Best track on "King Creole" LP 1958
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Best track on "King Creole" LP 1958
Hello again!
We´re going further with the second soundtrack album. A mixed affair with excellent tracks mixed with lesser good tracks. Crawfish is not bad but a bit odd for Elvis. Doesn´t sound like anything else he recorded.
The original album has just 11 tracks, which must have a bit stingy in 1958. The good news is that I just have to exclude one track, and it must be "Steadfast, loyal and true". Just a school-song, nothing more.
My two favourites are Trouble and Hard headed woman. I chose Hard headed woman, because I prefer the 1968 versions of the first one. My overall feeling is that the music is a bit overproduced, but of course it´s the "New Orleans-feeling" that makes it.
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Regards//Björn
We´re going further with the second soundtrack album. A mixed affair with excellent tracks mixed with lesser good tracks. Crawfish is not bad but a bit odd for Elvis. Doesn´t sound like anything else he recorded.
The original album has just 11 tracks, which must have a bit stingy in 1958. The good news is that I just have to exclude one track, and it must be "Steadfast, loyal and true". Just a school-song, nothing more.
My two favourites are Trouble and Hard headed woman. I chose Hard headed woman, because I prefer the 1968 versions of the first one. My overall feeling is that the music is a bit overproduced, but of course it´s the "New Orleans-feeling" that makes it.
Vote on people!
Regards//Björn
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Guess what? I agree!dreambear wrote: The good news is that I just have to exclude one track, and it must be "Steadfast, loyal and true". Just a school-song, nothing more.
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Re: Best track on "King Creole" LP 1958
That makes me very happy!Kuenzer wrote:Guess what? I agree!dreambear wrote: The good news is that I just have to exclude one track, and it must be "Steadfast, loyal and true". Just a school-song, nothing more.
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I said "don't ask me why" .... oh never mind!ColinB wrote:Why ?The Purple Gang wrote:There's some good ones here. I like them all except 'Don't Ask Me Why' ..... don't ask me why!
To me, it's a totally forgettable song and I can never remember how it goes until I hear it. Even Elvis fails to make it memorable.
Now, what song were we discussing?
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It’s "Trouble" for me. A right-in-your-face kind of song. Great lyrics, fantastic delivery. The 1968 version is better, but it’s still the best track from that LP. Of course, ask me another day and I might say something else. That’s the beauty of Elvis, isn’t it, and one of the reasons we keep going back for more?
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I wholeheartedly agree ...Cryogenic wrote:"New Orleans" is utterly superb.
What an awesome, underrated and underappreciated, lil track ...
At the time, I was shocked, and enlightened, to see the tune included in the 1997 box set, PLATINUM.
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Re: Best track on "King Creole" LP 1958
trouble
but i do love hard headed woman.
too bad we didnt get a scene in this movie performing this hit.
we hear it....but too bad we dont see it.
anyway.
great movie.
great record.
but i do love hard headed woman.
too bad we didnt get a scene in this movie performing this hit.
we hear it....but too bad we dont see it.
anyway.
great movie.
great record.
ELVIS ROCKS