Brought me back 40 years to a more innocent time

These are the songs on the "flip" sides of our 45's and on the extended play 45's with four songs on them...an economical way for teeners to attain an extensive record library of our favorite singers in my day! Though Elvis'voice expanded and became more versatile with training and age, there is something so remarkable and innocent about his voice in the beginning.....no fancy mixers or backgrounds...just simple old Negro jazz and country songs. I loved his voice then and I love it now. I never thought I'd ever hear these songs again except in my head! My personal favorite? .."Rip It Up"..I still sing it every Saturday night! Travel back in time to our innocence with this recording.

Try Volume 1

In his review of this collection Stephen Verhaeren noted the absence of such hits as Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog, Don't Be Cruel, and Jailhouse Rock. Perhaps he failed to notice the "Vol. 2" in the title, since all of those hits reside of Vol. 1.
30 years ago I had the Worldwide GHold Award Hits collections on vinyl and it was one huge stack of records. It was the state of the art anthology of its day. Now in this age of CD box sets we take such collections for granted and expect more and more. But in 1971 there was nothing like this. In fact, it remained the de facto "one-stop" collection of Elvis hits until it went out of print a few years ago. Certainly, one CD, like the "30 #1's" collection can do Elvis' great career justice.

Two cds better than one? Where's Heartbreak Hotel?

The Other Sides has 50 Elvis Presley songs, and RCA did all of them on two cds. But is two cds better than one? The first song on Disc One has My Baby Left Me. Along with Crawfish, Young and Beautiful, I want to be free, (Your so square) Baby I don't care, We're going to move, Hot Dog, Rip it up.

The reason I'm giving this cd 4 stars instead of my usual 5 stars is because Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog, Don't Be Cruel, and Jailhouse rock are missing on this cd. So why two cds?

Disc two has Trouble, Wild in the country, Ask me, Puppet on a string, I've lost you, Any day now, Witchcraft, Fame and fortune and Patch it up.

Now I might have given this 5 stars if Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog, Don't Be Cruel, and Jailhouse rock was on this cd but not. Was RCA getting pretty tired of putting those songs on Elvis Presley cds?