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the Wonder of You: Elvis Presley with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [LP]
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the Wonder of You: Elvis Presley with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [LP]
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the Wonder of You: Elvis Presley with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [LP]
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is a sequel in the truest sense: it delivers more of the same thing that made the 2015 album
into a surprise hit around the globe. The gimmick behind both of the albums is taking original
vocal performances and setting them to brand-new orchestral arrangements from
.
isn't as splashy as its predecessor, lacking duets with
and
(the bonus track, "Just Pretend," does feature
), and it also doesn't contain quite as many rockers as
. All this means
is thoroughly middlebrow, largely consisting of ballads and soft pop tunes, all given pompous pops arrangements. Occasionally, the new versions aren't too far away from the originals -- usually, this would be for such '70s Vegas showstoppers as "I Just Can't Help Believin'" -- but there's still a disconnect between
's vocal performances and the cheerfully cheesy orchestrations, particularly on numbers like "Kentucky Rain" and "Suspicious Minds," recordings that benefited from the interaction of
and the musicians in
's American Sound Studio. To the creators of
, all that matters is the power of
's performance, which
accentuates. It, like
, is executed well -- the separation between the old tapes and new performance is seamless. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine