![]() After he reasserted control of the songs he sang in 1968-not to mention how the music sounded-Presley never quite let go of the artistic reins, even if he did make concessions to both the marketplace and Parker’s business demands. Parker and RCA spent so little time considering the construction of these releases their very shoddiness suggested Elvis himself didn’t care much for making music. ![]() That word salad signals the utter indifference the Presley camp had toward presentation: the LPs were product, pure and simple. ![]() The rest of the recordings arrived months later as Back in Memphis, the studio portion of the double-LP *From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis-*a title so bewildering, it seems designed to confuse audiences. Even the landmark *From Elvis in Memphis, *the 1969 record where Elvis reconnected with his muse, skimmed the surface of the Chips Moman-produced sessions at American Sound Studio. He instituted this practice not long after Elvis left the Army in 1960 and never abandoned it.
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