Elvis Presley - Vegas Variety Vol. 9 Las Vegas December 11 1976 CD

Rainbow Records proudly presents Volume 9 of their series “Vegas Variety”, featuring the complete performance of December, 1976 Dinner Show at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel, Nevada.

Rainbow Records is able to deliver the third to last Las Vegas performance Elvis ever did. This time the guys from RR managed to obtain the original cassette tape with a recording from this very evening. The fan who recorded the show in 1976 knew exactly how to do it and used two microphones and a very good recorder – so you can expect to hear the show in really good sound. Probably even listenable for the “I don´t like audience recordings” guys out there, who knows?
Anyhow - it is important for many Elvis-Fans to have just about every show Elvis ever did in their collection. Unfortunately there is no soundboard or professional recording available for every show. But still we are fortunate enough to hear most of the concerts because of the private recordings many fans did when they visited Elvis in Las Vegas and on his many tours. Those recordings might sound a bit rough to some ears but they are what they are: A document of Elvis´ big output of live performances.

As usual a very high quality booklet comes with this release. It has a lot of rare pictures from exactly this show (Dec. 11, 1976 DS) and information covering the magic of Elvis and Las Vegas back in December of 1976 on its 16 pages.

Both shows from December 11 belonged to the best of this Vegas gig. And the fact that Mr and Mrs. Beaulieu were in the audience surely encouraged Elvis to deliver his best. (Ciscoking)

01    Also Sprach Zarathustra                  01:14     
02    C. C. Rider                 05:26     
03    I Got A Woman / Amen                 07:23     
04    Love Me                 04:27     
05    You Gave Me A Mountain                 04:07     
06    Rip It Up (part)                 00:51     
07    O Sole Mio (Sherrill Nielsen) / It's Now Or Never                 04:18     
08    Blue Suede Shoes                 01:21     
09    Help Me (with false start)                 03:27     
10    Elvis dedicates 'My Way' to Mr. & Mrs. Beaulieu                 01:14     
11    My Way                 03:56     
12    Introduction of Mr. & Mrs. Beaulieu                 00:56     
13    Band Introductions                02:38    
14    Early Mornin' Rain                 01:50     
15    What'd I Say                 00:41     
16    Drum Solo (Ronnie Tutt)                 01:45     
17    Bass Solo (Jerry Scheff)                 01:04     
18    Piano Solo (Tony Brown)                 01:07     
19    Happy Birthday to Tony Brown                 01:02     
20    Electric Piano Solo (David Briggs)                 00:51     
21    Love Letters                 03:26     
22    School Days                 01:12     
23    School Days (reprise)                00:59    
24    Hurt                 02:01     
25    Dialogue                 01:52     
26    Hawaiian Wedding Song                 02:12     
27    Can't Help Falling In Love                 01:43     
28    Closing Vamp                 00:31