Elvis Presley: Walk A Mile In My Shoes • Essential 70's Masters • 5CD box set

Out of print in the U.S.! This five CD set contains the best of Elvis' '70s recordings and includes hits, album tracks, alternate takes and a disc of live recordings. Following on from his '50s box (The King of Rock 'n' Roll) and the from Nashville to Memphis box, which covered the cream of his '60s non-soundtrack recordings, Walk a Mile in My Shoes is an excellent collection of tracks that offers a fine reappraisal of the King's most overlooked period. While some may refer to this period as his 'bloated Vegas years', there is plenty of proof that he was still a vital and passionate performer in his final years. Features 'Burning Love', 'Always on My Mind', 'For the Heart', 'Moody Blue', 'Patch It Up' and many more.

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 Wonder of You

2 I've Lost You

3 The Next Step Is Love

4 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

5 Patch It Up

6 I Really Don't Want to Know

7 There Goes My Everything

8 Rags to Riches

9 Where Did They Go, Lord

10 Life

11 I'm Leavin'

12 Heart of Rome

13 It's Only Love

14 The Sound of Your Cry

15 I Just Can't Help Believin'

16 How the Web Was Woven

17 Until It's Time for You to Go

18 We Can Make the Morning

19 An American Trilogy

20 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

21 Burning Love

22 It's a Matter of Time

23 Separate Ways

Disc: 2

1 Always on My Mind

2 Fool

3 Steamroller Blues

4 Raised on Rock

5 For Ol' Times Sake

6 I've Got a Thing About You Baby

7 Take Good Care of Her

8 If You Talk in Your Sleep

9 Promised Land

10 It's Midnight

11 My Boy

12 Loving Arms

13 T-R-O-U-B-L-E

14 Mr. Songman

15 Bringing It Back

16 Pieces of My Life

17 Green, Green Grass of Home

18 Thinking About You

19 Hurt

20 For the Heart

21 Moody Blue

22 She Thinks I Still Care

23 Way Down

24 Pledging My Love

Disc: 3

1 Twenty Days and Twenty Nights

2 I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago

3 The Fool

4 A Hundred Years from Now [Informal Recording][#]

5 Little Cabin on the Hill

6 Cindy, Cindy

7 Bridge over Troubled Water

8 Got My Mojo Working/Keep Your Hands Off of It

9 It's Your Baby, You Rock It

10 Stranger in the Crowd

11 Mary in the Morning

12 It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)

13 Just Pretend

14 Faded Love [Original Unedited Version][#]

15 Tomorrow Never Comes [Includes False Start][#]

16 Make the World Go Away

17 Funny How Time Slips Away

18 I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water [Long Version][#]

19 Snowbird

20 Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On

21 Amazing Grace [Alternate Take 2][#]

22 (That's What You Get) For Lovin' Me

23 Lady Madonna [Informal Recording][#]

Disc: 4

1 Merry Christmas, Baby

2 I Shall Be Released [Informal Recording][#]

3 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right [Jam Edit][#]

4 It's Still Here [Original Unedited Version Ending with Felton Jarvi]

5 I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen [Original Undubbed Version]

6 I Will Be True

7 My Way [Master][#]

8 For the Good Times [Master][#]

9 Just a Little Bit

10 It's Diff'rent Now [Rehearsal][#]

11 Are You Sincere

12 I Got a Feelin' in My Body

13 You Asked Me To

14 Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues

15 Talk About the Good Times

16 Tiger Man [Jam][#]

17 I Can Help

18 Susan When She Tried

19 Shake a Hand

20 She Thinks I Still Care [Alternate Take 2B][#]

21 Danny Boy

22 Love Coming Down

23 He'll Have to Go

Disc: 5

1 See See Rider [Live]

2 Men With Broken Hearts [Short Poem][Live][#]

3 Walk a Mile in My Shoes [Live]

4 Polk Salad Annie [Live]

5 Let It Be Me (Je T'Appartiens) [Live]

6 Proud Mary [Live]

7 Something [Master][Live][#]

8 You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' [Live]

9 Heartbreak Hotel [Live][#]

10 I Was the One [Live][#]

11 One Night [Live][#]

12 Never Been to Spain [Master][Live][#]

13 You Gave Me a Mountain [Master][Live][#]

14 It's Impossible [Live]

15 A Big Hunk O' Love [Master][Live][#]

16 It's Over [Master][Live][#]

17 The Impossible Dream (The Quest) [Live]

18 Reconsider Baby [Live]

19 I'll Remember You [Live]

20 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry [Live]

21 Suspicious Minds [Live]

22 Unchained Melody [Live]

23 The Twelfth of Never [Rehearsal][#]

24 Softly, As I Leave You [Rehearsal][#]

25 (Alla En) El Rancho Grande [Informal Rehearsal][#]

26 Froggie Went A-Courtin' [Informal Rehearsal][#]

27 Stranger in My Own Home Town [Informal Rehearsal][#]

Note:

“Brand New Factory Sealed. Shrink wrap plastic is ripped a little (front and back).

The first two discs present the A and b sides of every single released in the United States by Presley during the decade, with the following exceptions: "Kentucky Rain" backed with "My Little Friend," and the b-side to "The Wonder of You," "Mama Liked the Roses," recorded in the 1960s; the gospel single "He Touched Me" b/w "Bosom of Abraham," and the gospel b-sides respectively to the singles "Life" and "If You Talk in Your Sleep," "Only Believe" and "Help Me," all four tracks already included on his first gospel compilation; and "Merry Christmas Baby" b/w "O Come All Ye Faithful", although the album version of the single can be found on disc four. His final two singles issued posthumously, the #22 "My Way" b/w "America the Beautiful" from November 1977, and "Unchained Melody" b/w "Softly As I Leave You" from February 1978, are also not included, although "Unchained Melody" is on the fifth disc, and versions of "My Way" and "Softly As I Leave You" are also on other discs in the set. Of the 23 American singles on these discs, 19 made the Top 40, with "The Wonder of You" and "Burning Love" also making the top ten. Included as well are four tracks issued at 45 rpm in Great Britain only: the top ten single "I Just Can't Help Believin'" b/w "How the Web Was Woven", the A-side "Green Green Grass of Home", and "Loving Arms", the British flip side to "My Boy." In the U.S., both sides of the British "I Just Can't Help Believin'" single had appeared as two LP tracks on That's the Way It Is, "Loving Arms" on Good Times, and "Green Grass" on Today.

Discs three and four compile studio tracks from various albums, with ten previously unreleased recordings or alternate takes. All but five of the 23 tracks on disc three originate from a single series of sessions, held over four days during June 1970, at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. Facsimiles of the albums That's the Way It Is and "Elvis Country" can be assembled from tracks on this box, with the bulk of the two albums on this disc. Disc four continues highlights from 1971 through Presley's final studio session, at home in Graceland on October 30, 1976. It includes two songs by Bob Dylan, "I Shall Be Released" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", and a master studio take of the Sinatra signature song, "My Way."

The fifth disc approximates a Presley stage show typical to the era, taken mostly from shows in 1970 and 1972, with 21 songs running to about an hour. Eleven of the concert tracks are previously unreleased, "Reconsider Baby" and "I'll Remember You" originating from the matinee show at Madison Square Garden issued later in 1997 on An Afternoon in the Garden. The disc does not open, as Presley shows often did, with the introduction to Strauss' tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra, played by the backing orchestra to announce the entrance of Elvis. The rock and roll instrumental support consists of the TCB Band, in addition to Presley's usual coterie of back-up vocalists, and the orchestra led by Joe Guercio. The final five songs present a "rehearsal" for the show, deriving from informal recordings made at actual rehearsals at RCA Studios in Hollywood in preparation for Elvis: That's the Way It Is and for a summer 1974 engagement in Las Vegas.

RCA Records issued two similarly configured box set companions, one for the 1950s, and another for the 1960s, the former his complete known masters from that decade, and the latter set chronicling his non-soundtrack/non-gospel recordings from the second decade of his career. Additional two-disc sets featuring his complete gospel recordings and selections from his soundtracks were also issued under this series. Unlike the first two decades collections, however, the compilers of Walk a Mile in My Shoes chose not to collect every studio recording Presley made during his final decade, choosing to focus on the singles, a sampling of "studio highlights" and an example of his live work.

Professional studio recordings made at RCA Studio B in Nashville, RCA Studio C in Hollywood, Stax Studio in Memphis, and in the Jungle Room at Graceland. Live recordings from The International Hotel in Las Vegas, Madison Square Garden in New York City, the H.I.C. Arena in Honolulu, and the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Original recordings produced by Felton Jarvis. "Are You Sincere" recorded at Elvis' home in Palm Springs, California, and produced by Presley.