Even though RCA Victor had released "Love Letters From Elvis" in June 1971, CAMDEN wasn't shy to issue the budget compilation "C'mon Everybody" the following month. On July 24, 1971 the album entered the "Top LPs Chart", stayed there for eleven weeks and peaked at number 70. This was caused by the low price. To avoid "bought" chart successes by price dumping, Billboard calculated the charts by using the value in USD. In Great Britain the charts were calculated by sold units, here "C'mon Everybody" peaked at number 5. The RIAA also based their awards on the number of sold copies, they honored the US sales with a Gold Award in 2004. Worldwide CAMDEN was able to retail two million units, which translates to 300 million paid streams of the complete album or 3 billion paid streams of individual tracks. At the time everybody certainly was surprised, that "C'mon Everybody" outsold "Love Letters From Elvis", which was after all an album with new songs. Today "C'mon Everybody" and "Love Letters From Elvis" accumulate approximately 14 million streams each on Spotify.

Even though the album was filled with movie songs from the 1960s, the cover shows a live photo from August 1970. It's a very good picture, but it doesn't fit the content at all. The backside showed a crowd holding up signs and balloons with the song titles.

On the streaming platforms "C'mon Everybody" is presented the way it was issued in 2016 as part of the set "The Album Collection". As bonus tracks the digital version also includes "The Lady Loves Me" and "Sing You Children". 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. 

After the release of "You'll Never Walk Alone" the original contract with CAMDEN ran out. But the label had an option for another two albums, which of course was drawn due to the success of the records. This time CAMDEN compiled movie songs, that had been available on extended players in the 1960s. By now this format was dead and the releases had been deleted from the RCA catalogue. So "C'mon Everybody" was a possibility to buy these songs or to substitute the old, worn out eps with a new longplayer. CAMDEN also made the clever move, not to present complete eps. The rest of the songs would be released later and so the fans had to buy two CAMDEN albums to get all the tracks. The extended players the songs were originated from were "Follow That Dream" (1962), "Kid Galahad" (1962), "Viva Las Vegas" (1964) and "Easy Come, Easy Go" (1967). The running time of the album is 22:58 minutes.

Unfortunately this is not the rock'n'roll classic by Eddie Cochran, but a regular movie song written by Joy Byers. Elvis recorded it on July 9, 1963 within five takes. This nice, uptempo track was known from the ep "Viva Las Vegas". Even though the film became the king's most successful motion picture, the soundtrack sold just 500,000 units and became Elvis' worst selling extended player since 1958.

This one had been features on the soundtrack of "Follow That Dream" in 1962. The ep sold 1.5 million copies and was honored with a Platinum Award. "Angel" is a beautiful love song that also could have been released on a regular studio album. Elvis needed seven takes for the ballad, which was written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett.

The title song was written by Ben Weisman and Sid Wayne and was recorded by Elvis on September 28, 1966 within nine takes. The singer claims to have a girl in every port, everything is easy and uncomplicated. It's a nice, uptempo movie tune. The extended player sold just 30,000 (!) copies and became the king's biggest commercial flop.

Elvis already had recorded the song by Edwards/David on July 2, 1961 for "Follow That Dream". The fourth take became the groundwork for the master, to which Ray Walker added the whistling. In the end the track was neither used in the film, nor on the soundtrack ep. After it was decided that Elvis should perform the song in "Kid Galahad", he didn't simply use his old recording, but taped "A Whistling Tune" a second time on October 26, 1961. This time he wasn't able to produce a satisfactory take. The master finally was a splice of the takes 1 and 8. The extended player "Kid Galahad" sold a million copies and was certified Gold by the RIAA.

The snappy title song (guess on which ep it was released) was written by Fred Wise and Ben Weisman, Elvis recorded it within six takes. The king performs the happy tune with enthusiasm. To me "Follow That Dream" is one of the best movie songs of the man from Memphis.

According to this tune everything is fine as long as you can sing a song. Elvis recorded the composition by Ruth Batchelor and Bob Roberts on October 26, 1961, but none of the 31 takes met his taste. So he taped another four takes on the next day and selected the final one for release. In Germany RCA Victor issued "King Of The Whole Wide World" not just on the "Kid Galahad" ep, but also on a single, which peaked at number 26 of the national chart.

The nice, uptempo popsong from the "Easy Come, Easy Go" soundtrack was written by Dolores Fuller and Mark Barkan. Because Elvis couldn't reach a satisfactory take on September 28th, the master was spliced of takes number 4, 8 and 3.

Bill Giant, Bernie Baum and Florence Kaye turned Franz Liszt's "Liebestraum" into "Today, Tomorrow And Forever". On July 11, 1963 Elvis and Ann-Margret recorded two duet takes, the musicians produced four instrumental takes afterwards. Because the producer simply continued the counting these tracks are archived as takes 3 to 6. In the end Elvis didn't add his voice to the music tracks, but recorded six takes together with the band. "Today, Tomorrow And Forever" was first released on the extended player "Viva Las Vegas".

In the movie "Follow That Dream" the song is ok, on the record it sounds a bit weak. Mr. Presley needed eight attempts to put the composition by Mack David on tape.