Title: Platinum – A Life In Music
Label: BMG / RCA
Catalog Number: 07863 67469 2
Country: EU
Year: 1997
Special Notes: 4-CD book-style hardcover set with 48-page deluxe booklet. Contains 100 tracks, including 77 rare and previously unreleased performances. Includes the original hype sticker advertising the first official release of the set, rare historic concert performances, the 1954 demo “I’ll Never Stand In Your Way,” highlights from the ’68 Comeback Special and Aloha From Hawaii, plus newly restored and digitally remastered material. Made by Disctronics, UK.

Track Listing

CD 1

1. I’ll Never Stand In Your Way – 1954 Demo
2. That’s All Right – First Session Takes 1, 2 / Take 3
3. Blue Moon – Take 5
4. Good Rockin’ Tonight
5. Mystery Train
6. I Got A Woman – Take 7
7. Heartbreak Hotel – Take 6
8. I’m Counting On You – Take 13
9. Shake, Rattle And Roll / Flip, Flop And Fly
10. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy – Take 1
11. I Want You, I Need You, I Love You – Take 4
12. Hound Dog
13. Don’t Be Cruel
14. Rip It Up – Take 15 With Comments From Take 19
15. Love Me Tender
16. When The Saints Go Marching In – Home Recording
17. All Shook Up
18. (There’ll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me) – Take 4
19. Blueberry Hill – Take 2 Acetate
20. (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
21. Jailhouse Rock
22. New Orleans
23. I Need Your Love Tonight – Take 7
24. A Big Hunk O’ Love – Take 4
25. Bad Nauheim Medley
    • I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen
    • I Will Be True
    • It’s Been So Long Darling
    • Apron Strings
    • There’s No Tomorrow

CD 2

1. Stuck On You – Live, March 26, 1960
2. Fame And Fortune – Live, March 26, 1960
3. It’s Now Or Never
4. It Feels So Right – Take 3
5. A Mess Of Blues – Take 1
6. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
7. Reconsider Baby
8. Tonight Is So Right For Love – Take 3
9. His Hand In Mine – Take 1
10. Milky White Way – Take 3
11. I’m Comin’ Home – Take 3
12. I Feel So Bad – Take 1
13. Can’t Help Falling In Love
14. Something Blue – Spliced Take 1/2
15. Return To Sender
16. Bossa Nova Baby – Take 2
17. How Great Thou Art – Take 2
18. Guitar Man – Take 5
19. You’ll Never Walk Alone – Take 2
20. Oh How I Love Jesus – Home Recording
21. Tennessee Waltz – Home Recording
22. Blowin’ In The Wind – Home Recording
23. I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still In Love With You) – Home Recording
24. I’m Beginning To Forget You – Home Recording
25. After Loving You – Home Recording

CD 3

1. I Got A Woman – Rehearsal, June 24, 1968
2. Tiger Man – Rehearsal, June 25, 1968
3. When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again – NBC TV Special
4. Tryin’ To Get To You – NBC TV Special
5. If I Can Dream – Take 1
6. In The Ghetto – Take 3
7. Suspicious Minds – Take 7
8. Power Of My Love – Take 3
9. Baby What You Want Me To Do – August 24, 1969 Midnight Show
10. Words – August 24, 1969 Midnight Show
11. Johnny B. Goode – August 24, 1969 Midnight Show
12. Release Me – Rehearsal, February 18, 1970
13. See See Rider – Rehearsal, February 18, 1970
14. The Wonder Of You – Rehearsal, February 18, 1970, Take 4
15. The Sound Of Your Cry – Take 6
16. You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
17. Funny How Time Slips Away
18. I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water – Rehearsal, July 29, 1970
19. I Was The One – Rehearsal, July 29, 1970
20. Cattle Call – Jam, July 29, 1970
21. Baby, Let’s Play House – Rehearsal, July 29, 1970
22. Don’t – Rehearsal, July 29, 1970
23. Money Honey – Rehearsal, July 29, 1970
24. What’d I Say – Rehearsal, July 29, 1970
25. Bridge Over Troubled Water – August 11, 1970 Dinner Show

CD 4

1. Miracle Of The Rosary – Take 1
2. He Touched Me – Take 2
3. Bosom Of Abraham – Take 3
4. I’ll Be Home On Christmas Day – Take 4
5. For The Good Times – Take 2
6. Burning Love – Take 4
7. Separate Ways – Take 25
8. Always On My Mind – Take 2
9. An American Trilogy – January 12, 1973
10. Take Good Care Of Her – Take 4
11. I’ve Got A Thing About You Baby
12. Are You Sincere – Take 2 With Last Bar From Take 1
13. It’s Midnight – Take 10
14. Promised Land – Take 5
15. Steamroller Blues – March 20, 1974
16. And I Love You So – Take 2
17. T-R-O-U-B-L-E
18. Danny Boy – Take 9
19. Moody Blue
20. Hurt – Take 2
21. For The Heart – Take 1
22. Pledging My Love – Take 3
23. Way Down – Take 2a, Man-Made Extended Version
24. My Way – April 25, 1977
25. Excerpt From The Jaycees Speech – January 16, 1971