Elvis Presley is Back DCC GOLD CD NEW Sealed GZS-1111 Limited Edition No. 2295

Publication date: 1. August 1997 
Label: Dcc
Format: Audio CD


         Tracks

 

1. Make Me Know It (2:04)
2. Fever (3:35)
3. The Girl Of My Best Friend (2:26)
4. I Will Be Home Again (2:38)
5. Dirty, Dirty Feeling (1:36)
6. Thrill Of Your Love (3:05)
7. Soldier Boy (3:10)
8. Such A Night (3:55)
9. It Feels So Right (2:14)
10. Girl Next Door Went A'walking (2:17)
11. Like A Baby (2:43)
12. Reconsider Baby (3:42)

 

Produktbeschreibungen

Das erste Album vom King mit ganz neuem Material nach seinem Ausscheiden aus der Armee, Elvis Is Back!, ist vermutlich das gelungenste Album seiner gesamten Karriere.
Hier ist ein etwas anderer Elvis zu hören als der, der in die Armee eingezogen wurde, ein etwas zahmerer (obwohl er auf dem Cover wie ein Marsmensch aussieht), der von Stil zu Stil hüpft. Von R&B (ein wegweisendes Cover von Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters' "Such a Night") über reinsten Pop (ein Cover von Ral Donners "The Girl of My Best Friend" mit einem Hank-Garland-Gitarrensound, der den Merseybeat vorwegnahm) bis hin zum härtesten Blues seiner Karriere (mehrere Stücke, unter anderem eine unglaubliche Version von Lowell Fulsoms "Reconsider Baby") ist alles dabei. Er eignet sich sogar Peggy Lees "Fever" an.
Keine Hitsingles, nur eine großartige LP -- und kein Anzeichen vom Schrott seiner Filmjahre, der bald folgen würde. --Bill Holdship
 
Review by Bruce Eder
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 rounded out the album, for a total of 18 songs, including the three singles and their B-sides from those sessions. Although they have common recording origins, two of the three singles, "It's Now or Never" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight," were very quirky by the standards of Elvis songs at the time — the former inspired by Elvis's admiration for Tony Martin's 1949 hit "There's No Tomorrow," while the latter was recorded at the request of Col. Parker as a favor to his wife. They add to the diversity of sounds on this record, which shows a mature Elvis Presley. "Dirty, Dirty Feeling" and "It Feels So Right" showed he could still rock out and challenge authority and propriety, while "Reconsider Baby" and "Like a Baby" offer some of his best blues performances; but "The Thrill of Your Love" (a very gospel-tinged number), "Soldier Boy," "Girl of My Best Friend," and "Girl Next Door Went a' Walking," also displayed the rich, deep vocalizing that would challenge critics' expectations of Elvis Presley playing rhythm guitar throughout. He also comes off better than on any of his other albums since arriving at RCA, as a musician as much as a "star" (he'd always had a lot more to say about running his sessions than the critics who loathed his RCA years indicated). The sound on the 1999 remastering is extraordinarily close yet natural, giving the listener full value for the presence of Scotty Moore, Hank Garland (who also plays bass on a few tracks), D.J. Fontana, Boots Randolph, and Floyd Cramer.