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The Complete Million Dollar Quartet | 
| Artists: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash
Label: Bmg / Elvis
Category: Music
List Price: $8.99
Buy New: $6.80
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 8025
Format: Import, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 88935
UPC: 828768893524
EAN: 0828768893524
ASIN: B000HEVALC
Release Date: September 19, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Instrumental | | • | Love Me Tender [Instrumental] | | • | Jingle Bells [Instrumental] | | • | White Christmas [Instrumental] | | • | Reconsider Baby | | • | Don't Be Cruel | | • | Don't Be Cruel | | • | Paralyzed | | • | Don't Be Cruel | | • | There's No Place Like Home | | • | When the Saints Go Marchin' In | | • | Softly and Tenderly | | • | When God Dips His Love in My Heart | | • | Just a Little Talk with Jesus | | • | Jesus Walked That Lonesome Valley | | • | I Shall Not Be Moved | | • | Peace in the Valley | | • | Down by the Riverside | | • | I'm with a Crowd But So Alone | | • | Farther Along | | • | Blessed Jesus (Hold My Hand) | | • | On the Jericho Road | | • | I Just Can't Make It by Myself | | • | Little Cabin Home on the Hill | | • | Summertime Is Past and Gone | | • | I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling | | • | Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong | | • | Keeper of the Key (Carl Lead) | | • | Crazy Arms | | • | Don't Forbid Me | | • | Too Much Monkey Business | | • | Brown Eyed Handsome Man | | • | Out of Sight, Out of Mind | | • | Brown Eyed Handsome Man | | • | Don't Forbid Me | | • | You Belong to My Heart | | • | Is It So Strange | | • | That's When Your Heartaches Begin | | • | Brown Eyed Handsome Man | | • | Rip It Up | | • | I'm Gonna Bid My Blues Goodbye | | • | Crazy Arms | | • | That's My Desire | | • | End of the Road | | • | Black Bottom Stomp | | • | You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven | | • | Elvis Says Goodybe |
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Fifty years after a 21-year-old Elvis Presley first shook the world comes a reissue of the famed Million Dollar Quartet recording, the off-the-cuff Sun Records jam session where Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash joined Presley for a loose-jointed romp through 46 songs. Except that's not quite right--Cash either put down his part off-mic or rolled out his big baritone-bass when the tape wasn't rolling (the more likely explanation). So that, as Colin Escott writes in his liner notes, technically makes this a $750,000 Trio. And while this new edition is billed as the "complete" quartet--since 12 more minutes surfaced on a tape of superior sound quality found in Elvis's private collection, and the session is now in its right sequence--it obviously isn't the whole thing. (The 12 extra minutes are essentially four short instrumentals and "Reconsider Baby" at the start, as well as bits and pieces at different points throughout the CD.) But what survives is nevertheless fascinating, of course, not only for the historical record but for the fervor the three bring to a handful of spirituals (their finest moment) and how young Presley--who is already recording for RCA, and has just been dropped by Sun--presents himself. His new notoriety brings out a cocky charm, as he devotes much of these renditions of "Don't Be Cruel" and "Paralyzed" to an imitation of Jackie Wilson imitating him (Elvis knows Wilson only as one of Billy Ward's Dominoes), and boasting that Pat Boone recorded a song that Elvis wouldn't even audition. This fly-on-the-wall voyeurism should appeal to any student of rock 'n' roll history. But serious Elvisphiles will especially enjoy hearing Presley talk about the seeds of recording "That's When Your Heartaches Begin," mimic Hank Snow on "I'm Gonna Bid My Blues Goodbye," and express bemused ire over Faron Young, who had sent him a song ("Is It So Strange") he hoped Elvis would record. "He didn't want to give me none of it--he wanted it all, you know," Elvis says with a chuckle, supposedly referring to the publishing/writing credit, something Elvis's manager, the iron-fisted Colonel Tom Parker, demanded. As the trio moves through a plethora of material--Christmas songs, gospel, blues, R&B, country, pop, Dixieland, cowboy, and bluegrass--they become the hammer, anvil, and steel, forging a new form of music. What you have here, then, is no less than the sound of it, taking shape. --Alanna Nash
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 The best ever representation of this historic jam! September 27, 2006
Bill Porter (San Francisco, CA)
32 out of 32 found this review helpful
Stunning sound quality makes this disc a must for all Elvis fans. This material simply never sounded better (due to new tapes they found) and in addition is complete and in the correct sequence.
Excellent October 21, 2006
Paul Jones (Sturbridge, MA USA)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Just want to agree with the previous reviewer. Although this session has been released many times before, this version is complete and in very good quality. it's worth the price just to hear Elvis talking on the Don't Be Cruel track about a fellow singers approach to that song - magic!
 Johnny Knew February 27, 2007
Matthew Murphy
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Johnny Cash wrote about these recordings in his 1970's autobiography "Man In Black". He thought the recordings were lost, or locked in a vault somewhere. I know that Johnny is on this cd, you can hear him singing bass quite lowly on "Farther Along"(listen closely).
Raw Nostalgia, like finding the Dead Sea Scrolls of Music! February 15, 2007
Jeffrey K. Myers (Germantown, Ky)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm a Keyboard Player and a 33 year Musician, and an Elvis fan! A devoted follower of Jerry Lew Lewis and ALL the Sun Family. Sam Philips was smart enough to put an open mic in the room when this Jam Session happened. Elvis sings like he's in church on Sunday morning, wit so much feeling. Jerry Lee can't be lost no matter how many times Elvis switches songs. He grew up the same way.Carl Perkins thumbstyles that Guitar like the Lead Man he was! They stop and start, like it was all for fun (which it was). No formed up songs, no perfect clean things, Just raw gospel and country with a Rockabilly flair. I swear I didn't know these tapes existed, and I'm a music history idiot. Thank you for selling them amazon!! Any Elvis fan needs this one!! BUY IT!!
Elvis and Old Pals January 15, 2007
EP FAN (Memphis, TN)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This was an excellent review of the past. It brought back a lot of memories. Anyone who is an Elvis Fan will not want to be without it.
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