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:''This article is about the Elvis Presley compilation. For The Cramps' album of the same name, see [[A Date with Elvis (The Cramps album)|A Date with Elvis]].''
{{About|the Elvis Presley album|the Cramps album|A Date with Elvis (The Cramps album)}}
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{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
{{Infobox album|
| Name = A Date with Elvis
| Type = compilation
| name = A Date with Elvis
| Artist = [[Elvis Presley]]
| type = compilation
| Cover = Adatewithelvis.jpg
| artist = [[Elvis Presley]]
| cover = ElvisPresleyADateWithElvisLPCover.jpg
| Released = [[July 24]], [[1959]]
| Recorded = June 1954-April 1957
| alt =
| Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| released = {{start date|1959|07|24}}
| Length = 22:58
| recorded = July 1954 – April 1957
| Label = [[RCA Records|RCA]] LPM 2011
| venue =
| Producer =
| studio =
| genre = {{Flatlist|
| Reviews = *[[Allmusic]] {{Rating|4.5|5}} [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:09ftxqr5ldse link]
*[[Rock and roll]]
| Last album =''[[For LP Fans Only]]''<br />(1959)
*[[rockabilly]]}}
| This album = ''A Date with Elvis''<br />(1959)
*[[Country music|country]]
| Next album =''[[50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong|Elvis' Gold Records - Volume 2]]''<br />(1959)
| length = 22:58
| label = [[RCA Victor]]
| producer = [[Sam Phillips]] (Sun recordings)<br>[[Steve Sholes]] (RCA recordings)
| prev_title = [[For LP Fans Only]]
| prev_year = 1959
| next_title = [[50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong: Elvis' Gold Records, Volume 2|Elvis' Gold Records, Volume 2]]
| next_year = 1959
| misc = {{Singles
| name = A Date with Elvis
| type = compilation
| single1 = [[Good Rockin' Tonight]]
| single1date = September 22, 1954
| single2 = [[Milkcow Blues Boogie]]
| single2date = January 8, 1955
| single3 = [[Baby Let's Play House]]
| single3date = April 25, 1956
| single4 = [[Young and Beautiful (Elvis Presley song)|Young and Beautiful]]
| single4date = February 21, 1959<ref>{{cite web |title=Elvis Presley - Young And Beautiful |url=https://www.45cat.com/record/479224 |access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>
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{{Music ratings
'''''A Date with Elvis''''' is the eighth [[LP album|album]] by [[Elvis Presley]], issued on [[RCA Records]], LPM 2011, in July 1959. From an August, 1956, recording session at [[20th Century Fox]] Stage One and two from [[Radio Recorders]] in [[Hollywood]], and multiple sessions at [[Sun Studio]], it is a compilation of previously issued material, reaching #32 on the [[Billboard 200|Billboard Top Pop Albums]] chart.
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r15657|first=Bruce|last=Eder}}</ref>
| rev2 = [[MusicHound]]
| rev2score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Graff|editor1-first=Gary|editor2-last=Durchholz|editor2-first=Daniel|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|year=1999|isbn=1-57859-061-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/892 892]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/892}}</ref>
| rev4 = [[Rough Guides]]
| rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|first=Paul|last=Simpson|title=The Rough Guide to Elvis|year=2004|location=London|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=1-84353-417-7|pages=113}}</ref>
}}
'''''A Date with Elvis''''' is a [[compilation album]] by American singer and musician [[Elvis Presley]], issued on [[RCA Victor]] (LPM 2011) in July 1959. The album compiled a selection of previously released material from multiple sessions at [[Sun Studio|Sun]], an August 1956 recording session at [[20th Century Fox]] Stage One and two from [[Radio Recorders]] in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]. The album reached #32 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums]] chart.


==Content==
==Content==
{{unreferenced section|date=April 2021}}
After Presley's induction into the [[United States Army|army]] on [[March 24]], [[1958]], RCA and his manager, [[Colonel Tom Parker]], were faced with the prospect of keeping his name before the public for two years with no possibility of live performances, no movies, and with few unissued marketable recordings in the vault. A recording session was arranged for two days in June, which yielded enough items for five more [[single (music)|single sides]], singles being the commercial focus for [[rock and roll]] in the 1950s. Four of those tracks would be issued on 45s in 1958 and 1959 during his absence while doing military service.
After Presley's induction into the [[United States Army|army]] on March 24, 1958, RCA Victor and his manager, [[Colonel Tom Parker]], were faced with the prospect of keeping his name before the public for two years with no possibility of live performances, no movies, and with few unissued marketable recordings in the vault. A recording session was arranged for two days in June, which yielded enough items for five more [[single (music)|single sides]], singles being the commercial focus for [[rock and roll]] in the 1950s. Four of those tracks would be issued on 45s in 1958 and 1959 during his absence while doing military service.


Presley, however, also did well in the albums market, all but one of his previous seven LPs charting no lower than #3, and RCA wished to continue promoting albums by Presley given his sales record. Much of Presley's material had not been released on LP, and for this album RCA collected material previously unavailable on album. Like its predecessor ''[[For LP Fans Only]]'', this album featured tracks that had been issued on [[Sun Records]] with limited release, and were almost impossible to locate beyond certain parts of the [[Southern United States|south]]. The remaining five tracks derived from three different [[EP]]s issued in 1956 and 1957.
Presley, however, also did well in the albums market, all but one of his previous seven LPs charting no lower than #3, and RCA Victor wished to continue issuing albums by Presley given his sales record. Much of Presley's material had not been released on LP, and for this album RCA Victor collected material previously unavailable on album. Like its predecessor ''[[For LP Fans Only]]'', this album featured tracks that had been issued on [[Sun Records]] with limited release, and were almost impossible to locate beyond certain parts of the [[Southern United States|south]]. However all 5 Sun singles were reissued by RCA Victor in November 1955 and remained in print through the 1970s. The remaining five tracks derived from three different [[Extended play|EP]]s issued in 1956 and 1957.


Even by the standards of the late 1950s and early 1960s, where long-playing albums often ran to only about 35 minutes, this was a very short album at twenty-three minutes, and as such became the lowest charting Presley LP of the decade. RCA would squeeze one more album in 1959 out of previously issued material, the [[50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong|second singles]] collection, but it too would be a lower seller by previous standard. Presley would return from overseas in 1960 to commence proper recording again.
Even by the standards of the late 1950s and early 1960s, where long-playing albums often ran to only about 35 minutes, this was a very short album at twenty-three minutes, and as such became the lowest charting Presley LP of the decade. RCA Victor would squeeze one more album in 1959 out of previously issued material, the [[50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong|second hit singles]] collection, but it too would be a lower seller by previous standard. Presley would return from overseas in 1960 to commence proper recording again. This album also folds out to be a calendar for the year 1960.


A different version of the album, duplicating six tracks from the American release, but expanding the track list to a healthy fourteen, was issued in [[Australia]] on [[grammophone record|vinyl]] in September 1959. [[Compact disc]] versions of the album by RCA have been done in several worldwide releases since 1989. [[Audiophile]] CD recordings are available on import in the [[United States]], including the version from [[Japan]] in 2005.
A different version of the album, duplicating six tracks from the American release, but expanding the track list to a healthy fourteen, was issued in [[Australia]] on [[gramophone record|vinyl]] in September 1959.


==Reissues==
==Collective Personnel==
RCA first reissued the original 10-track album on [[compact disc]] in 1989. The album is also available in the 2016 boxed set, ''Elvis Presley - The Complete RCA Album Collection''.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* [[Elvis Presley]] – [[vocal]], [[guitar]], bass
* [[Scotty Moore]] – guitar
* [[Dudley Brooks]] - piano
* [[Mike Stoller]] - piano, backing vocals
* [[Bill Black]] – [[Double bass|bass]]
* [[D.J. Fontana]] - [[drum kit|drums]]
* [[Johnny Bernero]] – drums
* [[The Jordanaires]] - backing vocals


==Collective personnel==
== Track listing ==
* [[Elvis Presley]]&nbsp;– [[singing|vocals]], [[guitar]]
''Chart positions for LPs and EPs from [[Billboard 200|Billboard Top Pop Albums]] chart; peak position for EPA 4114 from EP chart commenced October 1957; positions for singles from [[Hot Country Songs|Billboard Country & Western]] chart''
* [[Scotty Moore]]&nbsp;– guitar
===Side One===
* [[Dudley Brooks]]&nbsp;– piano
{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #FCFDFF; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
* [[Mike Stoller]]&nbsp;– piano, backing vocals
! Track || Recorded || Original EP Issue || Catalogue || Release Date || Chart Peak || Song Title || Writer(s) || Time
* [[Bill Black]]&nbsp;– [[Double bass|bass]]
|-
* [[D. J. Fontana]]&nbsp;– [[drum kit|drums]]
| 1. || 7/54 || || Sun 209b || 7/19/54 || || [[Blue Moon of Kentucky]] || [[Bill Monroe]] || 2:02
* Johnny Bernero&nbsp;– drums
|-
* [[The Jordanaires]]&nbsp;– backing vocals
| 2. || 4/30/57 || ''[[Jailhouse Rock (EP)|Jailhouse Rock]]'' || EPA 4114 || 10/57 || #1 || [[Young And Beautiful]] || [[Aaron Schroeder(songwriter)|Aaron Schroeder]] and [[Abner Silver]] || 2:02
|-
| 3. || 4/30/57 || ''[[Jailhouse Rock (EP)|Jailhouse Rock]]'' || EPA 4114 || 10/57 || #1 || [[(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care]] || [[Jerry Leiber]] and [[Mike Stoller]] || 1:51
|-
| 4. || 11?12/54 || || Sun 215 || 12/28/54 || || [[Milkcow Blues Boogie]] || [[Kokomo Arnold]] || 2:38
|-
| 5. || 2/5/55 || || Sun 217 || 4/10/55 || [[Hot Country Songs|C&W]] #5 || [[Baby Let's Play House]] || [[Arthur Gunter]] || 2:15
|}
===Side Two===
{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #FCFDFF; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
! Track || Recorded || Original EP Issue || Catalogue || Release Date || Chart Peak || Song Title || Writer(s) || Time
|-
| 1. || 9/54 || || Sun 210 || 9/25/54 || || [[Good Rockin' Tonight]] || [[Roy Brown]] || 2:12
|-
| 2. || 1/19/57 || ''[[Just For You (EP)|Just For You]]'' || EPA 4041 || 4/57 || #16 || [[Is It So Strange]] || [[Faron Young]] || 2:28
|-
| 3. || 8/24/56 || ''[[Love Me Tender (EP)|Love Me Tender]]'' || EPA 4006 || 11/56 || #22 || [[We're Gonna Move]] || [[Vera Matson]] and Elvis Presley || 2:30
|-
| 4. || 4/30/57 || ''[[Jailhouse Rock (EP)|Jailhouse Rock]]'' || EPA 4114 || 10/57 || #1 || [[I Want To Be Free (1957 song)|I Want To Be Free]] || [[Jerry Leiber]] and [[Mike Stoller]] || 2:12
|-
| 5. || 7/11/55 || || Sun 223b || 8/6/55 || [[Hot Country Songs|C&W]] #1 || [[I Forgot to Remember to Forget (song)|I Forgot to Remember to Forget]] || [[Stan Kesler]] and [[Charlie Feathers]] || 2:28
|}


==Australian Track Listing==
==Track listing ==
===Side One===
===Original release===
{{Track listing
{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #FCFDFF; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
|headline=Side one
! Track || Recorded || Original LP Issue || Catalogue || Release Date || Chart Peak || Song Title || Writer(s) || Time
|extra_column=Recording date
|-
| 1. || 7/54 || || Sun 209b || 7/19/54 || || [[Blue Moon of Kentucky]] || [[Bill Monroe]] || 2:02
|title1=[[Blue Moon of Kentucky#Elvis Presley version|Blue Moon Of Kentucky]]
|writer1=[[Bill Monroe]]
|-
|extra1=July 7, 1954
| 2. || 11?12/54 || || Sun 215 || 12/28/54 || || [[Milkcow Blues Boogie]] || [[Kokomo Arnold]] || 2:38
|length1=2:02
|-
|title2=[[Young and Beautiful (Elvis Presley song)|Young and Beautiful]]
| 3. || 2/5/55 || || Sun 217 || 4/10/55 || [[Hot Country Songs|C&W]] #5 || [[Baby Let's Play House]] || [[Arthur Gunter]] || 2:15
|writer2=[[Aaron Schroeder]], [[Abner Silver]]
|-
|extra2=April 30, 1957
| 4. || 9/54 || || Sun 217b || 3/5/55 || || [[I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine]] || [[Mack David]] || 2:27
|length2=2:02
|-
|title3=[[(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care]]
| 5. || 1/31/56 || ''[[Elvis Presley (album)|Elvis Presley]]'' || LPM 1254 || 3/23/56 || #1 || [[Tutti Frutti]] || [[Dorothy LaBostrie]] and [[Richard Penniman]] || 1:58
|writer3=[[Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller]]
|-
|extra3=April 30, 1957
| 6. || 1/31/56 || ''[[Elvis Presley (album)|Elvis Presley]]'' || LPM 1254 || 3/23/56 || #1 || [[I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)]] || [[Howard Biggs]] and [[Joe Thomas (songwriter)|Joe Thomas]] || 2:01
|length3=1:51
|-
|title4=[[Milk Cow Blues#Elvis Presley version|Milkcow Blues Boogie]]
| 7. || 1/10/56 || ''[[Elvis Presley (album)|Elvis Presley]]'' || LPM 1254 || 3/23/56 || #1 || [[I Got A Woman]] || [[Ray Charles]] and [[Renald Richard]] || 2:23
|writer4=[[Kokomo Arnold]]
|}
|extra4=November 12, 1954
|length4=2:38
|title5=[[Baby Let's Play House#Elvis Presley version|Baby Let's Play House]]
|writer5=[[Arthur Gunter]]
|extra5=February 5, 1955
|length5=2:15
}}

{{Track listing
|headline=Side two
|extra_column=Recording date
|title1=[[Good Rocking Tonight#Elvis Presley version|Good Rockin' Tonight]]
|writer1=[[Roy Brown (blues musician)|Roy Brown]]
|extra1=September 10, 1954
|length1=2:12
|title2=Is It So Strange
|writer2=[[Faron Young]]
|extra2=January 19, 1957
|length2=2:28
|title3=[[We're Gonna Move]]
|writer3=Vera Matson, Elvis Presley
|extra3=August 24, 1956
|length3=2:30
|title4=[[I Want to Be Free (Elvis Presley song)|I Want to Be Free]]
|writer4=[[Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller]]
|extra4=April 30, 1957
|length4=2:12
|title5=[[I Forgot to Remember to Forget]]
|writer5=[[Stan Kesler]], [[Charlie Feathers]]
|extra5=July 11, 1955
|length5=2:28
}}


{{Track listing
===Side Two===
| headline = The Album Collection bonus tracks
{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #FCFDFF; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
| total_length =
! Track || Recorded || Original LP/EP Issue || Catalogue || Release Date || Chart Peak || Song Title || Writer(s) || Time
| title11 = [[Jailhouse Rock (EP)|Don't Leave Me Now]] (movie version)
|-
| length11 = 2:05
| 1. || 9/54 || || Sun 210 || 9/25/54 || || [[Good Rockin' Tonight]] || [[Roy Brown]] || 2:12
| title12 = [[Harbour Lights (song)|Harbor Lights]]
|-
| length12 = 2:36
| 2. || 1/19/57 || ''[[Just For You (EP)|Just For You]]'' || EPA 4041 || 4/57 || #16 || [[Is It So Strange]] || [[Faron Young]] || 2:28
}}
|-

| 3. || 8/24/56 || ''[[Love Me Tender (EP)|Love Me Tender]]'' || EPA 4006 || 11/56 || #22 || [[We're Gonna Move]] || [[Vera Matson]] and Elvis Presley || 2:30
===UK, Australian and German reissue===
|-
{{Track listing
| 4. || 8/19/54 || ''[[Elvis Presley (album)|Elvis Presley]]'' || LPM 1254 || 3/23/56 || #1 || [[Blue Moon (song)|Blue Moon]] || [[Richard Rodgers]] and [[Lorenz Hart]] || 2:31
|extra_column=Recording date
|-
|title1=[[Blue Moon of Kentucky]]
| 5. || 9/54 || ''[[Elvis Presley (album)|Elvis Presley]]'' || LPM 1254 || 3/23/56 || #1 || [[Just Because]] || [[Sydney Robin]], [[Bob Shelton]], [[Joe Shelton]] || 2:32
|writer1=[[Bill Monroe]]
|extra1=July 7, 1954
|length1=2:02
|title2=[[Milk Cow Blues|Milkcow Blues Boogie]]
|writer2=[[Kokomo Arnold]]
|extra2=November 12, 1954
|length2=2:38
|title3=[[Baby Let's Play House]]
|writer3=[[Arthur Gunter]]
|extra3=February 5, 1955
|length3=2:15
|title4=[[I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine]]
|writer4=[[Mack David]]
|extra4=September 11, 1954
|length4=2:27
|title5=[[Tutti Frutti (song)|Tutti Frutti]]
|writer5=[[Dorothy LaBostrie]] and [[Richard Penniman]]
|extra5=January 31, 1956
|length5=1:58
|title6=[[I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)]]
|writer6=[[Howard Biggs]] and [[Joe Thomas (alto saxophonist)|Joe Thomas]]
|extra6=January 31, 1956
|length6=2:01
|title7=[[I Got a Woman]]
|writer7=[[Ray Charles]] and Renald Richard
|extra7=January 10, 1956
|length7=2:23
|title8=[[Good Rocking Tonight|Good Rockin' Tonight]]
|writer8=[[Roy Brown (blues musician)|Roy Brown]]
|extra8=September 11, 1954
|length8=2:12
|title9=Is It So Strange
|writer9=[[Faron Young]]
|extra9=January 19, 1957
|length9=2:28
|title10=[[We're Gonna Move]]
|writer10=Vera Matson and Elvis Presley
|extra10=August 24, 1956
|length10=2:30
|title11=[[Blue Moon (1934 song)|Blue Moon]]
|writer11=[[Richard Rodgers]] and [[Lorenz Hart]]
|extra11=August 19, 1954
|length11=2:31
|title12=[[Just Because (Nelstone's Hawaiians song)|Just Because]]
|writer12=Sydney Robin, Bob Shelton, Joe Shelton
|extra12=September 11, 1954
|length12=2:32
|title13=[[One-sided Love Affair]]
|writer13=Bill Campbell
|extra13=January 30, 1956
|length13=2:09
|title14=[[Let Me (Elvis Presley song)|Let Me]]
|writer14=[[Ken Darby|Vera Matson]] and Elvis Presley
|extra14=September 4, 1956
|length14=2:08
}}

==Chart performance==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
|-
!Chart (1959)
| 6. || 1/30/56 || ''[[Elvis Presley (album)|Elvis Presley]]'' || LPM 1254 || 3/23/56 || #1 || [[One-Sided Love Affair]] || [[Bill Campbell (songwriter)|Bill Campbell]] || 2:09
!Peak<br />position
|-
|-
|align="left"|US ''Billboard'' 200
| 7. || 9/4/56 || ''[[Love Me Tender (EP)|Love Me Tender]]'' || EPA 4006 || 11/56 || #22 || [[Let Me (1956 song)|Let Me]] || [[Vera Matson]] and Elvis Presley || 2:08
| style="text-align:center;"|32
|}
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Discogs master|type=album|241202|name=A Date with Elvis}}
*[http://www.elvisrecords.us/lpm-2011-a-date-with-elvis/ LPM-2011 ''A Date With Elvis'' Guide (monaural)] part of [http://www.elvisrecords.us The Elvis Presley Record Research Database]
*[http://www.elvisrecords.us/lsp-2011-e-a-date-with-elvis/ LSP-2011(e) ''A Date With Elvis Guide'' (stereo)] part of [http://www.elvisrecords.us The Elvis Presley Record Research Database]


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Latest revision as of 02:36, 21 July 2024

This article is about the Elvis Presley album. For the Cramps album, see A Date with Elvis (The Cramps album).
A Date with Elvis
Compilation album by
Elvis Presley
ReleasedJuly 24, 1959 (1959-07-24)
RecordedJuly 1954 – April 1957
Genre
Length22:58
LabelRCA Victor
ProducerSam Phillips (Sun recordings)
Steve Sholes (RCA recordings)
Elvis Presley chronology
For LP Fans Only
(1959) 		A Date with Elvis
(1959) 		Elvis' Gold Records, Volume 2
(1959)
Singles from A Date with Elvis
  1. "Good Rockin' Tonight"
    Released: September 22, 1954
  2. "Milkcow Blues Boogie"
    Released: January 8, 1955
  3. "Baby Let's Play House"
    Released: April 25, 1956
  4. "Young and Beautiful"
    Released: February 21, 1959[1]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
MusicHound[3]
Rough Guides[4]

A Date with Elvis is a compilation album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, issued on RCA Victor (LPM 2011) in July 1959. The album compiled a selection of previously released material from multiple sessions at Sun, an August 1956 recording session at 20th Century Fox Stage One and two from Radio Recorders in Hollywood. The album reached #32 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.

Content

[edit]

After Presley's induction into the army on March 24, 1958, RCA Victor and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, were faced with the prospect of keeping his name before the public for two years with no possibility of live performances, no movies, and with few unissued marketable recordings in the vault. A recording session was arranged for two days in June, which yielded enough items for five more single sides, singles being the commercial focus for rock and roll in the 1950s. Four of those tracks would be issued on 45s in 1958 and 1959 during his absence while doing military service.

Presley, however, also did well in the albums market, all but one of his previous seven LPs charting no lower than #3, and RCA Victor wished to continue issuing albums by Presley given his sales record. Much of Presley's material had not been released on LP, and for this album RCA Victor collected material previously unavailable on album. Like its predecessor For LP Fans Only, this album featured tracks that had been issued on Sun Records with limited release, and were almost impossible to locate beyond certain parts of the south. However all 5 Sun singles were reissued by RCA Victor in November 1955 and remained in print through the 1970s. The remaining five tracks derived from three different EPs issued in 1956 and 1957.

Even by the standards of the late 1950s and early 1960s, where long-playing albums often ran to only about 35 minutes, this was a very short album at twenty-three minutes, and as such became the lowest charting Presley LP of the decade. RCA Victor would squeeze one more album in 1959 out of previously issued material, the second hit singles collection, but it too would be a lower seller by previous standard. Presley would return from overseas in 1960 to commence proper recording again. This album also folds out to be a calendar for the year 1960.

A different version of the album, duplicating six tracks from the American release, but expanding the track list to a healthy fourteen, was issued in Australia on vinyl in September 1959.

Reissues

[edit]

RCA first reissued the original 10-track album on compact disc in 1989. The album is also available in the 2016 boxed set, Elvis Presley - The Complete RCA Album Collection.[citation needed]

Collective personnel

[edit]

Track listing

[edit]

Original release

[edit]
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Recording dateLength
1."Blue Moon Of Kentucky"Bill MonroeJuly 7, 19542:02
2."Young and Beautiful"Aaron Schroeder, Abner SilverApril 30, 19572:02
3."(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care"Jerry Leiber and Mike StollerApril 30, 19571:51
4."Milkcow Blues Boogie"Kokomo ArnoldNovember 12, 19542:38
5."Baby Let's Play House"Arthur GunterFebruary 5, 19552:15
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Recording dateLength
1."Good Rockin' Tonight"Roy BrownSeptember 10, 19542:12
2."Is It So Strange"Faron YoungJanuary 19, 19572:28
3."We're Gonna Move"Vera Matson, Elvis PresleyAugust 24, 19562:30
4."I Want to Be Free"Jerry Leiber and Mike StollerApril 30, 19572:12
5."I Forgot to Remember to Forget"Stan Kesler, Charlie FeathersJuly 11, 19552:28
The Album Collection bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."Don't Leave Me Now (movie version)"2:05
12."Harbor Lights"2:36

UK, Australian and German reissue

[edit]
No.TitleWriter(s)Recording dateLength
1."Blue Moon of Kentucky"Bill MonroeJuly 7, 19542:02
2."Milkcow Blues Boogie"Kokomo ArnoldNovember 12, 19542:38
3."Baby Let's Play House"Arthur GunterFebruary 5, 19552:15
4."I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine"Mack DavidSeptember 11, 19542:27
5."Tutti Frutti"Dorothy LaBostrie and Richard PennimanJanuary 31, 19561:58
6."I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)"Howard Biggs and Joe ThomasJanuary 31, 19562:01
7."I Got a Woman"Ray Charles and Renald RichardJanuary 10, 19562:23
8."Good Rockin' Tonight"Roy BrownSeptember 11, 19542:12
9."Is It So Strange"Faron YoungJanuary 19, 19572:28
10."We're Gonna Move"Vera Matson and Elvis PresleyAugust 24, 19562:30
11."Blue Moon"Richard Rodgers and Lorenz HartAugust 19, 19542:31
12."Just Because"Sydney Robin, Bob Shelton, Joe SheltonSeptember 11, 19542:32
13."One-sided Love Affair"Bill CampbellJanuary 30, 19562:09
14."Let Me"Vera Matson and Elvis PresleySeptember 4, 19562:08

Chart performance

[edit]
Chart (1959) Peak
position
US Billboard 200 32

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Elvis Presley - Young And Beautiful". Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  2. ^ Eder, Bruce. A Date with Elvis at AllMusic
  3. ^ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 892. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  4. ^ Simpson, Paul (2004). The Rough Guide to Elvis. London: Rough Guides. p. 113. ISBN 1-84353-417-7.
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