One of Elvis' best ballads and sung amazingly (As Usual) it has a brilliant spoken passage in the middle that makes the listener go cold and goosebumpy, 5 Stars. The B-Side is I Gotta Know which is a good pop song that stands out, the bonus song is the laughing version of Are You Lonesome Tonight which was taken from a concert in 1969, it even makes you laugh. So from the start to the end you'll have cried and laughed which is definatley worth a few pounds! In the US it was number one for 6 weeks while I Gotta Know hit #20.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Turn the lights out, 3 Feb 2007

By	Kevin Clarke "kevin17566" (Birmingham UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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The success or otherwise of 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?' depends very much on the mood of the listener at the time. Catch you on a good day and its sentiments can sound hokey and melodramatic. But if you're feeling blue, Elvis's tenderness and burning sincerity will eat you up inside.

To get fully into the mood Elvis had all the lights turned out in the studio when he was laying down the vocal.

He carries off the spoken bridge (which even paraphrases Shakespeare!) remarkably well - or at least I thought he did until a friend rather unkindly pointed out that it sounds like a speech by William Shatner in Star Trek, with some emphases in the wrong places. But no matter - 'Lonesome' is still one of The King's signature pieces.

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