Let's Be Friends

Let's Be Friends
Studio album by Elvis Presley
Released April 1970
Recorded March 1962 to March 1969
Genre Rock
Length 20:26
Label RCA Camden
Elvis Presley chronology
From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis
(1969)		 Let's Be Friends
(1970)		 On Stage: February 1970
(1970)
Budget Album chronology
Elvis Sings Flaming Star'
(1969)		 Let's Be Friends
(1970)		 Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits Vol. 1
(1970)

Let's Be Friends is the thirty-seventh album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Camden Records CAS 2408, in April 1970. It is the second Presley budget album to appear on the RCA subsidiary label. It peaked at #105 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It was certified Gold on 7/15/1999 and Platinum on 1/6/2004 by the R.I.A.A.

Contents

Content

Similar to its predecessor Elvis Sings Flaming Star, Let's Be Friends collects mostly unreleased songs recorded for Presley film soundtracks.[1] Given the recent work of the revitalized Presley, in the past the Colonel might have objected to this kind of market saturation, but under the terms of Presley's agreement with RCA, budget albums brought extra cash outside of contract stipulations.[1]

Two non-movie outtakes appeared from the winter of 1969 sessions at American Sound Studio in Memphis, "I'll Be There" and "If I'm a Fool (For Loving You)."[2] The songs "Mama," "Let's Forget About The Stars," and "Let's Be Friends" were all recorded for but not used in their respective movies. "Mama" was sung in the film Girls! Girls! Girls! by The Amigos.,[3] and Elvis' version first appeared on this album, with an alternate, abridged version included on the compact disc Elvis Double Features: Kid Galahad/Girls! Girls! Girls!.[4]

Like all Presley releases on the budget Camden label, this album has a very short running time, too short for a full-priced album in the 1970s.It 1975 it was re-issued on Vinyl, by Pickwick Camden Records with the original Camden catalog #CAS 2408 and with a black border around the original cover art. It was reissued for compact disc by Sony Music Entertainment in 2006.

Track listing

Side one

Track Recorded Film Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 10/1/67 Stay Away, Joe Stay Away, Joe Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne 1:37
2. 2/20/69 If I'm a Fool (For Loving You) Stan Kesler 2:43
3. 3/5/69 Change of Habit Let's Be Friends Calvin Arnold, David Martin, Geoff Morrow 1:53
4. 10/15/68 Charro! Let's Forget About The Stars A.L. Owens 1:49
5. 3/28/62 Girls! Girls! Girls! Mama Charles O'Curran, Dudley Brooks 2:25

Side two

Track Recorded Film Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 1/23/69 I'll Be There Bobby Darin 2:21
2. 10/23/68 The Trouble with Girls Almost Ben Weisman, Buddy Kaye 1:39
3. 3/5/69 Change of Habit Change of Habit Ben Weisman, Buddy Kaye 3:18
4. 3/5/69 Change of Habit Have a Happy Ben Weisman, Dolores Fuller, Buddy Kaye 2:41

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Jorgensen, Ernst. Elvis Presley A Life in Music: The Complete Recording Sessions. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998; p. 295.
  2. ^ Jorgensen, Ernst. Elvis Presley A Life in Music: The Complete Recording Sessions. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998; pp. 266, 275.
  3. ^ Elvis Presley's Movies on Elvis Australia website
  4. ^ BMG Music Cat. No. 74321134302 (1993)