Loving You

by Elvis Presley

Overview

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 movie tunes and the fact that the new songs were leftovers from the sessions used to produce Elvis' first gospel EP and latest single add up to his weakest album offering, although any album with "Got a Lot o' Living to Do" is alright. If you think of Loving You as simply an Elvis Presley album, rather than a somewhat misleadingly packaged soundtrack, it was actually one of his more coherent and cohesive long-players, assembled from sessions all conducted in the first two months of 1957. By this time, he was doing precious little that was wrong, and his range and control were growing geometrically -- thus, amid some powerful rock & roll, including "Mean Woman Blues" (which could almost have passed for one of his Sun tracks), "Teddy Bear," the electric guitar-driven "Got a Lot 'o Livin' to Do," Ivory Joe Hunter's "I Need You So," and a hard, brittle-textured outtake of "I Beg of You," the King does some brilliant ballad singing on "One Night of Sin" and "Is It So Strange," and belts out one of his great blues performances on "When It Rains, It Really Pours" -- which boasts a killer Scotty Moore guitar part -- and moves into Sons of the Pioneers territory with the hauntingly beautiful Western ballad "Lonesome Cowboy." He doesn't do badly with "Blueberry Hill," either. [Sony's 2009 edition included eight bonus tracks.] ~ Neal Umphred & Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	04/28/2009
Label:	Sbme Special Mkts.
UPC:	0886974794226
Rank:	4150

Tracks

1. Mean Woman Blues
2. (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
3. Loving You
4. Got a Lot O' Livin' to Do!
5. Lonesome Cowboy
6. Hot Dog
7. Party
8. Blueberry Hill
9. True Love
10. Don't Leave Me Now
11. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
12. I Need You So
13. Tell Me Why
14. Is It So Strange
15. One Night of Sin
16. When It Rains, It Really Pours
17. I Beg of You
18. Party
19. Loving You
20. Got a Lot O' Lovin' to Do! (Finale)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Elvis Presley   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar
Bill Black   Guest Artist
The Jordanaires   Guest Artist
Scotty Moore   Guest Artist

Technical Credits

Peter Chatman   Composer
Jerry Leiber   Composer
William Robert Emerson   Composer
Klaus Schmalenbach   Executive Director
Scotty Wiseman   Composer
Vincent Caro   Mastering
Ernst Mikael Jorgensen   Compilation Producer
Ben Weisman   Composer
Cliff Owens   Composer
Faron Young   Composer
Claude Demetrius   Composer
Larry Stock   Composer
Jessie Mae Robinson   Composer
Roy Brown   Composer
Kal Mann   Composer
Mike Stoller   Composer
Aaron Schroeder   Composer
Al Lewis   Composer
Dave Bartholomew   Composer
William Raskin   Composer
Ivory Joe Hunter   Composer
Fred Fisher   Composer
Vincent Rose   Composer
Roger Semon   Compilation Producer
Roy Bennett   Composer
Rose Marie McCoy   Composer
Otis Blackwell   Composer
Titus Turner   Composer
Michael Omansky   Executive Director
A.J. Lewis   Composer
Scott Weisman   Composer
Pearl King   Composer
Sid Tepper   Composer
Bernie Lowe   Composer
The Jordanaires   Performer
Cole Porter   Composer