Elvis for Everyone

Artist: Elvis Presley
Label: Bmg Int'l
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 078635345025
EAN: 0078635345025
ASIN: B000008JKC

Release Date: 1995-04-25

Elvis for Everyone

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Tracks:

Your Cheatin' Heart
Summer Kisses, Winter Tears
Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers
In My Way
Tomorrow Night
Memphis Tennessee
For the Millionth and the Last Time
Forget Me Never
Sound Advice
Santa Lucia
I Met Her Today
When It Rains, It Really Pours

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Customer Reviews:

are you Nuts??????.......2006-05-25

What the hell is wrong with you people?!!! This is one of Elvis's greatest unheard albums to date!! Just because it doesn't contain the usual blockbuster hits that everyone has already heard does not mean that it is not a good album or is "forgettable". This is a rare gem!!! The songs are great and the cover is great as well.

I spent the majority of my childhood listening to THIS album along with his other more popular albums.
Please give this a listen it is worth it!!!

You know what it takes, you got it, baby!.......2006-01-13

This Elvis Presley album was released in 1965. It consisted of songs that had never been previously released (other than "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears"). To be honest, most of these songs had been previously unreleased because they weren't considered good enough to release, until they got really hard up for material. The oldest song here is "Tomorrow Night" which dates all the way back to Elvis' second Sun Records recording session. Tragically, they ruined the song by overdubbing additional musicians and singers to it. As for the rest of the songs, there are some good ones and some not so good ones. No real "classic" Elvis songs here, honestly. My personal favorite is probably "Memphis". This album is a real hodgepodge. I might also mention that the album is only 24 minutes long, and it has a terrible cover.

1965: 10th anniversary of his contract with RCA Victor.......2005-12-26

Released in 1965 to commemorate Elvis's 10th anniversary at RCA Records, it was an album put together by RCA with songs never released before because Elvis at that time didn't have time to record new material except soudtrack albums. He was making three motion pictures a year and in 1965, he became the highest paid actor in Hollywood with 1 million $ per film plus a bonus if the film made profits (which happened every time).
So here is the track list for this album with commentaries for each song:
- Your Cheatin' Heart: that's a Hank Williams cover recorded in 1958 just before Elvis got into the army.
- Summer Kisses Winter Tears: recorded in 1960 for the film FLAMING STAR but never included in it, it had been released before in 1960 on the FLAMING STAR EP.
- Finders Keepers: recorded in May 1963 in Nashville at THE LOST SESSION; all the songs recorded at that session ended up as b-sides and fillers on soundtrack albums. This session was supposed to produce an album but the album never came out because there was already too many soundtrack albums in the stores by Elvis and the Colonel Parker thought it wasn't necessary to release an original material album. This song appeared for the first time on ELVIS FOR EVERYONE.
-In My Way: recorded for the film WILD IN THE COUNTRY in 1960. Nice ballad with Elvis and only one guitar.
-Tomorrow night: the oldest song on this album. Recorded at Sun Studios in 1954, it was never finished; overdubbed in 1965 with a few more instruments.
- Memphis Tennessee: recorded in 1964, it was supposed to be Elvis's counter-attack to the British invasion. The song was planned to be released as a single in june 1964 but Elvis invited the young Johnny Rivers in Graceland in the Spring of 1964 and made him listen to this song. Rivers recorded it just after with Elvis's arrangements and had his first hit with it in the early summer of 1964. Elvis never released the song before this album and never talked to Rivers again.
- For the millionth and the last time: awful song from a 1961 session.
- Forget me never: recorded in 1960 for WILD IN THE COUNTRY but never included in the film.
- Sound Advice: Elvis disliked so much this song that he refused that it appears on his FOLLOW THAT DREAM EP from the film of the same name. RCA released it anyway, thinking maybe that since he had recorded it in 1961, he had forgotten about it.
- Santa Lucia: recorded in 1963 for the VIVA LAS VEGAS movie, there was never a soundtrack album released from it so the song was unreleased at that time.
- I met her today: maybe the most beautiful song on this album, recorded in 1961 in Nashville, it's a shame it had never been released yet at the time.
- When it rains: recorded in 1957, Elvis had already tried to record it in 1955 at his last session for Sun studios. He wasn't satisfied with his 1957 recording so RCA kept it until this album in 1965.

So this album contains songs recorded between 1954 and 1964 and it's true that it's for everyone because you can hear many different sides of Elvis's music on this album but I would recommend it only for die-hard fans. The songs are rather weak except for MEMPHIS TENNESSEE, SUMMER KISSES, I MET HER TODAY, TOMORROW NIGHT and IN MY WAY. The rest of the album is not that good and you understand why they were left-overs when you hear them.
The album did good anyhow because it went to N°10 on the album charts.

...And Everyone Should Get This Album.......2004-07-12

This album is a satisfying winner that at first glance just seems to be a hodge-podge of left-overs drawn from 4 sources, but somehow it works. From the Sun days you have "Tomorrow Night" that was overdubbed with extra instrumentation shortly before this album's release (hey, I thought they only did this when the artist was already dead!) and it works beautifully. From the early RCA days you have the playfull Your Cheating Heart and the gutsy When It Rains, It Really Pours. From the post-army, early 60's Nashville days you have an excellent homage to Chuck Berry and the King's home town: the lively Memphis Tennessee, plus 3 other varied tunes that also showcase the country-flavoured piano of Floyd Cramer. And lastly, you get 5 movie soundtrack songs where Elvis manages not to embarrass himself. Far from it, the passionate Summer Kisses, Winter Tears is a joy. When I first heard this song many years ago I wondered if it was derived from an Asian pop song. I was even in a Chinese restaurant once and I heard an instrumental version of this song playing for dinner music. Forget Me Never and In My Way are sincere solo folk guitar crooners. Sound Advice is a happy-go-lucky, toe-tappin', finger-snappin', whistlin' throw-away and that leaves just Santa Lucia. All I can say about this song is that if you belong to the F.B.I. (Full-Blooded Italians) you'd probably love the fact that Elvis sang this song for you.

Over all, this is a fine album even though there is no mega-hit on it like Jailhouse Rock or Suspicious Minds. But if you've already got all the hits but need more Elvis (doesn't everybody?) this CD would make an excellent choice.

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