Track Listing 1. Burnin' Love 2. Never Been To Spain 3. You Gave Me A Mountain 4. I'm Leaving 5. It's Only Love 6. Always On My Mind 7. It's Impossible 8. It's Over 9. Separate Ways 10. Fool 11. Hound Dog 12. Little Sister/Get Back 13. Big Hunk O'Love 14. Where Do I Go From Here 15. For The Good Times 16. It's A Matter Of Time 17. American Trilogy 18. To Dream The Impossible Dream
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Personnel includes: Elvis Presley, the Sweet Inspirations (vocals); The Imperials Quartet, J.D. Sumner And The Stamps.Compilation producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon.Includes liner notes by Colin Escott.All tracks have been digitally remastered.While not, strictly speaking, a reissue, this collection brings together Elvis's last Top 10 hit (the title track) with other songs from the early '70s, plus some previously unreleased gems. Ironically, "Burning Love" was never available on a "proper" Elvis album--it was stuck on a budget-priced album in the '70s with some less-than-memorable songs from Elvis's movies. BURNING LOVE is the great early-'70s album that never was. The King is in fine vocal form throughout, still capable of inserting dark, animalistic growls into "Hound Dog" and the previously unissued medley of "Little Sister" and the Beatles' "Get Back." Elvis brings a real intensity to pop standards "For the Good Times" and "It's Impossible." The gem here is "I'm Leavin'," with its unusual melodic construction and haunted, possessed vocal. Elvis was going through a divorce at the time many of these songs were recorded. This isn't Elvis the rocker, though he does rock; this is Elvis the singer, the elder statesman of his craft. Though he was playing Las Vegas regularly, he hadn't totally "gone Vegas"--Elvis was still belting it out with soul, and he crooned with conviction.
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