"Anyplace Is Paradise" by Elvis Presley

Not very well known from Elvis' second album. With guitar, piano & bass solos, it's almost (imo) like a Jazz-Blues record! I love it! Thanks to mysterytrainrideson at FECC for inspiration.

 

Love this song too

 

One of my faves!

 

TRYING TO GET TO YOU is one of my very faves, but this, and How's the World Treating You are also wonderful. Heck, I could list 10 more!

 

Ooh, had never heard this one, great song, which of the two CD reissues sounds the best.

I'll also be on the lookout for a nice vinyl copy of that second album.

 

"Anyplace is Paradise" strikes me as a song Elvis would have handled better after his voice had matured a little, say circa 1960. Not one of my favorite 1956 tracks.

 

I love this song along with another deep cut from the same album...."The First In Line."

 

Cool cut from his second álbum. It's no R&B but it's got a nice Bluesy feeling.
The beautiful piano part was actually played by Gordon Stoker, former member of the "The Jordanaires".

 

Elvis songs like these always take me back to EPs. "I Got A Woman", "Just Because", "I Beg Of You" etc. And this song bring back memories of finding Elvis songs that were just as fun and powerful as the hits. Always felt like I had found a little secret when Id discover a "new" Elvis song. Then Id play it over and over and over trying to sing along.

Think its a great song. As were all of the deeper cuts on those EPs.

 

Elvis has so many deep cuts on his albums which are great.
Unfortunately his has a great bunch of bad cuts as well.
But if you do a search, you are going to be rewarded with beautiful 'forgotten' songs

 

As a kid, I was lucky to inherit my older brother's abandoned EPs from that 1956-7 era. I was playing the life out of them in 1963 0r so.

 

That's the most complicated part about his legacy: to select the (many) nuggets between (many) crap.
It reminds me the second christmas álbum (1971). First time I listened to it I felt robbed, cheated,... until those magic 5 minutes of MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY.

 

Love the song. After seeing my reaction to watching Elvis on The Ed Sullivan Show at age 9, my dad bought me my very first records on Christmas 1956; 3 Elvis EPs. One of them was "Elvis Volume II", which contained So Glad You're Mine, Ready Teddy, Old Shep and Anyplace Is Paradise. I played those things to death. My first taste of rock & roll.


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Gordon Stoker was the leader of The Jordanaires until the day he died, when the group then officially ended. Late member yes, but never a former member.

 

The FTD titled ELVIS.

 

Elvis we still have the blues for you.

 

RCA released in 1985 an LP titled "Reconsider Baby" with 12 Bluesy tracks: it remains one of my favorite (with a beautiful cover art, for a change.)

Oopsy, you're right: sorry for the mistake.

 

Everything Elvis 56 is golden

 

Just keeping it accurate

 

READY TEDDY ... Go kick ass son!.



(EP waiting to hear yer man introduce him from L.A to him in NY)

 

Cool.
I got the 2 'ep's' Elvis Vol I and Elvis Vol II from a neighbour who gave them to me in the late 60's.
The 8 songs on those ep's made me a big fan of his early work.
I still very much admire that stuff on the ELVIS album from 1956.
1954 to 1958, Presley really was the KING.

 

I think that everything he recorded between the Sun sessions and the first 2 post-army sessions (in March and April 1960) was near perfect.
Then came "G.I.Blues"...

 

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