Elvis' Gold Records, Vol. 4 Elvis Presley

• 1 Love Letters 02:50
• 2 Witchcraft 02:17
• 3 It Hurts Me 02:27
• 4 What'd I Say 03:02
• 5 Please Don't Drag That String Around 01:53
• 6 Indescribably Blue 02:47
• 7 (You're The) Devil In Disguise 02:23
• 8 Lonely Man 02:43
• 9 A Mess of Blues 02:40
• 10 Ask Me 02:05
• 11 Ain't That Loving You Baby 02:22
• 12 Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello 01:51
• Total Runtime 29:20

Info for Elvis' Gold Records, Vol. 4

Periodically throughout Presley's lifetime, RCA Records would compile Elvis' most recent best-selling records and release them on a Gold Records greatest hits package. Vol. 4 is the fourth of five such records, covering Elvis' career between 1962 and 1966. Although many rock fans disparage Presley's work during these years--primarily because this era is identified with the King's many sub-par movie soundtrack albums--the recordings on Vol. 4 stand alongside the best of Presley's work.

High points include a cover of Ray Charles' 'What'd I Say,' the impassioned R&B ballad 'It Hurts Me,' and the top five hit 'You're the Devil in Disguise.' The twelve-track album version of Gold Records, Vol. 4 is a digitally remastered edition of the 1968 album.

„The fourth volume of Elvis' Gold Records was the first of his hits compilations to be issued at a point when Elvis Presley wasn't considered a very important rock & roll star anymore (a few months later, he would embark on his network television 'comeback'). Indeed, it appeared at a point when it seemed, as Neal Umphred pointed out, 'Elvis' gold was drained up and he was reduced to filling up the fourth volume with B-sides.' Covering the early '60s through the end of 1967, the original collection had the bad fortune to appear at a point when politics, international affairs, and a generational change in the listening public all combined to render Elvis seemingly irrelevant. A great deal of social and musical change had taken place while Elvis withdrew from concerts and television appearances, made his movies, and scarcely attempted the recording of any non-soundtrack albums. So at the time, the album's arrival, and even its title, might have seemed like a joke to a lot of observers. That having been said, there is some superb music on Gold Records, Vol. 4, including 'What'd I Say,' 'Witchcraft,' and 'A Mess of Blues,' even if not a lot of it seemed near the cutting edge of music circa 1968.“ (Bruce Eder, AMG)

Elvis Presley, vocals, guitar
Scotty Moore, guitar
Hank Garland, guitar, bass
Barney Kessell, guitar
Chet Atkins, guitar
Billy Strange, guitar
Glen Campbell, guitar
Tiny Timbrell, guitar
Chip Young, guitar
Harold Bradley, guitar
Grady Martin, guitar
Pete Drake, steel guitar
Floyd Cramer, piano, organ
Dudley Brooks, piano
David Briggs, piano
Artie Cane, piano
Calvin Jackson, organ
Henry Slaughter, organ
Bob Moore, bass
Ray Siegel, bass
Meyer Rubin, bass
D. J. Fontana, drums
Buddy Harman, drums, tympani
Hal Blaine, drums
Frank Carlson, drums
Boots Randolph, saxophone
Rufus Long, saxophone
Steve Douglas, saxophone
The Jordanaires, backing vocals
Millie Kirkham, backing vocals
Dolores Edgin, backing vocals
June Page, backing vocals

Recorded June 1958 to June 1966 Produced by Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon


Digitally remastered

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