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Elvis' Gold Records Volume 5 is the final album in the Gold Records series by Elvis Presley, issued posthumously on RCA Records in stereo, AFL1 4941, in March of 1984. It is a compilation of hit singles released between 1961 and 1967. It is the only one of the series to miss the Billboard album chart, "bubbling under" at #207 for two weeks.
[edit] Content
Golden Records 5 comprises nine Top 40 A-sides along with one b-side, "For the Heart" from 1976. Released over sixteen years since the previous installment in the series, it covers a span of almost ten years. Interestingly, RCA did not base the selection solely on commercial factors, as they omitted two top ten hit singles from this time period, "Don't Cry Daddy" from 1969 and "The Wonder of You" from 1970.
The July 15, 1997 reissue added six bonus tracks taken from a three-year span from 1968 to 1970, including four additional Top 40 singles. "If I Can Dream" and "Memories" were both from his comeback special, while "Guitar Man" and "U.S. Male" both demonstrated Presley's late 1960s enthusiasm for the story-songs of country music songwriter Jerry Reed.
Originally recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, RCA Studio C in Hollywood, Western Recorders in Burbank, California, Stax Studio and in The Jungle Room in Memphis, Tennessee. Original recordings produced by Felton Jarvis, Chips Moman, Bones Howe, and Billy Strange.
[edit] Collective Personnel
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- Jerry Scheff - bass
- Tommy Cogbill - bass
- Mike Leech - bass
- D.J. Fontana - drums
- Buddy Harman – drums
- Hal Blaine - drums
- Gary Coleman - drums
- Frank Carlson - drums
- John Guerin - drums
- Jerry Carrigan - drums
- Ronnie Tutt - drums
- Gene Chrisman - drums
- Boots Randolph - saxophone
- The Jordanaires - backing vocals
- J.D. Sumner and the Stamps - backing vocals
- Millie Kirkham - backing vocal
- The Blossoms - backing vocals
- B.J. Baker - backing vocal
- Sally Stevens - backing vocal
- Bob Tebow - backing vocal
- John Bahler - backing vocal
- Dolores Edgin - backing vocal
- June Page - backing vocal
- Kathy Westmoreland - backing vocal
- Joe Babcock - backing vocal
- Dolores Edgin - backing vocal
- Mary Greene - backing vocal
- Ginger Holladay - backing vocal
- Mary Holladay - backing vocal
- June Page - backing vocal
- Susan Pilkington - backing vocal
- Sandy Posey - backing vocal
- Donna Thatcher - backing vocal
- Hurschel Wiginton - backing vocal
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[edit] Track listing
Chart positions taken from the Billboard singles chart
[edit] Side One
[edit] Side Two
| Track |
Recorded |
Catalogue |
Release Date |
Chart Peak |
Song Title |
Writer(s) |
Time |
| 1. |
12/11/73 |
APBO 0280 |
5/10/74 |
#17 |
If You Talk In Your Sleep |
Red West and Johnny Christopher |
2:34 |
| 2. |
2/5/76 |
PB 10601b |
3/12/76 |
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For the Heart |
Dennis Linde |
3:22 |
| 3. |
2/4/76 |
PB 10857 |
11/29/76 |
#31 |
Moody Blue |
Mark James |
3:22 |
| 4. |
10/29/76 |
PB 10998 |
6/6/77 |
#18 |
Way Down |
Layng Martine Jr. |
2:38 |
| 5. |
9/10/67 |
47-9341 |
9/26/67 |
#38 |
Big Boss Man |
Luther Dixon and Al Smith |
2:50 |
[edit] 1997 Reissue Bonus Tracks
