VOLUME 20 Elvis Presley Comeback Special

Ever wondered what songs Elvis Presley would have sung if he had gone on to live a little longer.. ? The lost Elvis Presley song book; found in a cupboard at Mr Costello’s house sometime in 1999.

     

1.      96 Tears - Question Mark & Mysterians

2.      I Got A Woman - Ray Charles

3.      Honey Don't - Carl Perkins

4.      *Jesus On The Mainline - Jerry Lee Lewis       

5.      I'm A One Woman Man - George Jones

6.      White Lightning - George Jones

7.      Big Fool Of The Year - George Jones

8.      That's All It Took - George Jones & Gene Pitney

9.      Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man – The Byrds

10.  Still Feeling Blue - Gram Parsons

11.  Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) - Doors

12.  I'm On Fire - Bruce Springsteen

13.  Welcome Home - Peters & Lee

14.  *Heart Of Glass - Blondie

15.  *Rio - Duran Duran

16.   Delilah - Tom Jones

17.  *In The Navy - Village People

18.   Fire - Robert Gordon and Link Wray

19.  *Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob Dylan

20.  Set The Twilight Reeling - Lou Reed

21.  I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2

22.  The Drugs Don't Work - Verve

23.   *I Shall Be Released - Bob Dylan

24.  Past, Present and Future Tour Of Duty - The Shangri Las

RUNNING TIME 79:49

* Different version to compilation

Track Notes

1 Performed as a snippet in Pump it Up Tokyo 1996.

2 A partial performance by George Jones on the 1981 HBO special.

3 Performed on Ricky Skaggs 1997 TV show.

4 Performed at a once only performance with The Fairfield Four and others, Nashville 1997.

5-8 Performed with George Jones on the 1997 Ricky Skaggs TV show.

9 Performed with Roger McGuinn on 2 occasions in 1999 and 2001.

10 Appears on Kojak Variety 2cd edition.

11 A snippet performed during God’s Comic with The Rude 5, if I recall.

12,14,21 The Elvis Presley song section only featured a couple of times in May 1996 during the God’s Comic monologue. By 1999 the “Elvis medley” included snippets of tracks 15 and 22.

13 The song can be heard in the background during an appearance on Fantasy Football League from 1995.

16 Another snippet or crowd teaser?

17 Surprisingly, a brief snippet of this was performed during Uncomplicated in Glasgow 2004.

18 Previously featured as a snippet in Heathen Town from 1987 performances, Elvis recently performed the song in full with The Roots on the Jimmy Fallon show.

19 Elvis joined Bob Dylan on stage for this song on 2 occasions in 1995.

20 Elvis has performed this song with Lou Reed on 2 separate TV appearances. In 1996 and on Spectacle season one in 2008.

23 Elvis has performed this song on seven occasions, five of them with Dylan starting from 1995.

24 Elvis suggested on 1996 VH1 Storytellers that this song was a strong influence on Poor Fractured Atlas.