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As Recorded at Madison Square Garden (1972)

Where the lyrics of As Recorded at Madison Square Garden take you, and where it was really made.

The album was recorded at Madison Square Garden, and its promotion billed it as Presley's first live concerts in New York since the 1950s.

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Saturday evening show at Madison Square Garden (1972)

Recording site Madison Square Garden — The album was recorded at the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City on Saturday, June 10, 1972. It captures the evening show of that day, and the album was promoted as Presley's first live concerts in New York since the 1950s. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• As Recorded at Madison Square Garden is a live album by Elvis Presley
• Released in late June 1972 by RCA Records
• Recorded at Madison Square Garden arena in New York City on Saturday, June 10, 1972
• The entire set was issued on a single LP
• The album reached retail about three weeks after the concert
• Promoted as Presley's first live concerts in the Big Apple since the 1950s
• The album contains the evening show of June 10 only

Background

• Presley's next full-price album was Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite, another complete live concert, recorded in Honolulu
• Both albums include some song repetition
• The live album and the concert were promoted together as a New York event

Recording

• RCA Records also recorded the afternoon performance of the same day
• The afternoon set remained unreleased until 1997, when it appeared as An Afternoon in the Garden
• Personnel: Elvis Presley on vocals, James Burton on lead guitar, John Wilkinson on rhythm guitar, Ronnie Tutt on drums, Jerry Scheff on bass, Glen D. Hardin on piano
• Backing vocals by The Sweet Inspirations, Kathy Westmoreland, and J.D. Sumner & The Stamps
• Joe Guercio conducted, with The Joe Malin Orchestra
• A&R and producers: Harry Jenkins, Joan Deary, and Felton Jarvis
• Recording engineers: Al Pachuki and Dick Baxter

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Born January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi; family moved to Memphis, Tennessee when he was 13.
• Began his career in 1954 at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring African-American music to a wider audience.
• Recorded "That's All Right" with guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black in July 1954.
• A pioneer of rockabilly, a fusion of country music and rhythm and blues.

Members

• Classic quartet: Presley (vocals, guitar), Scotty Moore (lead guitar), Bill Black (bass), and D. J. Fontana (drums), who joined in 1955.

Career

• RCA Victor acquired his contract in 1955 for $40,000; "Heartbreak Hotel" hit number one in the US in 1956.
• Became a leading figure of rock and roll, though his style was considered a threat to white American youth by some.
• Made his film debut in Love Me Tender (1956) and devoted much of the 1960s to Hollywood films.
• Returned to the stage with the 1968 NBC special Elvis, followed by a Las Vegas residency and tours.
• Gave the first solo-artist concert broadcast worldwide, Aloha from Hawaii, in 1973.
• Died August 16, 1977 at Graceland, aged 42.
• Estimated to have sold 500 million records worldwide; won three Grammy Awards.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

Records

• Peaked at No. 11 on the Top 200 US Billboard albums chart on September 9, 1972
• Certified Gold by the RIAA on August 4, 1972
• Certified Platinum by the RIAA on May 20, 1988
• Certified double-Platinum by the RIAA on March 27, 1992
• Certified triple-Platinum by the RIAA on July 15, 1999
• Together with Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite, it ranked as one of the best selling live albums of the 1970s
• The certification history spans from 1972 to 1999, showing sales continuing for decades after release
• The album was promoted as Presley's first live concerts in New York since the 1950s, and this claim was part of its release campaign
• Its US chart position of No. 11 came about three months after the concert and the release

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Drummer Ronnie Tutt, a 1970s Presley band member, wrongly claimed in a 2009 interview for the BBC documentary Elvis in Vegas that manager Colonel Tom Parker sped up the mixes to fit more tracks on the 1972 live album and raise publishing royalties.
• The afternoon performance from the same day was not released in full until 1997.
• The album was reissued on November 13, 2012, by RCA/Legacy on two vinyl discs, in the same format as Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite and Elvis In Concert.
• In 2013 RCA/Legacy released a high-resolution remastering of the concert in 24-bit/96 kHz through HDTracks.com.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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