The Essential Elvis Presley

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Suspicious Minds
  4:32
  4.1 ★
• 2
  Blue Suede Shoes
  2:00
  4.5 ★
• 3
  Jailhouse Rock
  2:37
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Love Me Tender
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Don’t Be Cruel
  2:04
  3.8 ★
• 6
  King Creole
  2:09
  4.7 ★
• 7
  Hard Headed Woman
  1:56
  3.6 ★
• 8
  All Shook Up
  1:59
  3.6 ★
• 9
  Hound Dog
  2:18
  3.8 ★
• 10
  Too Much
  2:35
• 11
  Heartbreak Hotel
  2:09
  3.7 ★
• 12
  (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
  1:48
  3.1 ★
• 13
  (Let’s Have a) Party
  1:31
  4.2 ★
• 14
  That’s All Right
  1:57
  3.2 ★
• 15
  One Night
  2:34
  2.6 ★
• 16
  (Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I
  2:38
  3.0 ★
• 17
  A Big Hunk o’ Love
  2:15
  3.4 ★
• 18
  Wear My Ring Around Your Neck
  2:16
  3.2 ★
• 19
  Crying in the Chapel
  2:25
  2.8 ★
• 20
  Stuck on You
  2:21
  1.0 ★
• 21
  Wooden Heart
  2:04
  2.0 ★
• 22
  Viva Las Vegas
  2:25
  4.0 ★
• 23
  (You’re the) Devil in Disguise
  2:21
  2.6 ★
• 24
  Guitar Man
  2:21
  3.0 ★
• 25
  A Little Less Conversation

  Elvis vs. JXL
  3:34
  3.4 ★
• 26
  Welcome to My World
  1:55
  3.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  In the Ghetto
  2:57
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Burning Love
  2:58
  3.4 ★
• 3
  Always on My Mind
  3:39
  3.6 ★
• 4
  The Wonder of You
  2:35
  2.5 ★
• 5
  I Can’t Help Believin’
  4:38
  2.0 ★
• 6
  There Goes My Everything
  3:00
• 7
  You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
  2:31
  3.0 ★
• 8
  An American Trilogy
  4:19
• 9
  Are You Lonesome Tonight
  2:54
  5.0 ★
• 10
  My Boy
  3:21
• 11
  Green, Green Grass of Home
  3:38
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Can’t Help Falling in Love
  2:58
  4.1 ★
• 13
  Rock‐A‐Hula Baby
  2:01
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Return to Sender
  2:10
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Don’t
  2:50
  3.0 ★
• 16
  (Marie’s the Name) His Latest Flame
  2:08
  2.4 ★
• 17
  Good Luck Charm
  2:27
  2.4 ★
• 18
  Surrender
  1:54
  3.4 ★
• 19
  She’s Not You
  2:10
  1.0 ★
• 20
  A Mess of Blues
  2:42
• 21
  It’s Now or Never
  3:16
  3.7 ★
• 22
  Fever
  3:34
  5.0 ★
• 23
  Moody Blue
  2:50
  4.3 ★
• 24
  Way Down
  2:37
  2.2 ★
• 25
  My Way
  3:51
• 26
  If I Can Dream
  3:09
  4.0 ★

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American Sound 1969

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Live 1969

Live 1969 2019

Release credits

• Al Pachucki
  engineer [1.1, 2.1, 2.7]
• Alvino Rey
  steel guitar [12]
• Barney Kessel
  guitar [14]
• Ben Speer
  vocal [11]
• Bergen White
  brass [7], horn [23], strings [7, 23]
• Bernie Kaai
  ukulele [12]
• Bernie Mattinson
  drums (drum set) [2.12, 2.14, 1.6-7]
• Bill Black
  bass [1.5-9, 1.11-15, 2.15], double bass [2.15, 1.2], electric bass guitar [3]
• Billy Strange
  guitar [22]
• Bob Ferris
  engineer [11]
• Bob Moore
  bass [2.12, 2.16-18, 2.20-21, 1.16-17, 1.19-20, 1.22-23], double bass [19]
• Bobby Emmons
  electric piano [23], organ [1]
• Bobby Wood
  piano [1]
• Boots Randolph
  clarinet [14, 17], claves [16], saxophone [1.19, 1.22-23, 2.12, 2.14, 2.17-18, 2.21], shakers [23], vibraphone [23]
• Brian Christian
  engineer [23]
• Buddy Harman
  drums (drum set) [1.16-17, 1.19-20, 1.22-23, 2.16-18, 2.20-21]
• Buddy Spicher
  fiddle [11]
• Calvin Jackson
  organ [22]
• Carl Fortina
  accordion [4]
• Charles Prescott
  vocal [4]
• Charlie Hodge
  guitar [2-3, 11, 23-24], vocal [1.19, 2.18]
• Chet Atkins
  guitar [11, 16-17]
• Chip Young
  guitar [11, 23-24]
• Chips Moman
  producer [1.1, 2.1]
• Claudius Mittendorfer
  assistant [2.1, 1.25]
• D.J. Fontana
  drums (drum set) [1.2-3, 1.5-9, 1.11-13, 1.15-17, 1.19-23, 2.12, 2.14-15, 2.15-18, 2.20-21]
• Dan Milazzo
  assistant [2.1, 1.25]
• David Bendeth
  mix [1]
• David Briggs
  clavinet [11], electric piano [23-24], piano [23]
• David Weichman
  engineer [22]
• Dayton “Bones” Howe
  engineer [26], producer [26]
• Dennis Ferrante
  remixer [8]
• Dennis Linde
  bass [23], guitar [2-3]
• Dolores Edgin
  vocal [23]
• Dominic Frontiere
  accordion [4]
• Dror Mohar
  assistant [1.2, 2.1]
• Dudley Brooks
  celesta [12], piano [1.6-7, 1.12-13, 1.15, 1.21-22, 2.12, 2.14-15]
• Duke Bardwell
  bass [11]
• Elvis Presley
  executive [23-24], guitar [2.15, 2.20-21, 1.1-2, 1.5-9, 1.11, 1.14, 1.16-17, 1.20], instrument [1.19, 2.18], lead vocals [1.1-9, 1.11-23, 1.25, 2.1-4, 2.7, 2.12-21, 2.23-24, 2.26], vocal [2.17, 2.21, 1.3, 1.8, 1.11-12]
• Emory Gordy
  bass [2-3]
• Farrell Morris
  bell [11], congas [23], percussion [11], timpani [23]
• Felton Jarvis
  producer [1.1, 2.1-2, 2.7]
• Floyd Cramer
  organ [16-17], piano [1.11, 1.16-17, 1.19-20, 1.22-23, 2.12, 2.16-18, 2.20-21]
• Frankie Carlson
  drums (drum set) [22]
• Freddie Tavares
  ukulele [12]
• Gene Chrisman
  drums (drum set) [1]
• George Fields
  harmonica [12]
• Glen D. Hardin
  horn [3], piano [2-3, 11, 23], strings [3]
• Glen Spreen
  arranger [1], brass [1], strings [1]
• Gordon Stoker
  accordion [17], bongos [6-7], organ [16], piano [8], vocal [11]
• Grady Martin
  guitar [23]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [12, 14]
• Hank Garland
  electric bass guitar [2.20, 1.20], guitar [2.12, 2.16, 2.18, 2.21, 1.16-17, 1.19]
• Harold Bradley
  guitar [23]
• Hoyt Hawkins
  cymbal [6-7]
• Hugo & Luigi
  producer [14]
• Hurshel Wiginton
  vocal [23]
• J.D. Sumner & The Stamps
  background vocals [3, 23], vocal [2.2-3, 2.23-24, 2.24, 1.1]
• James Burton
  guitar [2-3, 11, 23-24]
• Jerry Carrigan
  percussion [2-3]
• Jerry Kennedy
  guitar [1.23, 2.17]
• Jerry Scheff
  bass [23-24]
• Jimmie Haskell
  tambourine [21]
• John Ed Buckner
  trumpet [6-7]
• John Hughey
  steel guitar [1]
• John Wilkinson
  guitar [2-3, 11, 23-24]
• Johnny Christopher
  guitar [11]
• Jon Dodson
  vocal [4]
• Junkie XL
  remixer [25]
• Justin Gordon
  saxophone [6-7]
• Kathy Westmoreland
  vocal [1.1, 2.23-24, 2.24]
• Lena Brock "Mom" Speer
  vocal [11]
• Mahlon Clark
  clarinet [6-7]
• Meyer "Mike" Rubin
  bass [4]
• Mike Leech
  arranger [1], bass [2.11, 1.1], brass [1], strings [1]
• Mike Moran
  engineer [24]
• Millie Kirkham
  vocal [1.19, 1.23, 2.4, 2.15-18]
• Moe Schneider
  trombone [6-7]
• Myrna Smith
  background vocals [23], vocal [23-24, 24]
• Neal Matthews
  bass [6-7], guitar [2.16, 1.6-7, 1.21]
• Norbert Putnam
  bass [11]
• Phil Wisdom
  engineer [6-7]
• Rad Robinson
  vocal [4]
• Ray Bardani
  engineer [25], mix [1.2, 2.1]
• Ray Siegel
  bass [2.14, 1.6-7, 1.21], tuba [6-7]
• Red Roundtree
  banjo [4]
• Reggie Young
  guitar [1]
• Richard Cornell
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Ron Tutt
  drums (drum set) [2-3, 11, 23-24]
• Ronald Eades
  baritone saxophone [11]
• Sam Phillips
  engineer [14], producer [14]
• Scotty Moore
  electric guitar [3, 14], guitar [1.2, 1.5-9, 1.11-13, 1.15, 1.19-23, 2.12, 2.14-18, 2.20-21]
• Shane Keister
  Moog [23-24]
• Sherrill Nielsen
  vocal [24]
• Shorty Long
  piano [5, 9]
• Stephen H. Sholes
  producer [2.18, 1.19]
• The Blossoms
  background vocals [26]
• The Imperials
  vocal [4]
• The Jordanaires
  additional [1.3, 1.6-9, 1.12, 1.16, 1.18-20, 1.22, 2.12-15, 2.15, 2.17-21], background vocals [1.19, 2.15], choir vocals [20], vocal [1.5-9, 1.12-13, 1.15-17, 1.19-20, 1.22-23, 2.12, 2.14-18, 2.20-21]
• The Surfers
  vocal [12]
• The Sweet Inspirations
  vocal [1.1, 2.4]
• Thorne Nogar
  engineer [6-7, 15]
• Tiny Timbrell
  guitar [1.12-13, 1.15, 1.21-22, 2.12, 2.14]
• Tommy Cogbill
  bass [1]
• Tony Brown
  piano [24]
• Vito Mumolo
  guitar [4]
• Warren Smith
  trombone [6-7]
• Weldon Myrick
  steel guitar [11, 24]
• Wendy Suits-Johnson
  vocal [23]
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