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Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3
Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3
Greatest hits album by Elvis Presley
Released	August 12, 1963
Recorded	March 20, 1960 – March 19, 1962
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	29:42
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Stephen H. Sholes
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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Record Mirror	^[2]

Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3 is a greatest hits album by American rock and roll singer Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor as LPM/LSP-2765 on August 12, 1963.^[3] The album was the third volume of an eventual five volume collection, and his eighteenth altogether. It is a compilation of hit singles released in 1960, 1961, and 1962.

The album was originally released as a mono and stereo LP record and was reissued several times on compact disc. It peaked at number three on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. The album was certified Gold on November 1, 1966, and Platinum on March 27, 1992, by the Recording Industry Association of America.^[4]

Background

Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, envisioned a marketing strategy of alternating soundtrack albums with independent studio recordings, accompanied by singles.^[5] By mid-1963, Presley's studio albums had struggled while the soundtrack albums had all done brisk business. Sessions in late May had failed to produce material cohesive enough for a regular album, those tracks surfacing on singles and pell-mell on soundtracks and the Elvis for Everyone compilation.^[6] The immediate solution was another compilation of hit singles, the sales numbers proving the success of this interim strategy.^[7]

Content

Golden Records Volume 3 comprises eight Top Five A-sides along with four b-sides which also made the Top 40, "Fame and Fortune", "I Gotta Know", "Little Sister", and "Anything That's Part of You". Five A-Sides, "Stuck on You", "It's Now or Never", "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", "Surrender", and "Good Luck Charm" went to #1. "It's Now or Never" had been adapted from the 1898 Neapolitan song "'O sole mio," and "Are You Lonesome Tonight", a ballad from 1926, had been a rare request from Parker to Presley for Parker's wife.^[8] As with the other titles in the series, all singles in this compilation are certified by the RIAA as attaining gold status with sales of at least 500,000 copies.

Original recordings produced by Steve Sholes, Joseph Lilley, Chet Atkins, Urban Thielmann, Jeff Alexander, and Hans J. Salter.

Reissues

RCA first issued the original 12-track album on compact disc in 1989. The second CD reissue in 1997 added six bonus tracks, those being two album tracks, two songs originally issued on EP singles, another b-side, and the number two hit single "Can't Help Falling In Love" from the soundtrack to Blue Hawaii. "The Girl of My Best Friend" was taken from the album Elvis Is Back!, and "Wooden Heart" from the soundtrack to G.I. Blues. "Wooden Heart" would be reissued as a b-side twice, once in 1964 and again in 1965, and the b-side "Wild in the Country" is the title track to the film of the same name. The remaining pair of film songs, "Follow That Dream" and "King of the Whole Wide World", are respectively from the EP soundtracks to the Presley movies Follow That Dream and Kid Galahad. RCA later reissued the album on CD again with the bonus tracks removed and the original running order restored.

Track listing

Chart positions for singles taken from Billboard Pop Singles chart where noted.

Original release

Side one
No.	Z	Song Title	Writer(s)	Recorded	Catalogue	Release Date	Chart Peak	Length
1.		"It's Now or Never"	Eduardo di Capua, Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold	April 3, 1960	47-7777	July 5, 1960	1	3:15
2.		"Stuck on You"	Aaron Schroeder, J. Leslie McFarland	March 20, 1960	47-7740	March 23, 1960	1	2:18
3.		"Fame and Fortune"	Fred Wise, Ben Weisman	March 20, 1960	47-7740b	March 23, 1960	17	2:30
4.		"I Gotta Know"	Paul Evans, Matt Williams	April 3, 1960	47-7810b	November 1, 1960	20	2:15
5.		"Surrender"	Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman	October 30, 1960	47-7850	February 7, 1961	1	1:52
6.		"I Feel So Bad"	Chuck Willis	March 12, 1961	47-7880	May 2, 1961	5	2:54
Side two
No.		Song Title	Writer(s)	Recorded	Catalogue	Release Date	Chart Peak	Length
1.		"Are You Lonesome Tonight?"	Lou Handman, Roy Turk	April 3, 1960	47-7810	November 1, 1960	1	3:05
2.		"(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame"	Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman	June 25, 1961	47-7908	August 8, 1961	4	2:08
3.		"Little Sister"	Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman	June 25, 1961	47-7908b	August 8, 1961	5	2:31
4.		"Good Luck Charm"	Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold	October 15, 1961	47-7992	February 27, 1962	1	2:24
5.		"Anything That's Part of You"	Don Robertson	October 15, 1961	47-7992b	February 27, 1962	31	2:05
6.		"She's Not You"	Doc Pomus, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller	March 19, 1962	47-8041	July 17, 1962	5	2:08

1997 Reissue bonus tracks

No.	Song Title	Writer(s)	Recorded	Catalogue	Release Date	Chart Peak	Length
Tracks 1-12 are from the original album
13.	"Wild in the Country"	George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore	November 7, 1960	47-7880b	May 2, 1961	26	1:52
14.	"Wooden Heart"	Fred Wise, Ben Weisman	April 28, 1960	LSP 2256 (G.I. Blues)	October 1, 1960	—	2:02
15.	"The Girl of My Best Friend"	Beverly Ross, Sam Bobrick	April 3, 1960	LSP 2231 (Elvis Is Back!)	April 8, 1960	—	2:21
16.	"Follow That Dream"	Fred Wise, Ben Weisman	July 2, 1961	EPA 4368 (Follow That Dream)	April 1, 1962	15	1:37
17.	"King of the Whole Wide World"	Ruth Batchelor, Bob Roberts	October 27, 1961	EPA 4371 (Kid Galahad)	August 1, 1962	30	2:06
18.	"Can't Help Falling In Love"	George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore	March 23, 1961	47-7968	November 22, 1961	2	2:59

Personnel

Elvis Presley – vocals, acoustic guitar
Scotty Moore – rhythm guitar, lead guitar on "Stuck on You" and "Fame and Fortune"
Hank Garland – lead guitar, bass on "Stuck on You," "Fame and Fortune," and "(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame"
Tiny Timbrell – guitar on 1997 bonus tracks "Wooden Heart", "King of the Whole Wide World," and "Wild in the Country"
Neal Matthews – lead guitar on "(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame," rhythm guitar on 1997 bonus track "King of the Whole Wide World"
Harold Bradley – guitar on "She's Not You” and six-string bass on "Little Sister"
Jerry Kennedy – lead guitar on "Good Luck Charm" and "Anything That's Part of You"
Grady Martin – guitar or vibraphone on "She's Not You"
Floyd Cramer – piano, organ
Gordon Stoker – piano
Dudley Brooks – piano on 1997 bonus track "Wild in the Country"
Bob Moore – double bass
Ray Siegel – double bass on 1997 bonus track “Wooden Heart"
Meyer Rubin – double bass on 1997 bonus track “Wild in the Country"
D.J. Fontana – drums
Buddy Harman – drums
Hal Blaine – drums or percussion on 1997 bonus track “Can’t Help Falling In Love”
Bernie Mattinson – drums, percussion
Boots Randolph – saxophone, vibraphone
Jimmie Haskell – accordion on 1997 bonus track "Wild in the Country"
The Jordanaires – backing vocals
Millie Kirkham – backing vocals

Charts and certifications

Album

Chart (1963)	Peak position
US Billboard 200^[9]	3

Chart (1964)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart^[10]	6

Chart (1977)	Peak position
French Top Albums^[11]	6

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
France (SNEP)^[12]	Gold	100,000^*
United States (RIAA)^[13]	Platinum	1,000,000^{^}
^* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.