RELEASE : Elvis.Presley.68.Comeback.Special.NBC.TV.Special.1968.2018.1080p.MBluRay.x264-TREBLE
SOURCE : Music Bluray
DATE : 2019/02/04
GENRE : Rock
RUNTIME : 57min
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RESOLUTION : [1440x1080]
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The '68 Comeback Special (at the time titled Singer Presents ELVIS ) aired on
December 3, 1968 and was a pivotal broadcast event that upped-the-ante on Elvis'
career, the evolution of pop culture and the history of television.
By 1968, prior to the broadcast, Elvis was no longer seen by the mainstream as the
atomic-powered rock and roll pioneer. Since his discharge from the United States
Army in 1960, Elvis' career path careened through a string of low-budget (though often
successful) formulaic films while the rock music scene was exploding with innovation,
experimentation, and an urgency to complement the turbulent era. Elvis hadn't performed
in public since 1961 and hadn't appeared on television since 1960.
The special, recorded over several sessions in June 1968, presented Elvis in a variety
of settings, from spectacular production numbers ( Nothingville, Saved, Guitar Man,
Little Egypt, Big Boss Man, Let Yourself Go ) to the intimate sit-down performances
of classic Elvis hits, reuniting the artist with Scotty Moore and DJ Fontana, the guitarist
and drummer who'd played alongside Elvis on his earliest records and shows. The black leather
sit-down and stand-up sequences provided a retrospective of Elvis' career to that point,
highlighted with the new song Memories, written by Mac Davis specifically for the show.
The special's transcendent closing number was Presley's now-classic, emotionally fueled
performance of If I Can Dream, an anthemic new song penned especially for Elvis and the
special by W. Earl Brown.
The special was the most-viewed television program in America the week it aired and firmly
reestablished Elvis as a major musical and cultural force. I think the '68 Special gave
him the confidence to get on the road again, knowing that people accepted him, said Priscilla
Presley. That show was so successful that he just knew this is what he wanted to do, go back
and be with an audience.