As Recorded at Madison Square Garden

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Elvis As Recorded at Madison Square Garden
Elvis Presley Madison Square Garden LP Cover.jpg
Live album by
Elvis Presley
ReleasedJune 18, 1972
RecordedJune 10, 1972
VenueMadison Square Garden
New York, New York
GenreRock
Length52:30
LabelRCA Records
Elvis Presley chronology
He Touched Me
(1972) 		Elvis As Recorded at Madison Square Garden
(1972) 		Burning Love and Hits from His Movies, Volume 2
(1972)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3/5 stars[1]
Christgau's Record GuideC[2]
MusicHound2/5 stars[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide2/5 stars[4]
Rough Guides3/5 stars[5]

Elvis: As Recorded at Madison Square Garden is a live album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released in June 1972 by RCA Records. It peaked at No. 11 on the Top 200 US Billboard albums chart on August 26, 1972.[citation needed] Recorded at the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City on Saturday June 10, 1972,[citation needed] the concert, and the subsequent album, were promoted as being Presley's first live concerts in the Big Apple since the 1950s.

The album was certified Gold on August 4, 1972, Platinum on May 20, 1988, double-Platinum on March 27, 1992, and triple-Platinum on July 15, 1999, by the RIAA.[6] Along with Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite it ranked as the one of the best selling live albums of the 1970s.

Content[]

Despite the lengthy track listing, the release was only a single disc, and the record was released only a week after the concert itself. Elvis' very next album would also be a live recording featuring many of the same songs: Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite.

The concert included on this album was the evening show. An afternoon performance was also recorded, but except for a performance of "I Can't Stop Loving You" which appeared in the 1977 compilation, Welcome to My World, it remained unreleased until the 1990s when it was issued as An Afternoon in the Garden.

Drummer Ronnie Tutt claimed in an interview in 2009 for the BBC documentary Elvis in Vegas that Colonel Tom Parker, Presley's manager, sped up the mixes so that more tracks could be on the album, increasing his publishing royalties.[7]

Reissues[]

On November 13, 2012, RCA/Legacy re-released the live concert album on two vinyl discs in the same format as Aloha From Hawaii: Via Satellite and Elvis In Concert live concert albums. In 2013, RCA/Legacy, through HDTracks.com, released a high-resolution remastering of the concert in 24-bit/96 kHz.

Track listing[]

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Introduction: Also Sprach Zarathustra" (theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey)Richard Strauss1:06
2."That's All Right"Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup2:14
3."Proud Mary"John Fogerty2:35
4."Never Been to Spain"Hoyt Axton3:36
5."You Don't Have to Say You Love Me"Pino Donaggio, Simon Napier-Bell, Vito Pallavicini, Vicki Wickham2:03
6."You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"Barry Mann, Phil Spector, Cynthia Weil4:11
7."Polk Salad Annie"Tony Joe White2:57
8."Love Me"Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller1:38
9."All Shook Up"Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley1:04
10."Heartbreak Hotel"Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley1:44
11."Medley: (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" / "Don't Be Cruel"Kal Mann, Bernie Lowe / Otis Blackwell1:50
12."Love Me Tender"Vera Matson, Elvis Presley1:38
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Impossible Dream"Joe Darion, Mitch Leigh2:35
2."Introductions by Elvis"—1:27
3."Hound Dog"Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller1:55
4."Suspicious Minds"Mark James4:23
5."For the Good Times"Kris Kristofferson3:03
6."An American Trilogy"Mickey Newbury4:28
7."Funny How Time Slips Away"Willie Nelson2:41
8."I Can't Stop Loving You"Don Gibson2:37
9."Can't Help Falling in Love"Luigi Creatore, Hugo Peretti, George David Weiss2:34
10."End Theme"—0:55

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ Eder, Bruce. "Elvis Presley As Recorded at Madison Square Garden". AllMusic. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: P". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 10, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds) (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 892. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Elvis Presley: Album Guide". rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on September 18, 2013. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
  5. ^ Simpson, Paul (2004). The Rough Guide to Elvis. London: Rough Guides. pp. 147–48. ISBN 1-84353-417-7.
  6. ^ https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=As+Recorded+at+Madison+Square+Garden#search_section
  7. ^ Ronnie Tutt (3 January 2010). Elvis in Vegas (Television program). United Kingdom: BBC.

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