Love Songs [BMG International] (1999)

About this title: Time-Life's The Elvis Presley Collection is a series of two-CD compilations grouping Presley recordings by various criteria. Love Songs has an obvious unifying theme, and among its 31 selections are most of Presley's best-known romantic ballads, including the Top Ten hits "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You," "Love Me Tender," "Love Me," "Don't," "It's Now or Never," "Are You Lonesome Tonight?," "Surrender," "Can't Help Falling in Love," and "The Wonder of You," as well as such Presley standards as "Always on My Mind" and the Kris Kristofferson compositions "Help Me Make It Through the ... read more

Tracks:

1. Love Me Tender [Matson/Presley]
2. It's Now or Never [DiCapua/Gold/Schroe]
3. Are You Lonesome Tonight? [Handman/Turk]
4. Don't [Leiber/Stoller]
5. Loving You [Leiber/Stoller]
6. Can't Help Falling in Love [Creatore/Peretti/We]
7. Love Letters [Heyman/Young]
8. I Want You, I Need You, I Love You [Kosloff/Mysels]
9. That's When Your Heartaches Begin [Fisher/Hill/Raskin]
10. True Love [Porter]
11. Young and Beautiful [Silver/Schroeder]
12. Doin' the Best I Can [Pomus/Shuman]
13. Something Blue [Byron/Evans]
14. Angel [Bennett/Tepper]
15. That's Someone You Never Forget [West/Presley]
16. Just Pretend [Flett/Fletcher]
17. For the Good Times [Kristofferson]
18. Woman Without Love [Chesnut]
19. He'll Have to Go [Allison/Allison]
20. It's Impossible [Manzanero/Wayne]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.