Filmed during Elvis’ 12 August 1970, Dinner Show, in the main showroom of the Las Vegas International Hotel, this was in fact only the third live performance of “I’ve Lost You” by Elvis. Despite this version being included in the 1970 movie “Elvis – That’s The Way It Is”, it was the performance from twenty four hours earlier which was released on the same titled album, in preference to the studio recording.
The studio recording, which Elvis recorded in Nashville at RCA’s Studio B on 4 June 1970, was in fact just the second track after “Twenty Days and Twenty Nights” to be recorded at these landmark sessions, now referred to simply as “The Nashville Marathon”.
The version heard in the movie soundtrack is notable for the solo oboe (or cor anglais), which gets out of time with the rest of the band at the beginning of the song. but Sony tried to address this problem with the different mix they presented on the 2014 TTWII Legacy / Deluxe releases, which included the entire 12 August Dinner Show, by raising the piano at the intro therefore “drowning” the offending instrument.
It is this remastered audio which can be heard in this video.
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!
