The best three-star cover album you'll ever listen too!

Review Score: (6/10)
The highlights make the mistakes on this album forgivable:

"Remove this Doubt" puts a huge grin on my face - Elvis as a Supreme...brilliant fun!

"I Threw It All Away" - a better performance of a great Dylan song than the original.

"Strange" and "Must You Throw Dirt in my Face" - hilarious! I hope Elvis wants us to laugh with him at these performances - I think he does....

The rest of the songs range from pretty cool ("The Very Thought of You") to head-scratchers ("Leave My Kitten Alone," "Bama Lama..whatever") and of course, don't buy this one if you have any significant holes in your EC collection. But this is a more satisfying album for me than Goodbye Cruel World and even All This Useless Beauty. I know I'm probably about the only EC fan who likes Kojak more than Beauty, but there you have it. It's worth it for the Dylan and Supremes numbers, and you may find enjoyment in some of the other pieces where I have not.

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