Posted August 7, 200816 yr from BBC News. The King of Rock 'n' Roll is bringing out a new album later this year - despite being dead for over 30 years. New technology will be used to produce Elvis Presley Christmas Duets, featuring country stars LeAnn Rimes and Carrie Underwood, among others. The late singer's ex-wife Priscilla said: "I am sure Elvis would be proud to have worked with them." Presley's 1957 Elvis Christmas album became the top-selling holiday release of all time in the US. The new album will also feature Martina McBride, Gretchen Wilson, Wynonna Judd, Sara Evans, Amy Grant and Anne Murray. Gospel quartet, The Jordanaires, who used to work with Presley have been brought back to re-record their parts. "It's amazing what they can do," the group's Gordon Stoker said, "Elvis sounds great. The recordings sound as if they were done yesterday." Tracks on the album include Blue Christmas, Here Comes Santa Claus, Merry Christmas Baby, White Christmas and I'll Be Home for Christmas. Sony BMG is releasing the disc in partnership with Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. Their President, John Ingrassia, said: "This is an excellent example of the innovative ways in which we keep Elvis' catalogue fresh for new and existing fans." Jean Donovan, from New Hampshire, who writes a Presley newsletter for fans, said she would not judge the songs without hearing them first. But she added: "I don't really like fooling around with things like that. All the Elvis recordings are so good. It kind of bothers me." Elvis Presley Christmas Duets is due out 14 October.
August 7, 200816 yr Cheers Chris Good to see the news has reached the BBC. Apparently Sony BMG are having separate releases for the States, UK and Australia with different artists 'dueting' with Elvis. One to look out for :dance:
September 17, 200816 yr Fifty years after G.I Presley set foot on German soil Sony BMG will release a double CD set titled 'Elvis In Deutschland' (50 Years In Germany). The CD contains all Top 20 hits from 'Are You Lonesome Tonight' to 'In The Ghetto' and songs linked to Germany like 'Wooden Heart (Muss I Denn)'. Sony BMG will release three versions of the Elvis in Deutschland 2 CD Set - There is the standard version, a 'Bad Nauheim Edition' and 'Friedberg Edition'. The difference can be found in the booklets. BMG decided to give more information about the two towns Elvis worked and lived while he was staying in Germany. Available for a Limited Time only. http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/cd/elvis_i...n_germany.shtml Elvis CD News September 17, 2008
September 18, 200816 yr New Tin Can Releases SONY / BMG will re-issue two albums in their "collectable tin" format on October 10, 2008. The titles of these 3 CD box-sets are "Greatest Hits" and "Christmas Peace". Source: Email / Updated: Sep 18, 2008
September 27, 200816 yr More publicity for 'Elvis Christmas Duets': Country queen Martina McBride has gone into the studio with the King of Rock 'n' Roll, to record Elvis' famous yuletide tune, "Blue Christmas," as a duet with him. Well, it didn't exactly happen that way. McBride, sang her part of the duet several decades after the late Presley did his part in the studio. But that's the brilliance of modern musical technology, which can insert McBride's powerful voice into the track, as if she were there with Elvis. The result, "Elvis Presley Christmas Duets," will be released Oct. 14, and includes several duets sung by Elvis and contemporary country artists, including Sara Evans, Gretchen Wilson, LeAnn Rimes and Carrie Underwood. McBride says her father played "Blue Christmas" every year when she was growing up, and it's a favorite holiday song of hers. People will love the album because "it's Elvis, first of all," McBride says. "I just think it's neat to hear other people singing with him, his classic ... songs," McBride says. "It's just an interesting idea." The Christmas album, though, comes as a brief punctuation between "Waking Up Laughing," McBride's current successful album and the title of her tour, and her next album, which will be released in the spring. (News, Source;EIN/AP)
September 29, 200816 yr From Brian Quinn B) The Elvis Presley Christmas Duets Album is now available for pre-order at http://www.amazon.co.uk Sony BMG will release two versions of the 'Elvis Presley Christmas Duets' CD on November 3rd, a very limited deluxe version in a cardboard sleeve where the face of Elvis opens up off the package (£11.99) and standard Jewel case version (£9.99). http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/2...christmas+duets http://www.play.com/Search.aspx?searchtype...h&pa=search And saw this posted over on FECC Carrie Underwood, who performs Tuesday night at the Kansas Expocentre, used the word "surreal" several times to describe her experience of recording a duet with Elvis Presley. Underwood said she was asked by Presley's widow to participate in "Elvis Presley Christmas Duets," due Oct. 14 from Sony BMG Music Entertainment. "Priscilla asked if I would be part of it, so you've kind of got to after that, right?" the "American Idol" Season 4 winner said by telephone. Underwood and some of country music's other biggest female stars, including Gretchen Wilson, LeAnn Rimes, Wynonna Judd and Sara Evans, did their recording sessions in the fabled RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tenn., the same studio where Presley recorded. Using technology to isolate Presley's vocal track of "I'll Be Home for Christmas," it was played back for Underwood in the recording session. "He would sing, then I would sing, and I would harmonize with him. It was very surreal," Underwood said. Asked about her reaction when she heard the melded voices played back, Underwood responded: 'It was very surreal. I mean people don't do duets with Elvis. It was very weird in a great way, wonderfully surreal." The CD will be the first Presley duet recordings album and the first Christmas compilation of its kind ever produced. Presley, who performed a concert in Topeka's Municipal Auditorium on May 21, 1956, less than four months before his breakthrough appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," recorded 20 Christmas songs. His various holiday albums have sold more than 25 million copies in the United States alone and year after year appear on the holiday album sales charts. The opening track of "Elvis Presley Christmas Duets" features the King singing his signature holiday tune, "Blue Christmas," with Kansas-born country superstar Martina McBride. Track 8 is "O Little Town of Bethlehem" with Presley's voice merged with those of Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman, of Little Big Town, which will open the show Tuesday in Landon Arena.
October 1, 200816 yr The Making Of Christmas Duets http://www.elvisnews.com/Presentation/Func...&item=11088 Go behind-the-scenes with some of today's biggest country music artists Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, LeAnn Rimes, Sara Evans, Gretchen Wilson, Anne Murray, Amy Grant, Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman, and Wynonna Judd create history with the first Elvis Presley duet recordings album and the first Christmas compilation of its kind ever produced. For the first time, you can hear samples from this CD while looking at this 6min30 documentary. The CD will be released in a limited edition, with a special cover and a regular edition. Source: Elvis.com / Updated: Oct 1, 2008 Courtesy of Brian Quinn B) http://music.barnesandnoble.com/Christmas-...;linkid=1248327
October 9, 200816 yr 'Christmas Duets' Australian & UK releases Postponed: Both Sony/BMG Australia and Sony/BMG UK have delayed the release of the highly anticipated 'Christmas Duets'. In Australia it will now be in the shops November 1, 2008. The UK release date is November 3rd. The USA release date is 2 weeks earlier on October 14. News, Source;SonyBMG
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