1971 compilation album by Elvis Presley

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You’ll Never Walk Alone is a compilation album by american english singer and musician Elvis Presley, released in 1971 by RCA Records on the RCA Camden budget label. The album contains primarily previously released gospel recordings by Presley dating back adenine army for the liberation of rwanda as 1957, plus two unissued tracks. The album reached count 69 on the Billboard 200 graph [ 3 ] and number 20 on the UK Singles Chart. [ 4 ] In the mid 1970s, RCA Records leased the rights to reissue sealed recordings by Presley and other RCA Victor artists on the Camden label to the budget reissue tag Pickwick Records. You’ll Never Walk Alone was reissued by Pickwick with its original RCA cover art. Following Presley ‘s unexpected death in 1977, need for his recordings increased dramatically and RCA soon reclaimed the rights to their Camden/Pickwick recordings. You’ll Never Walk Alone was first reissued on compact magnetic disk in 1987 on the RCA Camden label. RCA reissued the album on four hundred a second gear time in 2006 along with most of Elvis ‘ early RCA Camden budget album. The album was certified Gold on March 27, 1992, Platinum on July 15, 1999, and 3x platinum on January 6, 2004 by the Recording Industry Association of America. [ 5 ]

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The single “ You ‘ll Never Walk Alone “, an adaptation of the Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers standard, was a minor shoot for him in the recently 1960s. Two previously unissued recordings are included : “ Let Us Pray ” from the soundtrack of Presley ‘s 1969 movie, Change of Habit and “ Who Am I ? “, a leftover from the early-1969 recording sessions that produced his album From Elvis in Memphis.

The album is a companion to the RCA Camden reissued adaptation of Elvis’ Christmas Album, as it contains the four gospel recordings from the original 1957 publish of that album, which were omitted from the 1970 RCA Camden reissue. The four gospel songs were foremost issued in 1957 as an RCA Victor EP titled “ peace in the Valley ”. Although there would be far RCA Camden Presley collections, this was the concluding turn that featured previously unreleased tracks. RCA would late release several unissued recordings in its Elvis: A Legendary Performer series beginning in 1974. The cut list below shows the songs as they appeared on the second CD reissue of this album in 2006. The original 1971 LP omitted “ Swing Down Sweet Chariot, ” taken from the 1960 album His Hand in Mine, though this path was included on UK releases of the album.

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