Elvis Presley - Separate Ways - The 25 January 1973 Stage Rehearsal (with full orchestra)

Exactly two weeks to the day after Aloha, Elvis walked out on stage to begin his eighth Las Vegas season. This opening night show would feature a virtually identical setlist to that in the Honolulu International Center except that Until It's Time For You To Go and Sweet Caroline would be included but Welcome To My World would be discarded and this would pretty much be the pattern for the entire season.

However just over twenty four hours earlier, on 25 January 1973, Elvis, his band and the Joe Guercio orchestra did a full stage rehearsal running through over twenty songs which were also pretty much a carbon copy of the Aloha shows.

In 2012 FTD released the CD 'From Hawaii to Las Vegas' which focused on this stage rehearsal and had been recorded using a basic cassette recorder, probably for the benefit of Elvis to iron out any problems he could identify from the tape. To this end the album featured almost the complete dress rehearsal.

At this point 'Welcome To My World' was still being rehearsed and it must have been either a last minute decision to abandon it or it could be that he just never decided to sing it during any of those shows. Also included in the rehearsal was Bridge Over Troubled Water but as Elvis often sang this during shows that on it's own is unremarkable. What is remarkable is that the tape contained Elvis rehearsing 'Faded Love' which he would sing for the first time during this engagement.

The most remarkable inclusion from this rehearsal is that of 'Seperate Ways' recorded the previous March. It is obvious from the contents of the CD that Elvis probably fully intended to use the song as he rehearses it not just once, but twice, the only song to receive such a treatment. The first rehearsal was just with what Elvis referred to as 'his rhythm group', the TCB band. This was followed by a complete reprise this time including the full orchestra.

It is a real pity that the song appears to have been dropped before the first show as it seems to work very well - another case of what might have been!!

Exactly two weeks to the day after Aloha, Elvis walked out on stage to begin his eighth Las Vegas season. This opening night show would feature a virtually i...

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