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...sort of forced liquidation that the IRS and other creditors would have soon brought about. Unfortunately for his heirs, Elvis had found one particularly short-sighted way to generate quick income in his declining years: in 1973 he sold his entire catalog of recordings--the performances themselves--to RCA for $5 million, an absurdly low price considering that he had sold 1 billion records, more than any other musician in U.S. history. Just how good an investment this was for RCA is strikingly evident today: Elvis remains, in 1997, its most successful act (though this is perhaps as much...
...voice is thin, nasal, with a feminine vibrato and an attack of naked innocence. The song is a noble-masochism ballad called I'll Never Stand in Your Way; the singer is Elvis Presley, right around his 19th birthday. This primitive demo tape is among the treasures in RCA's four-CD, 100-song set Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music. The package, eloquently annotated by Colin Escott and with 77 newly released tracks, means to scrape away the crust of camp idolatry from Presley's image and recast him as a powerful vocalist...
MUSIC: "With 77 newly released tracks," writes TIME's Richard Corliss, "RCA?s four-CD set 'Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music' means to scrape away the crust of camp idolatry from Presley?s image and re-establish him as a powerful, pioneering vocalist." Corliss is happy to report that it does. "The impulse to sing raunchy, corny, beautiful songs trapped Elvis," he writes. Still, before the decline, we had in a young Elvis "a terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song?s mood, to Bing Crosby than to any singer...
...avid fan, and early morning meditations at his grave site (they're free, but they're at 6) Even if you can't make it to Memphis, you can still participate. A Blue Suede Shoes ballet, performed by the Cleveland San Jose Ballet, is touring the country, and rca is releasing the four-volume Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music, which contains 100 recordings, 77 of them previously unreleased, including Elvis' version of Blowin' in the Wind...
...safe candidate to diversify the board, but RCA ended up with a woman who had the strongest technical background of the group," Selby smiles. "I could understand all their mumbo-jumbo on microprocessors...