Elvis: '68 Comeback
by Steve Binder
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Actor: Elvis PresleyDirector: Steve Binder
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 05059
Studio: Bmg Marketing
Product features:
- Elvis Presley, the undisputed king of rock, performs in a concert recorded on December 3, 1968. Airing as an NBC special, this spectacular performance--his first T.V. performance in eight years--has become legendary. Performing alone as well as in special jam sessions with Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana, his early backing musicians, Elvis puts on the kind of crackling, charismatic show which helped
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DVD Review: Amateur day in the editing room.
Summary: 1 Stars
OK, let's get this out of the way, the ELVIS ('68 Comeback) is the finest TV special ever presented on American television. So why the 1 star? The editing in this version of the show is appalling, such lazy dilettantes. Every time there is a cut from one scene to another there is a still shot that moves from left to right and then the action resumes. It is grating. The show cuts from sit down performance to stand up and back and forth, all edits being telegraphed with the aforementioned still shot, stop and go routine, it is a real hack job.
I own the 74 minute version put out 15 years ago and the editing follows the original broadcast. When they can, they put in extra footage at the appropriate time (sit down is added to sit down performance, standup to standup so there is a continuous flow). The edits can be made from scene to scene and the original fade to black for the commercials are maintained. In addition they edited out Blue Christmas for crying out loud, what's up with that? Also on the cutting room floor is the little funky rhythm guitar part that immediately follows the intro Guitar Man and the audience clapping, hey remember the part where Elvis gives that sly smile and says, "I think I'll put a strap on this and stand up"? , remember his deadpan delivery of "Man I just work here" , Good thing for your memory `cause it's gone, cut out in favor of those imaginative edits.
For the record to edit from scene to scene, if the action can't be done smoothly, you can always insert an audience shot and then back to Elvis, it's called `editing',people. The picture and sound are otherwise fabulous, it looks the same as the BOX set that I also own, I was hoping to get a version of the performance with extra black leather footage, but I was assuming the editing would be handled by professionals who would try to maintain the spirit, look, and vitality of the original while adding to the show. They ended up subtracting from the overall viewing pleasure. By editing out the Elvis dialog, they've removed the soul of the presentation, the special was all about getting Elvis back in front of a live microphone but also to humanize him, show his gifted sense of humor. What a drag.
Description of Elvis: '68 Comeback
Elvis: ?68 Comeback ? Special Edition DVD (audio track list)Opening Production Number:
1. Trouble/Guitar Man
2. That?s All Right
3. Baby, What You Want Me To Do
4. Medley:
Heartbreak Hotel
Hound Dog
All Shook Up
6. Can?t Help Falling in Love
7. Jailhouse Rock
8. Don?t Be Cruel
9. Blue Suede Shoes
10. Love Me Tender
11. Baby What You Want Me To Do ? Impromptu jam.
Gospel Production Number:
12. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
13. Where Could I Go But To The Lord
14. Up Above My Head
15. Saved
16. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
17. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
18. Trying To Get To You
19. Tiger Man
20. When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again
21. One Night
22. Memories
Guitar Man Production Number:
23. Nothingville
24. Guitar Man
25. Let Yourself Go
26. Guitar Man
27. Big Boss Man
28. It Hurts Me
29. Guitar Man
30. Little Egypt
31. Trouble
32. Guitar Man
Finale:
33. If I Can Dream
Bonus features:
Having Fun With Elvis In Burbank
Funny moments from throughout the production of the ?68 Special
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