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Presley's version of "Promised Land" was released as a single on September 27, 1974. It peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, [9] and 9 on the UK Singles Chart in the fall of 1974. [10] It was included on his 1975 album Promised Land. The Presley version was used in the soundtrack of the 1997 motion picture Men in Black.
"If You Talk in Your Sleep" is a 1974 Elvis Presley song released as a single and featured on Elvis Presley's 1975 album Promised Land.The song was written by Red West and Johnny Christopher, who had earlier written "Mama Liked the Roses" and "Always On My Mind", both recorded by Elvis Presley.
Promised Land is the twenty-first studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records on January 8, 1975. It was recorded in December 1973 at Stax Records studios in Memphis and released on Presley's 40th birthday in January, 1975.
The song was first released in October 1974 as a B-side to a cover of Chuck Berry's "Promised Land". [2] [4] (While the Goldmine Standard Catalog of American Records indicates "Promised Land" as the A-side, [5] different pressings have "It's Midnight" as the A-side and "Promised Land" as a B-side and vice versa.) [6]
Presley recorded it on December 12, 1973, at the December 10–16 recording sessions for RCA at the Stax Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The original recorded master sound track was longer, but before release it was shortened by 1 minute 40 seconds.
You Ask Me To" also appeared as the closing song on Elvis Presley's 1975 album Promised Land. It was recorded in December 1973 at Stax Records studios in Memphis and released on Presley's 40th birthday. It also appeared with an alternate arrangement in Elvis Presley's posthumous 1981 album Guitar Man, which reached the Top 50 in the US. [3]
This set accompanied RCA's mid-1990s compilation reissue program for Elvis Presley, including the five-disc box sets The King of Rock 'n' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters, From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60's Masters, Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential 70's Masters, and the two-disc set anthologizing his 1960s soundtrack recordings ...
The iconic nature of Elvis Presley in music and popular culture has often made him a subject of, or a touchstone in, numerous songs, both in America and throughout the world. A few of Presley's own songs became huge hits in certain regions of the world, in versions whose translation into the required language bore little or no resemblance to ...