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DVD 5: The CBS ‘In Concert’ TV special - 51 mins
Surely every fan has seen this rather sad affair and has a poor quality VHS copy that no longer plays lying around somewhere? Well you haven't ever seen it in this great quality!

While trying to cover over the ***s of Elvis’ somewhat stumbling performances the producers added totally unnecessary clips of audience members saying nothing whatsoever relevant! They also seemed to remove the emotional heart of Elvis’ performance.

Having said that, the quality of this DVD is amazing and there are plenty of highlights such as ‘Hurt’, ‘How Great Thou Art’ and ‘Early Morning Rain’ to make it still fascinating viewing after all these years.

The DVD starts from the very first "clapper" - and the quality of this is stunning having come from a hi-def digital transfer of an original 2" broadcast tape and would be hard to beat apart from using the original TX master tape.

The book features two fascinating pages that show the TV Rundown sheets of the two CBS concerts with notes as to their idea of the quality of each song Elvis performed. Not surprisingly very few Omaha performances get a high rating, with only 'Hound Dog' and the '2001 Intro' getting the "Star" rating!