ELVIS PRESLEY DISCOGRAPHY (1968): “IF I CAN DREAM – EDGE OF REALITY”

Reference: 47-9670

Side A: If I Can Dream
Recorded: June 23, 1968, Western Recorders studios in Los Angeles, California
Author: Walter Earl Brown

Side B: Edge Of Reality
Recorded: March 7, 1968, Western Recorders studios in Los Angeles, California
Author: Bill Giant, Bernie Baum and Florence Kaye

Publication date: October 29, 1968

INFORMATION

If I Can Dream, the song that closed the NCB television special, the triumphant return of Elvis to the most current musical scene. Elvis expressed his dismay to program director Steve Binder over the recent assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. This made Binder think and he commissioned one of the program’s composers, Walter Earl Brown, to write a socially committed song and at the same time prevent Elvis from ending the special with the Christmas song I’ll Be Home For Christmas as he wished. of Colonel Parker. When Elvis read the lyrics of the song he was so enchanted that he promised never again to perform a song he didn’t believe in or star in any film he didn’t believe in (although he was still contractually obligated to participate in three more films). If I Can Dream reaches number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 where it sells one million copies and number eleven in the United Kingdom. The master shot was taken from cut five.

For side B, another song from the Live A Little soundtrack, Love A Little (1968). Can’t get on lists. Master extracted from take number eight.

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