 (Ray Charles) 8) Don't Be Cruel 2:52 (Otis Blackwell/Elvis Presley) 9) Ready Teddy 2:15 (Robert Blackwell/John Marascalco) 10) Love Me Tender 2:58 (Vera Matson/Elvis Presley) 11) Hound Dog 2:48 (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) 12) Vernon and Gladys Predsley 1:44 13) Nick Adams 1:42 14) A fan 2:26 15) Elvis 1:53
Evening Show
16) Love Me Tender 1:49 (Vera Matson/Elvis Presley) 17) I Was The One 2:47 (Aaron Schroeder/Claude DeMetrius/Hal Blair/Bill Peppers) 18) I Got A Woman 2:52 (Ray Charles) 19) Announcement 1:45 20) Don't Be Cruel 2:12 (Otis Blackwell/Elvis Presley) 21) Blue Suede Shoes 2:34 (Carl Perkins) 22) Announcement 1:03 23) Baby Let's Play House 2:43 (Arthur Gunter) 24) Hound Dog 3:53 (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)
Amateur recording made September 26, 1956.