There are a number of fun songs left off this special series volume - songs from movies like Tickle Me and The Trouble With Girls... that did not use an opening tune with the same title as the movie. If that's a little wierd (for the more casual fan), check out the inclusion of "Stay Away, Joe" - it was not used in the movie, deferring to the "Greensleeves"-based "Stay Away"!.

Anway, the point in most of these numbers is *fun*, so let's have some: "Roustabout" gets a nice technological makeover - I've never heard echo on vinyl or CD on this catchy, though slight, offer. I believe the movie itself has echo on this opener. Drums are more to the fore on "Speedway" and "Easy Come, Easy Go", so the work of people like Hal Blaine, D.J. Fontana, and Buddy Harman is better appreciated. Mysteriously, "Double Trouble", a real rocker featuring a classy horn arrangement, is a sad step backwards sonically - the drums are nearly lost, as in the original flat mix on vinyl. A serious disappointment here is with "Girl Happy", once again not pitch adjusted. My theory is that the speeded-up take was produced to fit into the time constraints of the opening credits - check it out, folks! [Note that the recording year is actually 1964, not 1967, as printed]. Somewhere beneath the cartoonish effects is a strong rocker - with resonant echoes of Little Richard's "The Girl Can't Help It"!

Elvis comes very close to straight-ahead "Blue-Eyed Soul" on "Spinout". The beat and instrumentation are completely contemporary, but once again the lead vocal is too far forward. A bit of reverb also might have helped.

The aforementioned "Speedway", underlying another race-car deal, does have good balance, although the echo sounds somewhat artificial. This is a lost gem, undoubtedly - too bad that by '67-'68, it seemed that less and less listeners cared.

Note that "Follow That Dream" is an excellent alternate take - we get a Sun Records "wellll" from Big El on this on! Another uptempo standout is the Leiber and Stoller "Girls! Girls! Girls!", benefitting from the remix.

Michael Hill's liner notes are great.

This is probably the best collection of Elvis movie songs available! It spans his entire movie career from his classic hit Love Me Tender to his under appreciated late 60's title song Change of Habit. While some of his movie songs and soundtracks were not up to his talents, this collection proves that some of his best works were for his movies. If you want a sampling of his Hollywood recordings, this is the collection for you!

All the soundtrack hits from all of Elvis 's movie.You will not waste a penny if what you want his movie songs.They still sounds as great as in the 50's and60's

I use to get my butt spanked for jumping up and down on my bed when I was a child for leistening to Elvis real loud. And now Elvis still rock even still today. Elvis movies has some classic songs on it buy this cd.

As an Elvis fan I have a considerable amount of his movie music, but ELVIS MOVIES is just a bad idea. At first it seems a cool idea to present the title songs to all of his movies on one CD, and from the 1950s and early 1960s almost all of his movie title songs are very good. The problem is that for the mid to late 1960s movies the title songs are NOT usually among the best of his movie songs. In fact, they are often totally forgettable, so tracks 13 to 24 are mostly a waste. To make matters worse, this disc only includes songs with the same title as the movie, so that songs like "King of the Whole Wide World," which is played during the opening credits in the movie "Kid Galahad" and so is the equivalent of a "title song," are inexplicably left out! So those movies are not represented here at all. I was going to give this CD 3 stars since it does appeal to people who would love to hear just the title songs to Elvis's movies, but that omission made me drop it to 2. If I didn't already have most of Elvis's movie songs I would get

, a 2-CD set that is not perfect, but at least attempts to present most of his better movie songs.