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Anything Elvis is always good but this is great. Would recommend it to any Elvis fans.
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There are a number of fun songs left off this special series volume - songs from movies like Tickle Me and The Trouble With Girls... that did not use an opening tune with the same title as the movie. If that's a little wierd (for the more casual fan), check out the inclusion of "Stay Away, Joe" - it was not used in the movie, deferring to the "Greensleeves"-based "Stay Away"!.
Anway, the point in most of these numbers is *fun*, so let's have some: "Roustabout" gets a nice technological makeover - I've never heard echo on vinyl or CD on this catchy, though slight, offer. I believe the movie itself has echo on this opener. Drums are more to the fore on "Speedway" and "Easy Come, Easy Go", so the work of people like Hal Blaine, D.J. Fontana, and Buddy Harman is better appreciated. Mysteriously, "Double Trouble", a real rocker featuring a classy horn arrangement, is a sad step backwards sonically - the drums are nearly lost, as in the original flat mix on vinyl. A serious disappointment here is with "Girl Happy", once again not pitch adjusted. My theory is that the speeded-up take was produced to fit into the time constraints of the opening credits - check it out, folks! [Note that the recording year is actually 1964, not 1967, as printed]. Somewhere beneath the cartoonish effects is a strong rocker - with resonant echoes of Little Richard's "The Girl Can't Help It"!
Elvis comes very close to straight-ahead "Blue-Eyed Soul" on "Spinout". The beat and instrumentation are completely contemporary, but once again the lead vocal is too far forward. A bit of reverb also might have helped.
The aforementioned "Speedway", underlying another race-car deal, does have good balance, although the echo sounds somewhat artificial. This is a lost gem, undoubtedly - too bad that by '67-'68, it seemed that less and less listeners cared.
Note that "Follow That Dream" is an excellent alternate take - we get a Sun Records "wellll" from Big El on this on! Another uptempo standout is the Leiber and Stoller "Girls! Girls! Girls!", benefitting from the remix.
Michael Hill's liner notes are great.
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It is a great CD. The sound is excellent. Not every song from every movie is included, but it has alot of the soundtracks. There are songs on this CD that I didn't know but I like listening to all of his stuff. I would recommend this CD to any Elvis fan.
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This CD has the complete 24 movie title songs that Elvis covered. The movies that Elvis did not cover the main title to were "Kid Galahad, It happens at the World's fair, Tickle Me, Harum Scarum, Paradise Hawaiian Style, Live a Little and Love a Little, and The Trouble with Girls. But what would been interesting is to have in this collection were the song's that introduce this 7 titles that I just mention. So this could of been a 31 track CD of every movie title intro and cover song. I wouldn't think that it would be too much time to put all these songs on one CD.
1962:Kid Galahad-King of the Whole Wide World
1963:It happened at the World's fair-Beyond the Bend
1965:Tickle Me-Long Lonely Highway
1965:Harum Scarum-Harum Holiday
1966:Paradise Hawaiian Style-Aloha Hawaii USA
1968:Live a Little and Love a Little-Wonderful World
1969:The Trouble with Girls-(Instrumental)
My finale thought is that if you love Elvis Movies and their music, then you'll love this CD. Hearing these song's reminded me of the days when I was a kid and I would see an Elvis movie come on T.V. and you get to here Elvis Sing while watching the Beginning Credits. It gets you all pumped up for this Elvis Movie. I think after you hear this CD, your going to go back to your Elvis Movie Collection to pick a movie to watch.
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This is probably the best collection of Elvis movie songs available! It spans his entire movie career from his classic hit Love Me Tender to his under appreciated late 60's title song Change of Habit. While some of his movie songs and soundtracks were not up to his talents, this collection proves that some of his best works were for his movies. If you want a sampling of his Hollywood recordings, this is the collection for you!
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