Elvis Presley Elvis Is Back! ( With The Jordanaires ) ( reissue HQ 180g vinyl )

Release date: 01-10-2005( originally released in 1960)

2005 German reissue HQ 180gram Vinyl - arguably the most fully realized album of his career. It's a slightly different Elvis here than the one who was drafted, slightly tamer (though he looks like a Martian on the cover), and jumping from style to style--from R&B (a definitive cover of Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters' "Such a Night") to pure pop (a cover of Ral Donner's "The Girl of My Best Friend" with a Hank Garland guitar sound that presaged Merseybeat) to doo-wop (the gorgeous "Soldier Boy") to some of the hardest blues of his career (several cuts here, including an incredible version of Lowell Fulson's "Reconsider Baby"). He even makes Peggy Lee's "Fever" his own here. No hit singles, just a great LP--and no indication of the "movie years" dreck soon to follow. --Bill Holdship

Tracks:
A1 Make Me Know It
A2 Fever
A3 The Girl Of My Best Friend
A4 I Will Be Home Again
A5 Dirty, Dirty Feeling
A6 Thrill Of Your Love

B1 Soldier Boy
B2 Such A Night
B3 It Feels So Right
B4 Girl Next Door Went A'Walking
B5 Like a Baby
B6 Reconsider Baby