Track Listing
1. I'll Never Stand In Your Way
2. That's Alright
3. Blue Moon
4. Good Rockin' Tonight
5. Mystery Train
6. I Got A Woman
7. Heartbreak Hotel
8. I'm Counting On You
9. Shake Rattle And Roll/Flip Flop And Fly
10. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
11. I Want You I Need You
12. Hound Dog
13. Don't Be Cruel
14. Rip It Up
15. Love Me Tender
16. When The Saints Go Marching In
17. All Shook Up
18. Peace In The Valley
19. Blueberry Hill
20. Teddy Bear
21. Jailhouse Rock
22. New Orleans
23. I Need Your Love Tonight
24. Big Hunk O'Love
25. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen/I Will Be True/It's Been S
1. Stuck On You
2. Fame And Fortune
3. It's Now Or Never
4. It Feels So Right
5. Mess Of Blues
6. Are You Lonesome Tonight
7. Reconsider Baby
8. Tonight Is So Right For Love
9. His Hand In Mine
10. Milky White Way
11. I'm Coming Home
12. I Feel So Bad
13. Can't Help Falling In Love
14. Something Blue
15. Return To Sender
16. Bossa Nova Baby
17. How Great Thou Art
18. Guitar Man
19. You'll Never Walk Alone
20. Oh How I Love Jesus
21. Tennessee Waltz
22. Blowin' In The Wind
23. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) (previously unreleased)
24. I'm Beginning To Forget You
25. After Loving You
1. I Got A Woman
2. Tiger Man
3. When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
4. Trying To Get To You
5. If I Can Dream
6. In The Ghetto
7. Suspicious Minds
8. Power Of My Love
9. Baby What You Want Me To Do
10. Words
11. Johnny B Goode
12. Release Me
13. CC Rider
14. Wonder Of You
15. Sound Of Your Cry
16. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
17. Funny How Time Slips Away
18. I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
19. I Was The One
20. Cattle Call
21. Baby Let's Play House
22. Don't
23. Money Honey
24. What I'd Say
25. Bridge Over Troubled Water
1. Miracle Of The Rosary
2. He Touched Me
3. Bosom Of Abraham
4. I'll Be Home On Christmas Day
5. For The Good Times
6. Burnin' Love
7. Separate Ways
8. Always On My Mind
9. American Trilogy
10. Take Good Care Of Her
11. I've Got A Thing About You Baby
12. Are You Sincere
13. It's Midnight
14. Promised Land
15. Steamroller Blues
16. And I Love You So
17. TROUBLE
18. Danny Boy
19. Moody Blue
20. Hurt
21. For The Heart
22. Pledging My Way
23. Way Down
24. My Way
25. Jaycess Speech (excerpt)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 4 | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Mixed |
Album Notes
This 4-CD box set contains a 48-page book and consists mostly of previously-unreleased alternate takes of Presley's hits.Personnel includes: Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, Bill Black, D.J. Fontana, Chet Atkins, Floyd Kramer, Shorty Long, Marvin Hughes, Hilmer "Tiny" Timbrell, Dudley Brooks, Bob Moore, Hank Garland, Buddy Harman, Boots Randolph, Ray Siegel, Al Casey, Hal Blaine, Jerry Reed, Charlie Hodge, Tommy Tedesco, Reggie Young, Bobby Emmons, Mike Leech, James Burton, John Wilkinson, Jerry Carrigan, Glen Spreen, Emory Gordy, Tommy Hensley, Johnny Christopher, Bobby Ogdin, The Bobby Morris Orchestra, The Joe Guercio Orchestra, Ben & Brock Speer, The Jordanaires, The Imperials Quartet, June Page, Dolores Edgin, The Blossoms, The Sweet Inspirations, Ginger Holladay, Temple Riser, Kathy Westmoreland, J.D. Summer and The Stamps, Myrna Smith. Compilation producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon.Engineers include: Sam Phillips, Thorne Nogar, Bill Porter.Recorded between 1954 and 1970. Includes liner notes by Colin Escott.You probably think you've heard all there is to hear from The King, what with countless Elvis retrospectives, anthologies and reissues flooding the market. While PLATINUM is far from the first Elvis box, it's unique in that it's composed largely of previously unreleased material. Four discs cover every phase of Presley's career, from young Memphis hip-shaker to middle-aged Vegas hip-shaker, adding a fresh perspective to each period.It's both an education and a kick to hear alternate versions of songs as ingrained in the public consciousness as "That's All Right," and others from Elvis' legendary Sun sessions. Obscure delights like 1969's "Power Of My Love" update one of rock & roll's most stellar legacies. Off-the-cuff recordings and live TV performances contribute further to this set, which proves that even the most zealous Elvis fan hasn't heard the whole story yet.
Editorial Reviews
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...an amazing and revelatory journey encompassing explosive rock & roll, hard-edged country, slow-boiling R&B, sentimental pop, soul-baring spirituals, a haunting stab at folk...and a single tenderhearted Christmas entry...
Rolling Stone (08/21/1997)
...His legend may be sullied and omnipresent, his music distorted and overly familiar and his life parodied and documented to a suffocating degree, but this compilation at least reminds you why he was the King and why his music meant so much...
NME (08/02/1997)
...PLATINUM is full of blues shouts, gospel meditations, rockabilly shuffles--all of which fry with a kind of fatback jubilation that Elvis never got to explore in his movie ditties... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (07/18/1997)
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...an amazing and revelatory journey encompassing explosive rock & roll, hard-edged country, slow-boiling R&B, sentimental pop, soul-baring spirituals, a haunting stab at folk...and a single tenderhearted Christmas entry...NME (8/2/97, p.38) - ...His legend may be sullied and omnipresent, his music distorted and overly familiar and his life parodied and documented to a suffocating degree, but this compilation at least reminds you why he was the King and why his music meant so much...Entertainment Weekly (7/18/97, pp.81-82) - ...PLATINUM is full of blues shouts, gospel meditations, rockabilly shuffles--all of which fry with a kind of fatback jubilation that Elvis never got to explore in his movie ditties... - Rating: B
Rolling Stone (08/21/1997)
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