Moody Blue

Moody Blue is the twenty-fourth and final studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on July 19, 1977, by RCA Records, about four weeks before his death.

"Moody Blue" was a previously published hit song recorded at the earlier Graceland session and held over for this album.

As described in Elvis: The Illustrated Record, RCA was not able to obtain sufficient new studio material for a complete album, with all but two songs of Presley's studio recordings of 1976 having already been used in the previous album, From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee or released as singles.

The company chose to use the contents of two singles that had not yet been included on an album, along with the two last remaining unreleased tracks from the Graceland sessions; the track list was then augmented with three live songs recorded in multi-track in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on April 24 and 26, 1977, which were heavily overdubbed for the album.

Moody Blue was issued in late June 1977, and it peaked on the album chart at #3 after Elvis' death on August 16, 1977.

Following Presley's death, "Unchained Melody" was also released as a single, and it peaked at #6 on the country music charts.

In 2013, Moody Blue was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in a special edition that contained the original album tracks along with a selection of alternate takes.

Partial credits from Keith Flynn and Ernst Jorgensen's examination of session tapes, RCA paperwork, and AFM/musicians' union paperwork/contracts,[8][9][10][11][12][13] except where noted.