Promised Land is the twenty-first studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records on January 8, 1975. It was recorded in December 1973 at Stax Records studios in Memphis and released on Presley's 40th birthday in January, 1975. In the US the album reached number 47 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and number 1 in Billboard's Top Country LPs chart. The album rose to number 1 in the Country Cashbox albums chart. In the UK the album reached #21.
The material was the second pick from the December 1973 session, as the songs considered strongest had been issued on Good Times. The title track, a cover of the 1965 hit by Chuck Berry, was issued earlier as a single on September 27, 1974, and hit number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK top ten. Its flip side, "It's Midnight", reached 9 on the Country Charts. Another hit single from the album was "If You Talk in Your Sleep" reaching 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Promised Land" was used for the 1997 film Men in Black.
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In 2011, the FTD (Follow That Dream) collectors label released an expanded, 48-track version of the album including outtakes.
David Briggs – piano, Hammond organ, overdubbed tambourine on "Promised Land"
Per Erik "Pete" Hallin – piano on "Help Me" and "Love Song of the Year", Wurlitzer electric piano on "I’ve Got a Feelin’ In My Body", clavinet on "Promised Land"
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