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All rights reserved.King Creole [Remaster] - Presley, Elvis (CD 1997)
| Track Listing 1. King Creole 2. As Long as I Have You 3. Hard Headed Woman 4. Trouble - (live) 5. Dixieland Rock - (live) 6. Don't Ask Me Why 7. Lover Doll 8. Crawfish 9. Young Dreams 10. Steadfast, Loyal and True 11. New Orleans - (live) 12. King Creole - (previously unreleased, alternate take 18) 13. As Long as I Have You - (previously unreleased, movie version take 4) 14. Danny - (live) 15. Lover Doll - (previously unreleased, undubbed) 16. Steadfast, Loyal and True - (previously unreleased, alternate master) 17. As Long as I Have You - (previously unreleased, movie version take 8) 18. King Creole - (previously unreleased, alternate take 3)
Album Notes This 1997 reissue of KING CREOLE is remixed and remastered from the original three-track master tapes and includes 7 extra tracks. This is the soundtrack to Presley's fourth movie, restored to the original mono. Personnel: Elvis Presley (vocals, guitar); Scotty Moore, Tiny Timbrell (guitar); Mahlon Clark (clarinet); Justin Gordon (saxophone); John Ed Buckner (trumpet); Elmer Schneider, Warren D. Smith (trombone); Dudley Brooks (piano); Ray Siegel (bass, tuba); Bill Black, Neal Matthews (bass); D.J. Fontana, Bernie Mattinson (drums); Gordon Stoker (bongos); Hoyt Hawkins (cymbals); Kitty White, The Jordanaires (background vocals). Reissue producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon. Recorded at Radio Recorders and The Paramount Scoring Stage, Hollywood, California, January-February 1958. Elvis Presley's fourth movie, KING CREOLE, is by most critics' assessments his best. A good script, a strong supporting cast and an outstanding soundtrack contributed to provide Elvis with his best opportunity at serious film acting, and the King rose to the occasion. The legendary songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller contributed three songs to KING CREOLE, among them the title track and "Trouble," a number Presley would reprise with tremendous success during his 1969 comeback television special. "Hard Headed Woman" is the soundtrack's biggest hit (it stayed atop the Billboard pop chart for two weeks), but the songs are uniformly strong throughout, and Presley sings with the mastery and dynamism characteristic of nearly all his 1950s recordings. In 1997 RCA reissued KING CREOLE with restored monophonic sound (previous reissues were marred by poor stereo remixes of the original tapes). The 1997 reissue includes several additional alternate takes, including an interesting rearrangement of the title track and two spare versions of "As Long As I Have You" that appeared in the movie but not on previous soundtrack releases. | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||||||
Reviews  Great remasterReview created: 06/09/08 by:  I loved the whole remaster, I had been looking for "King Creole" in stores for quite a few years and couldn't find it. Was thrilled to finally find it on Ebay for a good price. This has been one of my all time favorite Elvis records from the very start. Review ID: 10000000007513740 Was this review helpful? Report this review Great Soundtrack for a wonderful movie.King Creole has to go down in history as potentially Elvis' best movie. Which of course, is not saying much given his body of work, but KC is a really, really, really solid picture with a terrific supporting cast (Calrolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger, and Jan Shepard), top notch director -- Michael Curtiz ("White Christmas", "Casablanca"), and really amazing music. It is one of the few occasions where music does not appear to be forced out of the need to sell records and contributes nothing else. The movie takes place in New Orleans and the music reflects that and sounds like no other Elvis movie before or after. The title song, "Trouble", "New Orleans" "Crawfish" are excellent in sound, melody, lyrics and Elvis does a terrific job performing them convincingly, passionately and beautifully. The album stands on its own as an independently good body of work. Highly recommended to all. Also, check out the tracks, which did not appear in the movie, especially "Danny". It said that “King Creole” was Elvis’ personal favorite of his own movies and the picture is worth seeing. The soundtrack is one of his best albums ever. Review ID: 10000000004378642 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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