Track Listing
1. Tonight Is So Right For Love
2. What's She Really Like
3. Frankfurt Special
4. Wooden Heart
5. GI Blues
6. Pocketful Of Rainbows
7. Shoppin' Around
8. Big Boots
9. Didja' Ever
10. Blue Suede Shoes
11. Doin' The Best I Can
12. Tonight's All Right For Love
13. Big Boots (fast version)
14. Shoppin' Around (alternate take 11/previously unreleased)
15. Frankfurt Special (fast version take 2/previously unreleased)
16. Pocketful Of Rainbows (alternate take 2)
17. Didja' Ever (alternate take 1/previously unreleased)
18. Big Boots (acoustic version/previously unreleased)
19. What's She Really Like (alternate take 7)
20. Doin' The Best I Can (alternate take 9)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
This 1997 reissue of G.I. BLUES is remixed and remastered from the original three-track master tapes and includes 9 bonus tracks.This is the soundtrack to Elvis' fifth movie, made in early 1960. The version of "Blue Suede Shoes" on this soundtrack was recorded in 1960 and is different from the 1956 single version.Personnel: Elvis Presley (vocals, guitar); Scotty Moore, Tiny Timbrell, Neal Matthews Jr. (guitar); Jimmie Haskell (accordion); Dudley Brooks (piano); Ray Siegel (bass); D. J. Fontana, Frank Bode, Bernie Mattinson (drums); The Jordanaires (background vocals). Reissue producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon.Recorded at RCA Studios and Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California between April and May 1960.G.I. BLUES, Presley's first movie following his return from military service was, like most of his '60s movies, a light romantic comedy with plenty of musical numbers. As the decade progressed and the Presley movie formula ossified, Hollywood and Colonel Tom expended less effort finding suitable musical material for Presley to sing. Presley's earliest '60s movies, however, usually boasted strong soundtracks, and G.I. BLUES is among the best of them. None of the songs are embarrassing--no "Yoga Is As Yoga Does" or "Queenie Wahini's Papaya" here--and, in fact, nearly all are very good. Best, of course, is the Carl Perkins classic "Blue Suede Shoes," but also excellent are a "Such A Night"-like boogie entitled "Tonight Is So Right For Love," the title track, and several lovely ballads, among them "Pocket Full Of Rainbows," "Wooden Heart," and the lullaby "Big Boots." Overall, G.I. BLUES doesn't rock quite as hard as Elvis' pre-Army soundtracks, but it does demonstrate considerably more life than most of the soundtracks that followed. In fact, Presley's movies might not be the object of derision they are today had Presley's handlers worked harder at getting him material of this quality for his later films.
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