That's the Way It Is (album)

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Elvis: That's the Way It Is
Elvis: That's the Way It Is cover
Studio album by Elvis Presley
Released November 11, 1970
Recorded June and August, 1970
Genre Rock
Length 47:00
Label RCA Records
Producer Felton Jarvis
Professional reviews
Elvis Presley chronology
Almost in Love
{1970)		 That's The Way It Is
(1970)		 Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)
(1971)
For other albums and songs titled That's the Way It Is, see That's the Way It Is.

Elvis: That's the Way It Is is the thirty-sixth album, not counting budget compilations on the RCA Camden subsidiary, by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records, LSP 4445, in November of 1970. It consists of studio tracks recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, and live in-concert tracks recorded at The International Hotel in Las Vegas. It accompanied the theatrical release of the documentary film of the same name (although it is not generally considered a soundtrack album), and peaked at #21 on the Billboard 200.

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The original vinyl LP consisted of eight tracks recorded in the studio in Nashville at the marathon sessions in June of 1970 that would also yield several singles and the Elvis Country album, and four tracks from his August of 1970 engagement at The International Hotel in Las Vegas. The track "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" had been released as the advance single on October 6; its b-side "Patch It Up" appears in a live version here. "The Next Step Is Love" had previously been released as a b-side in July of 1970, and its A-side "I've Lost You" appears in a live version here as well. The concert version of "I Just Can't Help Believin'" from this album would be released as a single in the United Kingdom in November of 1971 and go to #6 on their charts; its b-side "How the Web Was Woven" was also taken from this album.

The three-disc Special Edition of June 11, 2000, added seven bonus tracks to the original album on disc one, with the entirety of the August 12, 1970 midnight show from The International Hotel on disc two, and a third disc of rehearsals in late July and early August prior to Presley's Las Vegas engagement. The bonus tracks included an additional concert track previously released on the 1970s box set, five tracks that appeared on Presley studio LPs from the 1970s, and the single "Rags to Riches" from February of 1971. Some of the concert and rehearsal tracks appeared in the 1970 documentary film.

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[edit] Side One

Track Recorded Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 8/11/70 I Just Can't Help Believin' Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann 4:34
2. 6/4/70 Twenty Days and Twenty Nights Scott Weisman and Clive Westlake 3:15
3. 6/5/70 How the Web Was Woven David Most and Clive Westlake 3:25
4. 8/12/70 Patch It Up Eddie Rabbitt and Rory Bourke 4:03
5. 6/5/70 Mary in the Morning Johnny Cymbal and Michael Rashkow 4:11
6. 6/6/70 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me Vicki Wickham, Simon Napier-Bell, Pino Donaggio, Vito Pallavicini 2:30

[edit] Side Two

Track Recorded Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 8/13/70 You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Phil Spector 4:23
2. 8/11/70 I've Lost You Alan Blaikley and Ken Howard 3:43
3. 6/6/70 Just Pretend Guy Fletcher and Doug Flett 4:02
4. 6/5/70 Stranger in the Crowd Winfield Scott 3:47
5. 6/7/70 The Next Step Is Love Paul Evans and Paul Parnes 3:31
6. 6/5/70 Bridge Over Troubled Water Paul Simon 4:29

[edit] 2000 Special Edition Disc One Bonus Tracks

Chart positions for LPs from Billboard 200 chart; positions for singles from Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Track Recorded Original LP/CD Issue Catalogue Release Date Chart Peak Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 6/7/70 Love Letters from Elvis LSP 4530 6/16/71 #33 Love Letters Edward Heyman and Victor Young 2:52
2. 6/7/70 Love Letters from Elvis LSP 4530 6/16/71 #33 When I'm Over You Shirl Milete 2:26
3. 8/11/70 Walk A Mile In My Shoes 66670-2 10/10/95 Something George Harrison 3:40
4. 6/5/70 Love Letters from Elvis LSP 4530 6/16/71 #33 I'll Never Know Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne, Fred Karger 2:24
5. 6/8/70 Elvis Now LSP 4671 2/20/72 #43 Sylvia Geoff Stephens and Les Reed 3:17
6. 6/4/70 Love Letters from Elvis LSP 4530 6/16/71 #33 Cindy Cindy Dolores Fuller, Buddy Kaye, Scott Weisman 2:31
7. 9/22/70 47-9980 2/3/71 #33 Rags to Riches Richard Adler and Jerry Ross 1:54

[edit] 2000 Special Edition Disc Two

Track Recorded Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 8/13/70 That's All Right Arthur Crudup 2:32
2. 8/13/70 Mystery Train / Tiger Man Herman Parker Jr., Sam Phillips / Lewis Burns, Al Lewis, Joe Hill Louis 3:42
3. 8/13/70 Hound Dog Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller 2:46
4. 8/13/70 Love Me Tender Vera Matson and Elvis Presley 6:54
5. 8/13/70 Just Pretend Guy Fletcher and Doug Flett 4:12
6. 8/13/70 Walk A Mile In My Shoes Joe South 2:01
7. 8/13/70 There Goes My Everything Dallas Frazier 4:10
8. 8/13/70 Words Robin Gibb, Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb 2:36
9. 8/13/70 Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond 2:55
10. 8/13/70 You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Phil Spector 6:29
11. 8/13/70 Polk Salad Annie Ivory Joe Hunter 5:48
12. 8/13/70 Heartbreak Hotel Mae Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley 1:45
13. 8/13/70 One Night Dave Bartholomew, Pearl King, Anita Steiman 1:45
14. 8/13/70 Blue Suede Shoes Carl Perkins 1:31
15. 8/13/70 All Shook Up Otis Blackwell and Elvis Presley 2:00
16. 8/13/70 Little Sister / Get Back Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman / John Lennon, Paul McCartney 3:32
17. 8/13/70 I Was The One Aaron Schroeder, Claude DeMetrius, Hal Blair, Bill Peppers 1:11
18. 8/13/70 Love Me Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller 2:03
19. 8/13/70 Are You Lonesome Tonight? Lou Handman and Roy Turk 1:58
20. 8/13/70 Bridge Over Troubled Water Paul Simon 4:28
21. 8/13/70 Suspicious Minds Mark James 6:05
22. 8/13/70 Can't Help Falling In Love George Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore 2:08

[edit] 2000 Special Edition Disc Three

Track Recorded Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 7-8/70 I Got A Woman Ray Charles and Renald Richard 3:15
2. 7-8/70 I Can't Stop Loving You Don Gibson 2:50
3. 7-8/70 Twenty Days and Twenty Nights Scott Weisman and Clive Westlake 4:02
4. 7-8/70 The Next Step Is Love Paul Evans and Paul Parnes 3:31
5. 7-8/70 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me Vicki Wickham, Simon Napier-Bell, Pino Donaggio, Vito Pallavicini 2:33
6. 7-8/70 Stranger in the Crowd Winfield Scott 3:59
7. 7-8/70 Make the World Go Away Hank Cochran 3:50
8. 7-8/70 Don't Cry Daddy Mac Davis 2:32
9. 7-8/70 In the Ghetto Mac Davis 2:42
10. 7-8/70 Peter Gunn Theme (instrumental) Henry Mancini 1:02
11. 7-8/70 That's All Right Arthur Crudup 2:34
12. 7-8/70 Cottonfields Huddie Ledbetter 1:23
13. 7-8/70 Yesterday John Lennon and Paul McCartney 2:45
14. 7-8/70 I Can't Stop Loving You Don Gibson 2:26
15. 7-8/70 Such A Night Lincoln Chase 1:39
16. 7-8/70 It's Now or Never Eduardo di Capua, Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold 2:16
17. 7-8/70 (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I Bill Trader 2:45
18. 7-8/70 Little Sister / Get Back Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman / John Lennon, Paul McCartney 6:05
19. 7-8/70 I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water Joe Babcock 4:23
20. 7-8/70 Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry 3:04
21. 7-8/70 Suspicious Minds Mark James 6:05
22. 7-8/70 Can't Help Falling In Love George Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore 2:08
23. 7-8/70 Santa Claus Is Back In Town Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller 2:02
24. 7-8/70 Farther Along (traditional - public domain) 1:20
25. 7-8/70 Oh Happy Day (traditional - public domain) 1:50

[edit] Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1970 Billboard Pop Albums 21

Single

[edit] Certifications

Year Single Chart Position
July 1970 "I've Lost You/The Next Step Is Love" Billboard Pop Singles 32
October 1970 "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me/Patch It Up" Billboard Pop Singles 11
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