The second budget album of the year was called "Burning Love And Hits From His Movies" and was released in October 1972. On November 11th it entered the "Top LPs Chart", had a run of 25 weeks and peaked at number 22. To avoid "bought" chart success by price dumping, Billboard calculated the charts by using the value in USD. But with sales of 700,000 copies even a budget album came that far. "Burning Love And Hits From His Movies" also entered the "Hot Country Albums Chart", where it stayed for 18 weeks and reached number 10. The RIAA honored the domestic sales with a Gold Award (1992), a Platinum Award (1999) and a Double Platinum Award (2004). Worldwide CAMDEN retailed four million copies, which equals 600 million paid streams or 6 billion paid streams of individual songs. Therefore "Burning Love And Hits From His Movies" is the 3rd most successful CAMDEN album and even tops most of the regular RCA albums of the king.

The cover features a concert picture from June 1972, but because "Burning Love" is the hook of this compilation it's a fitting choice. The backside is unsed to promote the previous CAMDEN releases and the forthcoming soundtrack "Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite".

To boost the sales, the first edition of "Burning Love And Hits From His Movies" included a photo card, which also advertised the current live album "Elvis As Recorded At Madison Square Garden".

Because all songs from this longplayer are included on other albums or have been added as bonus tracks to their digital versions, this album is obsolete today and cannot be found on the streaming platforms.

"Burning Love And Hits From His Movies" can be regarded as the sequel of "Elvis Sings Hits From His Movies - Volume 1". This time CAMDEN took the concept a little further, used the king's current hit single "Burning Love" / "It's A Matter Of Time" as a hook and added eight movie tunes, that were based on popular melodies. The tracks were taken from the soundtrack albums "G.I. Blues" (1960), "Blue Hawaii" (1961), "Girls! Girls! Girls!" (1962), "Fun In Acapulco" (1963), "Kissin' Cousins" (1964), "Spinout" (1966) and "Double Trouble" (1967). "Santa Lucia" had appeared in the movie "Viva Las Vegas" (1964) and had been released on the compilation album "Elvis For Everyone!" (1965). The running time of this CAMDEN lp is 23:21 minutes.

At the time it was a novum to release a current hit single on a budget compilation instead of a full-price album with new material. Elvis' manager and RCA are often criticized for doing that, but commercially the course of action is hardly contestable. "Burning Love And Hits From His Movies" sold better than most of Presley's studio albums and "saved" eight current recordings for future releases. Of course Colonel Parker had his own reasons for acting this way. The CAMDEN albums were regarded as joint ventures, in which he got a share of 50%. On the regular recording projects he just made half as much. Even though Elvis officially had authorized his manager to decide about the content of the CAMDEN releases, he certainly could have intervened if he would have been against this approach. Colonel Parker, RCA and Elvis himself were out for a fast buck. Fans and critics may turn up their noses at this procedure, but it obviously met the taste of the audience. Otherwise "Burning Love And Hits From His Movies" wouldn't be one of the best sellers in the Presley canon.

Elvis recorded the rock'n'roll tune on March 28, 1972 at RCA Studio C in Hollywood/California within six takes. On April 27th Felton Jarvis added further instruments and shortened the recording of half a minute. The song was written by Dennis Linde and originally released by Arthur Alexander. Even though "Burning Love" is a straight rock song, Elvis doesn't perform it with the necessary agression. Maybe it was because of his peddled dislike of the song, maybe he simply wanted to sound like a popsinger. As written before, the recording was released on the single "Burning Love" / "It's A Matter Of Time", which sold three million copies and became Elvis' biggest hit since 1969. A live version can be found on "Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite" (1973).

This ballad was written by Giant/Baum/Kaye and based on a melody called "Shenandoah". The music track was recorded in two takes on September 29, 1963. Elvis was even faster and nailed the song on the first try. In contrast to the logic of the movie "Kissin' Cousins" Elvis sings without Tennessee slang, even though the ballad is supposed to be sung by Jodie. However, I guess the king was aware that this would have ruined the song completely and it also would have been the first time anybody cared for the logic of a Presley flick.

Anno 1910 Victor Herbert & His Orchestra performed the operetta "When Sweet Sixteen" for the first time. The stage play included a song named "To A Wild Rose", which was released by Herbert on a record the same year. Half a century later Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett turned the ballad into "Am I Ready" and Elvis recorded it on February 16, 1966 within seven takes. The song first appeared on the soundtrack album "Spinout".

Sid Wayne and Abner Silver adapted "Barcarole" from "Hoffmanns Erzaehlungen" by Jeacques Offenbach and turned it into "Tonight Is So Right For Love". On April 27, 1960 Elvis recorded seven takes before he gave up and turned to "What's She Really Like" and "Frankfort Special". Some hours later he returned to the song by Wayne/Silver and taped another four takes. The final one was selected for release on the "G.I. Blues" album.

Now we move on to the soundtrack of "Fun In Acapulco". This song is in Spanish language and was written and recorded by Pepe Guisar in 1936. The music track was recorded on January 23rd, the vocal track followed on February 27th. Neither the band, nor Elvis managed to produce a complete, releasable track. The music was a splice of the takes 1 and 7, the vocal was a splice of the takes 6 and 2.

This country-styled ballad was written by Clive Westlake, whose daughter was a well-known tv show host in Germany. Elvis sings the song with a touch of sadness in his voice, which fits the wistful melody well. He recorded "It's A Matter Of Time" on March 29, 1972 at RCA Studio C in Hollywood/California and approved the 5th attempt for release. Felton Jarvis added strings and horns, but didn't meet the king's taste and therefore had to remove his overdubs.

Don Robertson and Hal Blair took the classic "La Paloma" and turned it into "No More". On March 21, 1961 Elvis recorded 13 takes and three insert-takes with the ending of the song. The master is a splice of take 13 and insert-take 3. Because Joseph Lilley, the producer of the sessions, simply continued the numbering, the official splice is 13/16. In the movie "Blue Hawaii" Chat (Elvis) tells his grandmother, that it was an Italian song, but in fact the tango was written in the 1850s by Sebastian Yradier and was a tribute to Cuban music.

The lyrics of this traditional were written in 1850 by Teodoro Cottrau, the first recording was by Enrico Caruso in 1916. Elvis wasn't a tenor singer, his style was popmusic and he hadn't any clue of the Italian language. Nevertheless his performance sounds great, at least for a German like me, who also doesn't know anything about this tongue. The king recorded "Santa Lucia" on July 10, 1963 at Radio Recorders in Hollywood/California for "Viva Las Vegas" and needed three takes to archive a satisfactory result. RCA Victor first released the track in 1965 on the compilation album "Elvis For Everyone!".

Now we move back to the soundtrack of "Girls! Girls! Girls!", which was issued in 1962. The song is based on a Mexican traditional and had alread been a hit for Perry Como in 1952. At the time it was called "Tulips And Heather", ten years later Charles O' Curran and Dudley Brooks turned the tune into "We'll Be Together". Elvis recorded it on May 23, 1962. The session was scheduled, because the song was added at the last minute. For me, "We'll Be Together" is one of the king's best movie songs. Elvis needed eleven takes to record it, some lines are sung in Spanish.