Fame and celebrity being what they are, it is no surprise when the famous and celebrated are championed by the virtually unknown. And when such behavior is channeled through the medium of song, the results can be truly horrific. Luckily, however, ‘tribute records’ are generally few and far between and even the most notorious of artists can feel honored if just one solitary cheese-fest of musical praise is composed in their name. But when one Elvis Aaron Presley, of Memphis, Tennessee, stepped up to the mic in the early mid-1950s, and in so doing blew the dust off Mars, the genre was re-born. Pencils were sharpened at publishers from Tin Pan Alley to Denmark Street and, anyone who could hum a tune or rhyme ‘super’ with ‘duper’ had a job waiting. So it’s hardly surprising that, while tributes about the average global superstar would be hard-pushed to fill one side of a 45, there are enough relating toThe King to fill a CD compilation such as this. What may come as more of a shock is that leftovers, rejected for this edition, could complete another 4 or 5 discs without going near anything that is essentially a cover version rather than a true tribute, or recordings as awful as, say, Danny Mirror’s 1977 hit ‘I Remember Elvis Presley’. Indeed, for the first time ever, the’29 obscure Elvis tributes ’ cramming this disc to near overflow, although not always in the finest taste and occasionally with a faint whiff of Gorgonzola, are never less than fascinating, regularly hilarious, sometimes inspiring and now and then truly wonderful. Track List 1. Audrey – Dear Elvis (Part 1) 2. Audrey – Dear Elvis (Part 2) 3. Janis Martin – My Boy Elvis 4. Lalo Guerrero – Elvis Perez 5. Virginia Lowe – I’m In Love With Elvis Presley 6. Ivan Gregory And The Blue Notes – The Elvis Presley Blues 7. Anita Ray And The Nature Boys – The Elvis Presley Blues 8. Lee Tully With Milt Moss – Around The World With Elwood Pretzel (Part 1) 9. Lee Tully With Milt Moss – Around The World With Elwood Pretzel (Part 2) 10. Little Lambsie Penn – I Want To Spend Christmas With Elvis 11. Eddie Cochran With The Holly Twins – I Want Elvis For Christmas 12. Lou Monte – Elvis Presley For President 13. The Fabulous Mcclavertys – Don’t Blame It On Elvis 14. Mad Milo – Elvis For Christmas 15. Marlene Paula – I Wanna Spend Christmas With Elvis 16. Reed Harper And The Three Notes – Oh Elvis! 17. The Fans – Elvis And The Space Looters (Part 1) 18. The Fans – Elvis And The Space Looters (Part 2) 19. Peter Debree And The Wanderers – Hey Mister Presley 20. Don Hart – Presley On Her Mind 21. Julie Lang – Elvis 22. The Greats – Marching Elvis 23. The Bobolinks – (I Wanna Be) Elvis Presley’s Sergeant 24. The Three Teens – Dear 25. Felton Jarvis – Don’t Knock Elvis 26. Robert Mitchum – What Is This Generation Coming To? 27. Jaybee Wasden – Elvis In The Army 28. The Hunt Sisters – Elvis Is Rockin’ Again 29. Billy Adams And His Rock-A-Teers – Return Of The All American Boy
