Raised on Rock/For Ol' Times Sake

Infobox Album
Name = Raised on Rock/For Ol' Times Sake
Type = Studio album
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Artist = Elvis Presley


Released = October 1, 1973
Recorded = July 1973, Stax Studios, Memphis
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Length = 27:28
Label = RCA Records
Producer = Elvis Presley, Felton Jarvis
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Last album = "Elvis (1973 album)" (1973)
This album = 'Raised on Rock/For Ol' Times Sake"
Next album = "" (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

# "Raised on Rock" (Mark James)
# "Are You Sincere" (Wayne Walker)
# "Find Out What's Happening" (Jerry Crutchfield)
# "I Miss You" (Donnie Summer)
# "Girl of Mine" (Jerry Reed, Barry Mason)
# "For Ol' Times Sake" (Tony Joe White)
# "If You Don't Come Back" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
# "Just a Little Bit" (Ralph Bass, Fats Washington, John Thornton, P. Brown)
# "Sweet Angeline" (Eddy Arnold, Geoff Morrow)
# "Three Corn Patches" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

Personnel

Elvis Presley - guitar, vocals
*James Burton - guitar
*Bobby Wood - piano
*Jerry Carrigan - drums
*Tommy Cogbill - bass
*Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass
*Bobby Emmons - organ
*Tom Hensley - bass
*Charlie Hodge - guitar
*Glen Spreen - string arrangements
*Ron Tutt - drums
*Reggie Young - guitar
*Mary Holliday - background vocals
*Kathy Westmoreland - background vocals
*Al Jackson, Jr. - drums
*J. D. Sumner & the Stamps - background vocals