Elvis For Everyone

LSP-3450
Released: August 10, 1965

33 rpm, Mono
LP 12"

Side A
Matrix Side A: SPRS-5392 4S

01. Your Cheatin' Heart [2:24] ²)
02. Summer Kisses Winter Tears
      [2:17] ¹¹)
03. Finders Keepers Losers Weepers
      [1:50] ⁷)
04. In My Way [1:19] ³)
05. Tomorrow Night [2:48] ¹⁰)
06. Memphis Tennessee [2:11] ⁹)

Side 2
Matrix Side B: SPRS-5393 2S

01. For The Millionth And Last Time [2:04] ⁵)
02. Forget Me Never [1:35] ³)
03. Sound Advice [1:45] ⁴)
04. Santa Lucia [1:11] ⁸)
05. I Met Her Today [2:40] ⁶)
06. When It Rains It Really Pours [1:46] ¹)

¹) Recorded: Radio Recorders, Hollywood, February 24, 1957
²) Recorded: Radio Recorders, Hollywood, February 1, 1958
³) Recorded: 20th Century Fox Studios, Hollywood, November 7, 1960
⁴) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, July 2, 1961
⁵) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, October 15, 1961
⁶) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, October 16, 1961
⁷) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, May 27, 1963
⁸) Recorded: MGM Sound Studios, Hollywood, July 11, 1963
⁹) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, January 12, 1964
¹⁰) Recorded: Sun Studios, Memphis, July 5, 1954, Overdubbed March 18, 1965
¹¹) Soundtrak Session For Paramount, Roustabout, April 29, 1964

Elvis for Everyone! is the twenty-third album by Elvis Presley, issued on RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 3450, in August 1965. Recording sessions took place over a ten-year span at Sun Studio in Memphis, RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, and Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California. It peaked at #10 on the Top Pop Albums chart.

Sessions in late May 1963 failed to coalesce into his fifth studio album of the 1960s, and by 1965 Presley's musical output had been focused exclusively on his movie career and soundtrack output. He had not released a proper studio album since Pot Luck with Elvis in June 1962, although seven non-movie singles had been issued since. RCA invented the concept of an "Anniversary Album" to celebrate Presley's tenth year on their label, which became Elvis For Everyone.

Given the cover depicting Elvis standing next to the RCA mascot Nipper sitting atop a cash register, one can infer exactly what this album would be celebrating. Since May 1963, Presley had only made one non-movie session in January 1964 that yielded a mere three tracks, two of which had already been issued as sides for singles. Bereft of new material, RCA assembled this album from unused tracks going all the way back to the Sun Records years, from sessions for both soundtracks and regular commercial releases. Possibly owing to its assembly from scraps and rejects, although it made the top ten on the LP chart, it was the first Presley album to sell fewer than 300,000 copies during the decade.

On August 14, 1965, this LP was number 10 on Billboard's Hot LP chart, it stayed on the chart for twenty-seven weeks.