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From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis is the thirty-fifth album, not counting budget compilations on the RCA Camden subsidiary, by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records, LSP 6020, in November of 1969. The set was issued to capitalize upon the success of Presley's previous album, From Elvis in Memphis, and also to tie-in with his newfound success as a headliner in Las Vegas. It is Presley's first double album, and it peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200.
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The first album carried the title Elvis In Person at the International Hotel and consisted of live performances taped at the International Hotel in August 1969, during Presley's return to live performance after a layoff of eight years since a benefit concert in Hawaii in March of 1961.[1] It was the first live album ever released by Presley, and the inaugural engagement of the group that would come to be known as the TCB Band in the 1970s, with Larry Muhoberac on piano in place of TCB regular Glen D. Hardin.
The second album carried the title Back In Memphis, and consisted of material recorded from the sessions at American Studios in Memphis not already released on From Elvis in Memphis. Two songs, "The Fair's Is Moving On" and "You'll Think of Me" had previously appeared respectively as the b-sides to the singles "Clean Up Your Own Backyard" and "Suspicious Minds" earlier in the year. Being leftovers and not including either "Suspicious Minds" or two additional tracks held for future singles, "Don't Cry Daddy" and "Kentucky Rain," the album lacked the impact of the its predecessor, with only the track "Stranger In My Hometown" equaling the intensity of the already issued songs.[2]
In November 1970, RCA reissued the double LP as individual albums each identified by their original subtitles, LSP 4428 and LSP 4429, and it is currently out of print in its original format. The studio tracks from Back In Memphis can be found on either the 1960s box set or the Suspicious Minds double-disc retrospective of Presley's winter 1969 Memphis sessions. Elvis In Person at the International Hotel is also out of print, although the complete show from August 24, 1969, which provided three songs for this album, can be found on disc one of the 2001 box set Live In Las Vegas.
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Elvis In Person at the International Hotel
[edit] Back In Memphis
- Elvis Presley - vocals, guitar
- Reggie Young - guitar
- Dan Penn - guitar
- Bobby Wood - piano
- Bobby Emmons - organ
- Tommy Cogbill - bass
- Mike Leech - bass
- Gene Chrisman - drums
- Ed Kollis - harmonica
- Joe Babcock - backing vocals
- Dolores Edgin - backing vocals
- Mary Greene - backing vocals
- Charlie Hodge - backing vocals
- Ginger Holladay - backing vocals
- Mary Holladay - backing vocals
- Millie Kirkham - backing vocals
- June Page - backing vocals
- Susan Pilkington - backing vocals
- Sandy Posey - backing vocals
- Donna Thatcher - backing vocals
- Hurschel Wiginton - backing vocals
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side One: Elvis In Person at the International Hotel
[edit] Side Two: Elvis In Person at the International Hotel
[edit] Side Three: Back In Memphis
| Track |
Recorded |
Song Title |
Writer(s) |
Time |
| 1. |
1/15/69 |
Inherit the Wind |
Eddie Rabbitt |
2:56 |
| 2. |
1/13/69 |
This Is the Story |
Calvin Arnold, David Martin, Geoff Morrow |
2:28 |
| 3. |
2/17/69 |
Stranger In My Own Home Town |
Percy Mayfield |
4:23 |
| 4. |
1/14/69 |
A Little Bit of Green |
Calvin Arnold, David Martin, Geoff Morrow |
3:21 |
| 5. |
2/17/69 |
And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind |
Neil Diamond |
3:08 |
[edit] Side Four: Back In Memphis
[edit] References
- ^ Jorgensen, Ernst. Elvis Presley, A Life In Music. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998; ISBN 0-312-18572-3, p. 154
- ^ Ibid. p. 289
