The album was completed by transposing a recording already issued in 1974 onto the new record. He knew this was unlikely to happen (Presley’s live performances had become erratic and often lifeless by this stage) and Jarvis would “discard virtually every recording he had out of fear that releasing performances this poor could only be detrimental to Elvis’s career” (Jorgensen, 1998: 407-8), but still managed to record three “new” Elvis songs. The six studio cuts had been recorded at Graceland in February and October 1976 and, with it proving impossible to get Presley back into the studio to complete the album, producer Felton Jarvis took a four-track recorder on tour, hoping to capture on tape decent performances of songs that Elvis had not recorded before. Moody Blue was a strange mish-mash of songs that had been recorded in various locations over the last three and a quarter years. In June, 1977, just a couple of months before his death at the age of 42, Elvis Presley released his last non-posthumous album.
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