If you have read any of my recent or perhaps my previous Elvis reviews you will know I generally have little or nothing bad to say about him or his albums but I have to put my hands up and admit that the Frankie and Johnny album is a poor production. Frankie and Johnny was Elvis`s 20th movie and the album as you might have guessed is a soundtrack from the movie, now Elvis`s movies were never great but their one saving grace was often their music. However the music in Frankie and Johnny was generally as bad as the movie itself. There are no real Elvis classics on this album and some of the tracks such as "Petunia the gardener's ...  Read the complete review

FRANKIE AND JOHNNY was Elvis Presley's 20th movie and was a themed musical which takes on the era of the Mississippi showboats. This CD is another release by the Elvis Presley specialist record label FTD and is an extended version of the original soundtrack LP with additional outtakes and alternate takes. Some of the music here is not good. PETUNIA THE GARDENER'S DAUGHTER is as poor a song as the title suggests. Lyrics such as "I'm as daffy as a daffodil" do not a good Elvis song make and Elvis' delivery of the song shows that he was not really enjoying himself. His version of the title song, FRANKIE AND JOHNNY, is more enjoyable with a ...  Read the complete review