To benefit from the Christmas business, RCA Victor released "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong - Elvis' Gold Records Volume 2" on November 13, 1959. On February 15, 1960 Billboard started to list the longplayer on their "Pop Albums Chart". It had a run of six weeks and peaked at number 31. The RIAA honored the domestic sales with a Gold Award in 1966, twentysix years later the status was updated to Platinum. In Great Britain the album peaked at number four, worldwide RCA was able to sell four million copies. This amount of physical sales equals 600 million paid streams of the complete album or 6 billion paid streams of individual tracks. Therefore "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong - Elvis' Gold Records Volume 2" is an extremely successful album, but nevertheless it sold just 40% of the sales monster "Elvis' Golden Records". Today the difference is even bigger since the first edition of the "Gold" series accumulates over 1.5 billion streams on Spotify while this second volume clocks in at 105 million streams.

The cover design is based on the sleeves of the ep-series "A Touch Of Gold". Of course the number of Elvis fans wasn't based on any analysis, but was made up out of thin air by Colonel Parker. The backside of the sleeve featured a photo, which was made in Germany and showed the singer with his natural hair color.

On the streaming platforms "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong - Elvis' Gold Records Volume 2" is presented the way it was issued in 2016 as part of the set "The Album Collection". For this project all tracks were scanned with high-resolution equipment and remastered. Therefore the album can be presented with the golden Hi-Res emblem. The better sound of these versions is owed exclusively to the new mastering (the elimination of interfering noise). Because first one cannot turn an analogue recording into a high resolution recording just by scanning the tape with hd equipment and second even an old cd with 16 bit/44.1 kHz exceeds the auditory sense of a human being.

The longplayer compiled the single releases of the previous two years, except the one from the "King Creole" soundtrack. This one hadn't been any less successful, but the tracks were already available on a longplayer. Once again RCA didn't wait for the RIAA to certify the releases, but simply considered every release with more than a million copies sold on the domestic market to be a Gold Record. Compared to the first volume the fans got less for their money, because the new album just had a running time of 22 minutes.

In 2007 Follow That Dream Records released a collector's edition of the album. Besides the tracks of the original longplayer, it also included bonus songs, outtaks and the content of the interview-ep "Elvis Sails". For a review tap HERE.

The rocker was written by Sid Wayne and Bix Reichner and recorded by Elvis on June 10, 1958 at RCA Studio B in Nashville/Tennessee. The king needed 18 attempts to produce a releasable performance. The song itself is a typical piece of teenage music with simple lyrics, but lots of drive. The kids were supposed to dance, not to think. The single "I Need Your Love Tonight" / "A Fool Such As I" was released in March 1959 and sold 4.5 million copies. The a-side was quite successful and peaked at number 4, but finally was overtaken by "A Fool Such As I", which reached number 2. Because of that the latter one was later considered to be the main song. Therefore "I Need Your Love Tonight" was re-released on the boxed set "The Other Sides - Worldwide Gold Award Hits Volume 2" (1971).

The ballad was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Elvis recorded it on September 7, 1957 at Radio Recorders in Hollywood/California, take 7 was selected as master. From today's point of view the lyrics are somewhat creepy, but back then "Don't" was supposed to be a serious love song. "Don't" was released in early 1958, became a number one hit and sold three million units. Later it was also issued on the extended player "A Touch Of Gold" (1959) and on the boxed set "Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits - Volume 1" (1970).

Once again Elvis proved to be the one and only king of rock'n'roll. The song was written by Bert Carroll and Russell Moody and recorded by Elvis on February 1, 1958 at Radio Recorders in Hollywood/California. Take 22 was selected for release, on February 26th a guitar, a piano and percussion were overdubbed. RCA Victor released "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" on a single coupled with "Doncha' Think It's Time", on the ep "A Touch Of Gold - Volume 2" and on the boxed set "Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits - Volume 1" (1970). At the time "Wear My Ring Around You Neck" charted at number 3 and sold two million copies..

This one was released on the b-side of "A Big Hunk O' Love", but nevertheless reached number 12 of the "Hot 100". RCA simply allocated a million of the sales to this track. Later "My Wish Came True" was re-released on the second boxed set "The Other Sides - Worldwide Gold Award Hits Volume 2" (1971). The composition by Ivory Joe Hunter is nothing but a mediocre ballad, the arrangement oft the harmony voices is quite kitschy. But Elvis obviously liked the song a lot, because on September 6, 1957 he recorded 28 takes of it. Because he still wasn't convinced of the result, he tryed again on January 23 and on February 1st, 1958. Once again no satisfactory master could be archived, so he finally chose the final take of the September session.

This one is a straight rock'n'roll song, written by Aaron Schroeder and David Hill. The singer is in love and declares to have been stung by a sweet honey bee. Elvis recorded "I Got Stung" on June 11, 1958 at RCA Studio B in Nashville/Tennessee within 24 takes. Even though "I Got Stung" was just the b-side of "One Night", it peaked at number 8 of the "Hot 100". Once again RCA simply allocated a million units to the track. Later it also could be found on the boxed set "Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits - Volume 1" (1970).

Here we have the ai-side of the aforementioned single. It peaked at number 4 of the Billboard Charts and sold four million units. It was also featured on the ep "A Touch Of Gold - Volume 2" (1959) and on the boxed set "The Other Sides - Worldwide Gold Award Hits Volume 2" (1971). A live recording can be heared on the longplayer "Elvis" (1968). On January 18, 1957 Elvis recorded "One Night Of Sin" at the Paramount Soundstage in Hollywood/California. The decision makers at RCA thought, the song by Dave Bartholomew and Pearl King was way too raunchy and so the lyrics were changed. The rock'n'roll king taped the new version on February 23, 1957 at Radio Recorders in Hollywood/California. Even though he already knew the song, he needed ten takes to get it right. While the narrator was blaming himself for a night of excesses in the original version, he now simply wants to spend a night with his loved one. Back in the 50s of the previous century even this was a risky statement, but at least more acceptable than a report of sexual escapades. It took RCA until the early 1980s to finally release "One Night Of Sin" on the album "A Legendary Performer - Volume 4".

The rock'n'roll song was written by Aaron Schroeder and Sid Wyche and was recorded on June 10, 1958 in Nashville/Tennessee. Because no satisfactory take could be archived, the master was a splice of the attempts number four and three. "A Big Hunk O' Love" was released in the summer of 1959, became a number one hit and sold 3 million copies. It was also included on the boxed set "Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits - Volume 1" (1970). A live performance can be found on the double-album "Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite" (1973). I like "A Big Hunk O' Love" very much. It's an agressive rock'n'roll song performed by Elvis at his very best.

Before RCA Victor issued the track on the flipside of "Don't", it had been in the vaults for quite some time. Elvis had recorded this nice, uptempo popsong on January 13, 1957 at Radio Recorders in Hollywood/California. Even though he had chosen the 12th and final attempt as master, he didn't like the result too well. So he tried again on February 23rd and recorded another 22 takes. Producer Steve Sholes simply continued the numberation and labeled the new recordings as takes 13 to 34. Finally Elvis revoked his first choice and selected take 34 as master. Later "I Beg Of You" was also used on the extended player "A Touch Of Gold" (1959) and on the boxed set "Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits - Volume 1" (1970).

The singer asseverates his love to a lady, who unforortunately just left him. The composition by Bill Trader was originally recorded by Hank Snow in 1952, Elvis followed him on June 10, 1958 at RCA Studio B in Nashville/Tennessee. Take 9 was finally approved for release. "A Fool Such As I" is much more conservative than "I Need Your Love Tonight" and so it was also played by radio stations, that igored rock'n'roll music. Elvis himself also seemed to like the song, because he used it live on stage in 1961 and also rehearsed it for his "Summer Festival" in 1970. But as far as I know he never performed it live at the time. The studio recording was re-released by RCA on the album "A Legendary Performer - Volume 1" (1974) as well as on the boxed set "Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits - Volume 1" (1970). Originally it was the b-side of "I Need Your Love Tonight".

 Elvis worked hard on the tune by Clyde Otis and Willie Dixon, but couldn't come up with a satisfactory take. So the master was a splice of the takes 47, 40 and 48. It first was issued on the flipside of "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck". For the album  "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong - Elvis' Gold Records Volume 2" RCA Victor created an alternate master, using the takes 40 and 39. This track was also released on "The Other Sides - Worldwide Gold Award Hits Volume 2". I like the song very much, today it's unfortunately somewhat forgotten.