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Long Time Fan

Stephen Verhaeren | 05/27/2000

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Here we go again. BMG has issued yet another useless product. The same songs over and over again. This time an edited version of Artist of the Century Cd. While BMG keeps allowing alternate takes and unreleased material to be issued in Denmark and other European countries. We in the U.S. get the junk at high prices. Poor compilations of old material issued to death. BMG does not concider the U.S. fan to be important enough to release a fresh and creative product to. Elvis was better than this and the U.S. fan is too. Only a handful of good CD's have been issued in the last two years here in the states. Who ever picks the material for these projects should be replaced with someone that knows more about Elvis and his legacy in music and what the U.S. fan wants."

A definitive one CD recap of Elvis' career

Neal C. Reynolds | Indianapolis, Indiana | 08/24/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Okay, so there's lot a great material not on this compilation. But there is a fairly even number of songs from each of the major periods of his career. It's rather hard to choose a definite dividing line between periods, but basically, The first six songs are the young Elvis, and include "That's All Right" and "Baby, Let's Play House", which don't appear on as many collections as the others. 7-13 cover development of his voice and style, including the less often heard "One Night," "Trouble," and "Reconsider, Baby". 14-18 represents a return to the type of song the younger Elvis sang, but with a developed style...all of these being less commonly heard: "Little Sister", "Return to Sender", "(You're the) Devil In Disguise", "It Hurts Me", and "Big Boss Man". Cuts 19-25 include the fully mature Elvis with "In the Ghetto", "Only the Strong Survive", "Polk Salad Annie", "An American Trilogy", "Burning Love", and "Promised Land" along with the longer version of "Suspicious Minds". So this is an excellant first Elvis CD for your collection, but even if you already have one or two CD's, you'll probably find that you're missing about 2/3 of the material available on this collection."

Elvis sings new and songs he has sung before on this cd.

Stephen Verhaeren | Palos Park, IL USA | 03/31/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The first two songs are on this cd was not recored for RCA (but they are on here anyways). The songs are That's All Right and Baby, Let's Play House. Elvis recored those songs for Sun Studios.Heartbreak Hotel is on this too. And it's mostly on his other cds (But not on Christmas cd). It whould be odd if you bought any Elvis Presley cd and Heartbreak Hotel was not on it.There are aslo rare songs that on this cd, like In The Ghetto, Little Sister, Can't Help Falling In Love, and Polk Salad Annie. Aslo on this cd is Burning Love and It Hurts Me.If you know somebody that doesn't have this cd and it is a big Elvis fan. There you go."