The How Great Thou Art Sessions

Hi Frederic,
I just want to share with you a funnie story.

I think it is about five weeks ago, it is still mentioned on my site om news archives.

There was a anouncement by a UK dealer who said on Ebay, Out Now : How Great Thou Art vol. 1 and also did the same with Man in white 4.

Now a good friend of mine wanted, no needed to have it,.... want always releases the same day. Say he is an addicted fan.....

Just before the last minute ended he typed in pounds not 30, not 300, but 3000... guess he was nervous and thought at that moment in dollars....lol
So, he won the HGTA sess. Vol 1 on ebay a cd for 3000 pounds. Wow...

Gues what happened..... the guy refused to sell it, when my friend said if you think it was a redicilous price that I made by misstake make it 30 or 300 pounds.... I still want it.... No way, this guy on Ebay wanted to sell it.

The best part I thought was funnie : he was so nervous thinking in dollars and pressed three times the zero....lol

Bye Frederic.

Frederic,
I buy it in Mono if the sound is good, but I am just an old sucker from the 50's.

But I must admit I never like to to listen with a head phone on my ears.... it itches too much, serious.

But I always have my big 200 kg Us Klips boxes hanging next on both sides on my ears.

Now doesn't that make me a deaf specialized reviewer?...lol

Lol, thanks for sharing it!

Frederic,
I buy it in Mono if the sound is good, but I am just an old sucker from the 50's.

Won't you buy the LMP-Box? I think stereo is better.

Na, Frederic I am crazy about Mono.
And I like 3 dimesional stereo, so Triangle might do if the sound is 3d stereo.
Otherwise I stick to the HGTA sess in Mono.
But where the hell can I get the damn thing.
No one is able to suplly me that spearkling shining roundie..lol

No, I am serious, if anyone reads this message :

A reward : Anyone living in Europe who can supply me in three days the original one,
I pay the person a Euro 150 for this CD.
So, C'mon you money hunters write me.
And you get your money cash if you bring me the original CD of 2001.

Na, da hat DerHammer jetzt aber verdammtes Glück. Der will seine HGTA CD vom 2001 Label nämlich schon seit Tagen verkaufen.


<span style='color:red'>So, und nun eine Bitte an alle Beteiligten:</span>

Wir haben nichts gegen fröhliche, amüsante und lange Diskussionen, aber ich habe das Gefühl, dass es hier schon lange nicht mehr um die HGTA Sessions geht. DAHER: Bitte keine weiteren Provokationen in die eine oder andere Richtung. (Das gilt auch für andere Threads, die bereits Ansätze der Verofftopicung zeigen.) Ansonsten werden wir die betreffenden Threads SCHLIE´SSEN oder in den OFF TOPIC verschieben. Wir haben nun mehfach festgestellt, dass ganz offensichtlich niemand die HGTA CD vom 2001 Label hat, weitere Spekulationen sind somit müssig bis es neue Wendungen im Fall gibt.
Im Endeffekt wird es wegen der ganzen Diskutiererei womöglich weder das eine noch das andere Release geben, weil zu viele Leute in Schwierigkeiten gebracht wurden. Denkt bitte auch daran.
Vielen Dank!

Ich möchte noch zum Ausdruck bringen, dass diese Meinung nicht nur die von Taniolo ist, sondern auch meine!

Also liebe Leutz, beherzigt was Taniolo geschrieben hat!

DANKE !

Sie ist wohl doch draußen. Hier ein erstes review, daß zeigt das da jemand genau weiß von was er schreibt:

How Great Thou Art Volume One
2001 label
73:52 minutes


It has been a while since we have had a CD from the 2001 label, and when they put one out and into our hands they never seem to let us the fans down.
This is the first of a series of CD's that will feature the recordings from May 25th - 28th 1966 at Nashville's Studio. B. Most famous for the "How Great Thou Art" album, hence the title.
The artwork of this CD is worth the price alone it comes with a stunning booklet packed with interesting snippets about each track, like: -

"How Great Thou Art", the song that would eventually become the albums title cut, is inspired by a Sons of the Pioneers record although Elvis relies on a more recent interpretation by the Statesmen. Friend Jerry Schilling saw Elvis recording this track and noted while the singer did just a few takes he was totally "drained" by the songs completion. Shilling believes Elvis touched something "outside the normal experience".

This track starts with Felton stating this is "How Great Thou Art take 1" followed by a little chat and a count in, Felton stops this just as Elvis starts and asks for another take. This you can hear Elvis sing his heart out, and is probably the first time Elvis puts so much into a song, later he would excel himself even further with "Where No One stands Alone" this track has to be one of the highlights of this album.
With so much expected form the ending of the song, the only way Elvis could do the song justice was to do a workpart for the ending.
As we start to hear from this session a slightly more powerful voice from Elvis, Felton after take 3 of "Where No One Stands Alone" states "God you scared me half to death" this was purely because of the sheer power Elvis put through the microphone.

It's possibly at this session Elvis found he could do a lot more with his voice if he cared to put it to the test, and his voice hadn't been tested for a few years, the last time would have been in the early 60's with "It's Now Or Never and the likes of "Surrender" but no real test to his voice since especially with the movie songs he had to record.

The CD has a fair amount of between take chat, and harmonising by everyone, and this is a pure and utter joy to hear these sessions as close as we can to the way they were originally recorded, and how each track was built to what we would eventually hear in the form of the original album "How Great Thou Art" although no masters takes are on the CD it's not a great loss as we have them anyway in the end form on the fore mentioned LP/CD and if they were on this release they would have had to drop around 15 minutes of the out-takes, and I know which I would rather have.

The back cover of the CD has a nice colour shot of the next instalment "Volume Two" and hopefully it won't be too long before that disc can grace my CD shelf.

The only down side I found on this CD, like many we get from the bootleggers, is the sound! Although this CD is only in mono you still get a great sound blasting out your hi-fi, but if you listen through earphones you can pick up a lot more, and unlike the official releases this is not always a good thing, as on this CD you can hear a slight tinny/bleed/annoying noise how ever you want to describe it.
Therefore to get the best result from this CD is not to listen with any earphones, as you will find it hard to pick up this little distortion if you leave them off. This is not a fault of the label, it's a fault on the tapes they have to work with, and until they get full access to BMG vaults it's just something we'll have to put up with, so stick it in your Hi-Fi and enjoy a CD that is sure to become a classic. It's still great sound and a great session…….
source:elvistapes.com
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Holy Moly, hatten wir schon vor Tagen. Siehe Seite 2 dieses Threads.
Ich gehe weiterhin davon aus, dass sie NICHT draussen ist.
Offensichtlich hatte David Wilson eine Vorabkopie der Scheibe.
Nirgendwo kann man die Scheibe bekommen. Allerdings überall vorbestellen.

Holy Tanilo
Es mag Leute geben, die es vieleicht nicht schaffen täglich hunderte von Postings zu lesen zumal wenn hierzu noch dutzende Topics angewählt werden müssen. Wenn ein versehentliches DOPPELPosting hier im Forum eine strafbare Handlung ist, dann kann zumindest ich hier sehr selten eine Antwort geben. Denn dann müßte ich erstmal Stunden investieren um ALLES zu lesen bevor ich was poste und diese Zeit habe ich sicherlich nicht