Albums Produced by Steve Sholes - Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4, 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong, Pot Luck, Elvis Is Back! (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4, 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong, Pot Luck, Elvis Is Back , Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3, Something for Everybody, Blue Hawaii, Elvis for Everyone, Jazz From the Hills, Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar, After the Riot at Newport, Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 71. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4 is the thirty-first album by Elvis Presley, issued on RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 3921, in January 1968, with recording sessions taking place over an eight-year span at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, and at RCA Studios and Radio Recorders in Hollywood. It is a compilation of hit singles released between 1961 and 1967, peaking at #33 on the Billboard 200. Although he had remained a popular artist since the release of his previous Golden Records volume in 1963, placing eight albums in the Top Ten and 17 singles in the Top 40, Presley's sales had cooled off since his heyday. The compilation album Elvis for Everyone in 1965 was his first to sell under 300,000 copies, and his last five soundtrack albums had all done progressively worse in the marketplace, units shifted dropping to under 200,000. Singles were no longer reaching the Top 40 automatically, and while his recent 45 "Big Boss Man" sold 350,000, that fell short of the needed 500,000 to qualify for gold status in singles sales. Usually a guaranteed seller, this volume sold only 400,000 copies; better than his recent soundtrack albums, but well off the mark set by its three predecessors. Gold Records Vol. 4 comprises five Top 40 A-sides along with seven b-sides, five of which also made the Top 40. Three songs had not been written expressly for Presley: "Love Letters" came fro...http: //booksllc.net/?id=8166688