Elvis Presley – The Ultimate Box – 8 Compact Disc Set

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Elvis Presley – The Ultimate Box – 8 Compact Disc Set

The Ultimate Box brings Elvis Presley’s music together in a complete 97-track compact disc edition. Working within Rock, the album emphasizes guitar texture, rhythm-section drive, dynamic contrast, and direct performance energy. The sequence matters because the songs are arranged to create a sustained program, allowing individual highlights to stand on their own while still belonging to a larger beginning, middle, and conclusion.

The opening stretch begins with “Zarathustra”, “That's All Right”, and “I Got a Woman”. Those selections establish the album’s voice and introduce the performance and production choices that carry through the rest of the record. Rather than placing the best-known song in isolation, the sequence lets the surrounding material supply contrast and context, giving the listener a better sense of how Elvis Presley shaped The Ultimate Box as a complete release.

At the center of the program, “Until It's Time for You to Go”, “Hurt”, and “Polk Salad Annie” keep the album moving while broadening its musical and emotional range. The value of this middle section is cumulative: changes in tempo, density, vocal approach, and arrangement prevent the record from settling into a single repeated mood. Heard in order, these tracks connect the opening statement with the closing run and give the album much of its character.

The final portion arrives at “Help Me”, “Love Me Tender”, and “Why Me, Lord”. A strong closing sequence can resolve themes introduced earlier, leave the record deliberately open-ended, or simply change the emotional weight of what came before. The uninterrupted sequence makes it easy to follow the album from its opening track through the final selection. This version is especially suited to listeners who want The Ultimate Box as a tangible album and to collectors following Elvis Presley, Blue-Line, or this particular edition.

Blue-Line issued this edition with a release date of June 3, 2014. The package contains all 97 selections listed below, and UPC 4262428984874 identifies this specific compact disc configuration. This is the physical edition named in the product title, so its physical presentation is part of what distinguishes it from other versions of the same album.

Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic

Track Listing

Track 1 — CD 1 — Zarathustra

Track 2 — CD 1 — That's All Right

Track 3 — CD 1 — I Got a Woman

Track 4 — CD 1 — Love Me Tender

Track 5 — CD 1 — You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Track 6 — CD 1 — Sweet Caroline

Track 7 — CD 1 — You've Lost That Loving Feeling

Track 8 — CD 1 — Polk Salad Annie

Track 9 — CD 1 — Band Introductions 1

Track 10 — CD 1 — Johnny B. Goode

Track 11 — CD 1 — Something

Track 12 — CD 1 — Band Introductions 2

Track 13 — CD 2 — Something

Track 14 — CD 2 — The Wonder of You

Track 15 — CD 2 — Heartbreak Hotel

Track 16 — CD 2 — Blue Suede Shoes

Track 17 — CD 2 — Hound Dog

Track 18 — CD 2 — One Night

Track 19 — CD 2 — Teddy Bear

Track 20 — CD 2 — Suspicious Minds

Track 21 — CD 2 — The Impossible Dream

Track 22 — CD 3 — See See Rider

Track 23 — CD 3 — When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again

Track 24 — CD 3 — I Got a Woman / Amen

Track 25 — CD 3 — Love Me

Track 26 — CD 3 — Trying to Get to You

Track 27 — CD 3 — All Shook Up

Track 28 — CD 3 — Love Me Tender

Track 29 — CD 3 — Hound Dog

Track 30 — CD 3 — Fever

Track 31 — CD 3 — Polk Salad Annie

Track 32 — CD 3 — Why Me, Lord

Track 33 — CD 3 — Suspicious Minds

Track 34 — CD 3 — I Can't Stop Loving You

Track 35 — CD 3 — Help Me

Track 36 — CD 3 — Bridge Over Troubled Water

Track 37 — CD 3 — Let Me Be There

Track 38 — CD 4 — Funny How Time Slips Away

Track 39 — CD 4 — Big Boss Man

Track 40 — CD 4 — Steamroller Blues

Track 41 — CD 4 — Can't Help Falling in Love

Track 42 — CD 4 — C.C. Rider

Track 43 — CD 4 — Love Me

Track 44 — CD 4 — You Gave Me a Mountain

Track 45 — CD 4 — Trying to Get to You

Track 46 — CD 4 — All Shook Up

Track 47 — CD 4 — Teddy Bear / Don't Be Cruel

Track 48 — CD 4 — Until It's Time for You to Go

Track 49 — CD 4 — Hurt

Track 50 — CD 4 — Polk Salad Annie

Track 51 — CD 4 — Guitar Solo (What'd I Say)

Track 52 — CD 4 — School Days

Track 53 — CD 5 — And I Love You So

Track 54 — CD 5 — How Great Thou Art

Track 55 — CD 5 — Love Me Tender

Track 56 — CD 5 — Let Me Be There

Track 57 — CD 5 — America the Beautiful

Track 58 — CD 5 — Heartbreak Hotel

Track 59 — CD 5 — Hound Dog

Track 60 — CD 5 — Hawaiian Wedding Song

Track 61 — CD 5 — Mystery Train / Tiger Man

Track 62 — CD 5 — Can't Help Falling in Love

Track 63 — CD 5 — Closing Vamp

Track 64 — CD 6 — Also Sprach Zarathustra

Track 65 — CD 6 — See See Rider

Track 66 — CD 6 — I Got a Woman / Amen

Track 67 — CD 6 — Love Me

Track 68 — CD 6 — If You Love Me Let Me Know

Track 69 — CD 6 — You Gave Me a Mountain

Track 70 — CD 6 — All Shook Up

Track 71 — CD 6 — Teddy Bear / Don't Be Cruel

Track 72 — CD 6 — And I Love You So

Track 73 — CD 6 — Jailhouse Rock

Track 74 — CD 6 — America the Beautiful

Track 75 — CD 7 — Early Morning Rain

Track 76 — CD 7 — What'd I Say

Track 77 — CD 7 — Johnny B. Goode

Track 78 — CD 7 — Drum and Band Solos

Track 79 — CD 7 — Love Letters

Track 80 — CD 7 — Can't Help Falling in Love

Track 81 — CD 7 — Mystery Train

Track 82 — CD 7 — Hound Dog

Track 83 — CD 7 — Fever

Track 84 — CD 8 — That's All Right

Track 85 — CD 8 — Trouble

Track 86 — CD 8 — I Got a Woman / Amen

Track 87 — CD 8 — Love Me

Track 88 — CD 8 — Happy Birthday to You

Track 89 — CD 8 — Hound Dog

Track 90 — CD 8 — Trying to Get to You

Track 91 — CD 8 — Jailhouse Rock

Track 92 — CD 8 — My Way

Track 93 — CD 8 — Little Sister

Track 94 — CD 8 — Teddy Bear / Don't Be Cruel

Track 95 — CD 8 — Help Me

Track 96 — CD 8 — Love Me Tender

Track 97 — CD 8 — Why Me, Lord