''Love Letters from Elvis'' is the fourteenth studio album by American singer and musician

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, released in 1971. The album was critically panned upon release, and failed to crack the top 20 of the Billboard album charts but did reach No. 12 on the US Top Country Albums chart and No. 7 on the UK best-selling albums chart.

Content

The album was made up of leftovers from Elvis' marathon June 1970 recording sessions in Nashville. Most of the other 35 songs recorded during those sessions had been used in Elvis' 1970 albums '' That's the Way It Is'' and ''

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''. Wanting to squeeze out a third album from the sessions,

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had producer

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mix, overdub and compile the remaining songs. The song's title track was a rare instance of Presley re-recording a past hit in the studio, his original version of "Love Letters" having been released as a single in 1966. "

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" is edited down from an impromptu jam session; Presley's version incorporates lyrics from "Hands Off", a 1955 song by Frankie Castro released on the Wing record label (RCA often mislabelled this song "Keep Your Hands Off of It" when the complete jam was issued on CD years later). Three songs from this album were released on singles. The single "

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" / " Only Believe" was released in March 1971 and reached only No. 53 on the US Billboard Singles chart. It was Elvis's lowest chart position for a single since " Almost in Love" had reached No. 95 in late 1968. "Heart of Rome" was placed on the B-side of the non-album track " I'm Leavin'" released as a single in August 1971 it reached No. 23 in the UK and No. 83 in Australia.

Track listing

Original release

Follow That Dream reissue

Personnel

- lead vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar *

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- lead guitar * Chip Young - rhythm guitar * Charlie Hodge – harmony vocals on “Heart of Rome” and “This Is Our Dance”, acoustic rhythm guitar *

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- bass * David Briggs - piano *

Jerry Carrigan Jerry Kirby Carrigan (September 13, 1943 – June 22, 2019) was an American drummer and record producer. Early in his career he was a member of the original Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and later worked as a session musician in Nashville for over ...

- drums *

Charlie McCoy Charles Ray McCoy (born March 28, 1941) is a Grammy-winning American session musician, harmonica player, and multi-instrumentalist. In 2009, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Based in Nashville, McCoy's playing is heard on r ...

– harmonica, vibraphone, organ * The Imperials Quartet – backing vocals *

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– backing vocals on "When I'm Over You" *The Nashville Edition – backing vocals on "It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)"

References

External links

* Elvis Presley albums 1971 albums Albums produced by Felton Jarvis RCA Records albums {{1970s-rock-album-stub