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Speedway
RCA Victor
ProducerJeff Alexander
Elvis Presley chronology
Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4
(1968) 		Speedway
(1968) 		Elvis Sings Flaming Star
(1968)
Singles from Speedway
  1. "Your Time Hasn't Come Yet Baby / Let Yourself Go"
    Released: June 25, 1968
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Speedway is the seventeenth soundtrack album by American singer and musician

Recording sessions took place at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Hollywood, California, on June 20 and 21, 1967. It peaked at number 82 on the Billboard 200.[3]

Speedway took over the new low for chart position and album sales by Presley, selling fewer than 100,000 copies, and jeopardizing his recording career.[4]: 262  Much to his relief, it killed the soundtrack formula, this being the final Presley dramatic feature film to have a full soundtrack album. His last five movies of the decade — Stay Away, Joe, Live a Little, Love a Little, Charro!, The Trouble with Girls, and Change of Habit — concentrated on Presley the actor, not Presley the singer, with minimal song requirements.[4]: 239, 243, 260, 261, 279  It is also the last Presley album to be released in both stereo and mono editions as mono was being phased out by the industry, thus making the rare mono pressing of Speedway (LPM-3989) a sought-after item among collectors[5]

Content

Eight tracks for Speedway were recorded at the sessions, with "Suppose", the only song that held interest for Elvis, dropped from the movie.

Spinout, was one of two songs that feature the lead vocals of Nancy Sinatra, here in duet with Presley.[4]: 228  All her vocals, and her "Your Groovy Self," the only time a track without Elvis featured on any of his releases, were recorded at a separate session on June 26, produced by Lee Hazlewood.[6]
Three leftover tracks, including one from the May 1963 "lost album" sessions, were unearthed to round out the album.

Reissues

Three songs from this album appear on Command Performances: The Essential 60s Masters II (1995): the two sides of the single and the title track.[7] In 2016 Speedway was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in a special 2-disc edition that contained the original album tracks along with numerous alternate takes.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Recording dateLength
1."Speedway"Mel Glazer and Stephen SchlaksJune 20, 19672:10
2."There Ain't Nothing Like a Song" (duet with Nancy Sinatra)Joy Byers, Bob JohnstonJune 20, 19672:06
3."Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Baby"Joel Hirschhorn, Al KashaJune 20, 19671:49
4."Who Are You (Who Am I)"Ben Weisman, Sid WayneJune 20, 19672:32
5."He's Your Uncle, Not Your Dad"Ben Weisman, Sid WayneJune 21, 19672:25
6."Let Yourself Go"Joy ByersJune 21, 19672:56
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Recording dateLength
1."Your Groovy Self" (solo by Nancy Sinatra)
bonus track)
Sylvia Dee, George GoehringJune 20, 19672:01

Personnel

Credits from Keith Flynn and Ernst Jorgensen's examination of session tapes and RCA and AFM paperwork.[8][9]

Charts

Chart (1968) Peak
position
Billboard Pop Albums 82

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ "Speedway album". Elvis Records.
  3. ^ "Elvis Presley (awards)". Allmusic. Rovi Corp. 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  4. ^ a b c d e Jorgensen, Ernst. Elvis Presley A Life in Music: The Complete Recording Sessions. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
  5. ^ Megocollector website
  6. ^ Elvis Presley sessionography
  7. AllMusic
  8. ^ "Keith Flynn's Elvis Presley Pages: Recording Sessions: June 20-21, 1967". KeithFlynn.com. Retrieved January 22, 2024.
  9. ^ "Keith Flynn's Elvis Presley Pages: Elvis Presley Recording Sessions: September 10-11, 1967". Keith Flynn's Elvis Presley Pages. Retrieved January 22, 2024.

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