Why was this so badly edited? Why did they edit fan comments in to the middle of his some of his songs? And when they edited Cant Help Falling In Love with Vernon Presley talking about Elvis, I nearly went crazy! This was the last time he was going to perform this song and CBS edit 3/4 of it out!! Could have been so much better. Not a fitting tribute at all.
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Well one of the reason's they edited are you lonesome tonight was because,in there opinion not mine,they said it was unusable because of him stumbling and laughing throughout the middle.Why the vernon part was added I couldn't tell ya,Elvis was alive during that part while vernon spoke so I don't know why it was added.If you have this is elvis the shorter version, the are you lonesome tonight?performance from the cbs special is in that shorter version of This is Elvis.Hope that helped.
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I have to agree, it was VERY badly editted. It was a great special with some of his most powerful moments in concert - but very badly editted. I don't mind interviews with insiders or vox pop comments from fans in music specials, so long as they don't intrude on the music, which is supposed to be the real focus. When a song is interrupted to show someone waffling on, it shows a terribly clumsy approach to production.
From everything I've read over the years, the fans comments were always going to be included, even if Elvis had lived on. The fans comments were not filmed after he died or included in a memorial effort. They went overboard with the fans interviews. They should have been grouped together and shown at the beginning. Once the show started, that was Elvis's time to shine and the concert should have been uninterrupted. But the constant cutting away to fans comments caused the special to jump around too much.
Including an interview with Vernon Presley in which he recalls his son's rise to fame was a nice idea. But even that was badly executed. Inserting it into the closing number and ruining the song (and concert finale) was just plain stupid.
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leaving out great performances like Unchained Melody and Trying to Get To You was criminal
shareCutting 'Can't Help Falling In Love' was absurd indeed; it wasn't the last time he'd sing it, very close to the final time though.
The fan comments thrown in were a terrible waste of time, not to mention embarrassing; the same problem exists in the theatrical cut of "Elvis That's The Way It Is". Far too much has always been made of Elvis the phenomenon and far too little attention given to his artistic genius. Elvis is regarded as such a huge icon that even today a lot of people don't consciously realize what he really was - a musician and an artist.