You'll Never Walk Alone (Elvis Presley album)

You'll Never Walk Alone
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Compilation album by Elvis Presley
Released	March 22, 1971 (1971-03-22)
Genre	Gospel
Length	29:13
Label	RCA Camden
Elvis Presley chronology
Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) (1971) You'll Never Walk Alone (1971) Love Letters from Elvis (1971)

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You'll Never Walk Alone is a compilation album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released in 1971 by RCA Records on their budget label, RCA Camden. The album contains primarily previously released gospel recordings by Presley dating back as far as 1957, plus two unreleased tracks.

The album reached number 69 on the Billboard 200 chart. In the mid 1970s, RCA Records leased the rights to reissue certain recordings by Presley and other RCA artists on the Camden label to the budget reissue label Pickwick Records. You'll Never Walk Alone was reissued by Pickwick with its original cover art. Following Presley's death in 1977, RCA soon reclaimed the rights to their Pickwick/Camden recordings. You'll Never Walk Alone was first reissued on compact disc in 1987 on the RCA Camden label. RCA reissued the album on CD a second time in 2006 along with most of Elvis' other RCA Camden budget albums. At that time, this album was a big seller in the United Kingdom and reached a high position. It was certified Gold on March 27, 1992, Platinum on July 15, 1999, and 3x Platinum on January 6, 2004 by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Content

The single "You'll Never Walk Alone", an adaptation of the Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers standard, was a minor hit for him in the late 1960s. Two previously unissued recordings are included: "Let Us Pray" from the soundtrack of Presley's 1969 film, Change of Habit and "Who Am I?", a leftover from the early-1969 recording sessions that produced his album From Elvis in Memphis.

The album is a companion to the RCA Camden reissued version of Elvis' Christmas Album, as it contains the four gospel recordings from the original 1957 release of that album, which were omitted from the 1970 RCA Camden reissue. The four gospel songs were first issued in 1957 as an RCA Victor EP titled "Peace in the Valley".

Although there would be further RCA Camden Presley collections, this was the final release that featured previously unreleased tracks. RCA would later release several unissued recordings in its Elvis: A Legendary Performer series beginning in 1974.

The track listing below shows the songs as they appeared on the second CD reissue of this album in 2006. The original 1971 LP included an additional song at the end of side 2, "Swing Down Sweet Chariot", taken from Elvis' 1969 movie The Trouble With Girls.

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording date	Length
1.	"You'll Never Walk Alone"	Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers	September 11, 1967	2:45
2.	"Who Am I?"	Rusty Goodman	February 17, 1969	3:20
3.	"Let Us Pray" (from Change of Habit)	Buddy Kaye and Ben Weisman	March 5 & 6, 1969	3:01
4.	"(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley"	Thomas A. Dorsey	January 13, 1957	3:23
5.	"We Call on Him"	Fred Karger, Sid Wayne and Ben Weisman	September 10 & 11, 1967	2:33

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording date	Length
1.	"I Believe"	Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl and Al Stillman	January 12, 1957	2:06
2.	"It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)"	Stuart Hamblen	January 19, 1957	3:55
3.	"Sing You Children" (from Easy Come, Easy Go)	Fred Burch and Gerald Nelson	September 28, 1966	2:14
4.	"Take My Hand, Precious Lord"	Thomas A. Dorsey	January 13, 1957	3:17
5.	"Swing Down Sweet Chariot" (UK edition only)	Traditional	October 31, 1960	2:34

External links

• You'll Never Walk Alone at Discogs (list of releases)