Speedway

LSP-3989
Released: June 25 1968

33 rpm, Mono
LP 12"

Side A
Matrix Side A: WPRS-1036--5S A1

01. Speedway [2:20] ³)
02. There Ain't Nothing Like A Song (Duet with
      Nancy Sinatra) [2:06] ⁵)
03. Your Time Hasn't Come Yet Baby [1:49] ³)
04. Who Are You (Who Am I) [2:32] ³)
05. He's Your Uncle Not Your Dad [2:25] ⁴)
06. Let Yourself Go [2:56] ⁴)

Side B
Matrix Side B: WPRS-1037--6S B1

01. Your Groovy Self (Backing Track Only)
      [2:54] ²)
02. Five Sleepy Heads [1:29] ³)
03. Western Union [2:10] ¹)
04. Mine [2:36] ⁶)
05. Goin' Home [2:23] ⁷)
06. Suppose [2:01] ³)

¹) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, May 27, 1963
²) Recorded: MGM Studios, Culver City, June 19, 1967
³) Recorded: MGM Studios, Culver City, June 20, 1967
⁴) Recorded: MGM Studios, Culver City, June 21, 1967
⁵) Recorded: MGM Studios, Culver City, June 26, 1967
⁶) Recorded: MGM Studios, Culver City, September 11, 1967
⁷) Recorded: MGM Studios, Culver City, January 16, 1968

Speedway is the thirty-second album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 3989, in June 1968 while some say May 1st is the date, but this is disputed. Recording sessions took place at MGM Studios in Hollywood, California, on June 20 and 21, 1967. It peaked at #82 on the Billboard 200.

By June 1967, while Presley was toiling at the sessions for this soundtrack, the recent release of the magnum opus by The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, had the music industry in thrall. The Velvet Underground & Nico would build its influence through the decades, and Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane, the debut by The Doors, and I Never Loved A Man the Way I Love You by Aretha Franklin were all top-selling albums. The Monterey Pop Festival had taken place just the past weekend some 300 miles up the California coast from where Presley was working. He was probably aware of some of the changes being wrought in popular music around him, but in his own increasingly isolated world he was most aware that there were more lousy soundtrack songs to record.

This LP was on Billboard's Hot LP chart on July 6, 1968 at number 82, it remained on the chart for thirteen weeks.