Love Songs [BMG International]

by Elvis Presley

Overview

Time-Life's The Elvis Presley Collection is a series of two-CD compilations grouping Presley recordings by various criteria. Love Songs has an obvious unifying theme, and among its 31 selections are most of Presley's best-known romantic ballads, including the Top Ten hits "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You," "Love Me Tender," "Love Me," "Don't," "It's Now or Never," "Are You Lonesome Tonight?," "Surrender," "Can't Help Falling in Love," and "The Wonder of You," as well as such Presley standards as "Always on My Mind" and the Kris Kristofferson compositions "Help Me Make It Through the Night" and "For the Good Times." One might quibble that "Suspicion" and "Suspicious Minds" don't quite fit the theme, both for their quick tempos and subject matter. And the compilers have treated the two discs separately, with each one running in rough chronological order from the 1950s to the '70s, which tends to throw early and late Presley together, sometimes jarringly. Beyond such minor criticisms, however, there are so many Presley collections on the market that the necessity of this series is open to question, even though it has been intelligently programmed. Partly to answer that question, each album in the series contains one previously unreleased track. In this case, it's a circa-1966 home-recorded, off-hand performance of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "If I Loved You," apparently a favorite of Presley's, since he was also taped singing it informally in 1960, though he never performed the song in the studio or in concert. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	01/25/2000
Label:	Bmg International
UPC:	0743216479122
Rank:	123903

Tracks

1. Love Me Tender
2. It's Now or Never
3. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
4. Don't
5. Loving You
6. Can't Help Falling in Lov
7. Love Letters
8. I Want You, I Need You, I
9. That Is When Your Heartac
10. True Love
11. Young & Beautiful (You're
12. Doin'the Best I Can
13. Something Blue
14. Angel
15. That's Someone You Never
16. Just Pretend
17. For the Good Times (Maste
18. Woman Without Love
19. He'll Have to Go
20. It's Impossible

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Elvis Presley   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Doc Pomus   Composer
Elvis Presley   Composer
Doug Flett   Composer
Wally Gold   Composer
Hugo Peretti   Composer
Luigi Creatore   Composer
Vera Matson   Composer
Jerry Chesnut   Composer
Jerry Leiber   Composer
Roy Turk   Composer
Mike Stoller   Composer
Aaron Schroeder   Composer
Mort Shuman   Composer
George David Weiss   Composer
William Raskin   Composer
Eduardo DeCapua   Composer
Billy Hill   Composer
Kris Kristofferson   Composer
Edward Heyman   Composer
Fred Fisher   Composer
Roger Semon   Liner Notes
Roy Bennett   Composer
Abner Silver   Composer
Armando Manzanero   Composer
Al Byron   Composer
Victor Young   Composer
George Mysels   Composer
Guy Fletcher   Composer
Red West   Composer
Paul Evans   Composer
Sid Tepper   Composer
Sid Wayne   Composer
Audrey Allison   Composer
Cole Porter   Composer
Joe Allison   Composer
Lou Kosloff   Composer
Lou Handman   Composer