| | |  | Music | Home » » The Other Sides: Worldwide Gold Award Hits, Vol. 2 | | | | | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| August 27, 1996 | | Studio:
| RCA | | Number Of Discs:
| 2 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 7 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | Disc: 1 | | | 1. | My Baby Left Me | | 2. | We're Gonna Move | | 3. | Poor Boy | | 4. | Let Me | | 5. | Love Me | | 6. | Paralyzed | | 7. | When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again | | 8. | Rip It Up | | 9. | Tell Me Why | | 10. | Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do! | | 11. | Mean Woman Blues | | 12. | Hot Dog | | 13. | Lonesome Cowboy | | 14. | One Night | | 15. | Young And Beautiful | | 16. | I Want To Be Free | | 17. | (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care | | 18. | My Wish Came True | | 19. | Dixieland Rock | | 20. | Lover Doll | | 21. | New Orleans | | 22. | Don't Ask Me Why | | 23. | Crawfish | | 24. | King Creole | | 25. | As Long As I Have You | | | Disc: 2 | | | 1. | Trouble | | 2. | Young Dreams | | 3. | Doncha' Think It's Time | | 4. | I Need Your Love Tonight | | 5. | Fame And Fortune | | 6. | I Believe In The Man In The Sky | | 7. | Lonely Man | | 8. | Wild In The Country | | 9. | His Latest Flame | | 10. | Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello | | 11. | They Remind Me Too Much Of You | | 12. | Please Don't Drag That String Around | | 13. | Witchcraft | | 14. | Ask Me | | 15. | It Hurts Me | | 16. | Puppet On A String | | 17. | Any Day Now | | 18. | You'll Think Of Me | | 19. | The Wonder Of You | | 20. | I've Lost You | | 21. | The Next Step Is Love | | 22. | You Don't Have To Say You Love Me | | 23. | Patch It Up | | 24. | There Goes My Everything | | 25. | I Really Don't Want To Know | |
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Brought me back 40 years to a more innocent timeJul 25, 1998
By Kandee1052@aol.com
These are the songs on the "flip" sides of our 45's and on the extended play 45's with four songs on them...an economical way for teeners to attain an extensive record library of our favorite singers in my day! Though Elvis'voice expanded and became more versatile with training and age, there is something so remarkable and innocent about his voice in the beginning.....no fancy mixers or backgrounds...just simple old Negro jazz and country songs. I loved his voice then and I love it now. I never thought I'd ever hear these songs again except in my head! My personal favorite? .."Rip It Up"..I still sing it every Saturday night! Travel back in time to our innocence with this recording.
AN INTERESTING CD SET FOR THE ELVIS MUSIC COLLECTORNov 17, 2011
By John
The Other Sides is an interesting two cd set for the Elvis music collector. On these two cds we find the "B" sides of what was originally fifty 45 rpm records. The "A" sides of these fifty records are found on the Elvis Worldwide Gold Hits two cd set. Even though The Other Sides consists of "B" sides, we find some outstanding Elvis' songs on these two cds. Outstanding songs include One Night, Fame And Fortune, His Latest Flame, Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello, Ask Me, and It Hurts Me. All five of these songs are among the best 20 songs that Elvis Presley ever recorded. Most of the 50 songs on The Other Side are pleasant to listen to and truly enjoy. This tells us that the fifty 45 rpm records from which these 'B" sides were chosen were outstanding purchases for the consumer, in that, in most cases, both sides of the fifty 45 rpm records contained good to outstanding Elvis' songs that were likely to be much enjoyed by the listening audience.
John
Elvis The Other SidesAug 05, 2011
By Robert D. Urbaniak
"rurb43"
This is a great collection of Elvis, songs that were the B side of his major hit's, but there are just as good as the on'es that went to number one.
Love Him Or Hate Him, His Success Was UndeniableAug 28, 2007
By AvidOldiesCollector
After looking at some of the other reviews I have to wonder if they even bothered to read the booklet that comes with this set. The first page contains an entire paragraph on the evolution of this compilation, how it come to be labeled "Volume 2" and the addition/deletion process related to the selections.
The remainder of the 5-page booklet (counting the inside cover) contains photographs showing the receipt and sorting of Elvis' discarded clothing, portions of which accompanied each issue of the original vinyl four-record set in 1971, and a complete listing of Elvis' Recording Industry Association of America certified multi-platinum, platinum, and gold award records. Two full pages also show the evolution of the original box cover for the vinyl set and a reproduction of the hand-written page showing a list of the additions and deletions.
Historical references aside, the music contained herein offer up many of the flipsides of his hit singles, most of which charted on their own. In fact, from 1956 to the release of (You're The) Devil in Disguise in 1963, both sides of his single releases always made the pop charts, a record unmatched in the history of music (not even The Beatles could match that). The B-side to that 1963 single which ended the string of two-sided hits was Please Don't Drag That String Around (track 12 on Disc 2).
In selecting One Night, His Latest Flame, and Ask me for "the other sides" collection, I am assuming that each started out as the intended B-side. If that is the case, it's interesting to note that each scored higher than the original A-sides: One Night reached # 4 in late 1958 while the reverse, I Got Stung, made it to # 8; His Latest Flame - also shown as [Marie's The Name] His Latest Flame - topped out at # 4 in September 1961 while the flip, Little Sister, settled for a # 5; and Ask Me peaked at # 12 in late 1964 while Ain't That Loving You Baby (actually recorded in 1958) reached # 16.
A set worth having in your collection.
Try Volume 1May 11, 2003
By Shawn Viland
"Music, White Sox and the Bible. And a towell."
In his review of this collection Stephen Verhaeren noted the absence of such hits as Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog, Don't Be Cruel, and Jailhouse Rock. Perhaps he failed to notice the "Vol. 2" in the title, since all of those hits reside of Vol. 1.
30 years ago I had the Worldwide GHold Award Hits collections on vinyl and it was one huge stack of records. It was the state of the art anthology of its day. Now in this age of CD box sets we take such collections for granted and expect more and more. But in 1971 there was nothing like this. In fact, it remained the de facto "one-stop" collection of Elvis hits until it went out of print a few years ago. Certainly, one CD, like the "30 #1's" collection can do Elvis' great career justice.
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