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It's Now or Never - The Tribute to Elvis Presley

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1. Lawdy Miss Clawdy -- Travis Tritt
2. (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear -- Tanya Tucker
3. Mystery Train -- Dwight Yoakam
4. Love Me -- The Mavericks
5. Burning Love -- Melissa Etheridge
6. Baby, Let's Play House -- Michael Hutchence & NRBQ
7. Young And Beautiful -- Aaron Neville
8. Don't Be Cruel (To A Heart That's True) -- Marty Stuart
9. One Night -- Billy Ray Cyrus
10. Blue Moon -- Chris Isaak
11. Jailhouse Rock -- Michael Bolton & Carl Perkins
12. Trying to Get to You -- Faith Hill
13. Hound Dog -- Bryan Adams
14. It's Now Or Never -- Wet Wet Wet
15. Love Me Tender -- Tony Bennett

This tribute album has some similarities with the Honeymoon in Vegas soundtrack, which also featured pop, rock and country stars paying tribute to Elvis, but this collection is not as strong overall. Nevertheless, there is some great music here.

Among the performances by country stars, Travis Tritt (Lawdy Miss Clawdy) and Dwight Yoakam (Mystery Train) both turn in rousing performances as expected but some of you may be surprised at the fine performance by Faith Hill (Trying to get to you). Faith has her critics but shows here that, given the right song and the right production, she is brilliant Of the other country recordings, my favorites are Don't be cruel (Marty Stuart) and Let me be your teddy bear (Tanya Tucker).

Highlights among the pop and rock performances include Aaron Neville (a soulful version of Young and beautiful), Chris Isaak (Blue moon), Bryan Adams (Hound dog) and Wet wet wet (It's now or never).

If you only want one Elvis tribute album, I recommend Honeymoon in Vegas. If you enjoy that and want more, this is worthy of consideration.

CD is pretty good, some of the songs are better than the original but others are not. It depends on your tastss.

I can honestly say that I own a copy of this album on cassette and I absolutely loved it. My fav song on the album has got to be Michael Bolton & Carl Perkins' version of "Jailhouse Rock" but I also liked Marty Stuart's version of "Don't Be Cruel". If you need to buy an Elvis tribute album, then this is the one to get!

I've had this CD since it was released and, later, tried
to buy for friends but it's very difficult to find. Every
artist on this CD gives an exceptional performance
but my favorite was Marty Pello from Wet Wet Wet. He was
just awesome. This was a live performance that was broadcast
on TV. Would love to see a DVD released.