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Length
  
20:30

Release date
  
March 1969

Genre
  
Rock music

Artist
  
Elvis Presley

Label
  
RCA Records

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Released
  
October 1968 (promo release) March 1969 (wide release)

Recorded
  
June 1960 to October 1968

Elvis Sings Flaming Star (1968)
  
Elvis (NBC TV Special) (1968)

Similar
  
Elvis Presley albums, Rock music albums

Singer Presents Elvis Singing Flaming Star and Others is the thirty-third album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records in stereo, PRS 279, in October 1968. It spent five months 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, which Singer had sponsored. It was reissued for normal retail channels as Elvis Sings Flaming Star in March 1969, becoming the first Elvis Presley budget album on the RCA Camden subsidiary label, catalogue CAS 2304. The 1969 release peaked at number 96 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It was certified Gold on July 15, 1999, and Platinum on January 6, 2004, by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Contents

Contents

All tracks were compiled from sessions for Presley film soundtracks, with the exception of "Tiger Man" from the Singer Christmas Special. The cover of Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business" was a warm-up at a session for film songs to Stay Away, Joe. Excepting "Flaming Star," the title song from Presley's 1960 movie of the same title which had been released on the Elvis by Request: Flaming Star and 3 Other Great Songs extended play single in February 1961, all tracks were previously unreleased.

The "Texas" medley and "All I Needed Was the Rain" appeared in Viva Las Vegas (1964) and Stay Away, Joe (1967), respectively, while "Wonderful World" appeared over the opening credits to Live A Little, Love A Little (1968). "Flaming Star" had been one of only two songs performed in that 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 songs were not actually used in their respective films.

Due to the success of this album in making the charts upon reissue in 1969, RCA elected to continue with 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. It was reissued in 1975 by Pickwick Records, and again for compact disc by Sony Music Entertainment in 2006.

Track listing

Note

  • RCA originally released "Flaming Star" on the extended play single Elvis By Request – Flaming Star (RCA LPC 128), which peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
  • Songs

    1Flaming Star2:25
    2Wonderful World2:14
    3Night Life1:53

    References

    Elvis Sings Flaming Star Wikipedia


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