''Elvis: As Recorded at Madison Square Garden'' is a
live album
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by American singer and musician
Elvis Presley, released in late June 1972 by
RCA Records. It peaked at No. 11 on the Top 200 US Billboard albums chart on September 9, 1972. Recorded at the
Madison Square Garden
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arena in
New York City on Saturday June 10, 1972, 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
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. Along with ''
Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite'' it ranked as one of the best selling live albums of the 1970s.
Content
The entire set was issued on a single LP, and appeared at retail in swift fashion, about three weeks after the concert. Elvis' subsequent full-priced album would be another complete live concert recording -- with some song repetition -- this time in Honolulu: ''
Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite''.
The concert included on the 1972 New York album was the evening show on June 10. RCA Records also captured the afternoon performance, but except for "I Can't Stop Loving You," which appeared on the 1977 compilation, ''
Welcome to My World'', and "I'll Remember You" and "Reconsider Baby" on 1983's ''
Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 3'', the entire set remained unreleased until 1997's ''
An Afternoon in the Garden''.
Interestingly, 1970s Presley drummer
Ronnie Tutt wrongly claimed in a 2009 interview 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 1972 live album, increasing the publishing royalties.
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 th
concertin 24-bit/96 kHz.
Track listing
Personnel
*
Elvis Presley – vocals
*
James Burton – lead guitar
*
John Wilkinson– rhythm guitar
*
Ronnie Tutt – drums
*
Jerry Scheff – bass
*
Glen D. Hardin
Glen Dee Hardin (born April 18, 1939) is an American piano player and arranger. He has performed and recorded with such artists as Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris, John Denver, and Ricky Nelson.
Career
Hardin was born in Welling ...
– piano
*
The Sweet Inspirations (Estelle Brown, Sylvia Shemwell,
Myrna Smith
Myrna Yvonne Smith (May 28, 1941 – December 24, 2010)
– accessed December 2010
) – background vocals
*Kathy Westmoreland – background vocals
*
J.D. Sumner & The Stamps (Ed Enoch, Bill Baize,
Richard Sterban, Donnie Sumner) – background vocals
*Joe Guercio – conductor
*The Joe Malin Orchestra
*A&R/Producers:
Harry Jenkins
Henry Alfred "Harry" Jenkins, (born 18 August 1952) is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1986 to 2013, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
Jenkins served as the 26th Speaker of ...
, Joan Deary,
Felton Jarvis
*Al Pachuki and Dick Baxter – recording engineers
*Dick Baxter and Larry Schnapf – mastering and supervision
References
External links
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Elvis at Madison Square Garden
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1972 live albums
Elvis Presley live albums
RCA Records live albums
Albums recorded at Madison Square Garden