Elvis Is Back! [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Elvis Presley

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 1999)
• Original Release Date: April 1960
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B00000IYWH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #120,096 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Make Me Know It

2. Fever

3. Girl of My Best Friend

4. I Will Be Home Again

5. Dirty, Dirty Feeling

6. Thrill of Your Love

7. Soldier Boy

8. Such a Night

9. It Feels So Right

10. Girl Next Door Went A'walking

11. Like a Baby

12. Reconsider Baby

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The King's first album of all-new material following his release from the Army, Elvis Is Back! is arguably the most fully realized album of his career. It's a slightly different Elvis here than the one who was drafted, slightly tamer (though he looks like a Martian on the cover), and jumping from style to style--from R&B (a definitive cover of Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters' "Such a Night") to pure pop (a cover of Ral Donner's "The Girl of My Best Friend" with a Hank Garland guitar sound that presaged Merseybeat) to doo-wop (the gorgeous "Soldier Boy") to some of the hardest blues of his career (several cuts here, including an incredible version of Lowell Fulson's "Reconsider Baby"). He even makes Peggy Lee's "Fever" his own here. No hit singles, just a great LP--and no indication of the "movie years" dreck soon to follow. --Bill Holdship

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Mess of Blues,.., June 16, 2004

By	Martin 13 (Slovenia) - See all my reviews

The first Elvis' post army album is a wonderful mix of Doo Wop ("Soldier Boy"-only doo-wop song he recorded), blues ("Reconsider Baby", "It Feels So Right"), rock 'n' roll ("Dirty Dirty Feeling", "Such a Night", "Fever", "The Girl Next Door Went A'walking", "Like a Baby") and pop ("The Girl of My Best Friend", "I Will Be Home Again", "Thrill of Your Love"). On this reissue are six bonus tracks "Stuck On You", "Fame And Fortune", "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", "I Gotta Know", "It's Now or Never" and "A Mess Of Blues"). Album is recorded with Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana, The Jordanaires and Nashville session musicians (Boots Randolph, Floyd Cramer, Hank Garland, Bob Moore)

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Amazon Mistake!!, July 26, 2003

By	Calsam (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Elvis Is Back! (Audio CD)

Strangely Amazon staff reviews of Elvis albums are littered with mistakes, and this is no exception.

'Girl Of My Best Friend; is not a cover - it's a Presley original, written for Elvis by Beverly Frank, a pseudonym of the writer of 'I Beg Of You, Rose Marie McCoy. Donner recorded his vesion only because RCA refused to issue the Presley original as a single.

Aside from 'Girl Of My Best Friend', which is perfect 60's pop, the album demonstrates the Presley genius on 'Reconsider Baby', 'Like A Baby', 'Fever' and Such A Night - all covers and all superior to the originals. 'I Will Be Home Again' is a little known masterpiece. 'Make Me Know It and 'The Girl Next Door' don't reach the heights of the other cuts, but this is is one of Elvis' top three albums. Want to hear the greatest blues/R'n'B singer of his generation at his vocal peak - buy this album. Between 1960 and 66 especially, Elvis Presley had the greatest voice in the history of popular music - this is the proof.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the Best Album The King Ever Recorded..., September 24, 2002

By	Brent A. Anthonisen "Johnny Sideburns" (Alpharetta, GA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

...and one of the best CD re-issues, as well. If the original LP pressing of this album had included "Are You Lonseome Tonight?", "A Mess of Blues", and "It's Now Or Never" at the time of its original release, this easily would have qualified as the best rock & roll album ever recorded. In this re-issue format, the argument for it is incredibly strong.
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This is a remarkably well-rounded collection of material, with a stellar collection of pop tunes, romantic croonings, raving rockers ("Such A Night" got a bit of a shot-in-the-arm with "3000 Miles to Graceland", and as out-of-place as it may have sounded on that film's soundtrack CD, it absolutely grooves here), and some of the best blues tunes The King ever belted out this side of "Santa Claus is Back in Town". "It Feels So Right" may be the tamest of the NAS-TEE blues on this album, and that says a lot. "A Mess of Blues" is top-notch, but "Reconsider Baby" sets the standard even higher, and "Like a Baby" is just flat-out RAUNCHY. I don't know if a singer has ever come across as being as inspired as Elvis was on this album (except perhaps for Elvis during the '68 Comeback Special, but it speaks volumes about The King when the only one with whom he can compare is himself).
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The main problem is that this CD is AWFULLY bloody difficult to find; its availability is sketchy at best and pricy at worst. I was able to get ahold of an Argentinian copy (viva albiceleste!) via an online auction, and I don't notice any issues with its quality. I will be happy to provide a contact source for anyone who isn't successful finding a domestic copy or a different imported version; I assure you that you will feel 10 times rewarded when you listen to it, regardless of its pressing origin. TCB, baby!
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