| It's Midnight | |
| Cover: | Elvis_Its_Midnight_PS.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Elvis Presley |
| Album: | Promised Land |
| A-Side: | It's Midnight |
| B-Side: | Promised Land |
| Released: | September 27, 1974 |
| Recorded: | December 10, 1973 |
| Studio: | Stax Studios, Memphis |
| Genre: | Country |
| Producer: | Felton Jarvis |
| Prev Title: | If You Talk in Your Sleep |
| Prev Title2: | Help Me |
| Prev Year: | 1974 |
| Title2: | Promised Land |
| Next Title: | My Boy |
| Next Title2: | Thinking About You |
| Next Year: | 1975 |
"It's Midnight" is a 1974 song recorded by Elvis Presley. It was written by Jerry Chesnut and Billy Edd Wheeler.[1]
Elvis Presley recorded it during his December 10–16, 1973, recording sessions at Stax Records in Memphis.[2] The session produced three more charting songs: "Promised Land", "If You Talk in Your Sleep" and "Help Me".
The song was first released in October 1974 as a B-side to a cover of Chuck Berry's "Promised Land".[3] [4] (While the Goldmine Standard Catalog of American Records indicates "Promised Land" as the A-side,[5] different pressings have "It's Midnight" as the A-side and "Promised Land" as a B-side and vice versa.)[6]
"Promised Land" rose to number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the two sides together (as "It's Midnight / Promised Land") and "It's Midnight" on its own charted on the Hot Country Singles chart. "It's Midnight" peaked on it at number 9 in January 1975.
Billboard in its review of the album Promised Land (in the January 18, 1975 issue) picked "It's Midnight" as one of the best cuts on the album.
| Chart (1974–1975) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| US Billboard Easy Listening[7] | 8* | |
| US Billboard Hot Country Singles[8] | 14* / 9** |
* as "It's Midnight / Promised Land"
** as "It's Midnight"