Moody Blue

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Moody Blue
Elvis Presley Moody Blue LP Cover.jpg
Studio album by
Elvis Presley
ReleasedJuly 19, 1977
RecordedFebruary 2 and 4, 1976
October 29 and 31, 1976
April 24 and 26, 1977
Genre
Length31:35
Label RCA Victor
Producer Felton Jarvis
Elvis Presley chronology
Welcome to My World
(1977)		Moody Blue
(1977)		 Elvis in Concert
(1977)
Singles from Moody Blue
  1. "Moody Blue"
    Released: November 29, 1976
  2. "Way Down"
    Released: June 6, 1977

Moody Blue is the twenty-fourth and final studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on July 19, 1977, by RCA Records, about four weeks before his death. The album was a mixture of live and studio work and included the four tracks from Presley's final studio recording sessions in October 1976 and two tracks left over from the previous Graceland session in February 1976. "Moody Blue" was a previously published hit song recorded at the earlier Graceland session and held over for this album. Also recorded at the February session was "She Thinks I Still Care". "Way Down" became a hit after Presley's death less than one month after this album's release. The album was certified Gold and Platinum on September 12, 1977, and 2× Platinum on March 27, 1992, by the RIAA.

Contents

The first American copies of Moody Blue were pressed on limited edition translucent blue vinyl, the first time a Presley album had been issued on colored vinyl. The album soon reverted to black vinyl; after Presley's death, the album was heavily in demand and repressed in blue vinyl, making the original US black vinyl issue the scarcer of the two. All overseas pressings were on black vinyl.

Contents

As described in Elvis: The Illustrated Record, RCA was not able to obtain sufficient new studio material for a complete album, with all but two songs of Presley's studio recordings of 1976 having already been used in the previous album, From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee or released as singles. The company chose to use the contents of two singles that had not yet been included on an album, along with the two last remaining unreleased tracks from the Graceland sessions; the track list was then augmented with three live songs recorded in multi-track in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on April 24 and 26, 1977, which were heavily overdubbed for the album. One of these was his version of "Unchained Melody", on which he accompanied himself on the piano.

RCA producer Felton Jarvis had booked a recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee, for January 1977, to record some new tracks for this album. Presley had chosen a few songs to record with the help of Jarvis, most of them country and uptempo. Unfortunately, Presley never appeared for that session, claiming that he was ill and thus staying at home (an excuse that Presley used rather frequently during the 1960s to avoid recording poor soundtracks for his motion pictures). Additionally, Jarvis had tried to get Elvis to record the song "There's a Fire Down Below" (written by Elvis’ bassist Jerry Scheff of his TCB Band) during the October 1976 sessions, but succeeded only in getting the backing instrumental track recorded and was unable to get Elvis to record a vocal. Jarvis and RCA had nothing left to do but complete the album using the live tracks mentioned above. "Let Me Be There" which had already been issued only three years earlier on the album Elvis: As Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis and was still available at the time of this album's release was also included as RCA didnt have any other new tracks to include besides live versions of previously released songs.They had a few new songs as live recordings but only as a poor quality soundboard recordings.

The song "Moody Blue" was released as a single in November 1976 and it reached number one on the Billboard Country Singles Chart and #31 on the pop chart. "Way Down" was released as the album's next single during the early summer of 1977. It did not go very far up the chart initially, but it soared to #18 after Presley's death in August (jumping to number one in the U.K.) It was a bigger hit on the country charts, and it had risen to number one in the same week of the death of Presley. This album reached number three on the Billboard album charts after his death, although it had already entered the top 40 before he died. This was the last album by Presley to reach the top 40. Moody Blue was also a number one album on the Country Albums chart. Moody Blue was issued in late June 1977, and it peaked on the album chart at #3 after Elvis' death on August 16, 1977.

RCA pressed the album on blue vinyl, to match the title track. Since colored vinyl pressings were relatively uncommon at the time, and they almost never occurred in a wide release, this has led to collectors mistakenly assuming that blue vinyl copies of Moody Blue are collectors' items, when in fact, the true collectables are pressings from immediately before Presley's death on standard black vinyl. (Immediately following his death, the production of Moody Blue was shifted back to blue vinyl. However, in later years the album was produced again using standard black vinyl). Following Presley's death, "Unchained Melody" was also released as a single, and it peaked at #6 on the country music charts. This version was not the same as on the Moody Blue LP. The single version was an overdubbed version of another live version, recorded in Rapid City, June 21, 1977, during one of the two concerts that produced the album and TV special Elvis In Concert .

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Christgau's Record Guide B− [2]
MusicHound Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Rough Guide to Elvis Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

The Los Angeles Times concluded that "the voice is still intact, but the arrangements are often off-center and the material is often uninspired." [6]

Reissues

The original RCA CD issue contained the same tracks and cover art as the original vinyl LP. RCA reissued the album on CD again in 2000 with revised cover art including a different concert photo of Elvis and omitted the track "Let Me Be There", due to its presence on Elvis: As Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis , and it added the complete album From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee as tracks 10–19 – in effect compiling the Graceland sessions rather than reissuing the original album. In 2013, Moody Blue was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in a special edition that contained the original album tracks along with a selection of alternate takes.

Track listing

Original release

Side A [7]
No.TitleWriter(s)Recording dateLength
1."Unchained Melody" (recorded on tour) Alex North, Hy Zaret April 24, 19772:32
2."If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" (recorded on tour) John Rostill April 26, 19772:57
3."Little Darlin'" (recorded on tour) Maurice Williams April 24, 19771:52
4."He'll Have to Go" (recorded at Graceland) Joe Allison, Audrey AllisonOctober 31, 19764:28
5."Let Me Be There" (from the album Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis ) John Rostill March 20, 19743:26
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Recording dateLength
1."Way Down" (recorded at Graceland) Layng Martine, Jr. October 29, 19762:37
2."Pledging My Love" (recorded at Graceland) Don Robey, Ferdinand WashingtonOctober 29, 19762:50
3."Moody Blue" (recorded at Graceland) Mark James February 4, 19762:49
4."She Thinks I Still Care" (recorded at Graceland) Dickey Lee, Steve DuffyFebruary 2, 19763:49
5."It's Easy for You" (recorded at Graceland) Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice October 29, 19763:26

Follow That Dream re-issue

Disc one
No.TitleLength
1."Unchained Melody"2:34
2."If You Love Me (Let Me Know)"3:01
3."Little Darlin'" (live, April 24, 1977)1:55
4."He'll Have to Go"4:34
5."Let Me Be There"3:37
6."Way Down"2:41
7."Pledging My Love"2:53
8."Moody Blue"2:52
9."She Thinks I Still Care"3:53
10."Its Easy for You"3:30
11."Unchained Melody" (undubbed master)3:17
12."If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" (undubbed master)2:56
13."Moody Blue" (take 6)4:06
14."She Thinks I Still Care" (take 2B)4:42
15."My Way" (live)4:21
16."Way Down" (undubbed master)3:04
17."Little Darlin" (undubbed master)2:02
18."He'll Have to Go" (rough mix)4:37
19."Pledging My Love" (composite of rehearsal and take 3)3:21
20."It's Easy for You" (take 1)3:46
21."She Thinks I Still Care" (takes 1, 2A)5:35
22."America, The Beautiful"2:19
23."Softly, as I Leave You"3:04
No.TitleLength
1."Way Down" (rehearsal, take 1)3:15
2."Way Down" (take 2A)2:54
3."She Thinks I Still Care" (takes 3, 4)4:58
4."Moody Blue" (take 1)3:30
5."Pledging My Love" (takes 1, 2)2:38
6."Pledging My Love" (take 3)4:53
7."It's Easy for You" (takes 3, 4)1:56
8."It's Easy for You" (undubbed master)3:40
9."She Thinks I Still Care" (takes 7, 9)2:28
10."She Thinks I Still Care" (take 10)4:21
11."Blue Eyes Crying in The Rain" (unedited rough mix of master)4:23
12."Moody Blue" (takes 7, 5)5:31
13."Bitter They Are, Harder They Fall" (rough mix of master)3:29
14."Pledging My Love" (takes 4-5)2:06
15."Pledging My Love" (undubbed, unedited master)5:24
16."Way Down" (take 2B)1:42
17."Way Down" (rough mix of master)2:39
18."Moody Blue" (takes 8, 9)1:04
19."Moody Blue" (master unedited rough mix)3:57
20."She Thinks I Still Care" (take 15)4:16
21."America, The Beautiful" (composite of single master and the surviving ending of the erased studio version)2:16

Personnel

Partial credits from Keith Flynn and Ernst Jorgensen's examination of session tapes, RCA paperwork, and AFM/musicians' union paperwork/contracts, [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] except where noted.

Overdubbed
Production and technical staff

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [31] 2× Platinum200,000^
France (SNEP) [32] Gold100,000*
New Zealand
Sales in 1977 		—7,500 [33]
United States (RIAA) [34] 2× Platinum2,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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