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A whole one point raise on the thoroughly dire “Elvis Now” and “He Touched Me” albums of last year, but sitting through his LPs of this period remains an arduous task as I write in 2008. The album's lead (and only) single, “Fool”, opens up side one depressingly, an emotional mid-tempo pop song as bland as they come. The album would come to be known as “Fool”. Passmarks for the classy “Where Do I Go From Here?”, an orchestral pop-country affair, the most recently recorded track on the set. As with many Elvis LPs of the time, the content was pooled from session leftovers, the content here spanning March '71 to March '72. Cementing the hodgepodge feeling, side one closes with a cabaret-style live track, “It’s Impossible”, recorded at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel in February, 1972. Fair play to Elvis, three songs feature tha man himself on piano: “It's Still Here”, “I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen” and “I Will Be True”.
The Jukebox Rebel
24–Aug–2008
Tracklist |
A1 | [02:43] Elvis Presley with J. D. Sumner and The Stamps - Fool (James Last, Carl Sigman) Pop |
A2 | [02:40] Elvis Presley with J. D. Sumner and The Stamps - Where Do I Go From Here? (Paul Williams) Pop |
A3 | [03:05] Elvis Presley - Love Me, Love The Life I Lead (Roger Greenaway, Tony Macaulay) Soul |
A4 | [02:08] Elvis Presley - It’s Still Here (Ivory Joe Hunter) Soul Ballad |
A5 | [02:53] Elvis Presley with The Sweet Inspirations and J. D. Sumner and The Stamps - It’s Impossible [live] (Armando Manzanero, Sid Wayne) Crooner / Cabaret |
B1 | [02:09] Elvis Presley with vocal accompaniment by The Nashville Edition - (That’s What You Get) For Lovin’ Me (Gordon Lightfoot) Country |
B2 | [02:31] Elvis Presley - Padre (Jacques Larue, Paul Francis Webster, Alain Romans) Pop |
B3 | [02:26] Elvis Presley - I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen (Thomas Paine Westendorf) Crooner / Cabaret |
B4 | [02:32] Elvis Presley - I Will Be True (Ivory Joe Hunter) Soul Ballad |
B5 | [02:44] Elvis Presley - Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (Robert Zimmerman) Country |