Something for Everybody

Infobox Album
Name = Something for Everybody
Type = Studio
Longtype =
Artist = Elvis Presley


Released = June 17, 1961
Recorded = November 1960
and March 1961
Genre = Rock
Length = 26:01
Label = RCA Records
Producer = Steve Sholes, Urban Thielmann
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:anfuxqukldte link]
Last album = "His Hand in Mine"
1960
This album = "Something for Everybody"
Next album = "Blue Hawaii"
1961

:"For the album of music from Baz Luhrmann's films see "Something for Everybody (Baz Luhrmann album)"."

"Something For Everybody" is the thirteenth album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2370, in June 1961. Recording sessions took place on November 8, 1960, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, and on March 12, 1961 at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. It peaked at #1 on the Top Pop Albums chart.

Contents

Affter his military discharge from the army in March 1960, any doubts about Presley's inability to recapture the momentum of his career in the 1950s had been laid to rest. During that year his three singles had all topped the charts, and his first album "Elvis Is Back!" had gone to #2 on the album chart. His musical film "G.I. Blues" had been wildly successful, its soundtrack also going to #1 on the album chart. [Jorgensen, Ernst. "Elvis Presley, A Life In Music". New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998; ISBN 0-312-18572-3, p. 147]

Pressing on, he entered the familiar Studio B in Nashville and recorded eleven of the tracks for this album in one twelve hour session, in addition to the single "I Feel So Bad." [Ibid. p. 148] The single was initially scheduled to be the twelfth track for the album, but Presley chose it to accompany the title track to the film "Wild in the Country" as the promotional 45 for the film. Another track that had appeared in the film but not released commercially on records, "I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell," became the final track for the album. [Ibid. p. 156]

The July 13, 1999, compact disc reissue included six bonus tracks, four singles and two b-sides recorded over the span of a year and issued in 1961 and 1962, and altered the album's running order. All of the sides made the Top 40 at a time when Billboard charted b-sides as well, and two of the singles, "Surrender" and "Good Luck Charm" topped the singles chart. "Surrender" had been recorded at the sessions for Presley's gospel album of 1960, "His Hand in Mine", and the sides for 47-7908 and 47-7992 at sessions specifically to produce singles. Bonus tracks all recorded at Studio B in Nashville.

Personnel

* Elvis Presley – vocal, guitar
* Scotty Moore – guitar
* Hank Garland - guitar
* Tiny Timbrell - guitar
* Jerry Kennedy - guitar
* Neal Matthews - guitar
* Floyd Cramer - piano, organ
* Dudley Brooks - piano
* Gordon Stoker - piano
* Jimmie Haskell - accordion
* Bob Moore - bass
* Meyer Rubin - bass
* D.J. Fontana - drums
* Buddy Harman – drums
* Millie Kirkham - backing vocal
* The Jordanaires - backing vocals
* Boots Randolph - saxophone

Track listing

ide one

Chart positions

References

ee also

*The Nashville A-Team

succession box
before = "Carnival!" by Original Broadway Cast
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album (mono)
years = August 21 1961 - September 10 1961
after = "Judy at Carnegie Hall" by Judy Garland