Elvis' Gold Records, Vol. 4
Artist: Elvis Presley
Community Score: 5.50

The fourth volume of Elvis' Gold Records was the first of his hits compilations to be issued at a point when Elvis Presley wasn't considered a very important rock & roll star anymore (a few months later, he would embark on his network television "comeback"). Indeed, it appeared at a point when it seemed, as Neal Umphred pointed out, "Elvis' gold... Read More

The Clique
Artist: The Clique

The sole album by the Clique is in reality the last full album cult hero Gary Zekley would produce. (Though the Austin-based band, also renowned in garage-psych circles for the first known cover of a Roky Erickson song, had recorded several previous singles, they did not play on the album; only singer Randy Shaw appears, with backing vocalists... Read More

Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Artist: The Righteous Brothers
Three Dog Night
Artist: Three Dog Night

Three Dog Night's self-titled debut is one of the strongest and most cohesive offerings by the combo. Their claim to fame would come via overhauls and sleepers from a wide spectrum of luminous singer/songwriters. The moniker refers to lead vocalists Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron and Cory Wells, but credit is overdue for the incendiary... Read More

Ooooooweeee!!!
Artist: Dusty Springfield

Springfield's second U.S. album is another hybrid work, but for different reasons. The tracks, of which two ("You Don't Own Me," "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes") are repeated from her debut, were cut in London and in Nashville, the latter under the direction of Shelby Singleton Jr. The Singleton-produced numbers, except the... Read More

You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - PHILLES
Artist: The Righteous Brothers
The Best of the Righteous Brothers - MOONGLOW
Artist: The Righteous Brothers

Skimpy, only 10 selections, but each a soulful essential including early rockers - "Little Latin Lupe Lu," "My Babe," and their five greatest recordings: "You Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," "(You're My) Soul And Inspiration," and stirring renditions of "Unchained Melody," "Ebb Tide," and "Georgia On My Mind." Bobby Hatfield's high tenor is the... Read More

From Elvis in Memphis
Artist: Elvis Presley
Community Score: 7.86

After a 14-year absence from Memphis, Elvis Presley returned to cut what was certainly his greatest album (or, at least, a tie effort with his RCA debut LP from early 1956). The fact that From Elvis in Memphis came out as well as it did is something of a surprise, in retrospect -- Presley had a backlog of songs he genuinely liked that he wanted... Read More

Elvis' Gold Records, Vol. 4 - REMASTERED
Artist: Elvis Presley

The fourth volume of Elvis' Gold Records was the first of his hits compilations to be issued at a point when Elvis Presley wasn't considered a very important rock & roll star anymore (a few months later, he would embark on his network television "comeback"). Indeed, it appeared at a point when it seemed, as Neal Umphred pointed out, "Elvis' gold... Read More

How Great Thou Art
Artist: Elvis Presley
Community Score: 9.00

Between 1966 and 1968, Elvis recorded just enough studio material to fill one complete secular album and How Great Thou Art, a far more polite (and slightly surreal) reading of traditional religious material than the previous outing, a half-dozen years earlier. The performances throughout are superb, the sound impeccable; this actually beat Sgt.... Read More