How do I know the exact date? Well, this was the day we visited the third Elvis Festival in Sweden, which was held at the principal hotel in the city of Västerås. (I just checked the article about it in a Swedish fan club magazine from that year.)

The A side included rehearsals from Las Vegas and the B side audience recordings. Somewhere in between was the studio cut "You Don't Know Me," thrown in for good measure, I guess.
Listening to it now it takes me back in time. If I close my eyes I can see my brother studying the cover as we enjoy never before heard songs such as "Portrait Of My Love," "Turn Around Look At Me" and "You Can have Her."

By the way, some of the audience recordings on this bootleg are playing at a speed which is way to fast. "You Can Have Her" has Elvis sounding like Mickey Mouse!
I wouldn't rank Unreleased Tracks as a classic bootleg like for example Behind Closed Doors or Rockin' With Elvis New Years' Eve. But it's historic to me in the sense that it was the first one me and my brother bought all those years ago.
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Vic Colonna seems like a crazy mother. Nice writing! I think we already had decided that this was the LP to buy - if they had it. We must have read about it somewhere I think. I also remember waiting for two bootlegs from Holland - it seemed like ages but they finally arrived. Must've been around this time also. Remember which ones they were? :-)
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