Elvis Presley - Elvis is Back! (1960)
Track Listing (standout tracks listed in bold)
1. Make Me Know It
2. Fever
3. Girl Of My Best Friend
4. I Will Be Home Again
5. Dirty Dirty Feeling
6. Thrill Of Your Love
7. Soldier Boy
8. Such A Night
9. It Feels So Right
10. Girl Next Door
11. Like A Baby
12. Reconsider Baby
Fresh out of the Army Elvis Presley stepped into the studio looking to regain the status he had held before he left to serve our country. He turned in what may be his bet set of recordings of his entire career. I have always been fascinated with these sessions – 18 songs recorded in all with 12 selected for the album. . It's a slightly different Elvis here than the one who was drafted, still in fine voice yet slightly tamer. He jumps from style to style--from R&B (Such a Night) to pure pop (The Girl of My Best Friend) to doo-wop (Soldier Boy) to some of the hardest blues of his career (Reconsider Baby). He even makes transforms Peggy Lee’s "Fever" into his own. No hit singles, (, "It's Now or Never" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight" from these sessions were released as singles) just a great record and thankfully no indication of the "movie years" songs that was soon to follow. Highly recommended.
[Note - The 1999 remaster of this album features the complete sessions for a total of 18 songs, including the three singles and their B-sides from those sessions. I would seek this version out]
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