Elvis Is Back! Songwriting Credits by Elvis Presley

Elvis Is Back! is the seventh studio album by Elvis Presley, released in April 1960 on RCA Victor Records and produced by Steve Sholes and Chet Atkins. It was recorded immediately after Presley's discharge from the US Army in March 1960 and a deliberate statement of creative return, the exclamation point in the title functioning as both commercial promotion and personal declaration. Presley did not write any of the 12 tracks; the album's material includes R&B covers ('Such a Night,' 'Dirty Dirty Feeling,' 'Thrill of Your Love'), adult pop ballads ('Make Me Know It,' 'Soldier Boy'), and blues material ('Like a Baby') in a range that was broader than his pre-Army work. The album demonstrated that Presley's voice had matured during the Army period into a lower, fuller instrument than the high-tenor rockabilly delivery of his Sun recordings, a vocal change that expanded his adult pop commercial range considerably and contributed to the Nashville Sound-oriented approach he would pursue through the early 1960s. Elvis Is Back! reached number two on the Billboard Best Sellers chart and has been certified gold in the United States; it is critically regarded as one of the most fully realized studio albums of Presley's career, with a directness and musical engagement that subsequent film soundtrack albums would rarely match. The album's success confirmed that Presley's two-year Army absence had not diminished his commercial standing and that his voice, now matured into a fuller lower register, was capable of sustaining the adult pop ballad material that Colonel Parker and Steve Sholes had identified as the commercial direction for the 1960s phase of his career.