ELVIS PRESLEY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS 4LP Boxed Set (Original Audifon LPs)

	£		20
	$		26

One of a few original ELVIS import LP's being offerered

LEGENDARY 4x LP BOXED SET "BEHIND CLOSED DOORS" - Audifon AFNS-66072-4 (Blue labels)

This was an iconic underground Elvis album when released in the late 70s / early 80s. I found the synopsis below of the LP on the internet by Ernie Boyes Jr.

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Boxed Cover has been slightly "buckled" along the opening edges (see scan). Record visual inspection looks VG - no evidence of scratches etc

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If ever a title were accurate, and if ever the phrase “this is a classic” were true, both would apply to this release.  “Behind Closed Doors” on Audiofon Records AFNS 66072-4 was released in 1979.  To quote “Jailhouse Rock” by Cotton and DeWitt; “This has to be the ultimate: a boxed set of four LPs which rivals almost any commercial release.”  I could leave my review at that but I guess I should write more.  The cover photo is a fantastic color shot from the late 60’s.  The back photo is from the film “Girl Happy”. 

Here we have 4 LPs of mostly previously unreleased material in fantastic quality.  Though the LPs play with some noise that is easy to forgive!!  Many of these tracks have been released since in yet improved quality, but this was the first release for many of these tracks.  And to have so much in one package…WOW!!  It would take a page to type out the track listing, so I’ll just give an overview. 

On LP #1 side 1 we get outtakes from the November 7-8, 1960 “Wild in the Country” sessions.  “Lonely Man”, “I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell”, “Wild in the Country”, “In My Way”, and “Forget Me Never”.  Side 2 includes alternates from the March 22-23, 1961 “Blue Hawaii” sessions.  “Hawaiian Wedding Song”, “Island of Love”, “Steppin’ Out Of Line”, “Almost Always true”, and Moonlight Swim”. 

LP #2 side 1 continues the “Blue Hawaii” session with “I Can’t Help Falling In Love”, “Beach Boy Blues.”  From the October 1961 “Kid Gallahad” soundtrack sessions we get “King of the Whole Wide World”, “This is Livin’” and “Home is Where the Heart Is.”  Side 2 continues with “I Got Lucky” and “A Whistling Tune.”  And from August 2, 1965 “Paradise Hawaiian Style”: “Drums of the Islands” and “This is My Heaven”. 

LP #3 side 1 starts off with unnumbered outtakes from the 1969 film “The Trouble With Girls.”  “Swing Down Sweet Chariot”, “Almost”, “Signs of the Zodiac” is a duet with Marilyn Mason (not Marilyn Manson…though that would be an interesting duet I suppose :>) and finally the smash medley “Wiffenpoof Song/Violet”…yea right!!  Continuing on, a fantastic out take of “Gentle On My Mind” from January 15, 1969 in Memphis.  And from June 6, 1970 we have “Faded Love”.  Side 2 has live cuts: the August 22, 1969 rendition of “I Got A Woman”, February 16, 1970 “Suspicious Minds”, February 17th’s “Don’t Cry Daddy” and both “Kentucky Rain” and “Polk Salad Annie” from February 18.  All four on this side except “Suspicious Minds” first saw release on the previous years release “The Entertainer” on Rooster Records. 

LP #4 side 1 is taken from the June 1970 Nashville Sessions “It’s Your Baby You Rock It” (also first released on “The Entertainer” with the same bad splice), “Tomorrow Never Comes”, “Funny How Time Slips Away”, and “I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water,” which has an extended jam.  And from March 15, 1971 in Nashville “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.”  Though a few of these are precariously edited, (“Tomorrow Never Comes” comes to mind as well…which is unfortunate) they are nice to have.  Though obviously it would be preferable to have had no editing.  Lastly, side 2 contains the infamous complete 10 minute 42 second jam of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” recorded May 16, 1971 in Nashville.  Too bad Elvis hadn’t known more of the verses because it is rather repetitive.  The LP “Elvis” contained an edited version that clocked in just under three minutes.  The version on the “Our Memories of Elvis” LP was edited down to eight and a half minutes, as well as being mixed differently.