RAGS TO RICHES – WHERE DID THEY GO, LORD
EDITED 22-FEB-1971. SINGLE, STUDIO B RCA NASHVILLE
- RAGS TO RICHES
- WHERE DID THEY GO, LORD
Reference:47-9980
Side A: Rags To Riches
Recorded: September 22, 1970, RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee
Author: Alder & Ross
Side B: Where Did They Go, Lord
Recorded: September 22, 1970, RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee
Author: Dallas Frazier & AL Owens
Publication date: February 23, 1971.
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Released in February 1971, Rags To Riches / Where Did They Go, Lord, was the first single of that year. In September 1970, just after finishing his first tour since 1957, Elvis held a two-day mini recording session in Nashville, to record some songs to complete his album “Elvis Country” and at the same time prepare a single for the beginning of the following year. These two songs were chosen for the single.
It was a strange session, marked by the bad mood of Elvis who did not want to be there, since after a new season in Las Vegas, and the recent tour, he did not want to enter a recording studio again.
Rags To Riches had been a great success in the hands of Tony Bennett, and Elvis considered that he was already prepared to take on the vocal challenge of performing this song. Elvis executed it perfectly, but did not leave a satisfactory take, perhaps motivated by the desire to leave the session, with Felton Jarvis having to make arrangements between two takes. Despite this, the song is very listenable, although perhaps it did not have enough quality to release it as a single.
Something similar happened with his care B. “Where Did They Go, Lord”, which was a very good country song, of which Elvis He did a magnificent job, but he also did not have the necessary commercial power, everything and that would have been a great complement for an album like the one he would release in 1971.
The choice of this single turned out to be not correct, since on the Billboard charts, It reached number 33 and in sales, after a long time achieving good results, it did not exceed 400,000 copies.
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