LOVE, ELVIS

In honor of the King's 70th birthday, BMG Strategic Marketing will release the brand new collection LOVE, ELVIS, a CD that brings together twenty-four of Elvis' greatest romantic songs, including a previously unreleased alternate take of "For The Good Times." Written by Kris Kristofferson, "For The Good Times" was take 3, recorded March 27, 1972 and forgoing string accompaniment.

LOVE, ELVIS, which will be released January 25, also includes classics "Can't Helping Falling In Love," "It's Now or Never" (both with The Jordanaires) "Love Me Tender," and "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You." This collection spans Elvis' entire career, featuring recordings from 1956 to 1977.

BMG Strategic Marketing is also launching a reissue program of Elvis Presley's albums with the January 11 re-releases of Elvis Presley, Elvis and Loving You, the King's first three albums and three of rock ‘n' roll's all time greats. Each release is digitally remastered using DSD Technology for optimum sound and each reissue includes bonus tracks, rare photographs, and original album art.

The first rock n' roll album ever to reach no. 1, the March 1956 ELVIS PRESLEY includes "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Blue Moon" and the bonus tracks include the hit single "Heartbreak Hotel." Its distinctive album cover, with a black and white picture of a gyrating Elvis and the title written in pink and green, became so iconic that The Clash referenced it on their 1979 'London Calling' LP. Released in October 1956, the No. 1 Elvis, which counts "Don't Be Cruel," "Hound Dog," and "Love Me Tender" among its bonus tracks, was Presley's first release conceived as an album in its entirety. Made up of eighteen tracks, ELVIS also includes a rare treat, the King's first ever self-accompaniment on piano on "Old Shep," which he had previously sung in 1945 at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. While side one of 1957's No. 1 LOVING YOU was the film's soundtrack, side two featured Elvis singing popular ballads. This reissue includes twenty tracks.

LOVE, ELVIS Tracklisting:
1. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
2. Can't Help Falling In Love
3. Always On My Mind
4. It's Now Or Never
5. Love Me Tender
6. I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
7. Don't
8. (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I
9. Any Way You Want Me
10. Surrender
11. Hawaiian Wedding Song
12. Doin' The Best I Can
13. Fever
14. It Hurts Me
15. I Just Can't Help Believin'
16. The Wonder Of You
17. Let It Be Me
18. It's Impossible
19. For The Good Times (previously unreleased)
20. There Goes My Everything
21. And I Love You So
22. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
23. Unchained Melody
24. If I Can Dream

ELVIS PRESLEY Tracklisting:
1. Blue Suede Shoes
2. I'm Counting On You
3. I Got A Woman
4. One-Sided Love Affair
5. I Love You Because
6. Just Because
7. Tutti Frutti
8. Trying To Get To You
9. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You)
10. I'll Never Let You Go
11. Blue Moon
12. Money Honey
BONUS TRACKS:
13. Heartbreak Hotel
14. I Was the One
15. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
16. Shake, Rattle And Roll
17. My Baby Left Me
18. I Want You, I Need You, I Love You

ELVIS Tracklisting:
1. Rip It Up
2. Love Me
3. When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
4. Long Tall Sally
5. First In Line
6. Paralyzed
7. So Glad You're Mine
8. Old Shep
9. Ready Teddy
10. Anyplace Is Paradise
11. How's The World Treating You
12. How Do You Think I Feel
BONUS TRACKS:
13. Playing For Keeps
14. Too Much
15. Don't Be Cruel
16. Hound Dog
17. Any Way You Want Me
18. Love Me Tender

LOVING YOU Tracklisting:
1. Mean Woman Blues
2. 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
BONUS TRACKS:
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 (Alternate master)
18. Party (Alternate master)
19. Loving You (Uptempo version)
20. Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do! (Finale)

Source: EPE