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Elvis Sings Ballads - World of Elvis Presley

Artist Song
Elvis Presley  Can't Help Falling In Love  
Elvis Presley  Love Me Tender  
Elvis Presley  Are You Lonesome Tonight?  
Elvis Presley  Don't  
Elvis Presley  Any Way You Want Me (That's How I Will Be)  
Elvis Presley  Love Me  
Elvis Presley  I Was the One  
Elvis Presley  Blue Hawaii  
Elvis Presley  I Want You, I Need You, I Love You  
Elvis Presley  Don't Cry Daddy  
Elvis Presley  Loving You  
Elvis Presley  Blue Moon  
Elvis Presley  Fame and Fortune  
Elvis Presley  Bridge Over Troubled Water  
Elvis Presley  Puppet On a String  
Elvis Presley  Memories  
Elvis Presley  Hurt  
Elvis Presley  Just Pretend  
Elvis Presley  Love Letters  
Elvis Presley  Soldier Boy  
Elvis Presley  That's When Your Heartaches Begin  
Elvis Presley  It Hurts Me  
Elvis Presley  I Need Somebody to Lean On  
Elvis Presley  Doin' the Best I Can  
Elvis Presley  Something Blue  
Elvis Presley  Shake a Hand  
Elvis Presley  If I'm a Fool (For Loving You)  
Elvis Presley  Pieces of My Life  
Elvis Presley  Old Shep  
Elvis Presley  Anything That's Part of You  

Comment:

These are the cuts in which Elvis ratcheted the throttle back a few notches, dimmed the lights, and poured his voice over the tunes like maple syrup on a short stack. With its loping, horse-hoof beat and falsetto higher than a beehive hairdo, his version of Rodgers & Hart’s “Blue Moon” pushes his youthful vocal’s emotions to the limit, like a developing superhero testing his newfound powers. But with “Don’t Cry Daddy,” it’s [i]our[/i] emotions that get the workout, as his intentionally understated performance allows the heart-tugging lyrics to target our tear ducts without descending into schmaltz. And building from a simple piano-and-vocal launch to a Wagnerian orchestral thunderclap finale, Elvis transports Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” into an exotic place where power ballads and hymns meet. It’s all the power at half the tempo, and there are plenty more where these came from.
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