Made in Memphis is a single-disc regular Follow That Dream release featuring outtakes from Elvis’ssessions in Memphis in 1969 (American Sound Studio), 1973 (Stax Recording Studio) and 1976 (the den at Graceland). There is an additional 5-song set of home recordings made at Sam Thompson’s place in November 1973. (Sam was a member of Elvis’s entourage and the brother of Linda Thompson, Elvis’s steady girlfriend from 1972 to 1976.)

Recorded January & February 1969, at American Sound, Memphis:

IN THE GHETTO - take 13 (Mac Davis)

YOU’LL THINK OF ME - take 8 (Mort Shuman)

DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM - take 4 (Bobby Russell)

Recorded July 1973, at Stax, Memphis:

IF YOU DON’T COME BACK - take 5 (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)

THREE CORN PATCHES - takes 5 & 6 (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)

FIND OUT WHAT’S HAPPENING - take 7 (Jerry Crutchfield)

Recorded December 1973, at Stax, Memphis:

IT’S MIDNIGHT - take 11 (Billy Edd Wheeler/Jerry Chesnut)

THINKING ABOUT YOU - take 3 (Tim Baty)

YOU ASKED ME TO - take 1 (Waylon Jennings/Billy Joe Shaver)

Recorded February 1976, at Graceland, Memphis:

SOLITAIRE - take 7 + talk from 6 & 7 (Neil Sedaka/Phil Cody)

SHE THINKS I STILL CARE - take 3 & 4 (Dickey Lee)

MOODY BLUE - take 6 (Mark James)

BITTER THEY ARE, HARDER THEY FALL - take 1 (Larry Gatlin)

LOVE COMING DOWN - take 4 (Jerry Chesnut)

FOR THE HEART - take 5 (Dennis Linde)

Recorded early November 1973, at Sam Thompson’s House, Memphis:

BABY WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO (Jimmy Reed)

I’M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY (Hank Williams)

SPANISH EYES (Kaempfert/Singleton/Snyder)

SEE SEE RIDER (Trad. Arr. by Elvis Presley)

THAT’S ALL RIGHT (Arthur Crudup)

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