"A World Of Our Own"

[emjel]

But that's how the record buying public and the teenagers heard it at the time. Put the Elvis single track One Broken Heart For Sale against The Beatles single Please Please Me then. I was around at the time in the UK and I could hear what was happening.

Yes. Anyway, it was just the title thread of the enjoyment of a soundtrack ditty regardless of its history and film it came out of. Just the song I liked to spotlight for no other reason than to enjoy and relax, while listening to my favorite artist in arguably his best vocal year.

I would never argue that Elvis' voice was not at its best in 60/62. Pure heaven. It's unfortunate that this song and the other songs on this album were just pleasant instead of being truly great.

[elvis-fan]

But if you want the details - Elvis Presley Album Number 1 for 1 week On chart for 16 weeks. Please Please Me Number 1 for 30 weeks - On chart for 70 weeks.

So what's your point?

[emjel]

But if you want the details - Elvis Presley Album Number 1 for 1 week On chart for 16 weeks. Please Please Me Number 1 for 30 weeks - On chart for 70 weeks.

So what's your point?

You said you wondered how Elvis did on his first album/first year So I've just given you the details. Simples.

[fn2drive]

Another warmed over woeful track on an undistinguished soundtrack. Broken Heart for Sale which is pretty maligned on this board is the only strong track with a solid performance imo. The single was too short but the movie master is great. Did Otis ever pen a real turkey for Elvis?

Elvis is recording this nonsense including the track captioned here at the absolute peak of vocal powers. But it did predict the future pretty well unless you are in the Petunia was the mid 60s Its Now Or Never camp.

[Juan Luis]

Another warmed over woeful track on an undistinguished soundtrack. Broken Heart for Sale which is pretty maligned on this board is the only strong track with a solid performance imo. The single was too short but the movie master is great. Did Otis ever pen a real turkey for Elvis?

Elvis is recording this nonsense including the track captioned here at the absolute peak of vocal powers. But it did predict the future pretty well unless you are in the Petunia was the mid 60s Its Now Or Never camp.

You always seem to manage to do in your own posts with....I don't know.

[r&b]

Another warmed over woeful track on an undistinguished soundtrack. Broken Heart for Sale which is pretty maligned on this board is the only strong track with a solid performance imo. The single was too short but the movie master is great. Did Otis ever pen a real turkey for Elvis?

Elvis is recording this nonsense including the track captioned here at the absolute peak of vocal powers. But it did predict the future pretty well unless you are in the Petunia was the mid 60s Its Now Or Never camp.

Yes/No. Agreed the single was way too short. I like the rocking arrangement & harder vocal of the single release over the laid back movie version, but why on earth was the extra verse omitted. It needed more length.

[stevelecher]

Another warmed over woeful track on an undistinguished soundtrack. Broken Heart for Sale which is pretty maligned on this board is the only strong track with a solid performance imo. The single was too short but the movie master is great. Did Otis ever pen a real turkey for Elvis?

Elvis is recording this nonsense including the track captioned here at the absolute peak of vocal powers. But it did predict the future pretty well unless you are in the Petunia was the mid 60s Its Now Or Never camp.

Yes/No. Agreed the single was way too short. I like the rocking arrangement & harder vocal of the single release over the laid back movie version, but why on earth was the extra verse omitted. It needed more length.

I agree that the shorter version is the more commercial, single worthy version and the movie version would not have made a good record release. I also agree that it would have been better if the song wasn't so short. I hate the lame verse that was in the movie version though and can see why it wasn't used. "Hey Cupid blah blah blah, ugh." I'll take the single as it came out over that.

I do like the album and the song A World Of Our Own. Elvis' voice is wonderful and this may be one of Elvis' happiest sounding vocals. He sounds absolutely happy and joyful on it. He transforms these slight songs into charming performances. The only one I skip is How Would You Like To Be and even something that would otherwise be positively banal, like Take Me To The Fair, is elevated here. If these songs were recorded for the Paradise Hawaiian Style movie, with that voice and that commitment, I'm sure I would be much less fond of this short album.

[Eggrert]

Am I the only one who really rates How Would You Like To Be? I loved it when I first heard it on Elvis Sings Hits From His Movies, and I love it now.

The World's Fair soundtrack was the last Elvis album that I heard. I didn't really care for it at first (except for HWYLTB and Take Me To The Fair), but it's grown on me. A World Of Our Own isn't a song I seek out, but it's a minor pleasure to hear when it comes up on shuffle.

[Juan Luis]

Am I the only one who really rates How Would You Like To Be? I loved it when I first heard it on Elvis Sings Hits From His Movies, and I love it now.

The World's Fair soundtrack was the last Elvis album that I heard. I didn't really care for it at first (except for HWYLTB and Take Me To The Fair), but it's grown on me. A World Of Our Own isn't a song I seek out, but it's a minor pleasure to hear when it comes up on shuffle.

I played "How Would You Like To Be" for my eldest son's 2 year birthday party. All the kids and (grown up too) like it very much.

[stevelecher]

Again, EP sings like a bird on How Would You Like To Be and it's a superb, committed performance. It's just one lullaby too many on this short LP.

[Davelee]

The song is nothing to shout out about - his voice is nice and that's about it!

Another song not worthy of his talent.

[Juan Luis]

The song is nothing to shout out about - his voice is nice and that's about it!

Another song not worthy of his talent.

No one is shouting.

[Davelee]

A pleasant song that I do like, but from an album that was simply too short and didn't really contain any strong tracks with the single One Broken Heart For Sale being the lowest placed single at Number 12 following a long run of chart toppers - no real surprise as it ran for just over one and half minutes. Elvis' voice on this album was top notch though as was all the recordings in the early 60s. The album was released in the UK in the May 1963, it topped out at Number 4 but unfortunately simply could not compete with The Beatles - Please Please Me album. Elvis was singing "How Would You Like To Be" and they were blasting out "Twist and Shout".

And a soundtrack album that depends on scenes as the song with a kid. But instead of using "Twist And Shout", and making an extreme contrast for effect. "A taste Of Honey" or "Misery" would be a bit more fair, I would think. The slightest song from a soundtrack compared to one of the strongest from an up and coming group? Come on. If I were a teenager of the 1950's and Elvis fan.. I could have compared Elvis going for let's play house and down to business, instead of holding your hand, when the boys in the cute uniforms with the soup bowl haircuts came out! One can use contrast to the advantage while not being fair.

Let's try and keep it to the music instead of trying to bring in personal appearances/looks into it then. Soup bowl haircuts. - No. Anyhow, apart from maybe the weakest track "Boys" on the Please Please Me, which was not a weak song in itself, every song was clearly better than those on the Elvis album. That's why it got to number 1, was at Number 1 for 30 weeks and stayed in the charts for 70 weeks. And whatever it was they were doing or singing, this is what the UK teenagers wanted and were getting enthralled over.

Yes, making derogatory comments about someone's appearance is a little off the mark when talking about the music. The success of albums like Please Please Me is what teenagers were interested in, and it's chart success proves that compared to something like It Happened At The Worlds Fair. Whether or not a classic album has a couple of tracks that are not outstanding (any album by any artist usually does) doesn't take away the fact that most of the album is truely classic compared to an album that has mediocre track all the way through.

[Davelee]

The song is nothing to shout out about - his voice is nice and that's about it!

Another song not worthy of his talent.

No one is shouting.

I didn't say they were.

[Juan Luis]

A pleasant song that I do like, but from an album that was simply too short and didn't really contain any strong tracks with the single One Broken Heart For Sale being the lowest placed single at Number 12 following a long run of chart toppers - no real surprise as it ran for just over one and half minutes. Elvis' voice on this album was top notch though as was all the recordings in the early 60s. The album was released in the UK in the May 1963, it topped out at Number 4 but unfortunately simply could not compete with The Beatles - Please Please Me album. Elvis was singing "How Would You Like To Be" and they were blasting out "Twist and Shout".

And a soundtrack album that depends on scenes as the song with a kid. But instead of using "Twist And Shout", and making an extreme contrast for effect. "A taste Of Honey" or "Misery" would be a bit more fair, I would think. The slightest song from a soundtrack compared to one of the strongest from an up and coming group? Come on. If I were a teenager of the 1950's and Elvis fan.. I could have compared Elvis going for let's play house and down to business, instead of holding your hand, when the boys in the cute uniforms with the soup bowl haircuts came out! One can use contrast to the advantage while not being fair.

Let's try and keep it to the music instead of trying to bring in personal appearances/looks into it then. Soup bowl haircuts. - No. Anyhow, apart from maybe the weakest track "Boys" on the Please Please Me, which was not a weak song in itself, every song was clearly better than those on the Elvis album. That's why it got to number 1, was at Number 1 for 30 weeks and stayed in the charts for 70 weeks. And whatever it was they were doing or singing, this is what the UK teenagers wanted and were getting enthralled over.

Yes, making derogatory comments about someone's appearance is a little off the mark when talking about the music. The success of albums like Please Please Me is what teenagers were interested in, and it's chart success proves that compared to something like It Happened At The Worlds Fair. Whether or not a classic album has a couple of tracks that are not outstanding (any album by any artist usually does) doesn't take away the fact that most of the album is truely classic compared to an album that has mediocre track all the way through.

Had you read after. I stated because of the comment of Elvis wearing a suit and tie.

[Davelee]

The song is nothing to shout out about - his voice is nice and that's about it!

Another song not worthy of his talent.

[Davelee]

A pleasant song that I do like, but from an album that was simply too short and didn't really contain any strong tracks with the single One Broken Heart For Sale being the lowest placed single at Number 12 following a long run of chart toppers - no real surprise as it ran for just over one and half minutes. Elvis' voice on this album was top notch though as was all the recordings in the early 60s. The album was released in the UK in the May 1963, it topped out at Number 4 but unfortunately simply could not compete with The Beatles - Please Please Me album. Elvis was singing "How Would You Like To Be" and they were blasting out "Twist and Shout".

And a soundtrack album that depends on scenes as the song with a kid. But instead of using "Twist And Shout", and making an extreme contrast for effect. "A taste Of Honey" or "Misery" would be a bit more fair, I would think. The slightest song from a soundtrack compared to one of the strongest from an up and coming group? Come on. If I were a teenager of the 1950's and Elvis fan.. I could have compared Elvis going for let's play house and down to business, instead of holding your hand, when the boys in the cute uniforms with the soup bowl haircuts came out! One can use contrast to the advantage while not being fair.

Let's try and keep it to the music instead of trying to bring in personal appearances/looks into it then. Soup bowl haircuts. - No. Anyhow, apart from maybe the weakest track "Boys" on the Please Please Me, which was not a weak song in itself, every song was clearly better than those on the Elvis album. That's why it got to number 1, was at Number 1 for 30 weeks and stayed in the charts for 70 weeks. And whatever it was they were doing or singing, this is what the UK teenagers wanted and were getting enthralled over.

Yes, making derogatory comments about someone's appearance is a little off the mark when talking about the music. The success of albums like Please Please Me is what teenagers were interested in, and it's chart success proves that compared to something like It Happened At The Worlds Fair. Whether or not a classic album has a couple of tracks that are not outstanding (any album by any artist usually does) doesn't take away the fact that most of the album is truely classic compared to an album that has mediocre track all the way through.

Had you read after. I stated because of the comment of Elvis wearing a suit and tie.

Yes, that was after you made the derogatory comment about the group's haircuts which was an attempt to try and bring emjel's comment down, which is why he said lets stick to the music and not about peoples appearances. If you make such off-topic comments you have to expect someone answering to that.

[Juan Luis]

A pleasant song that I do like, but from an album that was simply too short and didn't really contain any strong tracks with the single One Broken Heart For Sale being the lowest placed single at Number 12 following a long run of chart toppers - no real surprise as it ran for just over one and half minutes. Elvis' voice on this album was top notch though as was all the recordings in the early 60s. The album was released in the UK in the May 1963, it topped out at Number 4 but unfortunately simply could not compete with The Beatles - Please Please Me album. Elvis was singing "How Would You Like To Be" and they were blasting out "Twist and Shout".

And a soundtrack album that depends on scenes as the song with a kid. But instead of using "Twist And Shout", and making an extreme contrast for effect. "A taste Of Honey" or "Misery" would be a bit more fair, I would think. The slightest song from a soundtrack compared to one of the strongest from an up and coming group? Come on. If I were a teenager of the 1950's and Elvis fan.. I could have compared Elvis going for let's play house and down to business, instead of holding your hand, when the boys in the cute uniforms with the soup bowl haircuts came out! One can use contrast to the advantage while not being fair.

Let's try and keep it to the music instead of trying to bring in personal appearances/looks into it then. Soup bowl haircuts. - No. Anyhow, apart from maybe the weakest track "Boys" on the Please Please Me, which was not a weak song in itself, every song was clearly better than those on the Elvis album. That's why it got to number 1, was at Number 1 for 30 weeks and stayed in the charts for 70 weeks. And whatever it was they were doing or singing, this is what the UK teenagers wanted and were getting enthralled over.

Yes, making derogatory comments about someone's appearance is a little off the mark when talking about the music. The success of albums like Please Please Me is what teenagers were interested in, and it's chart success proves that compared to something like It Happened At The Worlds Fair. Whether or not a classic album has a couple of tracks that are not outstanding (any album by any artist usually does) doesn't take away the fact that most of the album is truely classic compared to an album that has mediocre track all the way through.

Had you read after. I stated because of the comment of Elvis wearing a suit and tie.

Yes, that was after you made the derogatory comment about the group's haircuts which was an attempt to try and bring emjel's comment down, which is why he said lets stick to the music and not about peoples appearances. If you make such off-topic comments you have to expect someone answering to that.

They did! You on the other hand, are bringing it back for no reason. So stop it and move on.

[Davelee]

A pleasant song that I do like, but from an album that was simply too short and didn't really contain any strong tracks with the single One Broken Heart For Sale being the lowest placed single at Number 12 following a long run of chart toppers - no real surprise as it ran for just over one and half minutes. Elvis' voice on this album was top notch though as was all the recordings in the early 60s. The album was released in the UK in the May 1963, it topped out at Number 4 but unfortunately simply could not compete with The Beatles - Please Please Me album. Elvis was singing "How Would You Like To Be" and they were blasting out "Twist and Shout".

And a soundtrack album that depends on scenes as the song with a kid. But instead of using "Twist And Shout", and making an extreme contrast for effect. "A taste Of Honey" or "Misery" would be a bit more fair, I would think. The slightest song from a soundtrack compared to one of the strongest from an up and coming group? Come on. If I were a teenager of the 1950's and Elvis fan.. I could have compared Elvis going for let's play house and down to business, instead of holding your hand, when the boys in the cute uniforms with the soup bowl haircuts came out! One can use contrast to the advantage while not being fair.

Let's try and keep it to the music instead of trying to bring in personal appearances/looks into it then. Soup bowl haircuts. - No. Anyhow, apart from maybe the weakest track "Boys" on the Please Please Me, which was not a weak song in itself, every song was clearly better than those on the Elvis album. That's why it got to number 1, was at Number 1 for 30 weeks and stayed in the charts for 70 weeks. And whatever it was they were doing or singing, this is what the UK teenagers wanted and were getting enthralled over.

Yes, making derogatory comments about someone's appearance is a little off the mark when talking about the music. The success of albums like Please Please Me is what teenagers were interested in, and it's chart success proves that compared to something like It Happened At The Worlds Fair. Whether or not a classic album has a couple of tracks that are not outstanding (any album by any artist usually does) doesn't take away the fact that most of the album is truely classic compared to an album that has mediocre track all the way through.

Had you read after. I stated because of the comment of Elvis wearing a suit and tie.

Yes, that was after you made the derogatory comment about the group's haircuts which was an attempt to try and bring emjel's comment down, which is why he said lets stick to the music and not about peoples appearances. If you make such off-topic comments you have to expect someone answering to that.

They did! You on the other hand, are bringing it back for no reason. So stop it and move on.

There is every reason for me to make a comment on any post i like whether its on-topic or off-topic, its a discussion forum. So, if I see a comment which I think is right or wrong, I will comment whether you like it or not, considering i've only got around to reading this topic my comments are valid. So if you don't want any negative comments please stay on-topic in the future, even on the topics you created. Its very tiring to see off-topic comments that lead to arguments, if you don't say them first then no one can say anything.

[Juan Luis]

You cannot see there is no argument. And you cannot stop. You'll be pleased later, most probably. Good job.

[Scarre]

Not one of my favourites. There are some good ones on the soundtrack...the already mentioned "One Broken Heart for Sale" and "They Remind Me Too Much of You", and, perhaps, "Happy Ending".

[r&b]

A pleasant song that I do like, but from an album that was simply too short and didn't really contain any strong tracks with the single One Broken Heart For Sale being the lowest placed single at Number 12 following a long run of chart toppers - no real surprise as it ran for just over one and half minutes. Elvis' voice on this album was top notch though as was all the recordings in the early 60s. The album was released in the UK in the May 1963, it topped out at Number 4 but unfortunately simply could not compete with The Beatles - Please Please Me album. Elvis was singing "How Would You Like To Be" and they were blasting out "Twist and Shout".

And a soundtrack album that depends on scenes as the song with a kid. But instead of using "Twist And Shout", and making an extreme contrast for effect. "A taste Of Honey" or "Misery" would be a bit more fair, I would think. The slightest song from a soundtrack compared to one of the strongest from an up and coming group? Come on. If I were a teenager of the 1950's and Elvis fan.. I could have compared Elvis going for let's play house and down to business, instead of holding your hand, when the boys in the cute uniforms with the soup bowl haircuts came out! One can use contrast to the advantage while not being fair.

Let's try and keep it to the music instead of trying to bring in personal appearances/looks into it then. Soup bowl haircuts. - No. Anyhow, apart from maybe the weakest track "Boys" on the Please Please Me, which was not a weak song in itself, every song was clearly better than those on the Elvis album. That's why it got to number 1, was at Number 1 for 30 weeks and stayed in the charts for 70 weeks. And whatever it was they were doing or singing, this is what the UK teenagers wanted and were getting enthralled over.

Well R&B was complaining about suit and tie. I think Robert Palmer looked cool as a rocker with suit and tie and many others. The way you stated it is lets go for the worst song on the soundtrack and lets play the last track of Please Please Me album.

Well it wasnt just the suit and tie if you reread my comment. It was the complete Hollywood makeover. The makeup & hair dye used on that cover was overdone and painfully obvious as compared to say Follow That Dream or the Pot Luck LP cover. It kinda started with GGG, same look, hair parted on the side, very conservative looking. I know it bothered some fans at the time. In fact, I cant remember which, but some teen mag at the time had pictures side by side of Elvis from Worlds Fair and Elvis from King Creole I think. The caption under KC was beautiful , sexy, and dangerous, the one under Worlds Fair was still beautiful but safe. Kinda summed up the audience the Col was looking for with this Hollywood image. And you could say the same about the music.

[stevelecher]

I like It Happened At The World's Fair, but Elvis here has become Mickey Alba in Jailhouse Rock over Vince Everett. I pointed out in a Jailhouse Rock thread once that a Mickey Alba poster in that film looked like Elvis in World's Fair. It's quite remarkable.

[jurasic1968]

Absolutely agree. Elvis became Mickey Alba, unfortunately. Vince Everett died.

[jetblack]

Elvis' voice is equisite on these 1962 recordings.

The ballads all have merit.

Relax
They Remind Me Too Much Of You
I'm Falling In Love Tonight
A World Of Our Own

Elvis nailed 'A World Of Our Own' in one take.

Andy