Raised on Rock/For Ol' Times Sake

Raised on Rock/For Ol' Times Sake
Studio album by Elvis Presley
Released October 1, 1973
Recorded July–September 1973, Stax Studios, Memphis/Elvis Presley's Residence, Palm Springs, California.
Length 27:28
Label RCA Records
Producer Elvis Presley, Felton Jarvis
Elvis Presley chronology
Elvis
(1973)		 Raised on Rock/For Ol' Times Sake'
(1973)		 Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1
(1974)

Raised on Rock/For Ol' Times Sake is a studio album by Elvis Presley released in 1973. It, along with the album Elvis, were both released after the massive success of Aloha From Hawaii. This record sold over 1 million copies worldwide. This album along with the Promised Land album the following year, was recorded at the Stax Studios in Memphis. The initial vocal tracks were recorded in July 1973. In December, Presley returned to Stax Studios and recorded 18 tracks in a week with members of his band and Nashville session musicians. The album actually was one of the few that failed to chart in the UK but the single "Raised on Rock"/"For Ol' Times Sake" did enter the British charts in the mid-30s. The album had a very different sound about it, more funky and soulike that many of the previous efforts and was certainly a change in direction. Some of the songs are well known covers like "Are You Sincere" which had been around for many years but some new songs like the lead off single were actually written for Elvis, or written by writers Elvis trusted like Mark James.

Track listings

  1. "Raised on Rock" (Mark James)
  2. "Are You Sincere" (Wayne Walker)
  3. "Find Out What's Happening" (Jerry Crutchfield)
  4. "I Miss You" (Donnie Sumner)
  5. "Girl of Mine" (Les Reed, Barry Mason)
  6. "For Ol' Times Sake" (Tony Joe White)
  7. "If You Don't Come Back" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
  8. "Just a Little Bit" (Ralph Bass, Fats Washington, John Thornton, Piney Brown)
  9. "Sweet Angeline" (Eddy Arnold, Geoff Morrow)
  10. "Three Corn Patches" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)[1]

Personnel

References

  1. ^ http://www.softshoe-slim.com/lists/p/presley.html#42