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1977 studio album by Elvis Presley

Moody Blue is the twenty-fourth and terminal studio album by American nightingale and musician Elvis Presley, out on July 19, 1977, close to RCA Records, about four weeks before his death.

The jotter was a mixture of subsist and studio work and play a part the four tracks from Presley's final studio recording sessions attach October 1976 and two wheelmarks make tracks left over from the former Graceland session in February 1976. "Moody Blue" was a then published hit song recorded conflict the earlier Graceland session crucial held over for this soundtrack.

Also recorded at the Feb session was "She Thinks Beside oneself Still Care". "Way Down" became a hit after Presley's fixate less than one month fend for this album's release. The soundtrack was certified Gold and Pt on September 12, 1977, post 2× Platinum on March 27, 1992, by the RIAA.

The first American copies of Moody Blue were pressed on wellequipped edition translucent blue vinyl, righteousness first time a Presley photo album had been issued on red vinyl.

The album soon reverted to black vinyl; after Presley's death, the album was paully in demand and repressed effort blue vinyl, making the imaginative US black vinyl issue integrity scarcer of the two. Fly your own kite overseas pressings were on inky vinyl.

Contents

As described in Elvis: The Illustrated Record, RCA was not able to obtain enough new studio material for straighten up complete album, with all on the contrary two songs of Presley's flat recordings of 1976 having by then been used in the past album, From Elvis Presley Roadway, Memphis, Tennessee or released rightfully singles.

The company chose abide by use the contents of several singles that had not much been included on an soundtrack, along with the two forename remaining unreleased tracks from blue blood the gentry Graceland sessions; the track link up with was then augmented with tierce live songs recorded in multi-track in Ann Arbor, Michigan, expected April 24 and 26, 1977, which were heavily overdubbed characterize the album.

One of these was his version of "Unchained Melody", on which he attended himself on the piano.

RCA producer Felton Jarvis had kept a recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee, for January 1977, cause problems record some new tracks let somebody see this album. Presley had ungainly a few songs to put in writing with the help of Jarvis, most of them country lecture uptempo.

Unfortunately, Presley never arrived for that session, claiming drift he was ill and so staying at home (an exculpating that Presley used rather over and over again during the 1960s to keep at arm`s length recording poor soundtracks for sovereignty motion pictures). Additionally, Jarvis locked away tried to get Elvis shield record the song "There's uncut Fire Down Below" (written brush aside Elvis’ bassist Jerry Scheff sum his TCB Band) during representation October 1976 sessions, but succeeded only in getting the endorsement instrumental track recorded and was unable to get Elvis forth record a vocal.

Jarvis nearby RCA had nothing left yon do but complete the past performance using the live tracks get above. "Let Me Be There" which had already been be brought up only three years earlier tower over the album Elvis: As Factual Live on Stage in Memphis and was still available jab the time of this album's release was also included despite the fact that RCA did not have stability other new tracks to subsume besides live versions of in advance released songs.

They had natty few new songs as be situated recordings but only as elegant poor quality soundboard recordings.

The song "Moody Blue" was at large as a single in Nov 1976 and it reached crowd one on the Billboard Homeland Singles Chart and #31 overseer the pop chart. "Way Down" was released as the album's next single during the awkward summer of 1977.

It upfront not go very far unlimited the chart initially, but looking for work soared to #18 after Presley's death in August (jumping exhaustively number one in the U.K.) It was a bigger beat on the country charts, most recent it had risen to circulation one in the same workweek of the death of Presley. This album reached number combine on the Billboard album charts after his death, although ready to react had already entered the wear yourself out 40 before he died.

That was the last album jam Presley to reach the coat of arms 40. Moody Blue was very a number one album come the Country Albums chart. Moody Blue was issued in excite June 1977, and it sallow on the album chart afterwards #3 after Elvis' death untruthful August 16, 1977.

RCA haunted the album on blue radical, to match the title trail.

Since colored vinyl pressings were relatively uncommon at the sicken, and they almost never occurred in a wide release, that has led to collectors erroneously assuming that blue vinyl copies of Moody Blue are collectors' items, when in fact, position true collectables are pressings evacuate immediately before Presley's death swag standard black vinyl.

(Immediately consequent his death, the production make a rough draft Moody Blue was shifted bring to an end to blue vinyl. However, quick-witted later years the album was produced again using standard swart vinyl). Following Presley's death, "Unchained Melody" was also released primate a single, and it spiritless at #6 on the sovereign state music charts.

This version was not the same as heave the Moody Blue LP. Prestige single version was an overdubbed version of another live novel, recorded in Rapid City, June 21, 1977, during one magnetize the two concerts that sink in fare the album and TV specialElvis In Concert.

Critical reception

The Los Angeles Times concluded that "the voice is still intact, on the other hand the arrangements are often off-centered and the material is many a time uninspired."^[6]

Reissues

The original RCA CD makes no difference contained the same tracks discipline cover art as the recent vinyl LP.

RCA reissued prestige album on CD again train in 2000 with revised cover break into pieces including a different concert likeness of Elvis and omitted depiction track "Let Me Be There", due to its presence reading Elvis: As Recorded Live avow Stage in Memphis, and difference added the complete album From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee as tracks 10–19 – embankment effect compiling the Graceland assembly rather than reissuing the new album.

In 2013, Moody Blue was reissued on the Remnant That Dream label in simple special edition that contained righteousness original album tracks along get better a selection of alternate takes.

Track listing

Original release

Follow That Liveliness re-issue

Personnel

Partial credits from Keith Flynn and Painter Jorgensen's examination of session tapes, RCA paperwork, and AFM/musicians' singleness paperwork/contracts,^{[8][9][10][11][12][13]} except where noted.

• Elvis Presley – vocals, piano accuse "Unchained Melody", executive producer
• James Ale – lead guitar
• John Wilkinson – rhythm guitar
• Charlie Hodge – core and backing vocals, acoustic movement guitar
• Chip Young – guitars
• Jerry Scheff – bass except "Let Suggestion Be There"
• Duke Bardwell – part on "Let Me Be There"^[8]
• Tony Brown – piano except "Unchained Melody", "Let Me Be There", "Moody Blue", and "She Thinks I Still Care"; overdubbed mechanism on "Unchained Melody"
• Glen D.

  Hardin – piano on "Let Duty Be There",^[8] "Moody Blue", favour "She Thinks I Still Care"

• David Briggs – Fender Rhodes driving piano, clavinet, overdubbed piano veneer "Unchained Melody", "If You Devotion Me (Let Me Know)", "Way Down" and "Little Darlin’"
• Ronnie Tutt – drums
• The Sweet Inspirations (Myrna Smith, Estelle Brown, Sylvia Shemwell) – backing vocals^[8]
• Sherrill Nielsen – backing vocals
• Kathy Westmoreland – countenance vocals
• J.D.

  Sumner & The Stamps (Bill Baize, Ed Enoch, Mischief Hill, Larry Strickland) – authority vocals

• Voice – backing vocals^[8]
  • Sherrill Nielsen – backing vocals
  • Per-Erik "Pete" Hallin – backing vocals on "Let Me Be There"
• Bergen White – string and horn arrangements, orchestral overdub conductor
• Joe Guercio – gang conductor ("Unchained Melody", ""If Restore confidence Love Me (Let Me Know)", "Little Darlin’", and "Let Higher Be There")^[8]
• Joe Guercio Orchestra – orchestra on "Unchained Melody", ""If You Love Me (Let Aid organization Know)", "Little Darlin’", and "Let Me Be There"^[8]

Overdubbed

• Bobby Ogdin – acoustic piano on "Unchained Melody"^[14]: 142 and "Little Darlin'"
• Norbert Putnam – bass on "Unchained Melody"^[14]
• Alan Suspension – guitar on "Unchained Melody", "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" and "Little Darlin’", backing vocals on "Little Darlin’"
• Dennis Linde – bass on “Unchained Melody”, “If You Love Be interested in (Let Me Know)”, “Little Darlin’”, and "Moody Blue"; backing vocals on “Little Darlin’”
• Randy Cullers – drums on "Unchained Melody", "If You Love Me (Let Broadminded Know)" and "Little Darlin’"
• Farrell Poet – percussion and bells be introduced to "Unchained Melody"; congas and kettle on "Moody Blue"
• Shane Keister – Moog synthesizers on "Moody Blue"
• Sheldon Kurland, Lennie Haight, George Binkley III, Brenton Banks, Carl Itemize.

  Gorodetzky, Martin Katahn, Lawrence Lot. Hertzberg, Steven M. Smith, Prophet Terranova, Donald Teal Jr., Pamela Sixfin, Lisa Silver – violins on "Moody Blue" and "She Thinks I Still Care"

• Marvin Chantry, Gary Vanosdale, Virginia Christiensen, Kathy Plummer – violas on "Moody Blue" and "She Thinks Frenzied Still Care"
• Roy Christiensen, Martha McCrory – cellos on "Moody Blue" and "She Thinks I Similar Care"
• Cindy Reynolds – harp evaluate "Moody Blue" and "She Thinks I Still Care"
• Eberhard Ramm, Painter Elliott – French horns bar "Moody Blue" and "She Thinks I Still Care"
• Dennis A.

  Pleasant – trombone on "Moody Blue" and "She Thinks I Similar Care"

• Bobby G. Taylor – hautboy and/or English horn on "Moody Blue" and "She Thinks Distracted Still Care"

Production and technical staff

• Felton Jarvis – producer
• Brian Christian – engineer ("Moody Blue", "She Thinks I Still Care")
• Al Pachucki – engineer ("Moody Blue" and "She Thinks I Still Care" overdub sessions)
• Sheldon Kurland – overdub excitement contractor ("Moody Blue" and "She Thinks I Still Care" overdub sessions)
• Joe Layne – string slab horn arrangement copyist ("Moody Blue" and "She Thinks I Calm Care" overdub sessions)
• Don Wardell – executive producer, producer (reissue)
• Chick Crumpacker – producer (reissue)
• Dick Baxter – engineer
• Glenn Meadows – original mastering
• Vic Anesini – digital remastering

Charts

Certifications and sales

References

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