Raised on Rock / For Ol' Times Sake explained

Raised on Rock / For Ol' Times Sake
Type:Studio album
Artist:Elvis Presley
Cover:Elvis Raised On Rock.jpg
Released:October 1, 1973
Recorded:July 21–24, 1973, Stax Studios, Memphis; September 22–23, 1973, Elvis Presley's Residence, Palm Springs, California
Genre:
  • Rock
  • R&B
  • funk
  • country
Length:27:28
Label:RCA Victor
Producer:Elvis Presley, Felton Jarvis
Prev Title:Elvis
Prev Year:1973
Next Year:1974

Raised on Rock / For Ol' Times Sake[1] is the nineteenth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released in 1973.

Content

The album was recorded at Stax Studios in Memphis, Tennessee in July 1973 and at Presley's home in Palm Springs, California in September 1973. Two songs from these sessions would be retained for release on the Good Times album the following spring. The initial vocal tracks were recorded in July 1973. "Raised on Rock" backed by "For Ol' Times Sake" was the only single released from the album, reaching No. 41 on the Billboard chart and No. 42 on the Country chart in September 1973.

The album was one of the few that failed to chart in the United Kingdom, but the single "Raised on Rock / For Ol' Times Sake" did enter the British charts. Some of the songs are well-known covers like "Are You Sincere" which had been around for many years, but some new songs like the lead-off single were written for Presley, or written by writers he had previously recorded, such as Mark James. The title single, "Raised on Rock" has been noted by historians such as Roy Carr and Mick Farren in Elvis: The Illustrated Record as odd lyrically, as Presley sings in first person about being a child and discovering rock and roll through records such as "Johnny B. Goode" when Presley was a contemporary of the artists he cites.

In 1979, a stripped-down version of "Are You Sincere" was included on the album Our Memories of Elvis and released as a single, reaching No. 10 on the Billboard Country chart.

Reissues

In 2007 Raised on Rock was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in a special 2-disc edition that contained the original album tracks along with numerous alternate takes.[2]

Track listing

2007 Follow That Dream reissue

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Discogs, Elvis Presley – Raised On Rock / For Ol' Times Sake; includes photos of the original label, showing full title.
  2. Sources:
    • Web site: Follow That Dream releases . Elvispresleyshop . Elvis Australia . 2015 . January 27, 2015 . March 13, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190313014817/http://ftd.elvispresley.com.au/follow_that_dream.html . dead .
    • Web site: Raised on Rock . Elvispresleyshop . Elvis Australia . 2015 . January 27, 2015 .