From Elvis in Memphis

by Elvis Presley

Overview

One of the undisputed classic LPs of the rock & roll era, From Elvis in Memphis certainly deserves a deluxe expanded reissue -- and in a sense it received it more than once. Released in June of 1969, the 12-track From Elvis in Memphis received a sequel almost immediately when a full LP of material from the same sessions appeared as half of From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis, a double-LP set released a mere five months after From Elvis, commemorating both the inauguration of Presley's historic four-week stand at the International Hotel in Las Vegas and the success of the album itself. That second album was released individually as Back in Memphis a year later, marking the first recycling of sessions that were repackaged numerous times, most of them enjoyable, two of them quite exceptional: 1987's double-LP The Memphis Record, which collected highlights from the sessions, and 1999's Suspicious Minds, which presented them in full, complete with alternate takes. With all these releases on the market, a deluxe edition wasn't necessarily needed -- all the sessions were available, no bonus tracks seemed to exist -- but when the double-disc, 36-track Legacy Edition appeared on the 40th anniversary of the album's 1969 release, it was welcome. It's a handsomely produced package, graced with very good liner notes by Robert Gordon and Tara McAdams and featuring plenty of photos, but the chief attraction of this Legacy Edition is its sequencing. Of all the reissues of these 1969 sessions, this is the most compulsively listenable, presenting the From Elvis in Memphis album in its entirety on the first disc followed by four bonus tracks (including "I'll Be There" and "Hey Jude"), leaving the second disc devoted to Back in Memphis and the ten singles released from this session -- including "In the Ghetto," "Any Day Now," "Suspicious Minds," "Rubberneckin'," and "Kentucky Rain" -- in their original mono masters. There's nothing new, nothing surprising, just Elvis' arguably best recordings in a definitive reissue, which is reason enough to have this music reissued again. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	07/28/2009
Label:	Legacy / Rca / Rca/Legacy
UPC:	0886975149728
Rank:	29045

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Wearin' That Loved on Look
2. Only the Strong Survive
3. I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)
4. Long Black Limousine
5. It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin'
6. I'm Movin' On
7. Power of My Love
8. Gentle on My Mind
9. After Loving You
10. True Love Travels on a Gravel Road
11. Any Day Now
12. In the Ghetto
13. I'll Be There
14. Hey Jude
15. If I'm a Fool (For Loving You)
16. Who Am I?

Disc 2

17. Inherit the Wind
18. This Is the Story
19. Stranger in My Own Home Town
20. A Little Bit of Green
21. And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind
22. Do You Know Who I Am?
23. From a Jack to a King
24. The Fair's Moving On
25. You'll Think of Me
26. Without Love (There Is Nothing)
27. In the Ghetto
28. Any Day Now
29. The Fair's Moving On
30. Suspicious Minds
31. You'll Think of Me
32. Don't Cry Daddy
33. Rubberneckin'
34. Kentucky Rain
35. My Little Friend
36. Mama Liked the Roses

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Elvis Presley   Primary Artist,Piano,Guitar,Vocals
Millie Kirkham   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Archie LeCoque   Trombone
Joe Babcock   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Reggie Young   Sitar,Guitar
Susan Pilkington   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
June Page   Vocals (Background)
Andrew Lowe   Saxophone
Donna Thatcher   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Jackie Thomas   Trombone,Saxophone
Joe D'gerolamo   French Horn
Tony Cason   French Horn
Dick Steff   Trumpet
Keith Adkins   Trombone (Bass)
R.F. Taylor   Trumpet
Susan Pilington   Vocals (Background)
J.P. Luper   Saxophone
Gerald Richardson   Trombone
Mary Greene   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Johnny Boicie   Trombone
Norman Prentice   Trumpet
Art Vasquez   Trumpet
Hurshel Wiginton   Vocals (Background)
Bob Shew   Trumpet
John Hughey   Guitar (Steel)
Jack Hale   Trombone
Gene Chrisman   Drums,Drums (Snare)
Wayne Jackson   Trumpet
Sandy Posey   Vocals (Background)
Ronnie Milsap   Piano
Mary Green   Vocals (Background)
Mary Holladay   Vocals (Background)
Mike Leech   Bass
Sonja Montgomery   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Dolores Edgin   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Ginger Holladay   Vocals (Background)
Tommy Cogbill   Bass
Glen Spreen   Saxophone
Bobby Emmons   Organ
Bobby Wood   Piano
Ed Logan   Trombone,Sax (Tenor)
Ed Hollis   Harmonica
Ed Kollis   Harmonica

Technical Credits

Johnny Lantz   Composer
Johnny Tillotson   Composer
Dick Heard   Composer
Leon Huff   Composer
Neil Diamond   Composer
A.L. Owens   Composer
Dallas Frazier   Composer
John Christopher   Composer
Jacqueline Murphy   Art Direction
Thomas Dilbeck   Composer
Bunny Warren   Composer
Don Wardell   Coordination
Janet Lantz   Composer
Guy Fletcher   Composer
Mike Leech   Overdubs
Shirl Milete   Composer
Paul McCartney   Composer
Bill Giant   Composer
Bob Hilliard   Composer
Bobby Darin   Composer
Bobby Russell   Composer
Bobby George   Composer
Kenny Gamble   Composer
Chick Crumpacker   Digital Producer
Felton Jarvis   Producer
Dory Jones   Composer
Estella Olson   Composer
Eddie Miller   Composer
Mac Davis   Composer
Don Rich   Composer
Doug Flett   Composer
Geoff Morrow   Composer
Johnny Christopher   Composer
John Hartford   Composer
John Lennon   Composer
Dick Baxter   Digital Engineer
Mark James   Composer
Percy Mayfield   Composer
Vaughn Horton   Composer
Jerry Butler   Composer
Vern Stovall   Composer
Danny Small   Composer
Mort Shuman   Composer
Al Pachucki   Engineer
Burt Bacharach   Composer
Glen Spreen   Overdubs
Hank Snow   Composer
Bernie Baum   Composer
Chips Moman   Producer
Eddie Rabbitt   Composer
Eddy Arnold   Composer
Florence Kaye   Composer