Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4

LSP-3921
Released: January 22, 1968

33 rpm, Mono
LP 12"

Side A
Matrix Side A: UPRS-8383 2S

01. Love Letters [2:49] ¹)
02. Witchcraft [2:21] ¹)
03. It Hurts Me [2:27] ²)
04. What'd I Say [3:02] ⁴)
05. Please Don't Drag That String Around [1:53] ¹)
06. Indescribably Blue [2:47] ³)

Side B
Matrix Side B: UPRS-8384 2S

01. Devil In Disguise [2:19] ¹)
02. Lonely Man [2:44] ⁵)
03. A Mess Of Blues [2:39] ⁶)
04. Ask Me [2:05] ²)
05. Ain't That Loving You Baby [2:22] ⁷)
06. Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello [1:57] ⁸)

¹) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, May 26, 1963
²) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, January 12, 1964
³) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, June 10, 1966
⁴) Recorded: Radio Recorders, Hollywood, Tennessee, August 30, 1963
⁵) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, January 9, 1961
⁶) Recorded: Studio Session for RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee, March 21, 1960
⁷) Recorded: Studio Session for RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee, October 6, 1958
⁸) Recorded: Studio Session for RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee, March 19, 1962

Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4 is the thirty-first album by Elvis Presley, issued on RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/ LSP 3921, in January 1968, with recording sessions taking place over an eight-year span at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, and at RCA Studios and Radio Recorders in Hollywood. It is a compilation of hit singles released between 1961 and 1967, peaking at #33 on the Billboard 200. It was certified Gold on 3/27/1992 by the RIAA.

Although he had remained a popular artist since the release of his previous Golden Records volume in 1963, placing eight albums in the Top Ten and 17 singles in the Top 40, Presley's sales had cooled off since his heyday. The compilation album Elvis for Everyone in 1965 was his first to sell under 300,000 copies, and his last five soundtrack albums had all done progressively worse in the marketplace, units shifted dropping to under 200,000. Singles were no longer reaching the Top 40 automatically, and while his recent 45 "Big Boss Man" sold 350,000, that fell short of the needed 500,000 to qualify for gold status in US singles sales. Usually a guaranteed seller, this volume sold only 400,000 copies; better than his recent soundtrack albums, but well off the mark set by its three predecessors. The future of Presley's career was certainly in question.

On March 2, 1968, this LP was number 33 on Billboard's Hot LP chart, it stayed on this chart for twenty-two weeks