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Elvis: Black Leather DVD
ELVIS: BLACK LEATHER
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ‘68 COMEBACK SPECIAL
(ORIGINAL MATERIAL - 1970; This Edit - 2005)
In the 1950s, singer Elvis Presley led the rock ‘n’ roll revolution in music and pop culture. In the 1960s he concentrated mainly on his successful movie career. By 1968, it had been more than seven years since he had appeared on stage in front of a live audience. In his first television special, clad in his now-iconic black leather suit, Elvis performed classic hits both alone on stage and, in sequences generally regarded as the forerunner of today’s popular “unplugged” jam sessions, with friends and original bandmates. The program also included splashy production numbers. Usually referred to as the ’68 Comeback Special, the actual name of the program was Elvis. Taped in June 1968 in Burbank, it first aired December 3, 1968 on NBC. It was the network’s biggest ratings victory that year and the season’s top-rated show. It stands today as one of the great moments in rock music history and as a stunningly brilliant milestone in Elvis Presley's career. After this triumph Elvis poured renewed creative vigor into his recording work, wrapped up his movie contract obligations and returned full-time to the concert stage, beginning a new and exciting era of the Elvis phenomenon.
Here, available for the first time on DVD, is a special edit of the show called Elvis: Black Leather, created for distribution to European television stations starting in 2005. It contains the traditional Trouble/Guitar Man show opener and a special white suit/black leather suit combination of the If I Can Dream show closer. The balance of the disc contains highlights of Elvis's "black leather stand-up" and "black leather sit-down jam session" performances that were shot as a source of core content for the original TV special.
© 2006 Elvis Presley Enterprises, a CKX, Inc. Company,
3734 Elvis Presley Blvd., Memphis, TN 38116. All Rights Reserved.
Original Executive Producer: Bob Finkel
Original Producer & Director: Steve Binder
ELVIS MOVIE MUSIC PERFORMANCES
+ Never Before Seen Home Movies DVD
From Jailhouse Rock
- Treat Me Nice
- Jailhouse Rock
- Baby, I Don’t Care
From It Happened At The World’s Fair
- One Broken Heart For Sale
From Viva Las Vegas
- Viva Las Vegas
- C’mon Everybody
- What’d I Say
From Spinout
From Double Trouble
- Long Legged Girl (With The Short Dress On)
From The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It)
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Clean Up Your Own Backyard
From Elvis – That’s The Way It Is
- Just Pretend
- Bridge Over Trouble Water
- I’ve Lost You
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