A few weeks after the release of the longplayer "Elvis" and the extended player "Elvis - Volume 1" RCA Victor threw "Elvis - Volume 2" on the market. This time Billboard picked "Old Shep" as the most important song and listed it on the "Hot 100" singles chart. It had a run of two weeks and peaked at number 47. The RIAA honored the US sales of 500,000 units with a Gold Award (1992). In total the ep sold a million units, which translates to 150 million paid streams of the complete record or 600 million paid streams of individual tracks.Compared to the first volume the sales had lowered by 50%, but the owners of the album didn't need the ep. And for a second exploitation an additional million copies were not bad at all.

Apart from the tracklist and the name the design was a copy of the first volume's sleeve.

The extended player cannot be found on the streaming platforms, because all tracks are available on the album "Elvis" (1956).

This song was written and recorded by Arthur Crudup in the 1940s, Elvis covered it on January 30, 1956 at the RCA Studio in New York City/New York within ten takes. Originally "So Glad You're Mine" was taped for the king's first album, but even though it would have been one of its strongest songs it was left out at the time.

At the time "Old Shep" must have been a real surprise, because nobody expected a sad ballad about a boy and his dog from somebody, who was said to be the king of rock'n'roll. In fact Elvis loved "Old Shep" and sang this song since his childhood days. I like the track very much, because it's one of the very few ballads, that Elvis sang well at the time. In the 1950s he was really good at uptempo songs, but he simply lacked the technique to perform the slow tunes well. On September 2, 1956 the king recorded five takes of "Old Shep", but finally approved his first attempt for release. Because of a mistake some pressings of "Elvis" include take 5 of the song. Today these versions of the album are quite expensive. CAMDEN included the sad ballad on the budget lp "Separate Ways" (1972). The song was written by Red Foley, who was also the first to release it.

This is another song by Robert Blackwell and John Marscalco, that was recorded first by Little Richard. Elvis followed him on September 3, 1956 within 12 takes and delivered rock'n'roll at its best. The lyrics are bland, but the rhythm is great and the king's performance is flawless.

The singer claims, that any place is like paradise as long as his loved one is with him. On September 2, 1956 Elvis worked hard on this slow popsong and needed 22 takes to reach a satisfactory result. The song by Joe Thomas certainly has no potential for a single, but as an album track it works just fine.