Something For Everybody

Something for Everybody is the sixth studio album by Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo as LPM/LSP 2370 on June 17, 1961.

Recording sessions took place on November 8, 1960 at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, and on March 12, 1961 at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. In the United States, the album reached number 1 on Billboard’s Top Pop LPs chart, where it stayed for three weeks.

The title tells you a lot about the record itself. Side one leans into slow, sentimental love ballads, while side two shifts into uptempo rock and roll and R&B, giving the album a real sense of range without losing that unmistakable Elvis Presley touch.

Presley returned to the familiar Studio B in Nashville on March 12, 1961 and cut eleven tracks for the album in a single twelve-hour session, along with the single I Feel So Bad. That song was originally planned as the twelfth track on the album, but after RCA executive Bill Bullock overruled the Colonel, who wanted Wild In The Country paired with I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell as the single, Presley chose I Feel So Bad to accompany the title track to the film Wild in the Country as the promotional 45 for the film.

Another song featured in the film, I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell, had not been commercially released on record at the time and instead became the final track on the album.