B.B. King / Love Me Tender [MCA Records / MCA-5307]

■オリジナル／US盤／虹ラベル。
■盤質：B／薄い擦れ程度で致命的な深いキズ無し。
■ジャケット：B／擦れ汚れあるが抜け裂け割れ無し。

生涯ブルースに人生を捧げたブルースの巨人、BBキング。
本作は、「MCA」に残した1982年作品。ブルースの王様がカントリーとソウルの名曲に挑戦した82年のナッシュヴィル録音盤。エルヴィスプレスリーの名曲「Love Me Tender」、M.ニューベリーの「You've Always Got The Blues」「Time Is A Thief」、W.ネルソンとP.メイフィールドの名曲メドレー「Nightlife, Please Send Me Someone To Love」、ドクター・ジョンの「A World I Never Made」など、意外な選曲で楽しませてくれる異色の意欲作。

A1 One Of Those Nights
A2 Love Me Tender
A3 Don't Change On Me
A4 (I'd Be) A Legend In My Time
A5 You've Always Got The Blues
B1 Nightlife, Please Send Me Someone To Love
B2 You And Me, Me And You
B3 Since I Met You Baby
B4 Time Is A Thief
B5 A World I Never Made

Alto Saxophone – Walter King
Arranged By [Horns] – Harrison Calloway
Arranged By [Rhythm & Strings] – David Briggs
Artwork – Milton Glaser
Backing Vocals – Casey Cisyk, Patti Austin, Vivian Cherry
Baritone Saxophone – Ronald Eades
Bass – Bob Wray
Drums – Larrie Londin
Engineer – Bill Harris, Gregg Hamm, Joe Ferla
Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Brian McGee, David DeBunk, Pete Greene
Guitar – Dale Sellers, Reggie Young
Horns – Muscle Shoals Horns
Keyboards – David Briggs
Management – SAS, Inc.
Mastered By – Jack Adelman
Producer – Stewart Levine
Saxophone [Saxophone Solos] – David Fathead Newman
Steel Guitar – Sonny Garrish
Tenor Saxophone – Harvey Thompson
Trombone – Charles Rose
Trumpet – Ben Cauley, Harrison Calloway