Pure Diamonds

GOLD (FAN001)
I'm Not Trying To Be Like Elvis; Games You Been Playing; Tupelo Woman; Just Out Of Reach; My Baby's Out Of Sight; Movin' On; The Closer He Gets; It's You Again; There You Go; I Make The Livin' (You Make The Livin' Worthwhile); Thank God For America; Strangers T'il We Touch; Listen To Daddy; Honky Tonk Heaven; Morning, Noon And Night; He's Gone But Not Forgotten.

LOOK ME UP (FAN002)
Orion Interview/Shelby Singleton Interview (March 28th. 1981, Eindhoven, Holland); Introduction; Matchbox; I Hear You Knockin'; Crazy Little Thing Called Love; A Stranger In My Place; Memphis Sun; Rockabilly Rebel; Suzie Q; Long Tall Sally.
NOTES: Last song incomplete.
Very good quality audience recordings from Eindhoven, Holland 28th. March 1981.
This is the same concert as released on the Jack Daniels CD LIVE AT ROCKHOUSE but with the last song missing here (See You Later Alligator).
Recorded from video footage soundtrack.

FREEZE UP (FAN003)
I'm Saving Up My Pennies; I'm Starting Over; 100 Pounds Of Clay; Because He Lives; Unchained Melody; Sunday Father (All tracks studio recordings); Ellis James Interview (Recorded 6th. September 1994, Norway. Interviewed by Stein-Jvar Hoelmo); Freeze Up; I Do; Still In Love With Billy (All tracks studio recordings); Orion Interview; Ebony Eyes; Washing Machine (Recorded around 28th. March 1981, from the Swiss TV show Plattform).
BONUS: Out Of My Life (From the Nashville Now U.S. TV show, 10th. July 1986).
NOTE: Includes the rare Swiss television recordings. Only this release and the Masked Man release ORION TAKES OVER THE WORLD (Masked Man 011) are known to feature this material. No video footage has, as yet, surfaced.

LIVE IN THE PROMISED LAND (FAN004)
Promised Land; Little Sister; A Memory Like You; She Thinks I Still Care; Hello Mary Lou; I Tell It Like It Used To Be; Mona Lisa Lost Here Smile; Save The Last Dance For Me; Sweet Little Sixteen; (All tracks recorded live in Nashville, Tennessee, 13th. December 1987).
Promised Land; These Are The Longest Nights; I Don't Know A Thing About Love; Feel Right; City Of New Orleans (All tracks recorded at different unknown dates/venues in the USA).
NOTE: Good quality audience recordings.

LIVE IN BOONESVILLE (FAN005)
Promised Land; Old Pipeliner; She's A Lady Down On Her Luck; Texas Tea; Feel Right; City Of New Orleans; These Are The Longest Nights; Restless; Ringing In My Ears; Hello Mary Lou; You're Never Too Old To Rock'n'Roll; She Thinks I Still Care; Group Introductions; That's All Right/See See Rider; I Don't Know A Thing About Love; Love Me; Medley: Teddy Bear/Don't Be Cruel; My Way.
NOTES: Good quality audience recording from Boonesville, Arkansas, 27th. May 1986.
Recorded from video footage soundtrack.

SUNRISE & REBORN (FAN006)
Honey; Lover Please; Got You On My Mind; Mona Lisa; Before The Next Teardrop Falls; Ebony Eyes; Washing Machine; Baby, I Still Love You; You Can Have Her; Lonesome Angel; Secret Love; You Can't Judge A Book; San Francisco Is A Lonely Town; Then I'll Be Over You; I Heard You Talkin' With Your Eyes; Stranger In My Place; I Hear You Knockin'; Turn Around Look At Me; Baby You Got It; It Ain't No Mystery; Feelings; No One Will Ever Know; Somewhere My Love.
NOTE: All tracks from the original SUN Records albums of the same names except last three which are taken from the Sun FEELINGS album.

UNMASKED (FAN007)
100 Pounds Of Clay; Interview With Ralph Emery; Out Of My Life (Recorded from U.S. TV "Nashville Now", 10th. July '86); Sunday Father; Interview; Off The Deep End (All recorded from U.S. television show "Nashville Now", 1987); Teddy Bear/Don't Be Cruel; Interview; Lead Me, Guide Me, Are You Lonesome Tonight (All recorded from Swedish television show "Oldsberg"); Save The Last Dance For Me (Solo version); Lonely Weekends; The Tips Of My Fingers (Live in Greenville, Ohio 1992); Birthday Jam - excerpt from private recording, Includes: You'll Never Walk Alone; Stranger In The Crowd); Radio Spots - Favourite station/Best music/Anniversary/Birthday; Good music/Great station (From the radio station promo 45 featuring shortened versions of "Strangers T'il We Touch").

JIMMY ELLIS SINGS ELVIS PRESLEY (FAN008)
Moody Blue; Return To Sender; Hurt; Kentucky Rain; Can't Help Falling In Love; It's Now Or Never; Burning Love; You Don't Have To Say You Love Me; My Way; Love Me Tender; Mean Woman Blues; Teddy Bear; I Love You Because; What Now My Love; I Can't Stop Loving You; He'll Have To Go; Snowbird; Treat Me Nice; Green Green Grass Of Home; Long Tall Sally.

TRIBUTE TO ELVIS (FAN009)
Are You Lonesome Tonight (Intro); Promised Land; Burning Love; I Want You, I Need You; I Love You; Teddy Bear/Don't Be Cruel; Love Me; Wear My Ring Around Your Neck; (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care; Lawdy Miss Clawdy; I Really Don't Want To Know; It's Now Or Never; Little Sister; Treat Me Nice; The Impossible Dream; Pledging My Love; Group Introductions; Trouble; How Great Thou Art; That's All Right; Stranger In The Crowd; All Shook Up; Memories.
NOTE: Good quality audience recording from 14th. August 1988, Memphis, Tennessee.

DOWN IN MISSISSIPPI (FAN010)
Save The Last Dance For Me (Solo version); I'm Saving Up My Pennies; 100 Pounds Of Clay; Morning, Noon And Night; Listen To Daddy; Down In Mississippi; Sweet Mississippi Memories; Back On The Street Again; The Way My Dog Loves Me; He's Gone But Not Forgotten; Off The Deep End; Heaven Tonight; This Is A Hold Up Baby; A Little Bit Of Devil; Two Loving Shadows; Midnight Rendezvous; Take It From Me; I Use Her To Remind Me Of You*; My Baby's Out Of Sight*; There You Go*; Midnight Til' Morning; Mister Me Misses You; You're Stealing My Wife.
NOTE: All studio recordings. Tracks marked * are alternate versions.

ORION’S CHRISTMAS GOSPEL (FAN011)
Orion's Christmas Greeting; Jingle Bells; Where He Leads Me; Sweet Hour Of Prayer; Up On The House Top; I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day; I Surrender All; Peace In The Valley; It Is No Secret; Deck The Halls; It Came Upon A Midnight Clear; I Believe; He Touched Me; Joy To The World; Softly And Tenderly; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; Where No One Stands Alone; Just A Closer Walk With Thee; Away In A Manger; We Wish You A Merry Christmas.

TEXAS TEA (FAN012)
Lonely Weekends; Texas Tea; You Don't Have To Say You Love Me; The Tips Of My Fingers; Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile; Plastic Saddle; If I Can Dream; See See Rider; Big Boss Man; That's All Right; I Want You, I Need You, I Love You; You Gave Me A Mountain; Teddy Bear/Don't Be Cruel; It's Now Or Never; Love Me; Trouble; Lawdy Miss Clawdy; All Shook Up; Can't Help Falling In Love.
NOTE: Good quality concert recording from 15th. June 1992, Greenville, Ohio.

ALIAS ELLIS (FAN013)
Two Loving Shadows; Going To California; You're Driving Me To Someone Else's Arms; All To Pieces; Tiny Hands; Freeze Up; I Do; Still In Love With Billy; Wildflower; Last Date/Without Love; Off The Deep End; Heaven Tonight; This Is A Hold Up Baby; A Little Bit Of Devil (In My Angel Tonight); Love Is But A Love; Take It From Me; Mister Me, Misses You; You're Stealing My Wife (All tracks studio recordings); Angel; Hawaii USA; It's A Wonderful World; The Wonder Of You; Hawaiian Wedding Song; Wear My Ring Around Your Neck (All tracks private home recordings).

TRIO+ (FAN014)
Be Bop A Lula (Duet with Jerry Lee Lewis); Rockin' The Boat Of Love (Duet with Jerry Lee Lewis); Dixie Fried (Duet with Carl Perkins); Gentle As A Lamb (Duet with Charlie Rich); Money (Duet with Jerry Lee Lewis); Matchbox (Duet with Carl Perkins); When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again (Duet with Jerry Lee Lewis); Gone, Gone, Gone (Duet with Carl Perkins); Sittin' And Thinkin' (Duet with Charlie Rich); You True Love (Duet with Carl Perkins); Country Boy (Duet with Johnny Cash); Caught In The Middle (Duet with Charlie Rich); Good Rockin' Tonight (Duet with Jerry Lee Lewis); Get Rhythm (Duet with Johnny Cash); Who Will The Next Fool Be (Duet with Charlie Rich); On My Knees (Duet with Charlie Rich); Break Up (Duet with Charlie Rich).
NOTE: Compilation of studio made duets from the Sun Records DUETS, TRIO+ albums and the four CD Bear Family Records set WHO WAS THE MASKED MAN?

BACK TO BOONESVILLE (FAN015)
Promised Land; Sweet Little Sixteen; Mona Lisa Lost HerSmile; Crazy Arms; Feel Right; Texas Tea; Love Me; Old Time Rock'n'Roll; Hello Mary Lou; A Woman's Touch; How Great Thou Art; A Memory Like You; Blue Suede Shoes/Long Tall Sally; I Don't Know A Thing About Love; Suzie Q.
NOTES: Good quality live recordings from Boonesville, Arkansas, 24th May 1986.
Recorded from video footage soundtrack.

VIENNA ROCKS (FAN016)
Intro; Promised Land; Trying To Get To You; Little Sister; Trouble; Lawdy Miss Clawdy; If I Can Dream; My Way (All tracks good quality live recordings from the Vienna Rock'n'Roll Festival, 4th. October 1996); Make The World Go Away (Live recording from Vienna 1995).
Recorded from video footage soundtrack.

THE MAN THEY SAY IS ELVIS (FAN017)
Arrival; Intro/At This Moment; Promised Land; Trying To Get To You; For The Good Times; Interview; Baby, I Still Love You; Medley: Teddy Bear/Don't Be Cruel; Interview; Lead Me, Guide Me; My Way; Interview; Love Me; Medley: Got My Mojo Working/Big Boss Man/That's All Right Mama/C.C. Rider/Got My Mojo Working; You Gave Me A Mountain; Interview; Looking For A Way; Johnny B. Goode; Medley: Trouble/Lawdy Miss Clawdy; Interview; If That Isn't Love; Interview; It's Now Or Never; All Shook Up; All Shook Up (Reprise); Interview; If I Can Dream; Closing Vamp.
NOTES: Recorded live in Boras Sweden on 12th. September 1992.
Later issued as LIVE IN BORAS on the Jack Daniels Record label in better quality and without the interview segments.
Soundtrack from a privately filmed concert by an Elvis fan club.

DOWN AT DIABLO’S DEN (FAN018/019) (2 CD’s)
Disc One: You're My First, My Last, My Everything; Welcome To My World; Group Intros; Feelings; Wasted Days And Wasted Nights; If; Shake Your Booty (Last track is by the group only, no Orion involvement).
Disc Two: 2001 Theme; See See Rider; For The Heart; Hurt; Heartbreak Hotel; Teddy Bear; Don't Be Cruel; Love Me; An American Trilogy.
NOTES: All tracks very good quality live versions.
Exact date unknown, recorded around 1976/77.

ORION SINGS ELVIS (FAN020)
Are You Sincere; Give Me The Right; It Hurts Me; Until It's Time For You To Go; I Really Don't Want To Know; My Boy; King Of The Whole Wide World; Follow That Dream; And I Love You So; The Wonder Of You; Anything That's Part Of You; Without Love; Paralyzed; It's Midnight.

SALUTE TO ELVIS ON HIS BIRTHDAY (FAN021)
Intro; Medley: See See Rider/That's Alright Mama; Burning Love; You Don't Have To Say You Love Me; Hurt; Trouble; Heartbreak Hotel; Kentucky Rain; It's Now Or Never; Medley: Jailhouse Rock/ Teddy Bear/ Hound Dog/ Don't Be Cruel/ Suspicious Minds; Band Introductionss; I Really Don't Want To Know; Stranger In The Crowd; I Want You, I Need You, I Love You; All Shook Up; The Wonder Of You; Can't Help Falling In Love; Closing Vamp; My Way; Closing Vamp; An American Trilogy; Closing Vamp.
NOTES: All tracks good quality audience recordings from Lexington, Kentucky, 8th. January 1988.
Recorded from video footage soundtrack.

LIVE AT THE JACOPA CLUB (FAN022)
You're My First, My Last, My Everything; Welcome To My World; Gone At Last; Honky Tonk Angel; Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow; Moody Blue; The Closer He Gets; For The Heart.
NOTES: All tracks very good quality audience recordings.
Exact date unknown, recorded around 1976/77.
Soundtrack from a privately filmed concert by an Elvis fan club.
LEGEND - THE BEST OF JIMMY "ORION" ELLIS (FAN023)
Love Is But A Love; Don't Count Your Chickens (Before They Hatch); That's All Right Mama; Blue Moon Of Kentucky; I Use Her To Remind Me Of You; Treat Her Right; Moody Blue; Games You Been Playing; Save The Last Dance For Me (Duet with Jerry Lee Lewis); I Dream I Lay With You Tonight; Merry Christmas Love; Stranger In My Place; It Ain't No Mystery; Crazy Little Thing Called Love; Some You Win, Some You Lose; Texas Tea; I Make The Livin' (You Make The Livin' Worthwhile); I'll Be With You Always.

FOR THE HEART (ELLIS & THE JORDANAIRES) (FAN024)
Intro/Promised Land; What A Wonderful Life; Trying To Get To You; Make The World Go Away; Medley: Teddy Bear/Don't Be Cruel; It's Now Or Never; Love Me; Little Sister; Follow That Dream; Medley: Got My Mojo Working/ Big Boss Man/ That's All Right/ See See Rider; Got My Mojo Working; For The Heart; I Really Don't Want To Know; Love Me Tender; One Night; All Shook Up; My Way; An American Trilogy; Can't Help Falling In Love.
NOTES: All tracks good/very good quality live recordings from 12th. August 1996 at the Nightlife Theatre, Nashville, Tennessee.
Recorded from video footage soundtrack.

TROUBLE (FAN025)
That's All Right; Burning Love; You Don't Have To Say You Love Me; Hurt; Trouble; Heartbreak Hotel; Kentucky Rain; Group Intros; It's Now Or Never; Suspicious Minds; Love Me; If I Can Dream; All Shook Up; An American Trilogy; Can't Help Falling In Love; My Way.
NOTE: Very good quality live recordings.

HEAVEN AND HELL (FAN026)
Honky Tonk Heaven; Blue Moon Of Kentucky; Hell Or High Water; San Francisco Is A Lonely Town; Little Sister; Bring It On Home To Me; Crazy Little Thing Called Love; Sunday Father; Texas Tea; Too Old To Die Young; Heaven Tonight; You Can Have Her; The Impossible Dream.
NOTE: All tracks very good quality live recordings.

THE BEST OF JIMMY ELLIS IN CONCERT VOL.1 (FAN027)
Promised Land; Trying To Get To You; For The Good Times; In The Midnight Hour; Little Sister; Bring It On Home To Me; Medley: Crazy Little Thing Called Love/Feel Right; Medley: Got My Mojo Working/That's All Right Mama/See See Rider; The Impossible Dream; Johnny B. Goode; Medley: Trouble/Lawdy Miss Clawdy; Dialogue/If That Isn't Love; Looking For A Way.
NOTE: Contains tracks from various live concert appearances.

BRINGING IT ON HOME (FAN028)
For The Good Times; Help Me Make It Through The Night; Welcome To My World; You'll Never Walk Alone; The Wonder Of You; Return To Sender; New York, New York; Mack The Knife; Bring It On Home To Me.
NOTES: Informal private recordings from 28th. February 1998, Jimmy's last ever birthday celebration. Performed live before his friends and family.
Recorded from video footage soundtrack.

WHAT NOW MY LOVE (FAN029)
Moody Blue; Teddy Bear; How Great Thou Art; What Now My Love; Devil In Disguise; Steamroller Blues; Stuck On You; A Fool Such As I.
NOTE: Second part of the above informal private recordings from 28th. February 1998, Jimmy's last ever birthday celebration. Performed live before his friends and family.
Recorded from video footage soundtrack.

LIVE IN SPRINGFIELD (FAN031)
Promised Land; Run Fool Run; You Don't Know Me; Save The Last Dance For Me; Sweet Little Sixteen; Old Time Rock; Medley: Got My Mojo Working/That's All Right Mama; Do You Ever Fool Around; Slow Hand; Honky Tonk Heaven.
NOTE: Recorded live at Stroh's Stage, Springfield, Mass., 1983.
Exact recording date not known but probably recorded on the 20th. September.
Recorded from video footage soundtrack.

ORION - THE EARLY YEARS (FAN035)
This Is Christmas; Beggin' To You; Just Out Of Reach; How Did We Get Here From There; Can't You See I'm Paying; They Don't Speak Anymore; Promised Land; Nobody's Gonna Hold Me; I'm Going To California; You're Stealing My Wife; Two Loving Shadows; There You Go.
NOTE: Due to the rarity of these recordings, there is evident tape hiss.

ORION - THE ELVIS CONNECTION (FAN036)
I'm Not Trying To Be Like Elvis; That's All Right; Down In Mississippi; Sweet Mississippi Memories; Blue Moon Of Kentucky; He's Gone But Not Forgotten; Tupelo Woman; Peace In The Valley; Moody Blue; Unchained Melody; The Wonder Of You; I'll Be With You Always; Promised Land.

ROCKIN' WITH ORION NEW YEAR'S EVE (FAN037)
Women Do Know How To Carry On; The Only; I've Been Around Enough To Know; Blue Suede Shoes/Long Tall Sally; Countdown To 1986/Auld Lang Syne; Always On My Mind; Feel Right; White Christmas; Blue Christmas; Texas Tea; I Don't Know A Thing About Love; Hello Mary Lou; My Woman, My Woman, My Wife; Baby What You Want Me To Do; Love Me (Recorded live in Birmingham, Alabama, 31st. December 1985).
BONUS TRACKS: Suspicious Minds; Love Me; If I Can Dream (Recorded In rehearsal, Lexington, Kentucky, August 1987).

THE LOST LIVE CONCERTS VOL.1 (FAN038)
Rockabilly Rebel; Got You On My Mind; Crazy Arms; On The Road Again; Something 'Bout You Baby I Like; Am I That Easy To Forget; Some You Win, Some You Lose; Memphis Sun; Snowbird; Band Introductions; Crazy Little Thing Called Love; Texas Tea; Born; Susie Q; Long Tall Sally; Just A Closer Walk With Thee; Lady Love; Love Is In The Air (Recorded live in Asheville, Ohio, 1981).

COLLECTORS LOT VOL.1 (FAN039)
Don't Let Go; Crazy Little Thing Called Love; You Don't Have To Say You Love Me; Washing Machine; Snowbird; I Believe; Mona Lisa; Maybelline; Texas Tea; Save The Last Dance For Me; Stranger In My Place; Don't Let Go (Live in Bowling Alley, Indianapolis, 1980).
BONUS: Goldmine Interview 1985; Snowbird (Alternate); Orion, What Did We Do To You? by Sue Ellen.
NOTE: Last track is a tribute to Orion

COLLECTORS LOT VOL.2 (FAN040)
Anybody Out There; Look Me Up; You Don't Know Me; On The Road Again; Midnight Rendezvous; Ain't No Good; Ebony Eyes; Band Introductions; Texas Tea; Crazy Arms; Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain; Gone At Last; Solitaire; Can't Help Falling In Love (All tracks recorded live in Savannah; Georgia, 1981).
BONUS: Interview on WXTR Radio, 1981; Elvis In The Bathroom (Comedy Spot featuring Jimmy in the background singing "You'll Think Of Me").
NOTE: Interview on this disc is interesting as the male presenter denies that Orion is really Jimmy Ellis and then accidentally calls him by his real name.