An extremely loose jam session at Sun Studios, from 1956, featuring Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins (Johnny Cash was present for the legendary photo that graces the...
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One of the most important things to remember about this album is it's really just three guys in a room shooting the breeze, goofing around, and stumbling through a few old...
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Elvis' 1957 original Christmas album is one of his most inspired early outings and the first time he tackled anything resembling a thematic concept. Split evenly between...
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This recent two-disc RCA box includes his greatest religious recordings--from gospel to "I Believe" and "You'll Never Walk Alone" ("Crying In The Chapel" and "Peace In The...
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Elvis recorded quite a bit of gospel over the course of his career, and this two-CD, 55-song set has the bulk of it. Most of this is drawn from his three gospel LPs (His...
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The Christmas entry in Time-Life's The Elvis Presley Collection mail-order series differs from the others in that it is not a 31-track double-CD/cassette featuring one...
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The concept that seems to be guiding this, one of the latest in a long line of rehash repackages, is a focus on romantic ballads. You get well-worn hits like "Love Me...
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In the '90s, RCA took the numerous Elvis film soundtracks, releasing them as "Double Features" CDs, incorporating two (or sometimes more) on one CD. Generally, the packaging...
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In the '90s, RCA took the numerous Elvis film soundtracks, releasing them as "Double Features" CDs, incorporating two (or sometimes more) on one CD. Generally, the packaging...
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When dealing with the music from Elvis' late-'60s movies, it's easy to feel like a diver trying to get at some treasure hidden under a very deep stretch of ocean; in effect,...
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Supposedly the cream from his spotty '60s films, all recorded in Hollywood. And the film years did have highlights here and there--"King Of The Whole Wide World"...
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Command Performancs, a two-disc, 62-track compilation, completes the survey of Elvis Presley's 1960s recordings begun with From Nashville to Memphis. That box set chronicled...
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Today it all seems so easy -- RCA signs up the kid from Memphis, television gets interested at around the same time, and the rest is history. The circumstances surrounding...
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Makes a case for Elvis's artistry--on five CDs--during his final decade. Fans will find favorites (i.e., his cover of "Runaway") missing, while "The Ultimate Concert" CD is...
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Since From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60's Masters gave up the ghost of being a complete overview of Elvis Presley's '60s recordings, the compilers of the companion...
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Also the title of a great longform video and book, it documents the King's first year of universal superstardom--although the 50's Box set does make it...
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Afternoon in the Garden is the first official release of Elvis Presley's afternoon concert at Madison Square Garden in June 1972. While highlights of the evening concerts...
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The soundtrack of what was to be Elvis's biggest movie called for an Hawaiianesque flavor, and, while Presley's vocals are excellent throughout, much of the material is of a...
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Brand new, so it's hard to judge. A four-CD compilation that essentially takes the same tack that the successful Beatles' Anthology series did, with mostly alternate takes...
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Released on the eve of the 20th anniversary of Presley's death, Platinum: A Life in Music attempts to trace an alternative history of Elvis' career by concentrating on...
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Elvis Presley's first post-Army movie, G.I. Blues, was scored to music that the King had begun recording in April of 1960, immediately after his discharge from the service....
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This four-CD set is nothing less than essential, with just a couple of important caveats to consider, mostly based on its age. Released in 1980, Elvis Aron Presley -- which...
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Jailhouse Rock, Lovin' You and King Creole are universally considered his best rock 'n' roll movies. RCA recently released deluxe CD versions, doubling Jailhouse Rock with...
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Appropriately, Greatest Jukebox Hits is a brief but entertaining selection of some of Elvis' biggest hits -- the songs that are frequently heard on the radio and jukeboxes...
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Released in time for Valentine's Day 1998, Love Songs is one of many thematic repackagings of Elvis material RCA has released over the years. This time, the theme is fairly...
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There had been Elvis Presley boxes before A Golden Celebration, but those were primarily made up of previously available material. Originally intended to celebrate what...
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The second volume of A Touch of Platinum-A Life In Music, following the first by five months, is another two-disc set completing an examination of Elvis Presley's recording...
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The fifth volume of the Essential Elvis series, like its predecessors, consists of previously unreleased alternate takes of recordings issued during Elvis Presley's...
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Thirty years after its recording, the complete set from the second of two concerts given by Elvis on June 27, 1968 was released by RCA as Tiger Man. Only a handful of tracks...
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Following Tiger Man, released four weeks earlier, Memories: The '68 Comeback Special completed RCA's repackaging of material recorded for Elvis, the Elvis Presley television...
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Great Country Songs compiles 24 of the finest country songs Elvis Presley recorded between 1955 and 1976, from "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" to "Guitar Man." Many...
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Elvis Presley's legendary recordings for Sun Records had been reissued many times before Sunrise appeared in early 1999, most notably in the 1987 collection The Complete Sun...
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Here's one for the cult of Elvis Presley: 22 home recordings (15 previously unreleased) of Presley and pals sitting around the piano and belting out favorites. The sound...
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In the '90s, RCA took the numerous Elvis film soundtracks, releasing them as "Double Features" CDs, incorporating two (or sometimes more) on one CD. Generally, the packaging...
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Sure, most of Presley's films were fluffy stuff. No matter -- the songs were written by men at the peak of their craft and performed by musicians who were masters of their...
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Released a few months after the limited-edition four-disc box Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music went out of print, the double-disc, 44-track A Touch of Platinum...
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Those who saw this show (including Abbie Hoffman and John Lennon)--his first and only NYC performance since Ed Sullivan--swore it was godlike, though you certainly won't...
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This was one of several live recordings by "the King" to appear during the early '70s and was extremely popular, owing to the quality of the performance and the range and...
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The product of the same early 1969 Memphis sessions under producer Chips Moman that yielded the classic From Elvis in Memphis LP in 1969, Back in Memphis is usually thought...
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Ten tracks, all leftovers from previous projects, appeared in an ugly cover with nothing on the back except ads for other Presley Product. Still, what was left off of...
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In the '90s, RCA took the numerous Elvis film soundtracks, releasing them as "Double Features" CDs, incorporating two (or sometimes more) on one CD. Generally, the packaging...
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This disc is part of RCA's Double Features series, which reissued all of Elvis' soundtracks as CD two-fers. This particular installment features Frankie & Johnny and...
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Elvis's '60s output was so sporadic that it frustrated true fans of the music. You'd get, say, a brilliant cover of Dylan's "Tomorrow Is A Long Time" at the end of the...
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Since The King of Rock 'n' Roll was the complete '50s masters, it was easy to assume that its five-disc '60s sequel, From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60's Masters,...
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In the '90s, RCA took the numerous Elvis film soundtracks, releasing them as "Double Features" CDs, incorporating two (or sometimes more) on one CD. Generally, the packaging...
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Sure, most of Presley's films were fluffy stuff. No matter -- the songs were written by men at the peak of their craft and performed by musicians who were masters of their...
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In the '90s, RCA took the numerous Elvis film soundtracks, releasing them as "Double Features" CDs, incorporating two (or sometimes more) on one CD. Generally, the packaging...
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This is a beautiful presentation of some of Elvis's worst music. The terrific sound and packaging make it worth purchasing only for die-hard Elvis Presley fans; others are...
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In the '90s, RCA took the numerous Elvis film soundtracks, releasing them as "Double Features" CDs, incorporating two (or sometimes more) on one CD. Generally, the packaging...
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This disc is part of RCA's Double Features series, which reissued all of Elvis' soundtracks as CD two-fers. In the case of this disc, no less than three soundtracks --...
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Jailhouse Rock, Lovin' You and King Creole are universally considered his best rock 'n' roll movies. RCA recently released deluxe CD versions, doubling Jailhouse Rock with...
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Purporting to be the soundtrack to Elvis' second film, this album collects songs used in the film on one side with new material on the other. The weakness of a couple of the...
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Compiled in 1982, this collects some of the King's most beloved Christmas material -- "Blue Christmas," "Santa Claus Is Back in Town" -- and adds four unreleased versions of...
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This was on the charts when he died...and it immediately went to number one. Amazing, considering the shape he was said to be in, that he could still manage great moments...
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The last Elvis Presley album released in the singer's lifetime, Moody Blue has a somewhat checkered history, especially among fans. Issued two months before Presley died,...
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He recaptured his crown here--the video version is probably more rewarding at this point, although the late-'80s CD release of the album added eight essential numbers not...
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After years of making abysmal movies, Presley appeared before a live audience, scared to death. That he more than rose to the challenge is evidenced here, a masterly...
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A Las Vegas performance before they became rote--featuring a simply terrific cover of Del Shannon's "Runaway" (with a stunning James Burton guitar solo) that's not available...
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Elvis' second live album, partly cut at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in early 1970 , is one of his most unfairly underrated releases. In its original form, it did...
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The second studio/non-soundtrack LP to follow the terrific Elvis Is Back!...only adding insult to injury. Of the 12 tracks, only the King's cover of "Suspicion" (which...
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One of the great ironies about Pot Luck With Elvis is its title, from which one could reasonably infer that it was a collection of leftovers. In fact, Pot Luck was Elvis...
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Promised Land came from the last recording sessions that Elvis Presley ever had in Memphis, the city where his fame and his legend started. The December 1973 Stax Records...
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The precise motivation behind the release of Pure Gold is difficult to fathom, based on its content: ten songs spanning 16 years of Elvis Presley's recorded history, from "I...
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Gregg Geller's compilation presents Elvis totally as bluesman...and a great one at that. The previously-unreleased alternate "Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby"--sans the...
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A 12-song, budget-priced compilation of Elvis' most notable blues sides for the label. A good place to start digging Elvis' commitment to the music -- always returning to it...
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A companion to the Rocker compilation, Return of the Rocker presented harder-edged material recorded by Elvis Presley in the early '60s. Presley was moderating his sound in...
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A&R director Gregg Geller took over stewardship of the Elvis Presley catalog at RCA in time to orchestrate a series of releases marking Presley's 50th birthday (January 8,...
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The British arm of RCA made a habit of outdoing the home office in compiling Elvis Presley recordings, and this one was no exception. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the...
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Others might rate this higher, but as the follow-up to the dynamic Elvis Is Back!, it's awfully disappointing. It pretty much set the stage for the coasting that Elvis would...
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Elvis Presley's third non-soundtrack post-Army album is, in many ways, his most interesting from those years, though nowhere near his best. Something for Everybody offers a...
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Many fans would argue that this should place a lot higher on the list, but for this Elvis fan at least, That's The Way It Is seemed to be the moment where Elvis really...
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Possibly due to the retro, irony-filled vogue for easy listening giants like Burt Bacharach and -- to a lesser extent -- roots pop figures like Glen Campbell and Neil...
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Originally released as an LP in 1976 (you really gotta wonder what took them so long--though it was available much earlier as a British import), Gregg Geller incorporated a...
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There aren't many rock albums that feature music one can honestly say changed the world as we know it, but that is, if anything, a modest appraisal of the contents of Elvis...
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Number One Hits contains 18 #1 records from the charts of Billboard, who somehow didn't rank "Crying in the Chapel," "In the Ghetto," "Burning Love," and "Way Down" as...
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The Top Ten Hits is exactly what it says it is -- every Top Ten hit that Elvis Presley ever had during the course of his career, from "Heartbreak Hotel" in 1956 to "Burning...
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On January 14, 1973, Elvis Presley performed a concert at the Honolulu International Center Arena that was broadcast live on television in Europe and the Far East and taped...
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Following his terrific '68 "comeback" TV special, the King booked time at Chip Moman's American Studios--probably the hottest recording house in the U.S. at the time--and...
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The Memphis Record was RCA's first serious effort to assemble the highlights of what is usually called Elvis Presley's comeback, but which, arguably, could be considered the...
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This was RCA's initial reaction after years of critical attack for their shoddy handling of the Elvis catalog. And the five-CD set is brilliant, including all the early rock...
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...Compilation designed to accompany performance videos of the same name, of random tracks from the '50s and '60s (most studio, not live). Everything here, including the...
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This two-LP set comes from the movie of the same name. The material is not programmed randomly, which certainly doesn't help tell the story of Elvis, but the selections are...
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Elvis Today is often cited by writers as Elvis' uncertain return to his Sun origins. There really isn't that much difference from the trio that resulted from 1973's Stax...
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Another budget album, this one collects various gospel items from sundry sources ("Let Us Pray" was the closer to what may be Elvis's most outrageous piece of celluloid,...
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When Elvis and the Colonel decided it was time to start appearing live again, they assembled a crackerjack band (featuring James Burton) and took on Vegas full-bore. Easily...
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In July 1973, Elvis returned to Memphis, this time to the source of Southern soul, Stax Studios. Apparently, the very idea of working with Elvis was intimidating and the...
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In the '90s, RCA took the numerous Elvis film soundtracks, releasing them as "Double Features" CDs, incorporating two (or sometimes more) on one CD. Generally, the packaging...
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This disc is part of RCA's Double Features series, which reissued all of Elvis' soundtracks as CD two-fers. This particular installment features Spinout and Double Trouble...
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These mid-'60s Chet Atkins productions may have been intended as an album--but they didn't come out in this form until 14 years after Elvis's death. More's the pity, since...
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This 49-minute interview album presents two press conferences held by Elvis Presley, the first in August 1957 in Vancouver and the second in February 1961 in Memphis. In...
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In the '90s, RCA took the numerous Elvis film soundtracks, releasing them as "Double Features" CDs, incorporating two (or sometimes more) on one CD. Generally, the packaging...
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This is a beautiful presentation...The terrific sound and packaging make it worth purchasing for diehard Elvis Presley fans, especially for the magnificent "Viva Las...
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With Elvis Presley doing precious little new recording, and RCA needing new product, the record company cobbled together this compilation album from previously released live...
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When this was first released on vinyl, the four-album set was an event, making all the previous Gold Album collections redundant. Now, this seems a bit redundant (as RCA...
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When this was first released on vinyl, the four-album set was an event, making all the previous Gold Album collections redundant. Now, this seems a bit redundant (as RCA...
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When this was first released on vinyl, the four-album set was an event, making all the previous Gold Album collections redundant. Now, this seems a bit redundant (as RCA...
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A combination of the two four-LP Worldwide boxes, this 2-CD set contains each of the fifty sides that RCA credits with accumulated worldwide sales in excess of 1,000,000...
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When this was first released on vinyl, the four-album set was an event, making all the previous Gold Album collections redundant. Now, this seems a bit redundant (as RCA...
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This two-disc deluxe set supplants the earlier vinyl and compact disc versions of this series. Here we have all of Elvis' singles that sold a million copies, from...
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Elvis had made his mark primarily via teenagers purchasing his singles. Thus, RCA repackaged some of his unreleased pre-Army tracks and some songs from both Jailhouse Rock...
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Like its companion release (For LP Fans Only), A Date With Elvis has left varying impressions on different generations of Elvis Presley fans. If you were around in 1959, the...
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Another release in the series of 50th birthday celebrations for Elvis Presley, A Valentine Gift for You was an album of Presley love songs, just right for that special...
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Supposedly a monumental show (available also on home video)--but he is going through the motions until the final five or six songs (when the drugs either kick in or wear...
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Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite is a double-album set that captures Elvis' celebrated live television concert from 1973. Arguably, it also captures the peak of Presley's...
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The other side of the romantic coin from A Valentine Gift for You, released five months earlier, Always on My Mind was a concept compilation album given over to breakup...
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Sixteen years after Elvis' Gold Records, Vol. 4 and seven years after his death came volume five in the series, courtesy of Joan Deary, the first RCA executive to take a...
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Rock history states that RCA did a terrible job packaging Elvis Presley's recorded output for years, and, for once, rock history has it right. Of course, a lot of the blame...
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The soundtrack of what was to be Elvis' biggest movie called for a Hawaiianesque flavor, and while Presley's vocals are excellent throughout, much of the material is of a...
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Taken from various points in his career, Elvis Christmas Classics is a collection of many of the holiday tracks recorded by Elvis. His excellent "Blue Christmas" starts off...
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Between April 1969 and January 1973, RCA Records' discount label, Camden, released ten Elvis Presley albums culled from Presley's back catalog. In August 1975, the discount...
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This oft-ignored album, recorded in March 1974 at Memphis's Midsouth Coliseum (formerly the center of controversy when the proposed title, the Elvis Presley Coliseum, was...
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Not a compilation but an official LP, kicking off with a wonderful cover of "Snowbird" and later covering Jerry Lee's "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." The '70s had their...
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His first RCA LP is certainly a great moment in rock history (the Clash would imitate its cover for their London Calling)--and yes the 50's Box set makes it somewhat...
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Today it all seems so easy -- RCA signs up the kid from Memphis, television gets interested at around the same time, and the rest is history. The circumstances surrounding...
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Elvis Presley's second album was really his first to be conceived and cut as an album -- his debut long-player, Elvis Presley, although a brilliant record, was assembled...
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This was rock & roll's first greatest-hits album, and it set the standard for all others to follow. As originally conceived, it was a 14-song collection of most of the...
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The 1999 remastering of this classic album features the complete contents of the March 20, 1960, RCA Hollywood session plus the dawn-to-dusk April 2 Nashville session that...
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The original Elvis' Golden Records, Vol. 3 was, like its predecessors, an unprecedented release -- no one in rock & roll up to that point, other than Elvis, had ever...
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A real LP...okay, not really. RCA took assorted tracks from the late '50s and early '60s--including the first release of a Sun Records outtake ("Tomorrow Night"), albeit...
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To fill in the blank space between soundtracks (yes, it had come to that), RCA gathered a dozen leftovers stretching back to 1954 (!) and assembled this album with a cover...
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Not your traditional Christmas LP--but one of the best rock 'n' roll seasonal offerings ever, featuring great tracks like "Blue Christmas," "Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me,"...
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This combines the four tracks from the Peace in the Valley EP with recordings of seasonal standards and popular Christmas classics (Elvis does outstanding versions of "Blue...
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The fourth volume of Elvis' Gold Records was the first of his hits compilations to be issued at a point when Elvis Presley wasn't considered a very important rock & roll...
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The second of two albums assembled by the Country Music Foundation's Jay Orr (the other is Elvis in Nashville), Elvis Gospel 1957-1971: Known Only to Him was a 14-track...
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Elvis Presley's 1971 holiday album Elvis Sings "The Wonderful World of Christmas" may not be as irresistible as his 1957 masterpiece Christmas Album, but it's nevertheless...
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Astonishingly, given Elvis Presley's physical condition, he (or his management) agreed to film a TV special in June 1977 at two concerts held in Omaha and Rapid City, SD....
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The Legendary Performer series -- there were four on Elvis -- collected hits, non-hits, and previously unreleased studio and live recordings with snippets of interviews....
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The second volume in RCA's Legendary Performer series on Elvis Presley followed the pattern of the first one, mixing well-known songs about half and half with previously...
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Taking five years in between releases in the Legendary Performer series, producer Joan Deary searched the archives thoroughly for unreleased material. The result is an album...
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A great collection of movie-soundtrack alternates, it includes great, eye-opening versions of "Jailhouse Rock" and "Got a Lot of Livin' to Do." ~ Hank Davis & Cub Koda, All...
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A whopping 24 alternates of takes from his 1958 sessions. This has some substantially different versions of most of his big late-'50s hits -- "I Got Stung," "A Fool Such As...
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The second volume of Essential Elvis offers Elvis in binaural stereo from the January 1957 sessions that produced several hits. (RCA Victor generously filled the disc out...
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The title says a lot, since Elvis had made his mark primarily via teenagers purchasing his singles. Thus, RCA repackaged some of his unreleased pre-Army tracks and some...
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OK, to be fair, For LP Fans Only is no more a real Elvis Presley album than, say, Yesterday and Today was a real Beatles album -- Elvis was nine months through his two-year...
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Recently reissued as a deluxe CD...which means the packaging is far better than the music. Compare his version of "Blue Suede Shoes" on this soundtrack to the hit single...
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Elvis Presley's first post-Army movie, G.I. Blues, was scored to music that the King had begun recording in April of 1960, immediately after his discharge from the service....
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As if to make up for not recording in the studio for all those Hollywood years, Elvis took the first few years of his comeback dead serious. As it stands, He Touched Me...
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Presley cut several gospel albums over the course of his career, most of them overblown affairs. This one's easily his best; stripped down arrangements with Elvis...
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Between 1966 and 1968, Elvis recorded just enough studio material to fill one complete secular album and How Great Thou Art, a far more polite (and slightly surreal) reading...
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One of two albums assembled by the Country Music Foundation's Jay Orr (the other is Elvis Gospel), Elvis in Nashville is, as its title suggests, a sampler of material...
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Jailhouse Rock, Lovin' You and King Creole are universally considered his best rock 'n' roll movies. RCA recently released deluxe CD versions, doubling Jailhouse Rock with...
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King Creole was the last movie that Elvis Presley made before he entered the army in the spring of 1958 -- it was also his last film in black-and-white, as well as his final...
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An absolutely astounding collection of early Elvis live performances, starting with his initial appearance on the Louisiana Hayride in 1954. Of particular note is the...
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Elvis Presley's comeback recordings from the late '60s are generally regarded as some of the finest music he ever made, not only because they proved he could still be...
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Many critics and listeners think of Elvis Presley's pre-comeback, mid-'60s recording period as a creative graveyard filled with awful soundtrack songs. While he definitely...
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Western swing, blues, countrypolitan, traditional country, gospel -- if it was music that even brushed the airwaves of a Southern state, Elvis Presley at his best could make...
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An expanded three-disc collection that attempts to trump a 1994 double-disc set (Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs) by offering virtually every single Elvis recording...
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Other Sides: Gold Hits, Vol. 2 is a double-disc set that contains 50 of Elvis' hits. Though there are big hits like "(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame," "Love Me," "One...
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100 Years from Now is the fourth installment in RCA's The Essential Elvis series. Like the previous three volumes, 100 Years from Now is a single-disc collection which...
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Elvis Presley doesn't really need more compilations -- either single discs or box sets -- in his catalog, but RCA's 1999 triple-disc set Artist of the Century does wind up...
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Since Elvis Presley reissue specialists Roger Semon and Ernst Mikael Jorgensen began their Essential Elvis series in 1986 (long before they were given overall responsibility...
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After a 14-year absence from Memphis, Elvis Presley returned to cut what was certainly his greatest album (or, at least, a tie effort with his RCA debut LP from early 1956)....
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RCA and the Elvis estate made no bones about their intention on replicating the blockbuster success of the Beatles' The Beatles 1 with their own single-disc collection of...
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While not as ferocious as 1968's Elvis TV special or In Person at the International Hotel Las Vegas from 1969, this expanded 30th anniversary edition of the soundtrack to...
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Elvis' second live album, partly cut at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in early 1970 , is one of his most unfairly underrated releases. In its original form, it did...
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Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite is a double-album set that captures Elvis' celebrated live television concert from 1973. Arguably, it also captures the peak of the Presley...
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The last Elvis Presley album released in the singer's lifetime, Moody Blue has a somewhat checkered history, especially among fans. Issued two months before Presley died,...
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The fourth volume of Elvis' Gold Records was the first of his hits compilations to be issued at a point when Elvis Presley wasn't considered a very important rock & roll...
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Just as there is only one Elvis Presley, there is only one Las Vegas. The two have become synonymous with indulgence and ironically with each other. The seeming love-hate...
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Promised Land came from the last recording sessions that Elvis Presley ever had in Memphis, the city where his fame and his legend started. The December 1973 Stax Records...
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After a 14-year absence from Memphis, Elvis Presley returned to cut what was certainly his greatest album (or, at least, a tie effort with his RCA debut LP from early 1956)....
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The release of this album, seen in its proper historical context, is an indicator of just how bright Elvis Presley's star shone in the late '50s. His first hits collection...
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This classy, 51-track reissue featuring Elvis' country-styled tunes through his entire career starts promisingly enough with the early Sun sides from 1954, including his...
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Sure the music on here's great. How could it not be? It has 22 of his hottest tracks from his first year at RCA, including not only the hits "Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog,"...
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A surprising perfectionist, Elvis was known to record dozens of takes for many of his records, often loosening up at the beginning of a session by playing around with...
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2nd to None is the sequel to 2002's 30 #1 Hits, itself an attempt to gather Elvis' biggest number one hits on one disc -- which is quite a bit different than all of his...
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You have to hand it to the folks at BMG -- more than 25 years after the passing of Elvis Presley, they've yet to run out of ways to recycle his back catalog, and just in...
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Today it all seems so easy -- RCA signs up the kid from Memphis, television gets interested at around the same time, and the rest is history. The circumstances surrounding...
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BMG Heritage's 2005 release Love, Elvis is not the first Elvis Presley collection released in time for Valentine's Day, nor is it likely to be the last (although, to be...
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Time-Life's The Elvis Presley Collection is a series of two-CD compilations grouping Presley recordings by various criteria. Love Songs has an obvious unifying theme, and...
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Elvis Presley's third non-soundtrack, post-Army album is, in many ways, his most interesting from those years, though nowhere near his best. Something for Everybody offers a...
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Though RCA released only three LPs and an EP of dedicated gospel material during the lifetime of Elvis Presley, it's likely that he sang more gospel than any other type of...
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In the late 1960s, Elvis Presley revitalized his career both by looking backward -- notably during the off-the-cuff performances of his old songs on his 1968 television...
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Elvis Presley's movie music of the 1960s does not have a high reputation even though, as annotator Charles K. Wolfe points out, much of it was popular at the time and the...
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Time-Life's The Elvis Presley Collection mail-order series is largely organized by musical style, with titles devoted to rock & roll, country, gospel, etc. Understandably,...
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Since an earlier volume in Time-Life's mail-order series The Elvis Presley Collection is subtitled Rock 'n' Roll, it's worth asking what distinguishes it from this one,...
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The original Elvis' Golden Records, Vol. 3 was, like its predecessors, an unprecedented release -- no one in rock & roll up to that point, other than Elvis, had ever...
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The double-disc set Elvis by the Presleys is part of a May 2005 multimedia juggernaut of the same name, containing a two-hour documentary broadcast on CBS that month, a...
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Elvis was out of uniform in March 1960 and laying down vocals for his first big musical production in April. The confections that make up the soundtrack for G.I. Blues were...
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