Elvis Jungle Room Recordings

The discs include rare outtakes and alternate versions of already released songs providing a more personal glimpse into elvis recording sessions than ever before.

Elvis jungle room recordings.

Read the history of elvis presley s legendarily gaudy jungle room den the site of his final recording sessions. Michael ochs archives getty d guest smith alamy elvis presley never called it the. The album features master recordings and outtakes from two recording sessions on february 2 8 1976 and october 28 30 1976 in the jungle room a recording studio set up by elvis in the den of graceland in memphis tennessee. Many if not all of the tracks produced during these jungle room sessions are on the cd.

During february and october of that year elvis recorded some of his most heartbreaking material to date as well as some rollicking good tunes all in the comfort of his own home. Way down in the jungle room. Since he couldn t be bothered to enter a recording studio rca brought the studio to him and set up a mobile recording studio in his now legendary jungle room. The producer was felton jarvis who worked on a lot of elvis later material.

You can watch a video about the disc collection below. It focused on presley s final recording sessions in 1976. For presley one of the great instinctive producers of. It was agreed that the recording equipment would be set up in the now famous jungle room at graceland and elvis would record.

In summer 2016 the company put the two cd compendium way down in the jungle room on the market. Today elvis recordings from those sessions have been revived in a two disc set called elvis. In listening to the jungle room recordings the element that seems most missing from presley s performances is his sense of self direction. Jungle room recording sessions secrets revealed in graceland video watch elvis presley recorded albums in the jungle room at graceland and now the director of archives has shared.