Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3 is agreatest hits album by Americanrock and roll singerElvis Presley, released byRCA 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 acompilation of hitsingles released in 1960, 1961, and 1962.
Presley's manager,Colonel Tom Parker, envisioned a marketing strategy of alternatingsoundtrack albums with independent studio recordings, accompanied bysingles.[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 theElvis for Everyone compilation.[6] The immediate solution was another compilation ofhit singles, the sales numbers proving the success of this interim strategy.[7]
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 onEP singles, another b-side, and the number two hit single "Can't Help Falling In Love" from thesoundtrack toBlue Hawaii. "The Girl of My Best Friend" was taken from the albumElvis Is Back!, and "Wooden Heart" from the soundtrack toG.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 thefilm 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 moviesFollow That Dream andKid Galahad. RCA later reissued the album on CD again with the bonus tracks removed and the original running order restored.
^"Searchable database".RIAA. Recording Industry Association of America. 2013. RetrievedMay 15, 2013. Note: Search for "Elvis' Golden Records, Volume 3"
^Jorgensen, Ernst.Elvis Presley A Life in Music: The Complete Recording Sessions. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998; pp. 186-187.ISBN978-0-312-18572-5.
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