Elvis Presley - My Way - 4 August 1972, Opening Show - First Time Performed Live скачать в хорошем качестве

Elvis Presley - My Way - 4 August 1972, Opening Show - First Time Performed Live

As far as Elvis Presley is concerned his renditions of 'My Way' are synonymous with the last two TV Specials that he recorded - 1973's Aloha From Hawaii and Elvis in Concert from 1977. The first live performance of 'My Way' by Elvis took place, as new additions to the setlist often did, on the opening night of a Las Vegas engagement, on this occasion 4 August 1972. Despite being sung during both Aloha shows, five months after this first live rendition, it was included in the setlist in a very sporadic fashion thereafter. Although complete setlists for many shows are as yet unknown, with the information available it appears that Elvis sang it only four times in post Aloha 1973, once in 74, and twice in 75, both in December. It was not until April 1976 that the song became an almost ever present in the Elvis Presley show. During that first season that Elvis introduced the song he felt compelled for some reason to deny that the song was in any way autobiographical. With hindsight and irony during the period that it became a permanent fixture in the setlist it is difficult to see it as otherwise especially with the images from Elvis in Concert recorded on 21 June 1977 in Rapid City in mind. Further irony can be found in what would become Elvis' final tour, the song was included on 18 June 77 in Kansas City and the aforementioned Rapid City show on 21 June. Elvis gave ten shows on that tour and sang it in just three including the secnd to last live performance by Elvis in Cinncinnati on 25 June, although purely coincidental the song's lyrics make these last performances the ultimate irony. A studio take was recorded by Elvis on 10 June 1971 in RCA's Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee but was not released officially until 1995 on Walk a Mile in My Shoes - The Essential 70's Masters. RCA instead decided to release the version from Rapid City as a single soon after his death.