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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: RCA
Salesrank: 66224
Released: October 25, 1990 |
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| Used Price: $6.77 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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A Date with Elvis Track Listing:
1. Blue Moon of Kentucky - Elvis Presley, Monroe, Bill [1]
2. Young and Beautiful - Elvis Presley, Schroeder, Aaron
3. (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care - Elvis Presley, Leiber, Jerry
4. Milk Cow Blues - Elvis Presley, Arnold, Kokomo
5. Baby Let's Play House - Elvis Presley, Gunter, Arthur
6. Good Rockin' Tonight - Elvis Presley, Brown, Roy [1]
7. Is It So Strange - Elvis Presley, Young, Faron
8. We're Gonna Move - Elvis Presley, Matson, Vera
9. I Want to Be Free - Elvis Presley, Leiber, Jerry
10. I Forgot to Remember to Forget - Elvis Presley, Feathers, Charlie
A Date with Elvis Reviews:
You don't like crazy music 
2005-01-09 - Back when Elvis was in the army, RCA Records was deperate for new Elvis albums. So, they threw together a few songs that had never been on an LP before and called it an album. Most of the songs here are from either his Sun Records days or from the Jailhouse Rock soundtrack. This is all great music, but this album has been rendered superfluous by later releases. Why get this when you can just get the complete Sun sessions or the complete Jailhouse Rock soundtrack?
4 1/2 Stars
2004-01-07 - Like its companion release (For LP Fans Only), A Date With Elvis has left varying impressions on different generations of Elvis Presley fans. If you were around in 1959, the first thing you probably noticed was that it was the gatefold jacket, with lots of really cool photos inside and out of Elvis Presley in uniform. Hearing this album - which contained not a word about where or when the music on it was recorded - one would have been struck by just how raw and lively the music was. As they had with For LP Fans Only, RCA had assembled a "new" Elvis Presley album by reaching back to five of the best of his best Sun Records sides, augmented with a few songs left over from the Love Me Tender and Jailhouse Rock soundtrack EPs. The 1954-1955 recordings of "Milkcow Blues Boogie," "Good Rockin' Tonight," "Baby Let's Play House," etc., with their lean textures, frantic sound, and Scotty Moore's slashing lead guitar, were a far cry from anything heard on his recent RCA soundtracks. It was the height of irony that the two "new" Elvis albums of 1959 gave national audiences their first real chance to plunge into the sound of the "old" Elvis of 1954-1955, when he was known as "The Memphis Flash" and "The Hillbilly Cat." A few years later, during the mid-/late-'60s, when some listeners started getting serious about Elvis' music, and others, born too late to have been buying the records in 1956, started discovering his work for the first time, the word got out about A Date With Elvis and For LP Fans Only - that these were the real article, at least as worthwhile as the first two RCA albums and the easiest way to get the King's early Memphis sides. By the second half of the 1960s, A Date With Elvis and its packaging had become irrelevant to 99 percent of rock listeners, but serious fans grabbed up copies - even Rolling Stone magazine recommended A Date With Elvis and For LP Fans Only (especially their mono pressings) in the course of guiding readers through the already confusing maze of his releases. By the late '70s, when the Sun material had been gathered together in a more orderly fashion, A Date With Elvis fell out of favor once again, and it has seemed superfluous for most of the time since, in terms of musical scholarship. But listening to it 40-plus years after its release, one is still hard-put to find too many albums that are more viscerally exciting; what's more, it is a reminder of how those Sun sides were best known for the first two decades after their release, and how they first got out to most of us. It's a keeper in any form. - Bruce Eder, AMG
A Really Fun Rock and Roll Record 
2003-08-17 - I have loved this album since I was a kid, the mix of early Suns and RCA is great, some of his best songs. This is one of the few rock and roll records that is just a heck of a lot of fun. (check out the Bonzos for some more)
The King's Crown Jewel
2002-09-06 - True Elvis fans know what others don't: "A Date with Elvis" was released a few years after Elvis debuted but it contains authentic "early Elvis" tracks from his raw Sun Records days. Here's the deal: It's 1959 & Elvis is just going into the Army. RCA pulls from the King's rich backlog of mid-50's tunes anticipating his time in the service and out of the studio. This album reveals a mature and confident singer. "Blue Moon of Kentucky" may be one of Rock-n-Roll's greatest songs ever. "Young and Beautiful" is a melodic gem comparable to "Love Me Tender" but quite unknown. And the rollicking "You're So Square" will surely be one of your new favorites. This album is vastly underrated by most people except serious Elvis fans. You will find none of these tracks on the soon to be released "Elvis30hits." Therefore, buy them both! Thank you, thank you very much!
