Sony Music will release Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) on April 6 in three versions, a single CD, a Deluxe 3 CD set in 8"x 8" with a 40-page book in slipcase and a 2 LP Record set.
The new multi-part documentary Elvis Presley: The Searcher, directed by Thom Zimny and airing on HBO on April 14, pushes past the larger-than-life image of The King of Rock and Roll, portraying him instead as a man and an artist 'who wanted to heal, to find that thing that was always felt to be missing, and to do it through the music'.
This soundtrack features 18 songs as heard in the film including familiar hit recordings ('Heartbreak Hotel', 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?'), powerful vocal performances ('That's All Right', 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time', 'Trouble/Guitar Man') and rare outtakes ('Suspicious Minds', 'Separate Ways').
Artist: Elvis Presley
Title: Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack)
Catalogue #: 19075811732
Barcode: 0190758117324
Release Date: 06.04.18
Tracklisting
1. Trouble / Guitar Man
2. My Baby Left Me
3. That's All Right
4. Baby Let's Play House
5. Heartbreak Hotel
6. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
7. Hound Dog
8. Crawfish
9. Mona Lisa
10. Milky White Way
11. Like A Baby
12. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
13. It's Now Or Never
14. Tomorrow Is A Long Time
15. Suspicious Minds (take 6)
16. Separate Ways (rehearsal version)
17. Hurt (take 5)
18. If I Can Dream
3 CD Deluxe Set – 8"x 8" slipcase w/ 40 page book
Artist: Elvis Presley
Title: Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack)
Catalogue #: 19075806732
Barcode: 0190758067322
Release Date: 06.04.18
Format: 3CD – 8"x 8" slipcase w/ 40 page book
This tracklisting appears to be:
Disk 1
Trouble / Guitar Man/ My Baby Left Me/ Baby, What You Want Me To Do/ Old Shep/ That's When Your Heartaches Begin/ That's All Right/ Blue Moon Of Kentucky/ Fool, Fool, Fool/ Tweedlee Dee/ Baby Let's Play House/ Good Rockin' Tonight/ Trying To Get To Yo/ Blue Moon/ When It Rains It Pours/ Blue Christmas/ Heartbreak Hotel/ Lawdy, Miss Clawdy/ Money Honey/ Hound Dog/ (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me/ Crawfish/ Trouble/ Farther Along/ Mona Lisa/ Hide Thou Me/ Loving You (end title take 16)/ Lonely Man (solo version)/ Power Of My Love.
Disc 2
Milky White Way/ A Mess Of Blues/ Fame And Fortune/ Love Me Tender/ Witchcraft (duet with Frank Sinatra)/ Like A Baby/ Are You Lonesome Tonight?/ It's Now Or Never/ Wooden Heart/ Swing Down Sweet Chariot/ Reconsider Baby/ Bossa Nova Baby/ C'mon Everybody/ Tomorrow Is A Long Time/ Take My Hand, Precious Lord/ Run On/ Baby What You Want Me To Do/ Suspicious Minds/ (take 6/ Baby Let's Play House (rehearsal)/ Words (rehearsal)/ That's All Right/ Never Been To Spain/. An American Trilog/ You Gave Me A Mountain/ Burning Love (rehearsal version)/ Separate Ways (rehearsal version)/ Hurt (take 5/ If I Can Dream.
Disc 3
Dissolution 2 - Mike McCready/ Satisfied - The Blackwood Brothers/ That's All Right - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup/ She May Be Yours But She Comes To See Me Sometimes - Joe Hill Louis/ Mystery Train - Little Junior's Blue Flames/ Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf/ Rock-A-My Soul - The Blackwood Brothers/ Just Walkin' In The Rain - The Prisonaires/ Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats/ Write Me A Letter - The Ravens/ Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Bill Monroe/ Ain't That Right - Eddie Snow/ Just Walkin' In The Rain - Johnnie Ray/ Lawdy Miss Clawdy – Lloyd Price/ Home Sweet Home - Gladys Presley/ Blowin' In The Wind - Odetta/ Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Odetta/ . The Weight - The Staple Singers/ Heartbreak Hotel - The Orlons/ Wooden Heart - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers/ Rebound - Mike McCread.
It's late as I comment so I might be a bit stupid and missing the point here. Do I take it that the documentary has just 18 tracks which probably adds up to 50 minutes maximum and the rest is talking. My initial expectations, if this is the case, have been hit somewhat, and have been replaced with a sinking feeling.
I'm going to make no assumptions as to how the songs fit into the story and what they may mean to the overall length and breadth of the story. I'll tune in and watch. I do know that I won't be buying any of the companion CDs, etc.
The selection might work in the documentary, but as an album? A mix of studio/live and home recordings? I don't think that this tracklist is flowing.
Complete tracklist :
Disk 1
Trouble / Guitar Man/ My Baby Left Me/ Baby, What You Want Me To Do/ Old Shep/ That's When Your Heartaches Begin/ That's All Right/ Blue Moon Of Kentucky/ Fool, Fool, Fool/ Tweedlee Dee/ Baby Let's Play House/ Good Rockin' Tonight/ Trying To Get To Yo/ Blue Moon/ When It Rains It Pours/ Blue Christmas/ Heartbreak Hotel/ Lawdy, Miss Clawdy/ Money Honey/ Hound Dog/ (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me/ Crawfish/ Trouble/ Farther Along/ Mona Lisa/ Hide Thou Me/ Loving You (end title take 16)/ Lonely Man (solo version)/ Power Of My Love.
Disc 2
Milky White Way/ A Mess Of Blues/ Fame And Fortune/ Love Me Tender/ Witchcraft (duet with Frank Sinatra)/ Like A Baby/ Are You Lonesome Tonight?/ It's Now Or Never/ Wooden Heart/ Swing Down Sweet Chariot/ Reconsider Baby/ Bossa Nova Baby/ C'mon Everybody/ Tomorrow Is A Long Time/ Take My Hand, Precious Lord/ Run On/ Baby What You Want Me To Do/ Suspicious Minds/ (take 6/ Baby Let's Play House (rehearsal)/ Words (rehearsal)/ That's All Right/ Never Been To Spain/. An American Trilog/ You Gave Me A Mountain/ Burning Love (rehearsal version)/ Separate Ways (rehearsal version)/ Hurt (take 5/ If I Can Dream.
Disc 3
Dissolution 2 - Mike McCready/ Satisfied - The Blackwood Brothers/ That's All Right - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup/ She May Be Yours But She Comes To See Me Sometimes - Joe Hill Louis/ Mystery Train - Little Junior's Blue Flames/ Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf/ Rock-A-My Soul - The Blackwood Brothers/ Just Walkin' In The Rain - The Prisonaires/ Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats/ Write Me A Letter - The Ravens/ Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Bill Monroe/ Ain't That Right - Eddie Snow/ Just Walkin' In The Rain - Johnnie Ray/ Lawdy Miss Clawdy – Lloyd Price/ Home Sweet Home - Gladys Presley/ Blowin' In The Wind - Odetta/ Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Odetta/ . The Weight - The Staple Singers/ Heartbreak Hotel - The Orlons/ Wooden Heart - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers/ Rebound - Mike McCread.
Hi Benny, thanks and as usual, always a voice of reason and sanity. Looks a whole lot more promising now.
Do we need this as die hard fans?
Yes we do need this blackdiamond. I have been a fan for over 55 years and often listen to Elvis when working out in my gym. However a staunch supporter like myself still needs something new every so often to keep me interested and ticking over. The RPO releases received a good bashing, but I now only play them and my own compilations very intermittently, along with the big stars of the past like Abba The Beatles and Queen etc.
Elvis' eyes are colored BROWN on the cover photo (even though he had BLUE eyes). Perplexing to say the least.
The only thing interesting to me on this CD set is the recording of "Home Sweet Home" by Gladys Presley... and that
will probably appear on YouTube soon after the release of this set.
Not much enticing here. CD 3 is the most interesting, hearing songs that meant something to Elvis. The Gladys cut is more a curious listen than anything else. Hear it once, then forget about it. I dont see where Wooden Heart plays into this being on here twice but I guess the doc will enlighten us. Id rather have Petty on here doing Baby Lets Play House or Bruce doing Viva Las Vegas, much more meaningful songs IMO. I dont expect big sales sorry to say. I just dont see the target audience here other than the Elvis fan who has to have every release. By the way, Best Buy, a big chain here in America has just announced they will stop selling CDs this year, so again I expect low to moderate physical sales.
Another "quick buck" sales excuse. Don't think so.
Steve V, virtually everyone in the U.S. that is aware of Best Buy stores are also aware of Amazon.com
Low to moderate sales will have absolutely nothing to do with the Best Buy stores not carrying CDs. If the sales are indeed "low to moderate" it'll be because there's not much in this set to get excited about. I hope it sells very well, but I'm not interested after seeing the track list.
Best Buy? I haven't bought anything there in many years. No loss. I buy all my music online. Won't be buying this.
