Track Listing
1. Jailhouse Rock
2. Treat Me Nice
3. I Want To Be Free
4. Don't Leave Me Now
5. Young And Beautiful
6. You're So Square Baby I Don't Care
7. Jailhouse Rock (movie version)
8. Treat Me Nice (movie version)
9. I Want To Be Free (movie version)
10. Yound And Beautiful (movie version)
11. Don't Leave Me Now (alterante take)
12. Love Me Tender
13. Poor Boy
14. Let Me
15. We're Gonna Move
16. Love Me Tender (end title version)
17. Let Me (solo - previously unreleased)
18. We're Gonna Move (stereo take 9 - previously unreleased)
19. Poor Boy (stereo - previously unreleased)
20. Love Me Tender (stereo - previously unreleased)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Mixed |
Album Notes
This 1997 compilation includes the soundtracks to the movies "Love Me Tender" (1956) and "Jailhouse Rock" (1957), and features four previously-unreleased tracks. A complete soundtrack album was never previously released for either movie. At the time of the movies' release, the songs were released on various EPs and singles; they were also collected on such compilation albums as A DATE WITH ELVIS.Personnel: Elvis Presley (vocals, guitar); Scotty Moore, Vito Mumolo (guitar); Luther Rountree (banjo); Dom Frontiere, Carl Fontina (accordion); Dudley Brooks, Mike Stoller (piano); Bill Black, Myer Rubin (bass); D.J. Fontana, Richard Cornell (drums); Rad Robinson, Jon Dodson, Charles Prescott, The Jordanaires (background vocals). Compilation producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon.Recorded at MGM Studios, Culver City, California; Radio Recorders and Twentieth Century Fox, Stage 1, Hollywood, California between August 1956 and September 1957.The characters Elvis portrayed on film often inhabited walks of life far removed from his own. 1957's JAILHOUSE ROCK was one of the few movies that found him playing exactly what he was (no, not an ex-con): a gifted young singer whose talent was as natural as it was undeniable. And, in contrast to most Elvis movie soundtracks, the songs adhere closely to the core of what Elvis' music was all about. Backed by Sun Records stalwarts Scotty Moore and Bill Black, among others, Elvis sang the bejeezus out a batch of soon-to-be classics, mostly written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.Whether he was spitting out the party-in-the-penitentiary lyrics to the title song or gently caressing the melody of gorgeous ballads like "Young And Beautiful," Elvis gave his all on JAILHOUSE ROCK. It would be one of the last times he would be able to make as deep an emotional connection with his film material. (He was in nearly as fine form on 1956's LOVE ME TENDER, whose principal songs, including the classic title ballad, have been added to the JAILHOUSE ROCK reissue.) All the more reason to savor this serendipitous marriage of commerce and art.
Editorial Reviews
Ranked #65 in EW's 100 Best Movie Soundtracks - ...There'll be no damning faint praise when it comes to the Leiber & Stoller songbook...
Entertainment Weekly (10/12/2001)
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