Elvis Sings Flaming Star

Elvis Sings Flaming Star
Studio album by Elvis Presley
Released	October 1968 (promo release) March 1969 (wide release)
Recorded	June 1960 to October 1968
Genre	Rock
Length	20:30
Label	RCA Records
Elvis Presley chronology
Speedway (1968) Elvis Sings Flaming Star (1968) NBC-TV Special (1968)
budget album chronology
Elvis Sings Flaming Star (1968) Let's Be Friends (1970)

Singer Presents Elvis Singing Flaming Star and Others is the thirty-third album by Elvis Presley, released on 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.^[1] 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.^[2] The 1969 release peaked at #96 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It was certified Gold on 7/15/1999 and Platinum on 1/6/2004 by the R.I.A.A.

Contents

Singer Promo Cover

All tracks were compiled from sessions for Presley film soundtracks, with the exception of "Tiger Man" from the Singer Christmas Special.^[3] The cover of Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business" was a warm-up at a session for film songs to Stay Away, Joe.^[4] Excepting "Flaming Star," the title song from Presley's 1960 movie of the same title which had been released on the Elvis by Request extended play single in February 1961, all tracks were previously unreleased.

The "Texas" medley and "All I Needed Was the Rain" appeared in their respective films, and "Wonderful World" appeared over the opening credits to Live A Litte, Love A Little, as did "Flaming Star." in its 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

Chart position for LPC 128 taken from the Billboard Hot 100 chart

Side One

Track	Recorded	Film	Original EP Issue	Catalogue	Release Date	Chart Peak	Song Title	Writer(s)	Time
1.	10/7/60	Flaming Star	Elvis by Request	LPC 128	2/61	#14	Flaming Star	Sid Wayne and Sherman Edwards	2:25
2.	3/7/68	Live A Litte, Love A Little					Wonderful World	Guy Fletcher and Doug Flett	2:14
3.	7/9/63	Viva Las Vegas					Night Life	Bernie Baum, Bill Giant, Florence Kaye	1:53
4.	10/1/67	Stay Away, Joe					All I Needed Was the Rain	Sid Wayne and Ben Weisman	1:49
5.	1/15/68						Too Much Monkey Business	Chuck Berry	2:25

Side Two

Track	Recorded	Film	Song Title	Writer(s)	Time
1.	7/10/63	Viva Las Vegas	Yellow Rose of Texas / Eyes of Texas	Traditional / Fred Wise and Randy Starr	2:58
2.	9/29/66	Easy Come, Easy Go	She's A Machine	Fred Wise and Ben Weisman	1:39
3.	7/10/63	Viva Las Vegas	Do the Vega	Bernie Baum, Bill Giant, Florence Kaye	2:26
4.	6/27/68	Singer NBC-TV Special	Tiger Man	Lewis Burns, Al Lewis, Joe Hill Louis	2:41

See also

• Elvis for Everyone 1965 album
• Let's Be Friends 1970 album

References

1. ^ Jorgensen, Ernst. Elvis Presley A Life in Music: The Complete Recording Sessions. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998; p. 245.
2. ^ Jorgensen, op. cit., pp. 418-419.
3. ^ Jorgensen, op. cit., pp. 229-230.
4. ^ Jorgensen, op. cit., pp. 137, 182, 223, 239, 243, 255.

External links

• PRS-279 Singer Presents Elvis Singing Flaming Star and Others Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database