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Elvis (NBC TV Special) (Music)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Elvis is the debut live album by Elvis Presley, released in 1968. It is often nicknamed Elvis NBC TV Special, for there are two other albums by him with the same title. It's the soundtrack for the NBC special Singer Presents...Elvisnote Singer as in Singer Corporation, the sewing machine manufacturer, which premiered on December 3, 1968.By the end of The '60s Elvis' career was pretty much in a slump. For most of the decade he had appeared in rather bad Hollywood films and released hit singles that were a watered down version of everything that originally made Elvis great. Many young people felt he had lost "it". In an attempt to revive Elvis' career he shot this special at the NBC Studios in Burbank, California in June of 1968. It was a mix of live performances and production numbers.It proved to be a huge media spectacle. Not only was this his first live concert since 1961, but it showed Elvis could still rock the crowd and reminded the world why he was such a Rock & Roll superstar. He was very enthusiastic about the concept and it really shows from his energetic performance. Although it sometimes shows him perform with a backing band and background dancers, most of the concert is a one-man special.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The special was a major triumph, attracting 42% of the American viewing audience when it debuted, making it the single highest-rated program of the 1968-69 network TV season. The show convinced many that Elvis was still the "king" and revitalized his career. Many music fans see it as his finest last hour before his Las Vegas period (which in many ways followed the template laid down by this show) set in and the quality of his concerts seriously went down the drain, not to mention his dignity.Because of the way it revived his career, the show is almost always called The '68 Comeback Special. | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis: The neon letters spelling Elvis' first name have been parodied so much in popular culture, for instance Krusty's Comeback Special in The Simpsons episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled", that people who never saw this special might not be aware of its origin. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: The cover photo is a still of Elvis performing "If I Can Dream" in front of a neon sign spelling his first name. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: Elvis returning to his roots. | |
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Hitler Cam | |
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Hitler Cam: At the end of the TV performance of "If I Can Dream", the camera tracks forward and lowers to frame him this way as the song finishes and he says his final "thank you, good night." | |
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Alliterative Title: "Heartbreak Hotel". | |
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Miniscule Rocking | |
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Miniscule Rocking: While it's the opening piece in the big production number toward the end, "Nothingville" on its own is barely a minute long. | |
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Hell-Bent for Leather | |
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Hell-Bent for Leather: Elvis performs in black leather with skin tight pants. | |
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Small Town Boredom | |
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Small Town Boredom: "Nothingville" | |
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God-Is-Love Songs | |
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God-Is-Love Songs: "Where Could I Go But To The Lord?". | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: Well, Step Up to the Camera. The gospel medley opens on a close-up shot of the special's choreographer, Claude Thompson, who does a solo dance to "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", before Elvis starts his portion of it. Also, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" is a solo sung by Jean King of The Blossoms. | |
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Christmas Songs | |
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Christmas Songs: "Blue Christmas". | |
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Non-Appearing Title | |
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Non-Appearing Title: The album is just titled after his first name. | |
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Pacifism | |
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Pacifism: "If I Can Dream" | |
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Mic Drop | |
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Mic Drop: Technically the exact opposite move, but Elvis triumphantly raising his mic and his arms over his head at the end of "If I Can Dream" has the same effect. | |
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Questioning Title? | |
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Questioning Title?: "Baby What You Want Me To Do" and "Where Could I Go But To The Lord?" | |
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One-Man Song | |
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One-Man Song: "Guitar Man" | |
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Gospel Music | |
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Gospel Music: Elvis performs a medley of three gospel songs: "Where Could I Go But To The Lord?"/"Up Above My Head"/"Saved". During the performance he is backed by a group of Afro-American singers and dancers, including the prolific vocal trio The Blossoms (Darlene Love, Fanita James, Jean King). Elvis loved the genre and explains during his intro: | |
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Improv | |
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Improv: "Love Me Tender" has a funny adlib: | |
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Medley | |
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Medley: Most of the material performed by Elvis is done in medley form, presumably to get as much hits in as possible. | |
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Cover Album | |
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Cover Album: "Memories", "Nothingville" and "If I Can Dream" were the only songs written specifically for the special, and most of the older Elvis songs revived here were already a Cover Version he'd done of an earlier song. | |
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Eleven O'Clock Number: "If I Can Dream", a rousing "I Want" Song pleading for peace and equality, closes out the special and the album. | |
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One-Woman Song | |
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One-Woman Song: "Lawdy Miss Clawdy". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Between songs, Elvis grabs his mic stand, holds it like a harpoon, and shouts "Moby Dick!"note When Elvis appeared on The Steve Allen Show in 1956, directly opposite The Ed Sullivan Show, after Sullivan said he wouldn't book Elvis, Sullivan countered it with an episode promoting the release of the 1956 film adaptation. Allen and Elvis trounced Sullivan in the ratings, and Sullivan relented and booked Elvis shortly thereafter. It's been speculated that this joke was also a reference to that incident. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Trouble", "Nothingville" and "Memories" | |
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Live Album | |
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Live Album: Probably the best and most famous live album by Elvis available. | |
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Rockers Smash Guitars | |
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Rockers Smash Guitars: Subverted by the reprise of "Guitar Man". During the TV concert Elvis sings the song while being confronted by an actor who wrecks his guitar, causing a fight between Elvis and a gang to break out. | |
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Unplugged Version | |
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Unplugged Version: The jam-session segment of the show, in which Elvis plays a mix of his older hits and blues classics with his old band members in an informal setting surrounded by a small audience, is considered a forerunner of this. Electric guitars are used, but drummer D.J. Fontana is keeping the beat on a guitar case (while Elvis's buddy Alan Fortas is rhythmically slapping the back of a guitar itself). | |
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