For the first time, the complete story of Elvis Presley's recording career is told in this remarkable book. With exclusive access to the RCA vaults, producer Ernst Jorgensen brings to life every moment that Elvis spent in the studio - from the spontaneous joy of his early sessions to the intensely creative periods of his later career. At once the definitive recording session guide and a compellingly readable narrative, this is the ultimate companion to the singer and his songs.
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When Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935, the music he would one day make famous was already all around him. Read the first page
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This is a fascinating book. It has obviously been painstakingly and lovingly researched. It documents all of Elvis' recording sessions in detail. However, the detail doesn't stifle the narrative. You never feel overwhelmed by minutiae. Instead, you get a definite sense of what it was like to be in a recording studio watching the King of Rock and Roll do what he did best. Elvis steps from these pages as a real person who happened to have a talent that rocked the world. Congratulations to the author for tracking down so many intriguing and illuminating moments. He has truly given the rest of us an insight into the talent that was Elvis Presley. The King is dead. Long live the King.
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This magnificent book has a great look at the Elvis Presley's recording career. Every recording session he ever did is painsteakinly documented and analyzed. Jorgensen has listened through great piles of tapes from RCA archives and people who were present at those sessions have been interviewed and with help of those we get (what I believe to be) an intimate look on how Elvis worked on those recordings sessions. The genius of Elvis comes through through his several triumphs and also we read about the pain, dissapointments and the difficulties he suffered in his life. Much more than just a document on life in music. Elvis lived so much of his live through music, so that's why this is so revealing. This is essential Elvis reading.
The recording career of Elvis Presley is hard to pin out. Many of his best recordings were lost as a single B-sides or were never released in any album. So while pouring through Elvis album cataloque (which is huge) sometimes I felt more than lost. What really are essential Elvis records etc. I really couldn't tell. So reading this book really cleared lot of questions about Elvis's recording career and put my own mind at ease. So now I knew lot more how to get my hands on those "lost" Elvis classics.
The recording career of Elvis Presley is hard to pin out. Many of his best recordings were lost as a single B-sides or were never released in any album. So while pouring through Elvis album cataloque (which is huge) sometimes I felt more than lost. What really are essential Elvis records etc. I really couldn't tell. So reading this book really cleared lot of questions about Elvis's recording career and put my own mind at ease. So now I knew lot more how to get my hands on those "lost" Elvis classics.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is an essential book for Elvis enthusiasts. Ernst Jorgensen writes centrally about the music, but in touching on the circumstances surrounding Elvis's recording sessions he leaves the reader with an enhanced empathy for the personal and professional tragedies that ultimately overwhelmed the singer. Ernst's chronology seems to break down a little when he details some of the live recordings in the early 1970s so perhaps some of the archive tapes haven't been dated specifically. What is a blessed relief is Ernst's honesty: he is always respectful about Elvis the Man but is very candid about, for example, the King's substandard peformances during the 'Elvis In Concert' sessions. A marvellous history containing a mountain of technical data within a human context.
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