A bit stale at times, but generally good

There's not a lot of variation here, but Jerry Lee Lewis doing what he does best certainly isn't a bad thing, and he plays some really superb boogie piano on some of these cuts.

Just don't expect this to be like a 90s kind of duet album, with Lewis and various guest stars. It is obviously the same singer that has been overdubbed on all the songs, and it is just as obviously not Elvis Presley (not that that particular claim is made anywhere on the album).
I mean, if this had actually been a series of duets between Elvis Presley and the man who was once arrested outside his home with a gun, wouldn't it say so on the cover?
(That's a rhetorical question, by the way.)

It's Jimmy Ellis, NOT ELVIS

This album was slapped together in 1978 to cash in on the death of Elvis Presley by Shelby Singleton's Sun Label. Jimmy Ellis joined the label in 1974 with his hauntingly similar Elvis-like vocals. His first single for Sun was "Changes" in 1974. In 1977, Sun had him change his stage name to "Orion" (meaning "reborn") and his first LP for the label had "schlockey" artwork showing a Masked man rising from a coffin! In early 1978, this LP was released with the specific intention of fooling the public into thinking the "duets" were Elvis and Jerry Lee, when actually, old Jerry Lee tracks were overdubbed with cheap strings and Ellis' Elvis-like vocals. With the reissue of this CD, all the rumors started again. IT'S ELLIS, NOT ELVIS!

Of course, that's Elvis!

I found this CD while browsing a small music shop in Nashville a couple of years ago. I was intrigued because it did NOT name the artists with whom Jerry Lee has duets! I recognized the old Sun label that belonged to the legendary Sam Phillips, that had launched Elvis' career in the mid-Fifties. These must be some old, previously unreleased tapes. That sounds too much like Elvis from that period. Is it for legal reasons that Elvis name is not represented on the credits, in order to avoid paying royalties to Graceland? I don't know the answer to that. I know that the CD is a refreshing revisit to the Golden Age of early Rock & Roll. It has the sound of the unpretentious, youthful vigor and energy that made a generation fall in love with Rock and Roll forever.