ELVIS [NBC-TV SPECIAL] - ORIGINAL CONCEPT

*** Recorded June 20-24, 1968 ***

Months before Elvis' appearance on TV for the first time in 8 years, Colonel Parker had made a deal with NBC-TV and the Singer Sewing Machine Company to produce an Elvis TV show.
Parker wanted an old fashioned Christmas program like Bing Crosby's or Frank Sinatra's, but both Elvis and NBC felt it wouldn't appeal to the masses.
While working on bringing Steve Binder to the project, NBC proposed a different setlist to Parker. For everybody's surprise, he went with it as long as the show would end with a Christmas song.
This concept was dropped instantly when Binder arrived.

Here we bring you the original concept for the 1968 NBC-TV Special "ELVIS". We hope you like it. Enjoy!

**This edit is an attempt to recreate the setlist and isn't a real RCA or NBC-TV edit.**

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**----------TRACKLIST----------**
***ORIGINAL CONCEPT***
**OPENING**
1. Guitar Man
**ARENA SEGMENT #1**
2. A Little Less Conversation* / Elvis Talking
**ARENA MEDLEY**
3. Jailhouse Rock
4. Heartbreak Hotel
5. Hound Dog**
6. All Shook Up**
7. Don't Be Cruel
8. Can't Help Falling in Love
9. Blue Suede Shoes
10. Love Me Tender
11. U.S. Male
**ARENA SEGMENT #2**
12. A Little Less Conversation*** (Reprise)
**INFORMAL SEGMENT**
13. Cotton Candy Land
14. How Would You Like to Be
15. Wooden Heart
16. Can You Find it in Your Heart****
17. Memories
**GOSPEL SEGMENT**
18. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
19. Where Could I Go But to the Lord
20. Up Above My Head
21. Saved
**GUITAR MAN SEGMENT**
22. Guitar Man #1
23. Let Yourself Go
24. Guitar Man #2
25. Big Boss Man
26. It Hurts Me
27. Guitar Man #3
28. Little Egypt
29. Trouble
30. Guitar Man #4
**SHOW CLOSER**
31. I'll Be Home For Christmas
32. A Little Less Conversation***** (Closing Version)

*Record Master
** Moved from original place for better editing
*** Undubbed Single Master
**** Tony Bennett song - not included
***** Truncated Version of Record Master

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