Elvis showed signs of life on Spinout only to be spun back into the dregs on 1967's Double Trouble.
As it always is with Presley's soundtracks, the culprit is the careless construction.
Any time a passable tune surfaces, its appearance seems to be by chance, an accidental combination of performance or production.
Double Trouble kicks up just two of these tracks: the snazzy Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman title track, which kicks with a vigor suited for Vegas, and "Long Legged (With the Short Dress On)," a nice blast of fuzzy chaos.
The rest are stiff throwbacks to the low-stakes hijinks of his early-'60s movies, so outdated that by the time this short LP slides into four leftovers from 1963 and 1964 -- some originally released on EPs, so they're the definition of filler -- there doesn't seem to be much of a gap aesthetically.
Without these four cuts, the soundtrack material would add up to a paltry 16 minutes and that brevity still disguises how terrible the worst of the batch are: Elvis rarely did anything worse than the farting march "I Love Only One Girl" or a big-band rendition of "Old MacDonald," nonsense that seem even worse in the wake of the relatively lively Spinout.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Double TroubleDoc Pomus, Mort Shuman | Elvis Presley | Play | 01:39 | 3 MB | 9 MB |
| 2 | Baby, If You'll Give Me All of Your LoveJoy Byers | Elvis Presley | Play | 01:49 | 4 MB | 10 MB |
| 3 | Could I Fall in LoveRandy Starr | Elvis Presley | Play | 01:43 | 3 MB | 8 MB |
| 4 | Long Legged Girl (With the Short Dress On)J. Leslie McFarland, Winfield Scott | Elvis Presley | Play | 01:28 | 3 MB | 8 MB |
| 5 | City by NightBernie Baum, Bill Giant, Florence Kaye | Elvis Presley | Play | 03:05 | 7 MB | 16 MB |
| 6 | Old MacDonaldRandy Starr | Elvis Presley | Play | 02:05 | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| 7 | I Love Only One GirlRoy Bennett, Sid Tepper | Elvis Presley | Play | 01:53 | 4 MB | 10 MB |
| 8 | There Is So Much World to SeeSid Wayne, Ben Weisman | Elvis Presley | Play | 01:54 | 4 MB | 10 MB |
| 9 | It Won't Be LongSid Wayne, Ben Weisman | Elvis Presley | Play | 01:44 | 3 MB | 10 MB |
| 17 mins | 39 MB | |||||
| 17 mins | 96 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bernie Baum | Composer |
| 2 | Roy Bennett | Composer |
| 3 | Hal Blair | Composer |
| 4 | Joy Byers | Composer |
| 5 | Paul Evans | Composer |
| 6 | Bill Giant | Composer |
| 7 | Buddy Kaye | Composer |
| 8 | Florence Kaye | Composer |
| 9 | J. Leslie McFarland | Composer |
| 10 | Doc Pomus | Composer |
| 11 | Elvis Presley | Guitar, Primary Artist, Vocals |
| 12 | Don Robertson | Composer |
| 13 | Winfield Scott | Composer |
| 14 | Mort Shuman | Composer |
| 15 | Philip Springer | Composer |
| 16 | Randy Starr | Composer |
| 17 | Sid Tepper | Composer |
| 18 | Frederick Tobias | Composer |
| 19 | Sid Wayne | Composer |
| 20 | Ben Weisman | Composer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |