SONY BMG's Strategic Marketing Group to Release Elvis Presley - Elvis Christmas CD

SONY BMG's Strategic Marketing Group to Release Elvis Presley - Elvis Christmas CD

Definitive Collection Features Elvis's Two Original Christmas Albums for the First Time on One CD

Album in Stores and Online October 3, 2006

NEW YORK, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 3 SONY BMG's Strategic Marketing Group will release Elvis Christmas. This definitive, career-spanning collection of holiday songs from Elvis Presley incorporates all the tunes from the 1957 hit Elvis' Christmas Album and his equally acclaimed 1971 Elvis Sings The Wonderful World Of Christmas for the first time on a single disc. He interprets Christmas-time standards, holiday hymns, as well as several gospel tunes that reflect the spirit of the season. All 23 tracks have been upgraded with DSD technology for optimum sound quality. The original albums are not part of the active Elvis catalog.

Elvis' Christmas Album, recorded in three days of sessions, may have been simply conceived as an ephemeral holiday souvenir for his eager young followers, but over the years it has come to be regarded as one of Elvis's finest LPs by both critics and fans. In the nearly 50 years since its release, the album, in various formats, has sold more than 14 million copies in the United States alone. The lineup from that album has been combined here with all the material from the only other holiday disc Presley ever made, his 1971 collection, Elvis Sings the Wonderful World Of Christmas. Sales of that equally well-received album have exceeded 3 million.

In the course of this definitive collection, Elvis Christmas, Elvis considers every aspect of the holiday season, from its frivolity to its solemnity, from the excitement of getting wished-for presents to the bittersweet longing for those people and things we might be missing to the fun of hanging out near the mistletoe. Elvis conjures up a vision of the holidays as we all know them -- or at least as we wish them to be -- and that's why these songs will never go out of style.

Track Listing:

1) Santa Claus Is Back In Town
2) White Christmas
3) Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)
4) I'll Be Home For Christmas
5) Blue Christmas
6) Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me)
7) O Little Town Of Bethlehem
8) Silent Night
9) There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)
10) I Believe
11) Take My Hand, Precious Lord
12) It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)
13) O Come, All Ye Faithful
14) The First Noel
15) On A Snowy Christmas Night
16) Winter Wonderland
17) The Wonderful World Of Christmas
18) It Won't Seem Like Christmas (Without You)
19) I'll Be Home On Christmas Day
20) If I Get Home On Christmas Day
21) Holly Leaves And Christmas Trees
22) Merry Christmas Baby
23) Silver Bells

The SONY BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP works closely with the company's labels to oversee and coordinate activities in a variety of areas, including master television, film and commercial licensing, creative product development, partnership marketing alliances, and the coordination of joint soundtrack projects between the Sony Music and BMG label groups, as well as overseeing Elvis Presley content management.

SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT is a global recorded music joint venture with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history. SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT is 50% owned by Bertelsmann A.G. and 50% owned by Sony Corporation of America.

Source: SONY BMG

CONTACT: Angela Salomon of SONY BMG, +1-212-833-8575,
angela.salomon@sonybmg.com

Web site: http://www.bmg.com/

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