That's the Way It Is (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Elvis: That's the Way It Is
Type = Studio album
Artist = Elvis Presley


Released = November 11, 1970
Recorded = June and August, 1970
Genre = Rock
Length = 47:00
Label = RCA Records
Producer = Felton Jarvis
Reviews =
Last album = "Almost in Love {1970)
This album = "That's The Way It Is" (1970)
Next album = "Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)" (1971)

"Elvis: That's the Way It Is" is the thirty-sixth album, not counting budget compilations on the RCA Camden subsidiary, by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records, LSP 4445, in November 1970. It consists of studio tracks recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, and live in-concert tracks recorded at The International Hotel in Las Vegas. It accompanied the theatrical release of the of the same name (although it is not generally considered a soundtrack album), and peaked at #21 on the Billboard 200.

Content

The original vinyl LP consisted of eight tracks recorded in the studio in Nashville at the marathon sessions in June 1970 that would also yield several singles and the "Elvis Country" album, and four tracks from his August 1970 engagement at The International Hotel in Las Vegas. The track "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" had been released as the advance single on October 6; its b-side "Patch It Up" appears in a live version here. "The Next Step Is Love" had previously been released as a b-side in July of 1970, and its A-side "I've Lost You" appears in a live version here as well. The concert version of "I Just Can't Help Believin'" from this album would be released as a single in the United Kingdom in November of 1971 and go to #6 on their charts; its b-side "How the Web Was Woven" was also taken from this album. A rehearsal version of the latter song was featured in the 1970 documentary "".

The three-disc Special Edition of June 11, 2000, added seven bonus tracks to the original album on disc one, with the entirety of the August 12, 1970 midnight show from The International Hotel on disc two, and a third disc of rehearsals in late July and early August prior to Presley's Las Vegas engagement. The bonus tracks included an additional concert track previously released on the , five tracks that appeared on Presley studio LPs from the 1970s, and the single "Rags to Riches" from February of 1971. Some of the concert and rehearsal tracks appeared in the 1970 documentary film.

Personnel

tudio Tracks

* Elvis Presley – vocal, guitar
* James Burton – guitar
* Chip Young – guitar
* David Briggs – piano, organ
* Norbert Putnam – bass
* Jerry Carrigan – drums
* Charlie McCoy – organ, harmonica
* Farrell Morris - percussion, vibes
* Weldon Myrick - steel guitar
* The Jordanaires - backing vocals
* The Imperials - backing vocals

Live Tracks

* Elvis Presley – vocal
* James Burton – guitar
* John Wilkinson – guitar
* Charlie Hodge – guitar, vocal, scarves
* Glen Hardin – piano
* Jerry Scheff – bass
* Ronnie Tutt – drums
* Millie Kirkham - backing vocal
* The Sweet Inspirations - backing vocals
* The Imperials - backing vocals
* The Joe Guercio Orchestra

Track listing

ide One

2000 Special Edition Disc Two

Single