King Creole [Original recording remastered]

Elvis Presley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 29, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Musicrama/Koch
• ASIN: B0000DEOCJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  VHS Tape  |  DVD  |  Amazon Instant Video
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #614,630 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. King Creole

2. As Long as I Have You

3. Hard Headed Woman

4. Trouble

5. Dixieland Rock

6. Don't Ask Me Why

7. Lover Doll

8. Crawfish

9. Young Dreams

10. Steadfast, Loyal and True

11. New Orleans

12. King Creole [Alternate Take 18][#][*]

13. As Long as I Have You [Movie Version, Take 40][#][*][Version]

14. Danny [*]

15. Lover Doll [Undubbed][#][*]

16. Steadfast, Loyal and True [Alternate Master][#][*][Version]

17. As Long as I Have You [Movie Version, Take 8][#][*][Version]

18. King Creole [Alternate Take 3][#][*]

Customer Reviews

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "This is the one movie that makes sense"...enjoy!, June 3, 2005

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J. F Kopeck "jkopeck9" (Parkville, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King Creole (DVD)

"King Creole" what more can be said that hasn't been said already. When this picture was first shown at the Vilma Theater on Belair Rd. in Baltimore City there wasn't an empty seat in the house(the line outside was almost as long as it was for "The Ten Commandments" that premired a short time after King Creole). To start off I'm not sure how many folks know it but this was Elvis's favorite movie that he made. "Crawfish,CCrrraaawwwfffiiissshhhh-gees I got'em",boy if that doesn't make you feel like you are right on the Gulf, sharing plates with Cajuns and of course Creoles! Everything about this movie is first class: the Stars-Presly, Jagger,Mathouw,Jones and of course Vic Marrow as always the perfect Punk.The music is about the best Elvis ever did. I have had the original LP for about 40 years now and still play it for my grandchildren. Dixieland Rock,Trouble, Crawfish, King Creole this is some really good stuff and the fact that this music is backed up by a live Brass Blues Band makes it somewhat "Outstanding" not to mention that the back up vocals are done by no other then Gordon Stoker and the Jordonaires as they are right on stage with the King himself. If you want to see some real Hollywood History with a top notch cast (keep in mind Dean Jagger did this movie a year before he stared in "White Christmas" with Bing,Danny,Rosemary and Vera Ellen)and a first class plot with some great action and the REAL feel of being down in New Orleans (even if your not a real Cajun like Jimmie C Newman)get yourself a copy of this great show!
"Enjoy"

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Elvis Presley's personal favorite film role, August 17, 2000

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Joe O'Brien (Virginia Beach, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: King Creole [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"King Creole" from 1958,(the same year Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S.Army),is a good drama with a few good musical numbers thrown in. Shot in glorious black&white and produced by Hal Wallis,who produced some of Mr. Presley's biggest hits("Loving You" from 1957,"Blue Hawaii" from 1961,"Girls!Girls! Girls!" from 1962) and directed by Michael Curtiz(the classic "Casablanca"),the story takes place in New Orleans and Elvis stars as Danny Fisher,a disillusioned high school drop out with designs on being a singer.Danny gets a job at the night club "King Creole". The picture features a fine supporting cast including the late,great Walter Matthau,very effective as a sleazy gangster,Carolyn Jones as the gangster's kept woman,Dean Jagger as Danny's father,Vic Morrow as a hoodlum and one of the gangster's henchman and Dolores Hart as Danny's girlfriend,(Ms. Hart after making several movies left acting and decided to become a nun in the mid '60's).Elvis's top ten hit single from this movie was "Hard Headed Woman".Also, "Trouble" was a well known number.Elvis Presley had said in interviews that of all the 30 odd pictures he had made Danny Fisher in "King Creole" was his personal favorite film role.And,Mr. Presley added that he hated most of the rest of the pictures he had made.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The King of Elvis flicks, June 2, 1999

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B. W. Fairbanks "Brian W. Fairbanks" (Lakewood, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King Creole [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Even the stuffy New York Times praised Elvis Presley's performance in "King Creole," and why not? Everything clicks in this adaptation of Harold Robbins' novel, "A Stone for Danny Fisher." For once, Elvis has a good script, a terrific supporting cast, a first class director, and a role worthy of an actor which he shows himself to be while also singing an album's worth of outstanding songs. He's not the surly creep of "Jailhouse Rock," nor is he the bloated beach boy of most of his 60's movies. He's a good kid whose boredom with school and disappointment with his homelife leads him to explore life on the wrong side of the tracks where he encounters a switchblade flinging Vic Morrow, a sleazy Walter Matthau, and a beautiful but been around Carolyn Jones. Along the way, he also performs brilliant, knockout musical numbers like "New Orleans," "Trouble," "Dixieland Rock," and the amusing "Lover Doll" (no "Old MacDonald's Farm" in this movie). It all adds up to the King's best film, one of the few in which he wore his crown with honor.