Elvis Presley - Proud Mary - San Antonio, 18 April 1972 - Re-edited with Multitrack Stereo audio

Details
Title | Elvis Presley - Proud Mary - San Antonio, 18 April 1972 - Re-edited with Multitrack Stereo audio |
Author | The Ultimate Elvis Channel by Leon |
Duration | 2:40 |
File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=zHvp8WI74HU |
Description
On the opening night of Elvis' second Las Vegas engagement, he would introduce TEN new songs, two of which were new singles. and another two 50's hits not used in the previous engagement. Later in the season, more new songs would appear, including 'Release Me', 'The Wonder of You' and 'See See Rider'.
"Proud Mary", a hit for Creedance Clearwater Revival a year earlier, was one of the new additions on 26 January 1970, and would be first heard on the "On Stage" album. This first night version is different even to the "On Stage" version recorded three weeks later, but the song would be dropped for the next two seasons before reinstatement in August 1971, with a new faster arrangement and the omitted verse included akin to those seen in "On Tour" and at Madison Square Garden. Elvis would perform "Proud Mary" for the final time at the third show of his August 1974 engagement, in Las Vegas at the Midnight Show on 20 August.
This is the version from the 18 April 1972 show at The Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, the last of four shows filmed for the Golden Globe winning documentary, Elvis - On Tour, with the original MGM footage and audio from RCA's "Close Up" boxset. Additionally, this was also the penultimate show of an excellent fifteen day, nineteen show tour which concluded in The Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque on 19 April.
As with all of these videos, to get the most out of the re-edited audio, I highly recommend you use ear /headphones and turn the volume up as much as you dare!