Elvis Presley - Runaway - The Live Comparison Series - Volume Sixty One

For his first season in Las Vegas on his return to live performances, Elvis chose a set list which would remain pretty much rigid throughout that first engagement. In spite of this rigidity, a few songs would come and go throughout the season, notwithstanding the one off performances of recent recordings performed at the back end of the run, specifically for the recordings being made by RCA.
One of the songs which was not performed at every show, was a song then recently recorded by Del Shannon, namely "Runaway", which would even be performed with Shannon in the audience later in August. The song was not on the set list for Elvis' opening performance on 31 July 1969, and the earliest known performance of the song was during the Dinner show of 6 August, the thirteenth show of the engagement. However, given that there is only audio of one of those previous shows known to exist it is still entirely possible that this was not the first time it was performed live and so I have referred to it as the first known rendition.
All selections recorded at The International Hotel, Las Vegas in August 1969

00:00 Version One – 6 August Dinner Show
02:29 Version Two - 7 August Dinner Show
04:46 Version Three - 8 August Midnight Show
07:08 Version Four – 12 August Dinner Show
09:18 Version Five - 14 August Dinner Show
12:00 Version Six - 15 August Midnight Show
14:15 Version Seven - 16 August Midnight Show
16:38 Version Eight - 21 August Midnight Show
18:59 Version Nine – 22 August Dinner Show
21:50 Version Ten – 22 August Midnight Show
24:00 Version Eleven – 23 August Dinner Show
26:35 Version Twelve – 23 August Midnight Show
29:22 Version Thirteen – 24 August Dinner Show
31:55 Version Fourteen – 24 August Midnight Show

34:16 Version Fifteen – 25 August Dinner Show – The RCA Undubbed Live Master
Nowadays when an unreleased Elvis live multi track recording is released, it will sound as close as possible to how it would have had you been in the arena when Elvis performed the song in question. Of all the live Elvis albums that were released between 1969 and 1977, only MSG and Aloha were completely free of any additional overdubs.
Released on 1970's "On Stage" album which chronicled Elvis' in February 1970, "Runaway" was actually performed at his 25 August 1969 dinner show during his previous Las Vegas engagement. Before release it underwent a few adjustments beginning on 26 September 1969 at RCA's Studio A in Nashville where James Burton re-recorded his guitar solo, which was officially titled "guitar solo repair". At the same studio on 31 March 1970, additional vocal overdubs were recorded, which was repeated on 1 April.
This is that same rendition prior to all of the additional overdubs being applied as it sounded in the International Hotel's main showroom during that 25 August dinner show. It was released in this original state for the first time in 2019 by RCA/Sony Legacy as part of the wonderful "Elvis Live 1969" set. Having listened to this several times and although not a musician, I cannot hear anything which suggests that James Burton required to re-record his solo although the more than slightly more informed trio of Elvis, Burton and Felton Jarvis perhaps were able to identify something not apparent to the lay person.

36:44 Version Sixteen – 25 August Midnight Show
39:05 Version Seventeen – 26 August Dinner Show
41:24 Version Eighteen – 26 August Midnight Show

As with all of these videos, to get the most out of the re-edited audio, I highly recommend you use ear /headphones and turn the volume up as much as you dare!

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