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Taking Care Of Business - In A Flash FTD-215 (506020 975101) June 2016
Rare June 1970 tracks, mono singles, theatrical trailer and Elvis live in Portland, Oregon (audience recording).

CD  
1. Twenty Days And Twenty Nights (undubbed master - stereo acetate)
2. How The Web Was Woven (undubbed master - Stereo acetate)
3. Bridge Over Troubled Water (partially overdubbed master)
4. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (mono single)
5. Patch It Up (mono single)
6. That's The Way It Is (MGM theatrical trailer)
7. I Really Don't Want To Know (mono single)
8. There Goes My Everything (mono single)
November 11 1970 - Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon (audience recording)
9. Opening Theme
  That's All Right
  I Got A Woman / Amen
  Elvis talks / I Walk The Line (intro only) / Tiger Man (intro only)
  Love Me Tender
  You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
  Sweet Caroline
  You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
  Polk Salad Annie
  Introductions
  Johnny B. Goode
  Blueberry Hill (one line) / Elvis talks
  How Great Thou Art
  The Wonder Of You
  How Great Thou Art (one line) / Heartbreak Hotel
  Blue Suede Shoes
  Hound Dog
  Bridge Over Troubled Water
  Suspicious Minds
  Funny How Time Slips Away
  Can't Help Falling In Love
  Closing Vamp
10. Elvis' Jaycees Award Acceptance Speech (January 16 1971 - Ellis Auditorium, Memphis)

Notes

Book by David English, Pål Granlund and Paul Richardson / CD Mastered by Jan Eliasson.

The product of a two-year-long collaboration between David English, Pal Granlund and Paul Richardson, Taking Care Of Business - In A Flash offers readers a detailed chronicle of Elvis Presley's personal life and public career between the autumn of 1970 and the early weeks of 1971.

This eventful period included not only a successful road-tour, the release of a movie-documentary and two albums, and a return for a fourth stint at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, but also Elvis' legendary meeting with President Richard Nixon and his receipt of a national honor from the US Junior Chamber of Commerce.

All these events and other happenings are covered comprehensively and in meticulous detail. Across 450 pages, the story is told through newspaper articles, exclusive interviews, and primary documents that have been collected from personal collections, national archives and public libraries.

The book is also illustrated throughout with several hundred photographs, many of which are previously unpublished.

The hard-cover book is accompanied by a bonus CD that contains rare material from the time. This includes three officially unreleased alternative recordings from the soundtrack LP Elvis: That's The Way It Is and two original 1970 mono single-releases that appear here on CD for the first time.

The disc also includes an audience recording of Elvis' concert in Portland, Oregon on November 11 1970 which, remastered and upgraded by Jan Eliasson, is likewise given its first official release. The only complaint with this is that the complete concert is on one long track!

As a complete package, this book/CD-combo takes fans back to an eventful period in Elvis' later life and career when he - and the people around him - really did take care of business in a flash.