Pot Luck (album)

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Pot Luck
Pot Luck cover
Studio album by Elvis Presley
Released June 5, 1962
Recorded March 1961 to
March 1962
Genre Rock
Length 28:11
Label RCA Records
Producer Steve Sholes, Joseph Lilley
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 2.5/5 stars link
Elvis Presley chronology
Blue Hawaii
(1961)		 Pot Luck Girls! Girls! Girls!
(1962)

"Pot Luck with Elvis" is the fifteenth album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2523, in June of 1962. Recording sessions took place on March 22, 1961, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, and on June 25 and October 15, 1961, and March 18 and March 19, 1962, at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. It peaked at #4 on the Top Pop Albums chart.

Contents

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The album is dominated by the writing team of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, who had penned the chart-topping "Surrender" and the double-sided classic "(Marie's the Name of) His Latest Flame" backed with "Little Sister." The tracks "Kiss Me Quick" and "Suspicion" would be pulled off for a Top 40 single almost two years later in April, 1964. The rest of the tracks originated from regular Presley contributors such as Don Robertson, Otis Blackwell, and Paul Evans, with Blackwell's "(Such An) Easy Question" also being used as a single release in June of 1965 and climbing to #11 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, during a time when Presley was involved mostly in feature film and soundtrack work. Presley's credit on "That's Someone You Never Forget, an intense ballad possibly sung in reminiscence of Presley's deceased mother Gladys, derived from his supply of the title to composer Red West.[1] The song "Steppin' Out of Line" is an unused track from the sessions for Blue Hawaii.

Although like its predecessors in 1960 and 1961 Elvis Is Back! and Something For Everybody, Pot Luck easily made the top ten on the album chart, all three had been vastly outsold by the soundtrack albums G.I. Blues and Blue Hawaii, a pattern that would continue to hold for Presley through the mid-1960s.[2] Obviously, the soundtracks had the advantage of the films as a promotional tool, but also the Colonel went against standard practice in the American record industry by refusing to include hit singles on albums, which would have likely increased sales.[3] As a result, Presley would concentrate on his movie career, and not make another non-soundtrack, non-gospel studio album for another seven years, until From Elvis in Memphis.

The July 13, 1999, compact disc reissue altered the running order of the album, and included five bonus tracks in two sides of one single, one b-side, and two tracks from the 1965 compilation album LSP 3450, Elvis for Everyone. The three single sides had been recorded at the sessions that yielded the balance of the album on March 18 and 19, 1962. One single had both sides written by the returning team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, while the b-side "You'll Be Gone," released on the flip of the ill-begotten attempt by RCA to instigate a new dance craze with the "Do the Clam" single in 1965, is the only song that Presley truly had a hand in composing, writing lyrics to a tune by his Memphis Mafia buddies Red West and Charlie Hodge.[4] Given the nature of the Elvis for Everyone LP, compiled from sessions spanning a ten-year stretch, RCA opted not to include it as part of its reissue program, appending its songs as bonus tracks to other albums as appropriate. Bonus tracks all recorded at Studio B in Nashville.

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[edit] Side One

Track Recorded Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 6/25/61 Kiss Me Quick Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman 2:46
2. 3/18/62 Just for Old Time Sake Roy C. Bennett and Sid Tepper 2:08
3. 3/18/62 Gonna Get Back Home Somehow Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman 2:27
4. 3/18/62 (Such An) Easy Question Otis Blackwell and Winfield Scott 2:18
5. 3/22/61 Steppin' Out of Line Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Dolores Fuller 1:54
6. 6/25/61 I'm Yours Hal Blair and Don Robertson 2:21

[edit] Side Two

Track Recorded Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 3/18/62 Something Blue Paul Evans and Al Byron 2:57
2. 3/19/62 Suspicion Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman 2:34
3. 3/19/62 I Feel That I've Known You Forever Doc Pomus and Alan Jeffreys 1:39
4. 10/15/61 Night Rider Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman 2:08
5. 3/18/62 Fountain of Love Bill Giant and Jeff Lewis 2:12
6. 6/25/61 That's Someone You Never Forget Red West and Elvis Presley 2:47

[edit] 1999 Reissue with Bonus Tracks

Chart position for albums from Billboard Top Pop Albums chart; positions for singles from Billboard Pop Singles chart.

Track Recorded Catalogue Release Date Chart Peak Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 6/25/61 LSP 2523 6/5/62 #4 Kiss Me Quick Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman 2:46
2. 3/18/62 LSP 2523 6/5/62 #4 Just for Old Time Sake Roy C. Bennett and Sid Tepper 2:08
3. 3/18/62 LSP 2523 6/5/62 #4 Gonna Get Back Home Somehow Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman 2:27
4. 10/15/61 LSP 3450 8/10/65 #10 I Met Her Today Hal Blair and Don Robertson 2:42
5. 3/18/62 LSP 2523 6/5/62 #4 (Such An) Easy Question Otis Blackwell and Winfield Scott 2:18
6. 3/19/62 47-8041 7/17/62 #5 She's Not You Doc Pomus, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller 2:08
7. 6/25/61 LSP 2523 6/5/62 #4 I'm Yours Hal Blair and Don Robertson 2:21
8. 3/18/62 47-8500b 2/9/65 You'll Be Gone Red West, Charlie Hodge, Elvis Presley 2:23
9. 3/18/62 LSP 2523 6/5/62 #4 Something Blue Paul Evans and Al Byron 2:57
10. 3/19/62 LSP 2523 6/5/62 #4 Suspicion Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman 2:34
11. 3/19/62 LSP 2523 6/5/62 #4 I Feel That I've Known You Forever Doc Pomus and Alan Jeffreys 1:39
12. 10/15/61 LSP 2523 6/5/62 #4 Night Rider Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman 2:08
13. 10/15/61 LSP 3450 8/10/65 #10 For the Millionth and Last Time Roy C. Bennett and Sid Tepper 2:05
14. 3/19/62 47-8041b 7/7/62 #55 Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller 1:51
15. 3/18/62 LSP 2523 6/5/62 #4 Fountain of Love Bill Giant and Jeff Lewis 2:12
16. 6/25/61 LSP 2523 6/5/62 #4 That's Someone You Never Forget Red West and Elvis Presley 2:47
17. 3/22/61 LSP 2523 6/5/62 #4 Steppin' Out of Line Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Dolores Fuller 1:54

[edit] References

  1. ^ Jorgensen, Ernst. Elvis Presley, A Life In Music. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998; ISBN 0-312-18572-3, p. 158
  2. ^ Ibid. p. 190
  3. ^ Ibid. p. 190
  4. ^ Ibid. p. 172