Love Letters From Elvis

This was more along the lines of a budget album in its assembly than any of Elvis’ last four studio albums. It was described by more than one critic as sounding like a bunch of leftovers, and with all ten tracks thrown together from the dregs of the June 1970 sessions – and nothing to represent the thirty new tracks he had just recorded in Nashville in another marathon series of sessions – it was. Evidently the prevailing logic was based on the admirable principle of wartime rationing: nothing was to go to waste. The public failed to respond in droves of more than 300,000.