From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis

From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis (Elvis in Person at the International Hotel)
Live album by Elvis Presley
From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis (Back in Memphis)
Studio album by Elvis Presley
Released October 14, 1969 (1969-10-14)
Recorded January, February,
August 1969
Genre Rock
Length 67:57
Label RCA Records
Producer Chips Moman Studio LP
Felton Jarvis Live LP
Elvis Presley chronology
From Elvis in Memphis
(1969)		 From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis
(1969)		 Let's Be Friends
(1970)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1] & [2]
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From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis is the thirty-sixth album by Elvis Presley, released in October 1969 on RCA Records, catalogue LSP 6020. Recording sessions took place at American Sound Studio in Memphis, on January 13–15 and 21-22, and February 17–18, 1969, and at the International Hotel in Las Vegas on August 24–26, 1969. It peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified Gold on 12/13/1969 by the RIAA.

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Issued to capitalize upon the response to From Elvis in Memphis and its hit singles, and his newfound success as a headliner in Las Vegas, Vegas/Memphis is Presley's first double album and his first official live album.[3] The Colonel secured a month-long engagement at the International Hotel, and in keeping with the clear-the-decks philosophy of the previous album, Presley jettisoned his long-serving 1960s sidemen in favor of musicians who would become his Taking Care of Business band.[4]

The first album consisted of recordings from those shows, Elvis' first live performances since his March 1961 benefit concert in Hawaii.[5] Oldies from his 1950s repertoire appeared alongside a cover of "Words" by The Bee Gees and an extended version of "Suspicious Minds."

The second album consisted of ten recordings from the winter of 1969 sessions at American Sound not used for From Elvis in Memphis.[6] Although drawn from what were basically leftovers, still "Stranger in My Hometown" equaled the intensity of the already issued songs.[7] Of these remainders, "The Fair's Moving On" and "You'll Think of Me" had previously appeared as b-sides respectively to "Clean Up Your Own Backyard" and "Suspicious Minds" earlier in the year.[8]

Reissues

In November 1970, RCA reissued the set as individual albums identified by the subtitles that appeared on the original double LP, Elvis in Person at the International Hotel as LSP 4428, and Back in Memphis as LSP 4429.[9] They have been issued separately ever since. The entirety of Back in Memphis can be found on the box set From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60's Masters, and on the double-disc compilation of recordings at American Sound Studio, Suspicious Minds.

On July 28, 2009, Sony Music Entertainment issued Back in Memphis on the second disc of its Legacy Edition of From Elvis In Memphis. A similar Legacy Edition of On Stage released on March 23, 2010, features the entirety of Elvis in Person at the International Hotel on its second disc.

The collectors' label Follow That Dream has released several of the full performances from Presley's August 1969 season in Las Vegas. The full August 22 performance was included on a reissue of the live album, titled In Person.[10] The full midnight show from August 23 was released under the title Elvis At The International,[11] while the midnight show from August 25 was released as All Shook Up.[12] The August 24 show is available on the first disc of the 2001 box set Live in Las Vegas.

Personnel

Elvis In Person at the International Hotel

Back In Memphis

Overdubbed:

Track listing

Sides one and two credited as Elvis In Person at the International Hotel; sides three and four as Back In Memphis.

Side one

Track Recorded Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 8/25/69 Blue Suede Shoes Carl Perkins 2:06
2. 8/24/69 Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry 2:12
3. 8/25/69 All Shook Up Otis Blackwell and Elvis Presley 2:15
4. 8/24/69 Are You Lonesome Tonight? Lou Handman and Roy Turk 3:16
5. 8/25/69 Hound Dog Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller 1:53
6. 8/25/69 I Can't Stop Loving You Don Gibson 3:19
7. 8/25/69 My Babe Willie Dixon 2:12

Side two

Track Recorded Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 8/25/69 Mystery Train / Tiger Man Junior Parker and Sam Phillips / Joe Hill Louis and Lewis Burns 3:46
2. 8/25/69 Words Robin Gibb, Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb 2:46
3. 8/24/69 In the Ghetto Mac Davis 2:56
4. 8/26/69 Suspicious Minds Mark James 7:46
5. 8/26/69 Can't Help Falling In Love George Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore 2:12

Side three

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

Side four

Track Recorded Catalogue Release Date Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. 2/18/69 Do You Know Who I Am Bobby Russell 2:47
2. 1/21/69 From A Jack To A King Ned Miller 2:23
3. 2/21/69 47-9747b 6/17/69 The Fair's Moving On Guy Fletcher and Doug Flett 3:07
4. 1/14/69 47-9764b 8/26/69 You'll Think of Me Mort Shuman 3:58
5. 1/22/69 Without Love Danny Small 2:51

References

  1. ^ From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis at Allmusic
  2. ^ From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis at Allmusic
  3. ^ Jorgensen, Ernst. Elvis Presley A Life in Music: The Complete Recording Sessions. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998; ISBN 0-312-18572-3, p. 289.
  4. ^ Jorgensen, op. cit., p. 283.
  5. ^ Jorgensen, Ernst. op. cit., p. 154
  6. ^ Jorgensen, op. cit., p. 289.
  7. ^ Jorgensen, op. cit., p. 289.
  8. ^ Jorgensen, op. cit., p. 419.
  9. ^ Jorgensen, op. cit., p. 420.
  10. ^ shopelvis.com
  11. ^ shopelvis.com
  12. ^ shopelvis.com

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