Elvis Sings Flaming Star

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Elvis Sings Flaming Star
Elvis Sings Flaming Star cover
Compilation album by Elvis Presley
Released 1968 (promo release)
1969 (wide release)
Recorded June 1960 to October 1968
Genre Rock
Length 20:30
Label RCA Camden
Elvis Presley chronology
NBC-TV Special
(1968)		 Elvis Sings Flaming Star
(1969)		 From Elvis in Memphis
(1969)

Elvis Sings Flaming Star, first released as Singer Presents Elvis Singing Flaming Star and Others in October of 1968, is the first album by Elvis Presley on the RCA Camden budget subsidiary of Presley's home label of RCA Records, CAS 2304, released in April of 1969. In its original release as catalogue number PRS 279, it was available only at select retail stores featuring products by the Singer sewing machine company as a promotional tie-in with Presley's upcoming Christmas television special on the NBC network, sponsored by Singer. It was the first of several RCA Camden releases over the ensuing years; the album was reissued in 1975 by Pickwick Records. In its 1969 release, it peaked at #96 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It was re-released on compact disc (Sony/BMG A 681609) in 2006.

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All tracks were recorded at sessions for Presley film soundtracks or for television broadcast during the 1960s, although "Too Much Monkey Business" was recorded at a split session for non-soundtrack recordings and the movie Stay Away, Joe, and not intended for use in that film. With the exception of "Flaming Star," the theme song from Presley's 1960 movie of the same title which had been released on the Elvis By Request - Flaming Star EP in February of 1961, all tracks were previously unreleased. The "Texas" medley and "All I Needed Was the Rain" appeared in their respective films, and "Wonderful World" appeared over the opening credits to Live A Litte, Love A Little, as did "Flaming Star" open its film. The live performance of "Tiger Man" was held off the initial broadcast of the NBC television special, but replaced the segment with "Blue Christmas" for the repeat broadcast of the special in the summer of 1969. This track has the distinction of being the first live recording by Elvis ever commercially released. The remaining three songs were not actually used in their respective films.

Due to the success of this album in making the charts upon re-release in 1969, RCA elected to continue issuing Presley product on the budget Camden label through 1972, LPs containing less than the standard running time, with unused soundtrack recordings and reshuffled previously released items.

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Chart position for LPC 128 taken from Billboard Pop Singles chart

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Track Recorded Film Original EP Issue Catalogue Release Date Chart Peak Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 10/7/60 Flaming Star Elvis by Request LPC 128 2/61 #14 Flaming Star Sid Wayne and Sherman Edwards 2:25
2. 3/7/68 Live A Litte, Love A Little unreleased Wonderful World Guy Fletcher and Doug Flett 2:14
3. 7/10/63 Viva Las Vegas unreleased Night Life Bernie Baum, Bill Giant, Florence Kaye 1:53
4. 10/1/67 Stay Away, Joe unreleased All I Needed Was the Rain Sid Wayne and Ben Weisman 1:49
5. 1/15/68 unreleased Too Much Monkey Business Chuck Berry 2:25

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Track Recorded Film Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 7/10/63 Viva Las Vegas Yellow Rose of Texas / Eyes of Texas Traditional / Fred Wise and Randy Starr 2:58
2. 9/29/66 Easy Come, Easy Go She's A Machine Fred Wise and Ben Weisman 1:39
3. 7/10/63 Viva Las Vegas Do the Vega Bernie Baum, Bill Giant, Florence Kaye 2:26
4. 6/27/68 Singer NBC-TV Special Tiger Man Lewis Burns, Al Lewis, Joe Hill Louis 2:41

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