''Viva Elvis'' is the soundtrack remix album of the Cirque du Soleil show '' Viva Elvis'', which focuses on the life and music of American singer and musician Elvis Presley. The album, though initially produced as a soundtrack to the show, does not include all of the songs featured in the show. The CD tracks are rearranged and extended versions of songs heard in the show, and in fact the album includes two instrumental versions of the songs " Memories" and " You'll Never Walk Alone", neither of which is in the Cirque du Soleil show. This album marks the third official posthumous album by Elvis Presley created from scratch, whereas previous albums were compilations of previously released or unreleased studio material recorded well before his death. The two prior albums were the urban country-influenced 1981 ''Guitar Man'' record and the 2008 ''

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-themed '' Love'', "Viva Elvis" contains samples from throughout the entire span of Elvis Presley's career, including interview clips,

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, studio outtakes and snippets of dialogue from Elvis's feature films. Unlike ''Love'', however, ''Viva Elvis'' features new backing instrumentation on each track in an attempt to modernize the arrangements.Allmusic.com review of the album
/ref> This has met with a mixed critical response, with some reviewers praising the production quality and others opining that Elvis's music is best left untampered with.

Track listing

Bonus tracks

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*France - Amel Bent *Spain - Russian Red *America and Wal-Mart Exclusive in United States - Thalía *Australia - Jessica Mauboy *Belgium -

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*Canada -

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*Portugal -

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*Japan - Miho Fukuhara

Personnel

*Vocals - Elvis Presley *Guest singers -

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("Love Me Tender"), Jennlee Shallow ("King Creole"), Sherry St-Germain ("Can't Help Falling In Love"), Stacie Tabb ("Suspicious Minds") *Drums - Ben Clement *Bass - Patrick Levergne *Electric guitars - JS "The Flash" Chouinard, Mike Plant, Steve Nadeau, Martin Bachand, Paul Deslauriers, Erich van Tourneau *Acoustic guitars - Olivier Goulet, Erich van Tourneau *Piano and keyboards: Erich van Tourneau *Harmonica - Guy Belanger *Scratch - DJ Pocket *Brass section - Jean-Francois Thibeault (T-Bone), Brune Dumont (Sax), David Perrico (Trumpet), Jean-Francois Gagnon (Flugel)

Production

*Producer and arranger: Eric van Tourneau *Assistant producer and assistant arranger: Hugo "Wedge Montecristo" Bombardier *Executive producers: Steve Berkowitz, Adam Block, Stephanie Mongeau, Jacques Methe, Stephane Bergevin, Gary Hovey and Priscilla Presley

Chart performance

Certifications and sales

References

External links

Allmusic.com review of the albumOfficial album websiteOfficial Sony Legacy Elvis website
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