''Singer Presents Elvis Singing

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and Others'' is a

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by American singer and musician

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, released by

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on October 1, 1968. It spent five months available only at select retail stores featuring products by the

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as a promotional tie-in with Presley's upcoming

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on the

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network, which Singer had sponsored. It was reissued for normal retail channels as ''Elvis Sings Flaming Star'' in April 1969, becoming the first Elvis Presley

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on the

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label, catalogue CAS 2304. The 1969 release peaked at number 96 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart. It was certified Gold on July 15, 1999, and Platinum on January 6, 2004, by the

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. Due to the chart success of this album upon reissue in 1969, RCA Records elected to release more Presley titles on the Camden label through 1972. These budget LPs were shorter than the standard running time, featuring some unused soundtrack recordings and previously released items.

Content

All tracks were compiled from sessions for Presley film soundtracks, with the exception of " Tiger Man" from the Singer Christmas Special. The cover of Chuck Berry's "

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" was a warm-up at a session for film songs to '' Stay Away, Joe''. Excepting "

," the title song from Presley's 1960 movie of the same title which had been released on the '' Elvis by Request: Flaming Star and 3 Other Great Songs'' extended play single in February 1961, all tracks were previously unreleased. The "

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" medley and " All I Needed Was the Rain" appeared in ''

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'' (1964) and '' Stay Away, Joe'' (1968), respectively, while " Wonderful World" appeared over the opening credits to ''

Live a Little, Love a Little ''Live a Little, Love a Little'' is a 1968 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley. It was directed by Norman Taurog, who had directed several previous Presley films. This was to be Taurog's final film, as he went blind shortly after p ...

'' (1968). "Flaming Star" had been one of only two songs performed in that 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.

Reissues

''Flaming Star'' was reissued in 1975 by

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, and again on

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by Sony/RCA in 2006.

Track listing

Note *RCA originally released the song "Flaming Star" on the extended play single '' Elvis by Request: Flaming Star and 3 Other Great Songs'' (RCA LPC 128), which peaked at number 14 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart.Jorgensen, op. cit., p.414.

Charts

Album

Certifications and sales

References

External links

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