Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3

Infobox Album |
Name = Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3
Type = Greatest hits
Artist = Elvis Presley


Released = August 11, 1963
Recorded = March 1960 to March 1962
Genre = Rock and roll
Length = 42:58 (1997 compact disc reissue)
Label = RCA
Producer = Steve Sholes
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0ifrxqqaldte link]
Last album = "It Happened at the World's Fair"
(1963)
This album = "Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3"
(1963)
Next album = "Fun in Acapulco"
(1963)

"Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3" is the eighteenth album by Elvis Presley, issued on RCA Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2765, in August 1963, recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, with appended reissue tracks also recorded at RCA Studios and Radio Recorders in Hollywood. It is a compilation of hit singles released in 1960, 1961, and 1962. It peaked at #3 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.

Content

Golden Records 3 comprises eight Top Five A-sides along with four b-sides which also made the Top 40, "Fame and Fortune," "I Gotta Know" "Little Sister," and "Anything That's Part of You." Five A-Sides, "Stuck on You," "It's Now or Never," Are You Lonesome Tonight?," "Surrender," and "Good Luck Charm" went to #1. "It's Now or Never" had been adapted from the 1898 Neapolitan song "O Sole Mio," and "Are You Lonesome Tonight," a ballad from 1926, had been a rare request to Elvis from the Colonel for his wife. As with the other titles in the series, all singles in this compilation are certified by the RIAA as attaining gold status with sales of at least 500,000 copies.

The July 15, 1997 reissue added six tracks, those being two album tracks, two songs originally issued on EPs, another b-side, and the #2 hit single "Can't Help Falling In Love" from the soundtrack to "Blue Hawaii". "The Girl of My Best Friend" was taken from the album "Elvis Is Back!", and "Wooden Heart" from the soundtrack to "G.I. Blues". The b-side, "Wild in the Country," is the title track to the film of the same name. The remaining pair of film songs, "Follow That Dream" and "King of the Whole Wide World" are respectively from the EP soundtracks to the Presley movies "Follow That Dream" and "Kid Galahad".

Original recordings produced by Steve Sholes, Joseph Lilley, Chet Atkins, Urban Thielmann, Jeff Alexander, and Hans Salter.

Collective Personnel

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

Track listing

ide One